Hiya! Shadowmistx98 here! :D

Warning: One hell of a long chapter this is...

Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater.

Maka sat up on her bed and yawned. She looked at the time. It was 7 am. She was supposed to meet Liz and Patty by the school at 9. She stood up and opened her closet. She would always wear jeans and a sweater but she looked at the clothes at the corner of the closet. She never wore them since a long time ago. She thought to herself.

"I guess it is time to change for a bit…" she smiled weakly as she brought out the clothes. Maka wore them and got out of her apartment. Of course with her roller blades. She skated to school and met up with Liz and Patty.

"Whoa! You have look so cool, Maka!" Patty gawked at her. Maka scratched her cheek and blushed. Liz looked at her from afar. She eyed her head to toe.

"You look nice wearing that! How come it's the first time I saw you wear something like that? It looks good on you!" Liz tilted her head. Patty smiled goofily. Maka was wearing a plaid red skirt and a pink hoodie. She was also wearing her hair down but still she had her eyeglasses.

"Yeah! You have really nice legs!" Patty said. "Huh?" Maka just smiled.

"With that look, boys will drool over you" Liz grinned naughtily.

"Um, I don't think boys will ever take a liking to an underdeveloped girl like me…" Maka would like to stay humble but what she said was the truth.

"Underdeveloped? You call that underdeveloped? You have nice curves and really nice long white legs! You're perfect!" Liz insisted. She really did mean it. Maka blushed.

"Well, you guys are sexier actually" Maka laughed nervously.

"Well, enough of this compliment stuff. Let's go!" Liz started to walk away. Maka nodded and Patty and her followed Liz.

"Though, you are more attractive-!"

"Liz!" Maka whined.

"Okay! Okay! I'll stop…" Liz raised her arms in surrender. Maka sighed. Patty looked at Liz and giggled. "Sexy…" Liz coughed. Maka looked at her unenthusiastically. Liz and Patty laughed. Maka didn't bother to counter her anymore.

She coughed a bit. Liz looked at her with concern.

"You ok?" she asked. Maka nodded as she continued to cough.

"You better take care of yourself, Maka…" Liz sighed.

"Of course!" Maka smiled. After a few minutes of walking, they reached Tsubaki's house.

"Ah… My eyes never get tired of looking at Tsubaki's house…" Liz said as she rang the doorbell. Tsubaki opened the door and smiled at them.

"Hi!" Tsubaki ran to the gate and opened it for them.

"Please, come in!" she smiled sweetly as she led them in the house and went to the living room.

"My friend will be here in a few minutes!" Tsubaki had already served drinks and Japanese food on the kotatsu.

"Wow! Food!" Patty's eyes sparkled.

"Patty, we won't eat until Tsubaki's friend arrives" Liz lectured her.

"Ok!" Patty sat down on the floor together with her sister. Maka did as well. She was quite nervous. She was going to meet one of Tsubaki's friends from outside the school. Then they heard the doorbell ring.

"Ooh! That must be him! I'll go get it!" Tsubaki's eyes lit up and hurried to the door. Maka sighed as Tsubaki left.

"Oh! Hi! It's is so nice to see you again!" Tsubaki blushed at the sight of him.

"Yeah! You too, Tsubaki!" he grinned as he entered and Tsubaki closed the door on his back.

"Um… I have a small request for you" Tsubaki looked at him.

"What is it?"

"Um, please don't shout at my friends on how awesome you are! They still don't know you and they might have second thoughts…" Tsubaki worriedly said.

"Ok!" he raised his thumb up.

"Hey guys! Here he is!" Tsubaki went in with the blue haired boy. Maka and the others stood up and greeted him. But something about this boy caught her attention. She coughed up.

"Um… will you please excuse me? I'm sorry for being rude but I just have to go to the bathroom" Maka bowed and started to walk. She clasped her hands together and prayed that it wasn't him.

"Please not him, please not him!" she thought. Tsubaki looked at her worriedly and nodded. The boy followed her with his eyes. Soon enough as Maka was about to step outside the living room, he shouted.

"MAKA! YOU DARE WALK AWAY IN YOUR GOD'S PRESENCE?" then he laughed. Tsubaki's jaw dropped.

"Black Star! I thought we talked about this earlier!" Tsubaki whined ignoring the fact that he knew Maka's name. Liz and Patty looked at each other. Maka sighed and slowly turned to face the two.

"Black Star, huh?" she unenthusiastically asked.

"I KNEW IT WAS YOU! HAHAHA!" he laughed. Tsubaki's eyes widened that they knew each other.

They silently sat in front of the kotatsu to eat.

"So, you two are childhood friends?" Liz asked as she chewed the chips she took. Maka nodded.

"Oh, I get it!" Tsubaki pounded her right fist on her left palm. "You two were neighbors before you moved here in the US?" she asked. Maka silently nodded again.

"I see!" Tsubaki giggled.

"Well, isn't that quite a coincidence, huh?" Liz smiled.

"Yeah! Tsubaki and Maka are blessed with an awesome friend like me!" Black Star laughed. Tsubaki smiled as she sweat dropped. Maka looked at him.

"You want me to hit you with a book on your head again like I did when we were young?" Maka threatened him. Black Star smiled but gulped loudly.

"Um, no thanks… I had enough! You nearly broke my skull and brain because of that…" he scratched his head.

"You had a brain? Oh my gosh! I didn't know!" Maka chuckled. Black Star looked at her.

"Ha-ha… Very funny…" Black Star looked away. Maka cleared her throat and stood up.

"Excuse me for a bit…" she bowed as she got out of the living room.

"I'm so glad you two already know each other!" Tsubaki clasped her hands together as she smiled.

"You two must really be good friends!" Patty gawked at Black Star's face.

"Huh? What makes you say that?" Liz asked raising an eyebrow.

"Maka doesn't stutter when she's talking to him…" Patty afterwards drank her juice.

"She still has issues in socializing?" Black Star raised his eyebrow. The three girls looked quite surprised after he said this.

"You mean Maka has problems like that too, even when she was still young?" Tsubaki didn't want to ask such a nosy question but she can't help but feel intrigued. Black Star nodded.

"Actually, she was always outgoing back then before that one incident in school happened…" Black Star sighed. "Incident?

"She didn't tell you, did she?" he asked. They shook their heads.

"She's too afraid to tell us anything about her past…" Liz said sadly.

"Well, I'm not supposed to tell you this but…"

"We won't say anything to her!" Liz raised her right hand. Black Star nodded.

"When we were 13, she did like this guy in our old school… He was a popular guy… One day Maka decided to talk to him and this guy seemed to like Maka a lot too but a lot of girls hated her for that. They became good friends. There was this one popular girl too that liked that guy. She befriended Maka. I could still remember that tramp's name…" Black Star clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. Maka was like a sister to him so that was his kind of reaction when he said this. You could say he cared a lot for her. He took a deep breath.

"Medusa…"

"Really? A party? Sure! I'd love to come!" Maka smiled at her as Medusa grinned.

"Ok then! I'll be expecting you!" Medusa left leaving Maka happily hopping back to her home.

"Hey! Maka! YOU'RE GOD HAS ARRIVED! YAHOO!" Black Star waved and ran to her.

"Oh, hi!" Maka smiled at him. Black Star raised his eyebrow.

"Aren't you going to hit me in the head with a book or something? You seem happy…" he said as he walked with her.

"Yeah! You know that girl, Medusa? She invited me for a party tomorrow night!" she jumped happily.

"Medusa? The popular girl?" Black Star raised his eyebrow. "I don't know… I don't trust her… She seems suspicious…"

"Suspicious? Why would you think like that? She's my friend!"

"Friend? You only met her last week…"

"Well, I trust her!" Maka smiled.

"Well… I have a bad feeling about this… You shouldn't go… Listen to your god!" Black Star said it with that attitude of his but with a hint of concern in his voice.

"Don't worry, Black Star. It'll be fine! I sense no harm in her!" Maka raised her right hand and smiled at him.

"But she was wrong… That night, I learned that Medusa had embarrassed her in that party with her friends in front of most of our schoolmates…"

"Maka? I thought you're in that party?" Black Star placed his hands in his hips as was outside his house. Maka sniffed and unexpectedly ran to Black Star and hugged him.

"Whoa! Maka! Are you crying? What happened?" Black Star almost shouted. Maka hiccupped.

"You were right…" her voice went groggy. "I shouldn't have gone into that party…"

Black Star's eyes widened as he patted Maka's back gently.

"Everyone laughed at me because of her friends… And she didn't even do anything… She just looked at me in disgust…" Maka continued to cry. Black Star couldn't say anything but to hug her back. He was angry for what they did to his friend.

"The next day, I went to school with Maka just to make sure she was ok…" everyone looked at Black Star as he continued his story.

"She was silent the whole time… When we got to our school everyone in the hallway was whispering as we went through it… It was that time when I overheard one of them talking something bad about Maka… After that, false rumors have been spreading about her and whenever Maka tried to talk to people they would ignore her completely or insult her….. Maka never again was the same. She would start stuttering when she recited in class or when talking to people. There was even one time when our classmates booed at her when she recited and Maka fainted. After that time, she started having absences in school. It was days then it became weeks. Her parents said to me that she never came out of her room and barely ate" Black Star took a deep breath and then continued again.

"When her parents finally took her to a doctor, he said that an event might've affected her psychological health resulting her to distance herself from people… They then finally decided to move into another country where she can have a piece of mind… I decided to confront this guy. This jerk who didn't even defend her from all of this…"

Black Star pushed him against the wall with his hands holding his collar.

"You didn't even think of defending her from all this?" he angrily hissed at him.

"Being that with such a bad reputation with people? It's no use… And it's probably true…" the guy, Carlos, replied.

"And it's too troublesome, my popularity will go down if I did such a thing…"

"YOU FOOL!" Black Star pulled him and pushed him back to the wall for a hit.

"I thought you were friends with her! So you only care about yourself instead of others? Maka is not that kind of girl like the rumors say!" Black Star let go of his collar and punched him hard.

"Ow! What's your problem?" Carlos held his jaw as he sat on the ground.

"My problem? You! You're my problem! I don't care if you tell the school about what I did to you! It was worth it if I get suspension from this! In fact, that's not even enough!" Black Star walked away.

Black Star sighed. "I guess she carried that trauma here, huh?"

"That's…" Tsubaki's eyebrows wrinkled like she was about to cry.

"That's way damn cruel!" Liz pounded her fist on the table. Tsubaki nodded.

"Maka doesn't deserve that! She's way too nice!" Patty followed.

"I know… I hate to see people treat her like that… But I have to smile for her so that she won't feel bad of me being dragged to her problems" Black Star said.

"So that's why… I feel bad for asking her to change right now… But she did say earlier that she'll try her best…" Liz said.

"Well, that's good" Black Star smiled weakly. They fell silent for a while until Maka came.

"Hey… What's with you guys all silent like that? Did I miss something?" Maka asked as she sat beside Liz and Tsubaki.

"OF COURSE NOT! WE AREN'T SILENT! WE ARE ENJOYING OURSELVES! HAHAHAHAHA!" Black Star laughed. Everybody looked at each other and nodded in agreement. Maka raised her eyebrow.

"Okaaay…" she said as she drank her water. They now continued to talk about stuff taking what Black Star said to them aside for a moment. After a while, Maka remembered the dresses Liz ordered and gave it to her.

"Oh! Thanks a lot, Maka! Sweet!" Liz said as she excitedly peeked in one of the boxes.

"No problem!" Maka smiled. Tsubaki then remembered something.

"Oh, Maka… I have a favor to ask…" Tsubaki seemed a little embarrassed on what she was going to ask. "Hmm?"

"I unfortunately can't find any good books in the library and bookstore for the book report due next Friday… Can you help me order something good from the website Liz orders the dresses?" Tsubaki asked. Maka sweat dropped. She laughed nervously. At this case, she'll see him again. But she didn't want to disappoint Tsubaki so she just accepted it. She brought out her laptop (which she always carries) and opened the website. Tsubaki chose from a wide variety of books and Black Star kept on ranting on how deadly these things are (based on his experience with Maka). Tsubaki just laughed them off while choosing. After a while, Tsubaki decided on what to buy and handed Maka the money.

"Sorry for disturbing you!" Tsubaki bowed. "It's no biggie!" Maka replied as she drank her bottled water.

"Oh, I forgot to mention! Black Star's going to enroll in our school!" Tsubaki happily said as she clasped her hands.

"Psh!" Maka blew the water she was drinking. Tsubaki still smiled but sweated.

"Say what?" Maka asked.

"You heard her! My awesomeness is going to shine your school with brightness!" Black Star laughed.

"You're kidding me, right?" Maka massaged her forehead.

"That'll be fun!" Patty clapped her hands. "Yeah!" Liz said. "Urgh…" Maka groaned.

"His friend is going to enroll too! When will we meet him?" Tsubaki politely asked.

"You'll meet him when you'll meet him. Let's keep that a secret for a while!" he winked at Tsubaki making her blush. Maka raised an eyebrow in Tsubaki's expression. Then she glanced at the time. It was a quarter to 5. Wow, they had a very long conversation with each other. They were there at 10 and now it was almost 5. Time is fast…

"Hey guys… I think I'll be going now…" Maka stood up hugging her bag.

"Oh, really? This early?" Liz asked. "Sorry, but I have other things to do in the apartment too!" Maka scratched her head. Tsubaki stoop up too.

"Well, it's nice spending time with you!" she smiled. Maka looked at Black Star.

"Um, just a question… Where are you going to spend the nights?" Maka asked him. "In Tsubaki's house, where else?"

Maka's jaw dropped. "No way! Tsubaki?" Maka looked at her. Tsubaki blushed and nodded sheepishly. Maka sighed. Tsubaki and the others led her outside where Maka wore her roller blades. She stood up and glared at Black Star.

"Black Star, I swear. If I hear one complaint from Tsubaki, you're gonna have your skull break… For good" she said.

"HAHAHA! A GOD LIKE ME NEVER KEEPS A GIRL COMPLAINING!" Black Star said. Tsubaki blushed. Maka sighed.

"Whatever, just take care of her… Bye!" Maka skated outside as she waved goodbye to them. Maka wore her helmet on the way. She abruptly sneezed many times while skating until she got a runny nose.

"Geez…" Maka rubbed her nose, and after that she heard a thunder rumble. She looked up and saw dark clouds forming. Then a drop of water fell on her forehead. Then it followed on a heavy rain.

"Doh!" Maka skated faster hugging her bag. Good thing it was water proof. She skated and skated until she got to her apartment. She breathed heavily as she hurried to remove her wet clothes and into the hot bath.

"aaah…" she was relaxed for a moment but then she started coughing and sneezing.

"Urgh…" she groaned and got out of the tub. She wore her normal clothing at home. She touched her forehead and felt it hot. Really hot.

"Oh, no… I can't have a cold…" Maka went to the fridge to and gathered ingredients for the soup she's going to make. She took a deep breath as she felt the fever worsen. Maka thought that the rain must've worsened her coughs and sneezes earlier. She sighed as she stirred the ingredients. After a short while, the soup was ready and placed it in a bowl.

Knock knock

She sighed. "Oh yeah… I forgot…" Maka took the money and went to the door. She rubbed her neck as she did this. She opened the door and saw Soul smiling at her. She smiled back but in a weak way.

"Um, good evening… Rainy day, isn't it?" he smiled at her. Maka slowly nodded at him. "Here's the book you ordered…" Soul searched his bag for the box. As Soul did this, Maka felt a little dizzy.

"Oh no… This can't…" Maka felt her breath hot.

"I… I can't…" she felt her knees wobbly.

"Here it is!" Soul chuckled. Then his eyes turned to Maka, who was looking down.

"Um… Ms. Albarn? Are you alright?" He asked worriedly as he tried to figure her expression.

"Urgh…" Maka groaned then she fell on the floor with Soul catching her.

"Uh, h-hey! Are you ok! ? Ms. Albarn! ?" those were the last words Maka could hear before she fainted.

Maka slowly opened her eyes. She expected to be on the floor but what she saw surprised her. She was on the couch with a blanket over her. She also had a wet cold towel on her forehead. She saw that the blanket was from her bed and the towel…

Who was it from? She never saw it before in her house… She sat up and looked at her house. She saw a glass of water and the bowl of soup she cooked. She saw that it was hot because of the smoke.

"Oh, you're awake?" Maka's eyes widened as she heard that familiar voice. She turned her head quickly to look at the person standing from a distance but she felt her head twirl when she did that.

"Ow…" she groaned lightly as she touched her head.

"You don't want to do that… You still have a fever…" his deep voice soothed Maka for a bit. Maka regained her normal vision and slowly turned to him, not wanting to let it happen again, the incident earlier.

"S-soul?" Maka slightly jumped. "W-what are you doing h-here?"

Soul sat in front of the table on the floor. "Um, s-sorry… You passed out earlier outside, so I didn't know what to do. I was really panicked so I carried you here…" he paused to scratch his head. Maka continued to stare at him.

"Sorry if I raided your house… I just wanted you to feel comfortable…" Soul pointed at the blanket over her body.

"Oh… I-is t-this yours?" Maka asked as she held out the towel. "Uh, y-yeah…" Soul looked away.

"W-well… I d-don't really mind… I would've been still outside of h-here without y-you… You have my thanks…" she softly said as she smiled. Soul caught off guard because of this and stared at her eyes.

"But, aren't you s-supposed to be at work?" Maka worriedly asked. Soul looked at her. Maka waited for a response. All they could hear was the thunder rumbling.

"I'm sorry, what?" Soul laughed nervously. "Aren't you supposed to be at work?" Maka repeated her question.

"It's ok! I already called my boss, he said that it was fine. You're actually the last person I have to deliver something to" Soul looked away scratching his cheek.

"Plus, it's Sunday tomorrow. I can stay here for at least 11…" he shifted his eyes to the room's wall clock. It said that it was 8:00 pm. "There's no school to worry about tomorrow!" he grinned.

"You go to school?" Maka slowly asked. She didn't think he was still attending school since he worked already. She thought he was like 20 or 21. That's why she called him 'sir' the last time.

"Oh, yeah! I'm about to enroll in a new school on Monday with a friend of mine! After all I am 16 years old… hehe" Soul said. Maka's eyes shot open when he said this. 16… The same age as hers.

"O-oh! I'm so s-sorry! I thought you were older than that… hehe" Maka said. "But why do you work?" she asked.

"I live alone… It's to support my needs" he replied. "How about you…? You seem to live alone… You work?" he asked.

"Um, my parents are working far away from here. And they deliver the money I need to buy groceries and the other supplies. They said I don't need to work, since that would have a way in my studies. After all, I am the same age as you" she said without completely stuttering. She was quite proud of herself at the moment despite she has a fever.

"Really? That's nice to know, Ms. Albarn-!"

"Maka"

"Huh?"

"Y-you can call me Maka"

Soul looked at her. "I can?" Soul mentally slapped himself. Why would he ask such a question like that?

"Of course! I can call you Soul, right?" Maka smiled at him sweetly making Soul drift off again. But fortunately, he snapped back just in time she was going to ask another question.

Maka seemed startled as she asked. "Oh my! How long was I've been sleeping?"

"Um, about more or less, 2 hours…" he counted in his fingers. Maka groaned as she massaged her forehead.

"Oh… I'm so so sorry! This is embarrassing…" Maka turned red.

"Uh, no! It's ok! It's my pleasure to help you!" he countered.

"I-I'm sorry if I disturbed you…" Maka bowed her head.

"I told you, it's alright!" Soul said. Maka felt a little guilty and she must do something to get back to him. "Well, d-did you eat already?"

"Yeah! I'm actually full!" Soul lied as he rubbed his tummy. But his stomach didn't. It grumbled loudly. Silence occurred.

"I'm going to ask you again. Did you eat already?"

Soul sighed. "No…"

"Well, we could eat together! You can take another bowl of soup from the pot!" Maka energetically said.

"A-are you sure?"

"Uhuh!" Maka nodded. "It would make me happy if you did"

Soul looked at her then looked away hoping she didn't see him turn red as she said that. "O-ok. If you say so…" he stood and got the food. Maka took the bowl that was served to her on the table. After a few seconds, Soul got back with the soup. They ate and talked about a few things.

"Wow, your cooking is delicious!" Soul looked at the empty bowl of soup resting on the table.

"Thank you…" Maka silently said. "You know, it's the first time I talked to another person like this…" Maka said. Soul looked at her as she placed the bowl on her lap.

"I would usually stutter and can even faint…" Maka said. Soul then thought of something when he first met her.

"Is that why you didn't talk to me that much when I first saw you?" Soul asked. Maka nodded.

"I never trusted strangers… I only have a few friends. All this because of an incident a while back when I was still young…" she sadly said. She didn't know why she was opening up to him all of a sudden but she felt the need to do that. She felt relieved as she said those words. Was this was she missing? Someone to pour her feelings out?

"And what was that incident?" Soul asked. Maka fidgeted her hands before she could answer but Soul interrupted her.

"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to ask such a personal question!" Soul apologized.

"Um, it's ok…" Maka felt her surroundings twirl again and kept her hand in place of her head. Soul approached her and gently pushed her down to the couch.

"You know, you should rest… You still have a fever…" Soul pulled the blanket up to her neck. He placed the newly wet cold towel to her forehead.

"You know, you don't have to do this…" she said as she smiled.

"I should if someone like you is involved…" he smiled back.

"Well, sorry. I have to go now…" Soul stood up. Maka slowly nodded.

"Thanks for all of this…" Maka said as he grabbed his bag and started walking to the door. Maka followed him with her eyes, but that was the only thing she could do. She can't move her head because that would make her dizzy again.

"See you when I see you…" Soul opened the door. "Maka" he smiled and then left. Maka sighed. That went well.

Soul leaned at the frame of the door and sighed. He looked at his watch and it said that it was 10. He looked at the raining sky. He grinned.

"This is my best day ever since I moved here alone…" he wore his jacket and hopped off his motorcycle.

Maka woke up the next morning. She touched her neck with the back of her hands to check if she still has a fever. She didn't feel hot anymore. She smiled as she remembered last night. Then her eyes shifted to a piece of paper tucked on the bottom of the glass. She took it and read. It was a cellphone number and beside it wrote in a sloppy but readable manner:

Let me know if you feel better ^.^

Maka smiled as she folded the paper. "Yesterday is the best day ever since my parents moved out"

Ok... I was not expecting this chapter to be this long/

Anyways, this is the first time I used Medusa in one of my multi-chap stories. And she is still evil as hell. Black Star makes an appearance and tells Maka's friends about what happened to her to make her like that around people. I don't know why, but other than SoMa, I also ship MakaXBlack Star. Don't know why, but I like the thought of them being childhood friends and caring for one another. :P

Hope you liked and enjoyed this chappy!

~shadow