I would like to point I out that in no way are these one-shots related to each other. They are simply that. One-shots.

without further ado. I present Makas secret.

6 Million Secrets: What's Yours?

My name is Maka Albarn and this is my secret.

His name is Soul Evans. He is my partner, my best friend, my other half. The 'cool' guy of the school. We had been going to the same school, practically the same class every year, and we had never spoken. The only reason we knew each others name was because of roll call in the morning.

I was the nerdy teachers pet and he had been the cool guy since we all found out about the meaning of the word. Imagine my surprise when he started talking to me in high school though.

I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just walked into my biology class, period 1, which also just so happened to be my home room and study hall period. I had gotten there early so I could get a good seat in the middle of the room. I really didn't want to be classified the class nerd and teachers pet by sitting in the front on the first day.

My head was done, as I was reading, when everyone else started filing in talking excitedly to those around them and plopping into seats. The seats next to me stayed empty. I didn't have any friends before him.

I remember feeling sad, already thinking that nothing would be different this year. I would spend the whole year with my studies and no friends. Fun right? I didn't think so. Others thought that's all I liked to do but that's not how it was. It's what I was forced to do until it became habit. I didn't know anything else.

Admittedly my eyes had started to mist up with unshed tears when almost everyone had filed in and the two seats next to me were still empty.

Then he slid in, the whispers immediately starting up.

Who will he sit next to? They whispered. It has to be you Jenny. He'll sit next to you.

His red eyes scanned the room, distant and detached from the world and whispers around him. I was watching all of this from my seat, no one whispering false promises and deranged hopes in my ear. His eyes stopped roving in my general direction. Excited girly whispers erupting from the crowd behind me.

He glared past me as he walked up the stairs. I don't know why but I held my breath as he walked, expecting him to walk right past. I almost choked when he dropped his backpack next to me and slid down in the seat to my left.

Furious whispers sounded in the room. Why is he sitting with her?!

Truthfully I would have liked to know the same thing.

"Hey." Soul nodded at me, completely ignoring all the death threats and mean stares I was receiving because he decided to sit next to me.

"H-hi."

"I'm Soul."

"I know." I whispered quietly, staring down at my book once more.

"What?"

"Ah-ha I mean, everyone knows who you are right?" He just stared at me blankly, with what I now know to be a spark of interest in his eyes. I sighed, he'd get to know me and then he'd leave anyway. Boys were no good. "I'm Maka."

"I know." Souls sharp teeth flashed into a smirk that I would grow to love. At the time I only stared at him in wonder as I watched him tease me. "Why are you staring at me like that? I mean I know I'm good looking and all but it's not cool to stare."

My eyes shot to my book, my face heating up in a deep blush. "Why are you sitting next to me?" I whispered, glancing around at all the hostile faces of the girls in this class.

"It's not cool to be alone."

That was why. That was why he befriended me.

It's not cool to be alone.

Six simple words that changed my life.

I had a friend now. We had a couple other classes together but I found myself looking forward to biology and study hall the most. I had a friend. I didn't even mind all of the nasty stares. I didn't mind the nasty remarks. I had a friend. Since he was the coolest person in school I obviously didnt have any girl friends but I didn't care about that either.

I had a friend.

Even if that friend was a pompous ass hole who had no filter to his words. I knew I wasn't the most developed girl back then. Ok scratch that. I was flat as a board. No sex appeal at all, which he felt the need to point out to her every chance he got.

"Yo! Tiny-tits, I need you to tutor me." Soul called from across the room, my eye twitched with the strength of the restraint I was using to not hurl my biology book at his head.

"That's not exactly the best way to ask, Shark Tooth." I watched the grin that curled across his face in fascination. As far as I knew he only smiled at me like that.

"Whatever, bookworm. Just tutor me."

That's how it was, that's how I thought it would stay. Eventually he wanted to introduce me to his other friends.

BlackStar... Tsubaki... Kidd... Liz... Patty...

All my friends now too?

According to him, yes.

It's not cool to be alone.

Then the worst thing possible could have happened. I developed feelings for him.

Who would have thought? Nerdy Maka Albarn liked her best friend, cool guy Soul Evans. It was horrible. I was devastated. I couldn't do that! I couldn't like him. He was my best friend. The cure to my loneliness. If he didnt like me back it was all over. He would leave me and I'd be alone again.

Not happening. So I kept it to myself. I never told him...

...and he fell in love with someone else.

He might have loved me at one point. All the signs pointed at it. But I lost my chance by senior year.

"Maka, this is Sara." He held a small girl with bright blonde hair to his side, wearing that warm smile on his face that I thought he only smiled at me with. My heart broke with his next sentence. "This is the girl I was telling you about."

Oh. OH. "You finally got the nerve to ask her out?" I looked the girl over. She was pretty. Blonde hair, short, bright blue eyes. And she didn't look like a bimbo either. She looked like she held adequate smarts, nothing on my level though.

She looked like she would never insult him. She looked like she would never dare hit him with a book, or anything for that matter. She didn't look violent at all.

They are still together, five years later. He is thinking about proposing to her soon.

My secret?

I still love him. No matter what, I will always love him.

A/N

wow ok. Hopefully the next one will be a little more cheerful. This one was supposed to be cheerful but I got depressed this morning while writing it. The boy I like has emotion issues and stuff and he said he doesn't want to ruin our friendship. Whoop-de-fucking-doo.

Ok enough about me. Ill post again soon because I'm in a writing mood.