Soul walked towards the place where he met Maka everyday so they could walk home. He started speeding up when he didn't see her right away. "What the.." he mumbled to himself when he saw she wasn't there. Didn't she leave first ? Why wasn't she here ? Maybe she went to the bathroom. He sat down against a tree en looked around, hoping he would spot her or Crona somewhere. He was really hungry, and got more and more annoyed every minute he sat there waiting for her. After an hour or two, it started getting a little darker and he decided to go home without her. She probably just went to grab a drink with Tsubaki or something. He pushed himself up and started walking home, while the sun slowly disappeared and the moon's scary grin appeared.

Soul arrived at the apartment and opened the door with his key. When he walked in, he was greeted by laughter coming from the kitchen. He went there and saw Maka giggling with Crona awkwardly sitting across from her, slightly laughing but still not knowing whether he was funny, or he was getting laughed at. It's obvious that it's the first option, but not to Crona, who doubts everything. Soul got angry when he saw they were eating, but he remained calm. "So, where were you ?" he asked carefully. Maka turned to him, answered "Oh, I went home with Crona already" and quickly started talking to Crona again. Soul clenched his fists and bit his tooth. So, in order to make it clear: She left him waiting for her for two hours, because she just went home, made the food Crona wanted and started eating, not even caring one bit about him? He stood there for a minute until Maka finally looked at him. "Don't you want to eat something ? We're already done eating but there are some leftovers in the fridge, I guess. I'll take them out for you" Soul's jaw dropped slightly as he stared at her. Leftovers, seriously ? She didn't even take the effort to make some extra food for him ? "No, I'll just skip dinner today" he said, and he tried to make his voice sound as angry as he felt inside. Maka shrugged her shoulders and closed the fridge again, ignoring Soul's clearly unhappy voice. She didn't know what was wrong, but thought that he would get over it by himself. He wasn't the type to respond if she asked him what was wrong, anyways. Soul couldn't help but give Crona the angriest look he possibly could. Crona noticed it, but rapidly avoided his eyes and looked at his plate once again. Maka cleared the table and washed the dishes while humming a simple, familiar tune. When Crona went to bed, which was really early, if you ask Soul, Maka went too and Soul decided that staying up all by himself was pretty pathetic. He headed towards his sofa and fell asleep right away.

A couple of hours past midnight, Crona's usual nerve-wrecking yelling woke Soul up. He sighed and turned around, pushing the pillow over his ears, hoping that would block the sound from getting to him. But it didn't have that much effect. He rubbed his eyes and got up, walking slowly towards his room. By the time he arrived he noticed that Maka wasn't there yet. The fatigue must've really gotten to her, since she wasn't awake yet after about a minute of yelling. He opened the door brutally and stood there gazing at Crona, with his hands in his pockets, leaning against the wall. Crona had woken up from his nightmare, and was now hysterically crying, holding his knees against his body. He looked up at Soul, but clearly wasn't satisfied with him and began crying even louder. "Hey, quit the crying, will you ? We know you're having a hard time, but please, just grow up. I'm tired of waking up every night and Maka's exhausted because of you." Crona stopped sobbing for a minute while looking at Soul anxiously. He didn't know how to respond, and honestly, he had always been a little afraid of Soul. Those bright red eyes never looked at him caringly, or maybe once, when he slept here for the first night and Soul still thought he could bear with a depressed kid for a few nights. Crona crawled in a corner of the room and hold in his tears, scared Soul would lose it if he started sobbing again. At that moment Maka entered the room and looked at Crona with big eyes. "What did you do to him ?" She warily asked, as she pushed Soul, who tumbled for a second. "I didn't do anything. I just told him to stop crying" She looked at him incredulously. "You're such an ignorant jerk, Soul." She hissed as she walked over to Crona, who now let go of his tears, and hugged him tightly. "Yeah, you should totally take his side and not care about your health at all. Why don't you-" Maka didn't let him finish his sentence as Crona began crying heavier. "You're upsetting him, just leave!" Soul couldn't believe this. He stomped out of the room and walked over to the kitchen, where he, in the heat of the moment, took a plate and threw it on the floor with all the strength he had in him. He leaved the shards on the floor as he walked out of the apartment, running his hands through his hair, trying to control his breath.