I do not own Soul Eater or any other character (haha get the punn?)

EDIT: Before i edited the chapter i realized that i had added the group StarCrew, that group is strictly only for 'Soul Purpose' and being the idiot i was i tried multitasking and got them mixed up so here is my edited version sorry! I know you guys don't like reading these author comments but this chapter only IT IS IMPORTANT YOU READ ALL OF THEM. please and thank you!

"H-HEY DON'T-!" He yelled.

Too late.

Maka's POV

I did it! I aimlessly thought. I undid the button and zipper! I can't believe I…my facial expression turned to disgust. Ew, that's so gross. My arms still wrapped around him, I could feel his body relax. I moved my hands back around his lower body, still hanging on for dear life.

"So now what."

He sounded so careless, like the question was almost rhetorical. I was surprised, shouldn't he be freaking out or something? Or is he trying to hide it. Either way he had a point, I got my revenge. I wasn't really satisfied enough to call it revenge, rather, it was almost like being in a fist fight and throwing only a slap to the arm in response to a punch in the face. I sighed, I guess it was a little childish to overreact like that. It wasn't intentional, but I just huffed and gave him silence as an answer.

"Were you not expecting boxers underneath?" He teased. I could tell by his voice he was smirking. "Pervert."

PERVERT? What's this guy trying to do, irritate me again? No! I won't fall for it! I thought determinedly. All I wanted was revenge. Besides, who would want to have sleazy intentions about you? That's what I was about to say, but that sounded more like something he would say to me, the last sentence anyways. He'd probably use my own comeback against me sometime later.

"Oh, the silent treatment?" His voice broke me out of my thoughts. "Sheesh, how uncool."

"Shut up." I defended.

"Hey, long time no see." He joked.

"What's that supposed to be some kind of pun?"

"I'm pretty sure that wasn't a pun." He replied casually.

"Shut up." I repeated.

"Anyways, am I almost there?"

"No, we haven't even left the city yet!"

He groaned. "This is such a pain."

"Turn right here." I let go one arm to point straight ahead to an upcoming traffic light.

"Where's 'here'? Left or right?" He asked.

"I just said right!" I shouted clearer so he would hear me this time.

"You said 'right here!'" He quoted me.

"Well I meant turn right at this upcoming stoplight!"

"Why didn't you just say that in the first place?"

I was getting ticked off, the nerves in my head felt like they were being danced on. "SOUL YOU IDIOT!" I screamed as we turned right, finally leaving the city.

….

"Oi…wake up…"

"Huh?" My eyes opened slowly. Everything was blurry at first, but as my vision began to clear, I could see some of my surroundings.

It was bright, even though it had already become nighttime. I heard loud music and the noise of rides and people. I could smell food. It had seemed that it was after all of those other observations I finally realized that the side of my head was resting against something. I lifted my head off of it and sat straight up, rubbing my eyes.

"Finally." I heard him say.

I was still sitting on the back of the motorcycle, he was still centimeters away from me and his head was turned, eyes looking at me with that careless expression while he sat still in front of me.

"Huh? We're at the carnival already?" I asked with a lazy voice.

"What do you mean 'already' I've been driving for hours it's gotten dark out." He lectured me.

"I told you it was far."

"At least you got to sleep." He complained.

"Sorry." I reluctantly apologized. "Wait! How did you know where to go?"

"As soon as we got out of the city there were an endless amount of signs. This carnival must be a pretty big deal." He commented while getting off the bike.

He put a hand out for me to help me get off and I ignored it, getting off the bike by myself. Who does he think I am some damsel in distress?

"Are Black Star and Tsubaki here?" I asked to break the silence.

He closed his eyes and sighed, shaking his head.

"Geez, where could they be?" I asked, turning my head around to see if I could spot them somewhere in the huge crowds.

"Who knows." He replied. I looked back at him to see one hand in his pocket and him rubbing the back of his head with this lazy expression on his face.

"Hey, can't you look the least bit excited?" I put my hands on my hips to emphasize my seriousness.

He put his hand back into his pockets and looked at me with a raised eyebrow. The look on his face told me he didn't want to. What was he thinking? It's a carnival how can you not be excited? I'm not psychic or anything but I could tell he was probably thinking about something. I was curious, but it probably didn't have anything to do with me so I drove my thoughts away from that.

"Whatever." I turned away from him and took my phone out of my pocket to see if Tsubaki had texted me, only to see there was no service here. That's odd, I began to walk around the parking lot, holding my phone high and low to try and get a signal.

"What are you doing?" He asked me.

"I'm trying to get a signal so I can text Tsubaki." I replied without looking at him. "Come on, come on." I chanted.

This went on for a few more minutes before someone said anything. "Hey guys whatcha doin?"

Soul still had his hands in his pockets, and looked at the speaker. "Oh, it's you two."

"Sorry." I heard a familiar voice apologize. I stopped moving my phone around and looked over, as Soul high-fived with the other boy.

"Tsubaki!" I said in excitement. I ran over to my best friend, still holding my phone.

"Maka!" She returned the hello with a wave of her hand as I met up with her.

"You guys got here pretty fast how'd you do it?" I asked.

"Well-" Tsubaki began, but she was interrupted by a loud obnoxious holler.

"Of course we got here fast! I'm Black Star after all!" He shouted and jammed his thumb into his chest.

"You're being really loud Black Star." Tsubaki pleaded, trying to quiet him down.

"What are you talking about Tsubaki? Don't be afraid to embrace my shining voice!" He continued to shout.

"Y-Yeah but…" She muttered under her breath.

"Geez, what kind of bonding did those two do?" I whispered to Soul.

He looked at me with a raise eyebrow. "Bonding? Where'd you get that from?"

I was too busy sighing and rubbing my temples from Black Star to answer. What finally got him to shut up was when Soul smacked him on the back of his head.

"Alright! The line at the ticket booth seems to have shortened. Let's go!" I shouted. I started to run over to the booth, hoping that the others would follow but Soul grabbed my wrist and stopped me from going any further.

"Do you even have any money?" He asked me with skeptical eyes.

"W-Well…I was kind of hoping you would have money." I admitted. He gave me a kind of are-you-serious look, so I continued speaking. "Don't you? You went to the café today after all. You had to pay somehow."

Soul let go of my wrist and put both hands behind his head. "Well now that you mention it I don't remember paying at all to be honest."

My jaw dropped in amazement. He had to be kidding…right? I mean, after we came all this way… I kept telling myself.

"Kid paid for it while you went to the bathroom." Black Star pointed out.

"Oh really?" Soul asked in amazement.

"M-Maybe we should try to bargain with the ticketmaster." Tsubaki suggested.

"No I'm sure he wouldn't let us in without any money." I said, putting my thumb and index finger around my chin in thought.

"You make it sound like you know the person." Soul pointed out, eyebrow raised.

"It's the same guy every year so we should know him; we used to come here all the time." I replied. "But knowing that won't really help us get in."

We all heard this giant groan in frustration. "Oh whatever I'm Black Star I should be able to get us all in no problem!" He shouted, storming off to the booth.

Soul, Tsubaki, and I all looked at each other and shrugged. Whatever Black Star was about to do was probably worth a shot and if anyone has the courage to stand up to the ticketmaster it was most definitely Black Star. I just hope his obnoxiousness won't get us kicked out, I prayed.

Anxious we all followed him in line to the booth. The line finally disintegrated and it was our turn to 'buy' the tickets. We were all standing next to each other shoulder to shoulder making kind of a curved line. Of course, like we said, the same guy was behind the counter as all the other years. He had his head down, probably tallying how much money the carnival's made so far, and when he lifted his head up he had this look on his face that seemed to be both shock and amazement at the same time. Tsubaki and I looked at each other and I knew we were both thinking the same thing. Crap, he probably remembers us.

Black Star opened his mouth up to speak but was interrupted. "Hey! You're an Evans!" He exclaimed. We all looked over at Soul, he sighed as if in defeat.

"Come on man don't scream it." He told him in a bored tone. An Evans? I thought.

"Right right sorry." He apologized. "Will that be 4 tickets?" His eyes went from left to right, counting how many of us there were.

"W-Well you see, the thing is…" I stammered, secretly hoping Black Star would budge in anytime soon. "We sort of forgot our money and uh, we live really far away so we were wondering…"

The man's face went from smiley to a look of pity. "I'm sorry but we can't allow anyone in without a ticket, and to get a ticket you need money to buy it."

Thanks Captain Obvious.

"Dude I'm Black Star! If anything those people should be paying ME to even show up at this stupid carnival!"

I sighed. Did you have to add the word 'stupid'?

"Black Star?" He looked at him skeptically.

"Of course I'm the one and only!" He added an obnoxious laugh.

"Well i'll be damned!" If this was some cartoon his eyes would be in hearts right now. "You know, since you mentioned it you're right. It would cost us way too much to have you both come here, and yet you come here on your own! Why don't you worry I'll let you and your friends in for free!" He said happily.

He seems a bit too excited over those two…they're like more than half his age. My mind began running many questions at once. An Evans, like the musical family? No way. But what's so great about Black Star? I bet he's just intimidated by him. I shrugged all thoughts away so I could enjoy the carnival with a free mind. Well, as long as we're getting in.

"Thanks." Black Star and Soul didn't really sound too appreciative, more like an of-course-you-should-let-us-in-for-free kind of look. I could definitely tell they were beyond annoyed with all of his talking. He was praising them, what could possibly annoy them about that? Were they trying to keep a low profile or something? No way that's stupid, they aren't even wearing disguises.

"Thanks!" Me and Tsubaki made sure to sound much more enthusiastic to fill in the hole the boys made. All four of us began walking past the booth and towards the entrance.

"Oh no wait." The ticketmaster stopped us. "You two." He pointed at me and Tsubaki.

Oh crap he does remembers us! We both thought simultaneously.

"You guys better not cause us any more trouble this year!" He warned. Clearly he was only letting us in because we were with them, and seeing from last night, they were probably famous 'proper' people. Maybe he was hoping they would keep us in check?

"Of course!" Tsubaki and I kept smiling, killing him with kindness.

…..

The carnival was almost a million times better than I remember it. They seemed to have added more rides, and bigger ones too. I don't remember there being that many roller coasters or those kind of flippy ones that turn you upside down while spinning you. The place was definitely cleaner and I think they added a kind of walkway across the beach that was about half a mile away from the carnival. We had just entered and it was almost pitch black outside, except for the stars and the outrageous amount of lights and music that surrounded us. All four of us were still walking side by side as we headed farther and farther away from the entrance.

"What kind of trouble did you guys get into?" Soul asked us with his eyebrow raised.

"Oh t-that guy had no idea what he was talking about." I assured him with a fake smile and laughter, which he unfortunately noticed.

Soul smirked. "I'll get you to tell me."

"There's nothing to tell." I tried to say it as casually as possible, with a smile that was trying to MURDER him with kindness.

I could sense his curiosity, it was too overwhelming, why was he so interested? In order to avoid him I walked over and hooked arms with Tsubaki, as we pointed out all the things we used to do and going back into our memories. Personally, my main goal was to show the guys where Tsubaki, Liz, Patty, and I first met when they tried to pickpocket us. I didn't need to ask Tsubaki what she wanted to show them. Her favorite ride was the giant drop, and she was definitely not going to let us leave without riding it.

First we headed to the Whirlwind, a ride that spins you around at like a million miles per hour and it's so fast that you are pretty much stuck up against a wall. It was really funny to see their reactions. Black Star was just screaming "I can do it! This is nothing at all!" but we could all tell he was getting really dizzy. Soul was the complete opposite, he was silent but his face looked like he was screaming at the top of his lungs and when we got off he tripped over the flat ground. After that we went on a few more rides and stopped to get some food like pretzels and cotton candy and popcorn. As soon as we were done eating, we immediately headed towards another ride.

We didn't really talk much, it was probably because Tsubaki and I were mostly talking to each other so who knows what Soul and Black Star were talking about. I was actually really happy we weren't talking to each other, hopefully Soul had forgotten about what the ticketmaster said. What we did wasn't embarrassing or bad, I just don't really like talking about it and Tsubaki must have caught that. On our way to the House of Mirrors, we passed a concert stage. It looked like a band set up: a keyboard, drums, guitars, bass guitars, microphones, and even a tambourine. There was a sign that said that we could go up and play a little something as long as we didn't break anything. It was kind of like instrument karaoke.

"Hey guys let's go do that!" I shouted in excitement, I had never seen instrument karaoke before.

"Can you play any of those or even sing?" Black Star asked skeptically.

"Well, no but I've always wanted to learn the piano or keyboard or whatever you call it!" I laughed at how ridiculous I probably sounded.

I never really realized he was so close by me, but suddenly Soul hit my back so hard I arched it and then his hand traveled to my forearm and dragged me in the direction away from the stage.

"No. You're stupid." He scolded me.

"WHAT?" I said in disbelief. Where did that come from? "That's so random!" I just shouted at the sky.

I looked back to see Black Star and Tsubaki following. Black Star was sighing and shaking his head. Was it because Soul had just grabbed me and started walking away? Geez these guys are weird.

It seemed Soul wasn't really heading anywhere in particular, but when Tsubaki and Black Star caught up, she decided to take the lead and show us where the House of Mirrors was. She had a really good sense of direction actually.

"So, what do we go in one at a time?" I asked, rubbing my forearm once Soul let me go.

"I guess." Tsubaki said.

I've seen quite the number of scary movies where the House of Mirrors everything scary happens, so I was a little nervous about going in alone. I saw Black Star stomp in, screaming about how he would get out in no time, Tsubaki following while telling him to quiet down.

"Well, you first." Soul motioned his hand towards the entrance.

"N-No that's okay." I insisted.

"Oh, don't tell me you're SCARED." He leaned over, trying to tower over me with that taunting smirk on his face.

"Of course not!" I defended.

"Someone who can break into a party and can't even go in the House of Mirrors? How uncool." He took a step back and crossed his arms.

"Why don't you go first then? Maybe YOU'RE the one who's scared." I shot back.

He put his arm around my shoulder and pulled me in right next to him, using his other hand to cover his mouth as he whispered in my ear. "Shh don't tell anyone." I looked at his face and of course, there was that taunting smirk. Sarcastic jerk.

He irritated me to the point I felt the need to 'win' this little 'fight'. But that was only part of the reason why I decided to go. In my mind I heard the voices of Liz and Patty saying how they would kick my ass and how I would be ruining our reputation for not going in. Sometimes I wonder if their nagging is a good or bad thing.

I grabbed Soul's arm and threw it off my shoulder and angrily ran into the House of Mirrors.

…

I've seen this trick done thousands of times. Just keep both hands on each mirror on either side of you, and feel for which way the wall bends and curves and use that to maneuver around the maze. I was too paranoid to even look straight ahead, because that would mean looking at the mirror which could mean someone popping up from behind in the reflection, so I kept my head down, eyes glued to my feet and the floor.

I sighed. "Just how long is this friggin maze?" I said to no one in particular. Honesetly I didn't care if anyone heard me.

"Hey."

A hand. On my shoulder. Holy crap.

I let out the loudest scream that my vocal chords could handle. Whoever put their hand on my shoulder removed it and wrapped their arms around me, using one hand to cover my mouth. My loud scream was muffled. I didn't see who it was because I was always looking at the ground and when I felt the hand I shut my eyes immediately. For some odd reason I thought if I saw it's reflection I would die or freeze, strange huh.

I licked the person's hand, and when that didn't work, I somehow bit it as hard as I could. I wasn't sure if I bit a finger or just skin but whatever I did worked and the person released me.

"Ow what the hell?"

That voice... I thought for a while, then I opened my eyes.

I turned around to see that white-haired boy tending to his hand. "Soul! How did you-? When did you-? Eh?" Last I remembered he came in long after I walked in.

"Sheesh no mercy."

"Sorry! But it wasn't THAT bad…was it?" I walked over and looked at his hand. It was subtle, but it was just barely bleeding. "Are you okay?"

"No I'm going to die."

"Ha-ha you're hilarious."

It looked just as lethal as a papercut, I became a little embarrassed that I might have overreacted.

"There's people right behind us let's get moving." He pressed. He pushed past me and started walking in front of me.

He didn't have to tell me that he wanted to lead because clearly, he knew how to get around much better than I did. Pouting, I reluctantly followed.

We continued walking for a few minutes, until I finally felt the cool rush of air. We were finally out.

I looked around for Black Star or Tsubaki, but neither were in sight. It seemed Soul was also looking for them. Don't tell me they ditched us. I prayed.

Soul smacked his forehead. "Running off again, I really need to get Black Star a leash." He muttered.

"Should we go find them?" I suggested.

"Nah just let em be. They need some alone time together don't they?" He smirked, shoving his hands in his pockets.

I remembered my promise to Tsubaki. That's right, I did want to try to get them together, maybe this was a gift from the Gods helping me do just that.

"Alright, where to next."

I shrugged. "Let's just walk around and see what there is."

Silently, he followed so I just figured he agreed with my suggestion.

…..

We had been walking for a few minutes, it seemed that nothing in particular seemed to attract our attention, so we just walked side by side, talking.

"So this is where you grew up?" He asked me.

"Not really." It was a vague response. I had actually thought about a conversation like this, unconsciously I believe. He was from a rich and famous family, I had given up my family a few years ago. Not only that but because I no longer received help from my parents my friends and I are definitely not rich. I hated to admit it, but I was a little afraid to let him know the extent of how normal my life was. He knew I was not from the high class society, and he seemed to have accepted it. I might just be overthinking things, but I wonder why.

"What about you?" I tried to turn the conversation around.

"I grew up in the city." His answer was vague too.

"What's your family like?" Now we were heading down towards the beach where things would be quiet so we could actually hear each other better.

"Tch what's my family like." He repeated it like a statement, like he was talking about his family in a negative way. He said it with a disgusted attitude.

"Oh sorry was that too personal?" I asked, hoping I hadn't offended him.

"No, no it's fine." He assured me. Now we were finally in the sand, only a few meters away from the water. "Let's see, how should I put this." Not once did he take his hands out of his pocket as he thought. "I guess you could say they're strict. They like to keep us under control so we don't 'stray'." He implied quotes around that last word.

That sentenced made absolutely no sense in any way that I could process. So I did what any other person would do, I reluctantly bombarded him with questions. "Who's us? Why do they want you under control? What do you mean stray?"

He chuckled. "You ask way too many questions."

"Well you're not answering many." I said in defense.

"Okay okay we're even." He stated, but soon that chuckled voice disappeared and his smile turned into a straight line. "My family likes to live in their own little world; eating fancy stuff, wearing expensive things, buying expensive things, going to fancy parties like the one you and your friends crashed." I chuckled at the memory. That was only around 24 hours ago when I first met this guy and now we're being completely open with each other. "My parents, they sort of put my brother and I under lockdown. We don't get much freedom."

"You have a brother?"

"Yeah, his name's Wes." He didn't really introduce him too happily or casually, there was almost a hint of…hatred maybe?

"Soul and Wes Evans." I said out loud, trying to see how their names sounded. "Heh, not bad." I smiled.

However, he did not smile at all, which made me a little more curious, but I knew I probably shouldn't dig in too deep about it. "What's he like?" I asked, trying to break the silence.

"Like me I guess, but better." I heard the faintest chuckle slip from his mouth.

"Better?" I asked, confused. Was he being sarcastic or was it low self esteem?

"What about you, any siblings?" He's changing the subject I thought. That made me pout a little; he didn't have to be so secretive. It's not like I'm going to tell anyone if he doesn't want me too.

"Nah I'm an only child." I responded.

"Really?" He asked, I nodded. "What's that like?"

I wondered if he really cared about how I felt about being an only child. He asked, so I figured I should just answer anyways. "To be honest I'm not sure. I don't have any blood-related siblings but Tsubaki, Liz, and Patty are like sisters to me."

After I said that the conversation seemed to have completely turned over to me. I think we had forgotten about looking for our friends during those few minutes we walked together by the shoreline that night. I told him everything. About how we all left our families and decided to live together on our own, how the Thompson's were rich and would send us care packages every now and then. About how we all get by because of our jobs and how it was our anniversary of when we all decided to live together so we wanted to do something fun, and that's why we tried to sneak into the party. I told him that my parents were alive but divorced, that Tsubaki's are still together and how her brother died last year, and how Liz and Patty's parents are divorced as well. He laughed with me while I told stories of my Papa and his desperations to bond with me and help me even though I turned him down most of the time and ignore him. He laughed even harder when I told him the stories of all the reckless things all four of us would do together. When I told him about us I wasn't worried they would get mad at me. Liz, Patty, Tsubaki, and I were pretty open about our lives, mostly because they make interesting stories but it was because we were so open with each other in the first place and that's how we became close.

"We've been out here for quite a while." He pointed out. "What time does it close?"

"Sometime around midnight I think." I checked my phone. "We've got a few hours left it's fine." I shut it and put it back in my pocket.

Seeing how we weren't in a rush, I rushed forward so I could be in front of him. I turned around to face him and stopped him. Now we were standing face to face, with what seemed to be all the time in the world.

"Okay, it's your turn." I stated. I put my hands on my hips to emphasize my seriousness.

"What are you talking about?" He raised an eyebrow.

"I've told you practically everything about me and all I know is that you have a brother and your family is old-style fancy." I complained.

He smirked. "Now that's unfair my life isn't as exciting as yours."

"You're friggin rich how can that NOT be exciting? You can get whatever you want you've got status and respect and like everyone knows you. I bet you've got hundreds of girls-"

"It's not like that!"

I have to admit, that sudden change in his voice made me freeze. I had never seen him this way, unless grabbing my wrist and dragging me around the carnival counts. At that point I felt like an idiot. Stupid stupid! Running off my mouth like that and making judgments that was completely reckless. I sighed and closed my eyes.

"Sorry." Was all I could bring myself to say.

He sighed as well. "Don't think my life's always been all like that."

The darkness made it hard to look at him right in the eye. Our only lights were those of the carnival which was a little far away and the moon that reflected off the water. It was a cowardly thought but I felt kind of grateful for that because I could face him without having the need to avoid his gaze, which I could barely see.

"The thing is, I've always thought that was the life of wealthy people." I chuckled a little. "Guess I was wrong. What's it really like?" I guess I was trying to get him to be more open, like me; it's good for the soul.

"Are you trying to ask me about my life?" He had this crooked smile on his face that told me I had been figured out. I chuckled and looked away from him for a split second, then looked right back.

"That depends are you going to tell me about it?" It wasn't the best response but I had nothing else to say.

"You're really persistent." He commented.

"Whatever." I shot back. He could believe anything he wanted to.

What happened next made me feel like I was in a fairytale, or some romance novel. The scene was perfect for it. Moonlit night, facing each other right by the shoreline where a carnival was nearby. But that wasn't the main part.

Soul took his hands out of his pockets and grabbed mine, taking them off of my hips. He held them in front of us; our arms were stretched downwards to make a V.

Normally, I guess anyone would resent it a little. Knowing a guy for over a day and then doing this. But I was completely okay with it; I guess it was the eyes. There's a saying that states 'eyes are windows to a person's soul' and I felt like I could see right through them. Because of that I could sense something about him. Was it…

Distress?

Cliffhanger? Ehh hahaha

My plan is to really set up their situation so that way in the future things can be better understood (: and to clear things up since it might be confusing, Maka and Tsubaki both don't know that Soul is an Evans, all they know is he is some rich dudee and they both shrug it off when the ticketmaster said his last name.

And since its revealment isn't of a lot of importance, the Evans family had bodyguards and White Star was the main one. His kid Black Star became friends with Soul and is now his personal bodyguard, which explains his tought physique.

Distress: trouble, pain, sorrow

Thought i'd add that little definition because it will really help the next chapter!

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