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Maka trudged in her first hour class, overwhelmed and sleepy from last night's events. She slumped down into her chair and stared blankly at the chalkboard because there wasn't anything else she could do. Normally, she would organize notes and recheck that her name was on all of her papers, but this time there was no use. She was too tired to even think about organizing papers. Maka swore that her dream had given her brain damage. She didn't know how, but it did. "'Sup, pigtails?" Soul asked as he strolled into class.

Maka groaned in response.

"Not feeling so well, huh? Maybe if you didn't spend all night studying that could change," he smirked. Maka shot him a glare and he backed down. Soul walked to the back row, as usual, to sit next to Blondie that was in Maka's dream. He always sat next to her. Always. The teacher eventually walked in after the very last student, shutting the door behind him and surveying the classroom as if there were a murderer among them. Maybe there was; Maka wouldn't know. And with as little sleep as she had last night, she probably wouldn't care.

The teacher rambled on as he usually did, not even noticing that nobody, not even Maka, was listening. Maka usually scribbled away furiously on her notepad, but this time she almost fell asleep! She peeked behind her a little to check on Soul. He was in the middle of passing a note to Blondie. Maka rolled her eyes. Typical...She looked back at the teacher, whose voice was nothing but monotonous, boring half the class to death. The whole rest of the day was pretty unbearable, especially because more people have started calling her "pigtails." She would just sigh and roll her eyes at them. There wasn't any use in actually giving anyone a reaction from her.

At lunch period, Maka was in the cafeteria, reading a book and eating her lunch, when all of a sudden, three boys approached her. There was a pair of twins, both with shiny red hair and smirks on their faces. The one standing before them had dark black hair that almost reached his shoulders. He had a nose ring, Maka noticed.

"'Sup, pigtails?" the leader asked, sounding strangely familiar. Maka's eyebrow twitched, but she said nothing in reply to the three bullies.

"Not talking to us? That's cool," one of the twins said, lowering his eyelids at her. The other twin pulled out a seat next to her and sat down. Soul immediately took notice and began to watch them all. The three boys continued to talk to her and try to get her to say something back, but their efforts went useless. Finally, the dark-haired one got up and slammed his hand down on the table, making Maka, and everyone else, flinch.

"What, are you scared or something?" he almost yelled. Maka's face grew red and then purple when the boy grabbed her arm. Most of the people in the cafeteria just looked away and continued their conversations with their own tables, but Soul stayed vigilant. He even started to get up before realizing that they aren't dating anymore. Should I...? he thought. He nodded to himself. I should. Soul jumped out of his chair, making heads turns and his whole table confused.

Soul marched right up to the black-haired boy, who was in the middle of nearly slapping Maka for not reason, and punched him. Right in the eye. Everybody went silent as the saw the boy hit the floor and Soul stand over him, victorious. Then they all cheered. Maka went into a state of confusion as she looked around at the cheering faces of the school. But the cheering stopped, however, when a lunch aid hustled over and grabbed Soul and the black-haired boy by their arms and dragged them over to the principal's office. Everyone immediately began talking amongst themselves about the excitement. Blondie approached Maka as soon as the rumbling died down.

"What was that about?" she asked snappily. Maka just sat there, dumbfounded.

"I...dunno..." she retorted, feeling stupid for not giving a proper answer or even a sly comment. Blondie raised an accusing eyebrow at her.

"I heard you're Soul's partner for that huge assignment. You're not trying to get back with him, are you?" Maka rolled her eyes.

"Look, I know you have this "thing" with him right now, but honestly, that doesn't give you the excuse to stampede over all the girls who merely glance at him like some jealous buffalo or something," Maka answered curtly. Blondie's mouth fell open.

"B-B-Buffalo?! Did you just call me a buffalo?!" she growled in disbelief. Maka gritted her teeth.

"Yes, now get out of here before I-"

"Ms. Albarn," she was interrupted, "I'm terribly sorry for interrupting you, but, you are needing in the principal's office." Blondie gave her a wicked grin and sashayed away like the queen of...well, everything. Maka followed the teacher that had interrupted her to the principal's office, where she found a bruised, black-haired boy and an albino, glaring into each others eyes. One of which were swollen. Maka walked right up to the counter and raised a questioning eyebrow at the principal.

"Ms. Albarn, is it true that these young gentlemen were fighting over you?" he asked. Maka shook her head no.

"They were fighting because Blacky over there was about to slap me and his minions ran away so they wouldn't be accused," she explained. Soul smirked to himself at her witty retort. The principal's eyebrows shot up and he jotted something down on a clipboard.

"Why was this individual trying to strike you?" the man asked.

"I don't know! He just started harassing me, so Soul stepped it to make him stop!" she whined. Soul tried not to chuckle.

"But he tried to resolve the issue with violence, did he not?" he answered.

"An eye for an eye," Maka responded, hoping, for some reason, that he wouldn't get suspended and have to do the project all on his own. The principal sighed.

"Well," the principal sighed, "I'm afraid that Mr. Evans and Mr. McClain here will have to attend a Saturday school together." Maka sighed a breath of relief at the punishment, but Soul cringed.

"You all may go back to lunch and have your parents sign this form," he said, handing the two boys pink slips of paper. They nodded and walked out the door, Soul taking Maka's hand in his and smiling at her. Maka blushed at the sudden touching, but didn't try to stop him.

"So, I guess I have saved you, once again, Maka," he said, smirking. Maka rolled her eyes and grinned.

"You're just that cool I guess," she giggled. He nodded.

"I really don't feel like going through the rest of the day answering questions about why I punched that guy in the face," he sighed.

"I thought you loved showing off your heroic tendencies," Maka joked, sticking her tongue out at him. He laughed.

"Well sure, but it gets annoying, you know?" he asked as they both walked into the cafeteria and met all the eyes that were now staring at the broken-up couple, standing, laughing, and holding hands. They froze, and Maka's face heated up from seeing Blondie's eyes staring right into hers. Maka and Soul walked back to Maka's table, leaving Soul's tablemates confused at why they were being ditched for his nerdy ex. They then sat and stayed quiet until the rest of the cafeteria grew loud again and they were free to talk once more.

"Well...that was weird," Maka said, breaking their silence streak. Blondie walked over to them and smiled all sweetly at Soul.

"What's wrong, Souly-kun? Aren't you coming back over to the table?" she giggled like it was just so hilarious that Soul was sitting with his ex.

"Ah, no. I think I'll just sit here, May," he said. So that's her name, Maka thought. May...

May gave them a look of disgust, "Why? You're not even dating anymore." Soul shrugged.

"I think after saving her from being smacked for no reason because no one else was going to, I should be able to sit near her without being accused of treason." May gave them a snarky look and sashayed away with her nose in the air like those nasty girls on kid shows that wear pink mini skirts and headbands.

"What's up with her?" Maka asked, trying to get some information on their current status.

"She has a huge crush on me and gets jealous whenever I so much as glance at someone else," he sighed. Maka thought back to her witty remark and smiled at herself. It felt nice to be the asshole for once. Nobody would really understand that but her.

Once the bell rang and all the kids filed into their classrooms again, Soul and Maka went into their own seventh hours. They would next see each other after school, when Soul would drive Maka back to his house to "work" on their project. Maybe, for once, they'd actually get something done.

HA. No.

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