The rest of the week passed pretty quick, and before I knew it, it was Saturday morning. Everyone else was coming at 10 am, but Janett came bursting through my door at 7:30.

"I'm home!" She yelled, sitting on top of me and shaking me so I'd wake up.

"Why do you have to wake me up so damn early?!" I mumbled, slapping her with my pillow.

"Because." Was her prompt reply. "Now come ON! I'm awake, so you should be awake too!"

"I hate your logic." I grumbled as I dragged myself out of bed.

She grinned, "I know!"

I chuckled from the floor as I tried to go back to sleep. I said 'I dragged myself out of bed' as in 'I fell out of bed'. Technically, I did get out of bed...

"Come on Sleeping Beauty! We need to get ready!" She was pulling me out of my room by my feet now.

"We can do that in an hour, so let me sleep!"

"Nu-uh, and besides, I already made breakfast!" I inhaled deeply.

"Well, I do smell bacon..." She knew she had won, it showed on her face as I stood up, still half asleep. I looked at the plate waiting for me at my kitchen table.

"Mm, eggs, toast, and bacon!" I said instantly perking up.

Because I live by myself, Janett decided to take it upon herself to 'take care of me', which means waking me up before the sun rises and bribing me with bacon. I appreciate the thought, but I would appreciate it even more if I could sleep until at least 9:30.

As I stuffed my face we made a list of what needed to be done before the others arrive.

I'll vacuum if you'll clean the bathroom." I told her.

"Alright. And I'll do the dusting while you do the snacks."

"Ready? Break!" I said teasingly. She chuckled as I put my dishes in the sink. I grabbed Janett's IPod and put Resonance by T.M. Revolution on repeat after plugging it into her surround-sound speakers.

Tsunaida tamashii no ha ga mune wo sasu nara

Kotoba yori motto tsuyoi hibiki ga ima kikoeru ka

I hummed along as I worked, and I laughed when Janett started singing along. When I joined her, I suddenly remembered something.

(flashback)

Soul and I were hanging out, sitting on the lawn of our childhood home. It was before we left, before we enrolled at DWMA. We were listening to music, one rock song then one classical song, alternating, the way we always did. We had memorized every song on that playlist, and we always sang along with the words. We had just reached my favorite song, Papermoon by Tommy Heavenly, when Soul suddenly jumped up.

"Come on," he said, smiling broadly.

"What?" I asked, bemused.

"Come dance with me!" I laughed and took his outstretched hand. As we 'danced' (we were young, we didn't really know how...) we laughed, it was very fun. When the song ended we were out of breath. As we plotted back down onto the grass I looked over and smiled at him.

"That was fun," he said, out of breath.

"Yes," I replied, smiling.

We sat in silence for awhile, listening to our music and basking in the sunlight.

"Soul?" I said, staring at the mountains in the distance.

"Yeah?"

"Today was so fun. Let's stay together forever so we can have more fun days like this!"

He laughed and smiled at me. "I'm glad you feel that way, but it's not like I'm ever gonna let you leave me all alone."

I smiled back and giggled. "I'm never gonna leave you! I love you!"

"I love you too Ella."

(end flashback)

"Ella? Ella are you okay?" I suddenly felt someone shaking my shoulder.

"Huh? What happened?" I asked when I realized that it was Janett.

"That's my line. I came in here to ask you which rooms I should dust and found you staring off into space with tears running down your cheeks." She informed me worriedly.

I raised my hand to my cheeks and found that there were indeed tears running down them. I remembered the flashback and bust into tears. "Oh Ella," she said as she pulled me into a hug. "There, there, it's ok."

When I was finished crying Janett didn't ask me what was wrong. She knows that I will only tell her what I want to tell her in my own time, but I am afraid that this is one thing that I won't EVER be able to tell her...

I smiled sadly at her. "I-I'm ok... let's just get back to work."

"Okay," she said, giving me a curious look. Just because she won't as doesn't mean she doesn't want to know.

We lapsed into silence and got back to work, and before I knew it, it was 10:15. I had waited to do the snacks because I knew that if I did them first thing then Janett and I would have eaten them all before nine, so I was working on that when the doorbell rang.

"I got it!" I heard a yell from the living room.

"'Kay, I'll be there in a sec," I yelled back.

I could here them from the kitchen, and had to smile to myself at the ridiculousness of my dorky friends.

"Wow! What a nice place!" I heard Alyssa say.

"Thank you!" I replied as I walked into the room. "Do you like my posters?"

"Yes!" Came the instant reply. I have posters for different anime on all my walls, plus trinkets (action figures, plushies, pendants, etc.) stationed on shelves covering up lots of my walls.

I laughed. "I thought you would. Snacks anyone?"

"Yes please!" Everyone was quick to respond. They followed me into the kitchen and I told them to help themselves.

"So, where are your parents?" Came a sudden question.

"Well," I said, scratching the back of my head uneasily. "I'm not exactly on good terms with my, so I live alone."

"Oh." Awkward silence...

"But it's okay, I mean, I have you guys, right?" Janett must've seen that I was about to cry, because she was quick to but in.

"Of course!" She said, shooting the others a look.

"Of course!"s and "We're always her for you!"s and a few other things were instantly coming out of my friends' mouths. I smiled in appreciation, then changed the subject.

"So, who wants to try on their costume first?" I asked.

(Soul's POV)

This is it. Today is the day. We are going to get Ella back today! I almost don't believe it, it's been so long... but whatever happens, I am NOT going to let myself regret this day. I am going to makes things right, whatever it takes. I love Ella with my whole heart, she is a part of me, and she is a part that I am not going to let go of.

Though we leave to go to the other world at noon, Kid insisted that we learn about it first. He is going to give us a mini-lecture, more like a briefing, so we can be prepared. That is why we are at the DWMA at nine in the morning on a non-school day.

"Okay," Kid said. "Let's get started."

It was pretty interesting, his lecture I mean. Basically the world is similar to ours, but slightly more advanced. Though, there we are something made up by what they call the 'Japanese' and are part of an 'anime' and a 'manga'. Apparently the people of that world have watched our daily lives for the last year (CREEPY) and have made up stories about us that aren't true (fanfiction- even creepier, I am not going to kill Maka! If anything, she is going to Maka-Chop me to death...)

Kid also said that because being albino in that world is unnatural she probably changed her appearance. So, we have to have Maka find Ella's soul (no pun intended).

We finished our 'briefing' at ten after eleven, so we have to wait for almost an hour before we can leave... This is so nerve-wracking!