Author's Note: Sorry for the late update. My schedule is hectic due to school. (and half the truth is that, I was so nervous because of the lots of reviews you guys gave but I'm sooo happy that you gave me reviews! XD ) Well, I tried my best to create chapter 2. Hope you like it! XD
Chapter 2- Partners
When Kid's senses went on, he was already inside the classroom beside him were Liz and to a dozing Patti. "What happened?" he whispered at Liz. They were in a middle of Stein's lecture about dissections.
"Well, you, Maka and Soul were in deep thoughts so we dragged you three to the classroom." Liz whispered back. "It seems Maka and Soul have already are back to their senses. Maka's already taking down notes."
"Oh" Kid looked at Maka who is 2 rows down. He noticed that beside her, Soul was glaring at him. 'What did I do to him? Oh right, I'm engaged to Maka.' He unconsciously stared at Maka. He noticed that Maka is symmetrical, today like every other day.
Soul noticed him staring at Maka. He nudged her and whispered, "Are you sure that it would be alright to marry him? You know that he have an OCD."
Maka grumbled. "Keep quite Soul I'm listening to the lecture." She was quite surprised to herself that she's listening to Stein's lecture even though it probably won't come out in the test. She was distracting herself from that ridiculous announcement that she and Kid are now engaged.
"You're listening? He's just lecturing about dissections!" Soul hissed.
"Ssh!" She placed a finger on her lips.
"Now class" Stein grinned. "Dissection time!"
The whole class groaned. Stein smirked and he sat on his computer chair and raised his glasses from his nose. He wheeled to a thing that was covered in black cloth. He pulled the cloth and it revealed a glass container with poisonous frogs inside. "Aren't they pretty? I want to see their insides and how they got their poisons in my own eyes." His eyes sparkled. The bunch of frogs cornered to the other side of the glass container.
"Stein-sensei!" Maka raised a hand. "Aren't they poisonous and endangered?"
"Yes! I agree with Maka!" Kim raised her hand also. "To have a bunch of it, how did you get them?"
"Well, he probably got it illegally!" Kilik shouted.
"Do you want us to get poisoned?" Harvar said in disappointment.
There were murmurs, agreeing to Kilik and Harvar.
"I got antidotes you know." Stein showed them the supposedly antidotes.
"No!"
"Please?"
"NO!"
"Alright, alright." Stein frowned at them. "We will dissect ordinary frogs. Boring!"
He then wheeled again to another thing but is a bit bigger than the first glass container that is also covered in a black cloth. He pulled and it revealed large frogs, which would be as big as their heads, inside the glass container. The whole class yet again groaned.
"You said that we will dissect ordinary frogs?" Soul said with irritation in his voice. "But why are they large?"
"They are ordinary and they aren't endangered." Stein chuckled. "You all must pin them at first, of course they must be still alive, before you dissect them okay? If anyone listened to my lecture earlier and then you know what to list down. This would be on your grades."
"What?" the whole class shouted. Stein smirked and continued. "Now, pick whoever you wanted to be your partner. But I have strict orders from Shinigami-sama that Maka and Kid would be partners in this."
"Huh?" Kid and Maka looked at each other and immediately looked at Stein. The whole class murmured and was intrigued.
"Quiet down class." Stein raised his hands and waved it. "Ok now, go to your partners and do your work. The one who will go pick the frogs, line here." He then stood up, positioned himself in front of the glass container and his eyes sparkled at the frogs. The frogs sweat dropped.
Maka and Soul groaned in frustration. Why is their day getting worst?
"I guess I'll go to Kid-kun." Maka sighed and waved at Soul. When she was about to go to where Kid is, Soul grabbed Maka's hand. She looked at him with a questioned look. "What is it Soul?"
Soul was surprised to what he has done. He said something that is half to what he intended to say to her. "Well, I think it is best that you ignore Stein-sensei about you and Kid being partners in this. I think that it might lead to something troublesome." While the other half was left unsaid so he just thought about it. 'And I don't want you to be with Kid. I want you to be with me.'
"Eh? What are you saying Soul? Even though it is a headache…" Maka paused and thought that it might lead to something troublesome but still... "Well, it still came from Shinigami-sama that was passed to Stein-sansei so I need to obey." She let go from Soul's grip and went to where Kid is. As Maka approaches, she suddenly remembered that they are engaged. Her cheeks went red.
Kid saw Maka approaching him, her cheeks were red. His cheeks went also red. They haven't really talked after the announcement that they are engaged 'What would I say to her? Would I bring the topic about being us engage? No, that isn't right… We must talk about the dissection.' His mind is really confused right now.
"Um, hello" Maka smiled at him. Her voice is calm but her cheeks have a tint of red. Kid looked at her, his mind went to a halt. Her smile is very calming that them being engaged is becoming not a big deal. He became relaxed but his cheeks are like Maka's though.
"Hi..." He smiled back.
Soul's eyes followed Maka. When he saw Maka and Kid's cheeks were red as they talk to each other, he's blood boiled. Liz tapped him on the shoulder and he internally jumped. "Hey Soul, let's finish this quickly." She shivered a bit because she hates to dissect a living frog while Patti is excited and her eyes are sparkly.
"Oh, okay…" Soul nodded and scratched his head. As they discuss about the dissection, he still kept his eyes at Kid and Maka.
After a few minutes, Kid and Maka are now comfortable with each other. They didn't even try to bring up the topic about them being engaged. They began discussing about the dissection.
"I'll go pick up the frog and you'll pick up the equipment." Kid suggested.
"Ok, I'll go pick up the equipment." As Maka was about to go down, she slipped. She closed her eyes shut, expecting a painful thud but she felt hands gripped on her arms and a body on her back. She opened her eyes and she looked behind her, Kid saved her from the fall.
"Be careful." Kid chuckled and he helped her stand up on the steps. Maka blushed in embarrassment and nodded. She immediately went down to the line that is getting the equipment. She remembered that Kid has a really nice attitude. 'Kid-kun is such a really nice guy. He deserves better than being engaged to me. I think I'll bring up the topic about being us engaged so I would know what his really thoughts are…' Maka shook her head, what was she thinking? Is she unconsciously agreeing to the arranged marriage? Her mind is getting ridiculous just because she was saved by Kid from that painful fall and remembering his nice attitude. He could save anyone because it'shis nature after closed her eyes briefly and opened it to clear away the ridiculous thoughts. It's her turn to pick up the equipment.
Maka went upstairs holding the tray of equipment. She saw Kid already holding the large frog that is been croaking for a while now.
"Look Maka, look! I picked a frog that is symmetrical! It looks so cool! I examined that its warts are exactly eight on the right and on the left." Kid grinned at her.
'Kid-kun looks like a 'kid' as if discovering such a thing that is so amusing to him. Well, he has an OCD, of course, so it can't be helped.' Maka giggled at the thought.
"Then let's start dissecting." Maka approached and she placed the tray of equipment on the table. She prepared the equipment and placed the pins or rather nails to pin it on the frog. She then looked at Kid that is whimpering. She gave him a questioned look and said. "Please place the frog at the tray for dissection. I'll pin the nails at its feet."
Kid gripped the frog tighter and it croaked. "NO! Its perfect symmetry would be ruined!"
Maka's eyes widened, "Huh? What are you saying? Come on Kid-kun! We'll be slicing it to its belly on the middle so it would still be symmetrical." Maka waited, expecting Kid to place the frog on the tray. He still didn't move and he held the frog closer to him.
"No!"
Maka looked at the time. It was nearing to the end of the class and the end of school. But still, time is passing by quickly. She wanted to finish this as soon as possible. The large frog is giving her goose bumps. "Well, if you don't want to do it, give me the frog and you'll nail it."
"No!"
"Kid-kun, this dissection would be on our grades so please cooperate." Maka tried to convince him but it was no use. "If you don't want to dissect that frog then replace it with an asymmetric one then."
"No, I want this one!" Kid shook his head furiously. This is really getting out of hand. Maka thought that if they were married this would be their daily problem, his OCD.
"Give me the frog Kid-kun!" Maka reached out to get the frog from Kid's grip. Kid evaded her easily. As he successfully evaded her, he stuck a tongue out to her. A vain popped out from her head and a ruckus was formed.
Kid and Maka was literally disturbing the whole class. Their classmates looked at them with intrigued and they laughed at them for being silly. Soul is really pissed off. Liz and Patti are giggling.
Stein stood up from his computer chair and went to where Kid and Maka are. As he arrived, he cleared his throat to catch their attention but it didn't work, Maka is still arguing with Kid and tried reaching the frog that they will dissect. So he said something that would really catch their attention.
Stein came closer so that Kid and Maka could only hear. "If you two won't stop, I'll reveal that you two are now engaged to the whole class." He then smirked at them. They immediately stopped from what they are doing and stared at Stein. They don't want the class to know that they are engaged. In a school full of teenagers, the word spread fast.
"Good, please do your dissection quietly." Stein left them and took a quick glance at them. Kid and Maka immediately did the dissection.
Kid was practically crying and whimpering as the frog was being dissected. As they saw the insides, Maka shivered as she took down the notes that were needed. Then they cleaned up and now they're finished in a nick of time. They were actually the first to be finished.
A few minutes later, the others were also finished. They went to their seats and Stein said to them something on what they saw. Then, they heard the bell ringing, indicating the end of class.
The whole class immediately went out after preparing their things but some stayed for a bit inside the classroom. That is Maka, Soul, Kid, Liz, Patti, Black*Star, Tsubaki, Ox, Harvar, Kilik, the Potts, Kim and Jacqueline.
They all formed a group and all of them (with the exemption of Soul, Liz and Patti) asked Maka and Kid about Shinigami's strict order on why they would be partners and about the ruckus earlier. Also on what Stein said to them to make them froze. Curiosity was practically on the air.
"If you all could excuse us for a sec." Maka said as she looked at Kid and he nodded. They went to the other side of the room.
"They are all asking about it. I think we should tell them." Kid smiled at Maka and then looked at the group. "They're our closed friends anyway."
"Well…" Maka puts a hand on her right cheek. "I guess it would be alright but I hope they wouldn't overreact about it being us engaged." Her cheeks became suddenly red due from the words 'us engaged'.
Kid's cheeks went also red but he immediately regained his composure. "Then it's decided." He nodded at Maka.
Kid and Maka approached the group, readying themselves. 'This would be quite a surprise for them.'
A/N: What do you think? (To my fellow Filipinos out there: Bitin ba? XD)
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