A/N: I apologize for any mispells or wierd wording, it's late and I could not reread this chapter. Sumimasen... m(_ _)m

The simplest part of it all was accetping the fact that, yes, she knew and yes that meant everything else that came with her knowing. Things always seemed simpler before Blair had come into his life. Every day she wasn't there was taken for granted and Soul wished to Death that he had been better about those days and not wasted them doing something stupid. Well, it was to late now.

"Come on~," Blair urged as she tried to push his leg with her kitty paws. "Maka said she they needed coffee. It's a full tme thing planning a wedding you know!"

"Isn't that what the wedding planner's for?" Soul asked grumpily as he started out the door.

"Hey, I told Maka you would get them some coffee," Blair stated innocently.

Soul glared at the cat. "Why do you always have to make work for me? Can't I just deal with what I already have?"

"You're the one who wanted to help didn't you?" the magical cat mewed teasingly.

"Don't remind me... By the way, why are you coming along?"

"I just want to make sure that you don't get the wrong thing~"

Soul rolled his eyes. Of course not. They walked up to Deathbucks and joined the other thousands of people in line. It was at least twenty minutes before he got to the front of the line. The girl at the counter smiled as she asked him what he wanted.

Soul shouldered the door open and made his way out back towards death mansion with the aquired item. Blair walked next to him humming a little tune. Soul found his way to ignoring the annoying cat, but now there was a bad feeling welling up in the pit of his stomach. What was she so happy about? Blair continued to hum the entire way up to the mansion until Soul stopped in front of the doors. He frowned as he balanced the drinks in one hand and knocked with the other.

"Coming~!" a familiar voice chirped before the door was opened. "Oh, hey Soul!" Patty greeted him with a smile. "Did you bring coffee for Maka and Kid too?"

"What do you mean 'too'?" he asked, his voice edged with annoyance.

"Sis and I brought some up earlier."

Blair walked up past them into the house, her little kitty hips twitching triumphantly. Patty let Soul in and closed the door behind him. Soul walked into the dining hall to find Maka and Kid still drinking at the coffees the sisters had brought earlier. Maka looked up and smiled.

"Hi Soul," she waved. "Did you bring that for the girls?"

"For the girls?" Soul echoed, his eye twitching very uncooly.

"Hey, thanks," Liz said as she stole one from the tray. "Actually, Patty had some of Kid's and she wasn't feeling to good afterwards, so you can have it."

"You know, Blair can help with stuff here," the cat mewed. "Why not take your coffee out on a walk? Blair doesn't mind at all."

Of course you don't stupid cat, Soul thought angrily.

"That sounds nice," Liz sighed, "but if anyone needs a break it's Maka and don't you two go for a walk or something? We can take care of things here."

"A break does sound nice," Maka sighed. "But all this-"

"Is stuff the wedding planner is suppose to be doing, isn't it?" Liz interjected. "Why are you two doing so much anyway?"

"We just want everything to be perfect," Kid said. "The symmetry must be just a beautiful as the ceremony! It's an important part of the design we chose."

"You two definently need a break," Soul stated. "Go out for a while and we'll take care of things."

"Are you sure?" Maka asked as she stretched her aching arms.

"Of course," Liz smiled. "We'll get everything organized for you, it's a mess in here. You two just go out and have some fun!"

"Well if everyone's so adament..." Maka stood and took Kid's hand. "We'll back in a few hours then."

"Thanks," Kid said, relieved for the break in their busy schedule.

"Don't feel obligated to hurry back," Liz said as they walked out. "It'll be waiting for you when you get back."

Blair escorted them out. This isn't exactly what Blair had in mind but I guess it could work~ They heard the door close as the happy couple left. Patty frowned at the papers strwen all over the table. Just looking, it was nothing but papers; the table was covered completely. Blair walked back in and jumped up on the table.

"This is a lot of paper," she speculated as she walked the length of the table.

"The sooner we start the more likely we'll be finished before they get back," Soul sighed as he put down the coffee.

"Let's get it where we can see the table first," Liz said as she started piling the papers. "It'll be easier if we start like this."

They went to work, stacking the papers first then sorting them out. It was amazing just how many different ways Kid could work symmetry out of one theme. Patty handed papers to Liz, who looked it over and if it didn't match anything in her piles she handed it to Soul who did the same. They had written a lot of notes on what they needed to buy for the arrangement so those went in Blair's pile. It was probably- okay definently- the most boring work she had ever done in her life, but it was worth it if she could get Soul and Liz to talk to eachother. They hadn't said much since Kid and Maka left.

"This is amazing," Liz sighed, "How in the world did they come up with all of this? I hope whoever I get stuck with doesn't put me through something like this.."

"Blair thought you didn't want to get married," the magical cat interjected.

"Well, who knows," she quickly defended. "I can say that but it doesn't mean I won't end up meeting someone I might want to marry. Th-There's no rush though."

"All this stuff is crazy," Patty commented as she threw down a piece of paper. "This is to much!"

"You can take a break if you want I want to finish this before they get back," Liz said.

"I'll go with you!" Blair said as she transformed back into a cat and ran after Patty. "This is way boring."

The two of them walked out, leaving Soul and Liz to finish the rest.

"There's still so much to do," Soul sighed. "I think I'll leave the rest to you.."

"You better not! It'll take forever doing this on my own," the pistol snapped.

"You're the one who offered to do this."

She pouted and widened her eyes cutely. "Pleeeaassse?"

Soul narrowed his eyes and started towad the door. There's no way I'm playing into that stupid cat's plan. "I didn't offer to do it," he said without a twinge of guilt.

"Soul~ Come on!" Liz turned around in her chair. "Hey..."

"Sorry." He stopped in front of the door and looked back over his shoulder.

Liz's expression fell and she turned back around. "Fine. Just go, I don't need your help anyway. I can do it myself." She started back into the pile Patty had.

Soul spared a sharp toothed smile before returning to the table. He was going to leave her, really, but then she had to go and start acting all cool. That was the woman he had fallen in love with. Wait... Hm... I guess so then. There was no point in denying it. They had known eachother long enough, he could say sat down next to her and she looked at him, her face relieved that she didn't have to do it herself.

"Changed your mind?" she asked as she went back to sifting through the papers.

"Yeah," he answered simply, taking a pile from her."It'd be really uncool for me to leave you hear to do all of this by yourself."

Liz smiled a little. The afore mentioned black cat poked her nosey little head back into the room and smiled. "Looks like Blair's plan worked," she purred. "They look so happy~" She disappeared again before either weapon could spot her.

Thanks to Soul, Liz was able to finish within the hour. The put all the organized piles in the middle of the table so there wouldn't be any accidents.

"Finally," Liz sighed exasperatedly, "we're done."

"Yeah," Soul sighed next to her.

"Remind me not to volunteer to ever do something like that again.."

"Never again."

She turned her head to face him. Both weapons laid there heads on the table and stared at eachother. Liz closed her eyes and stood quickly. "I'm going to get something to drink," she said as she walked briskly out of the room. You can't do that! Stop it Liz! I know he's unfairly attractive but he's still your best friend! No matter how sweet and caring and... or how good he smells! It's nice that he doesn't smell like most, but that's just Soul! He always smells good...

Liz took a bottled water from the frige and leaned back on the counter. Things were starting to get difficult. Every moment she spent with him was becoming like some sort of torture! Her heart wanted to beat faster when she saw him, making it difficult to breathe; her stomach went into nervous knots, which made smiling that much harder. She had to keep up the charade though. It wasn't like he felt the same way anyway. When she had looked into his eyes just a few minutes ago they weren't like they had been that afternoon. He obviously didn't feel the same about her that she felt about him.

"That doesn't stop my feelings though," she whispered into the mouth of the bottle.

"Is something wrong?"

Liz almost threw her water bottle at the suddenly appearing cat. She stood frozen with the water bottle held over her head.

"Don't do that!" she screamed. "You scared the crap outta me!"

"Sorry," Blair mewed apologetically. "I just wanted to make sure you were okay. You looked really uncomfortable a few minutes ago."

Liz put the water bottle down on the counter and sighed. "I'm fine Blair. Nothing a shinigami's weapon can't handle! I'm perfectly...fine..." Who was she kidding? She was definently not fine. She was falling in love with her best friend- things were far from fine! But, she couldn't tell Blair that.

The cat tilted her head. "You don't sound fine," she speculated. "Why don't we go to your room and you tell Blair all about it?"

"I don't know... It's really personal," Liz said nervously. "I can't imagine telling anyone."

"Blair's a cat," she stated, "who else can you trust? I'm even a female like you! You can tell me, female-to-female."

The stress of it all was becoming a lot to deal with on her own... Then again this was Blair she was thinking about revealing her feelings to, someone very close to Soul. It was to risky, far to risky.

"No, it's alright Blair," she concluded. "I can handle this myself. I already know what to do and everything. Don't worry."

Liz took her bottle and went up to her room. Blair's ears dropped and she sighed.

"So close," she mewed. "But what did she say? I only caught the last part, "I feel." What was she talking about?"

Blair jumped down from the counter and walked into the livingroom where Patty and Soul were sitting. He looked far less aggitated than Liz had. Blair knew the white haired death scythe o be somewhat of a clutz when it came to dealing romanticly. Knowing him, he said something without thinking and ruined everything. The cat glared at him. Just when it looked like they were getting along so well! She jumped up into his lap.

"What did you do?" she asked sternly.

Soul looked down at the obviously angry cat. "What? I didn't do anything, what are you talking about?" More women confusion?

"Liz looked very sad just now," she said. "You did something to her."

"No, I didn't. I helped her finish organizing then she left to get some water," Soul explained. "I don't know why she would be upset."

"Yeah, Soul wouldn't hurt big sis," Patty defended.

Blair their word for it and jumped down from Soul's lap. Then something else must have been wrong. Maybe it was just the sign she needed! It would take more than that to get Soul moving though. Time to ready plan B!

Liz sat on her bed staring indignently at her cell phone screen. It beeped then a little envelope appeared on the screen. She opted to check her text messages and opened one from Tsubaki.

hi! wats up?

Liz tapped quickly at her phone's keyboard. She was pouring her heart and so- her everything into that text. If there was anyone that could help the pistol right then, it was her. She finished then hit send. It was a good five minutes before she got a reply.

Oh, i c! gr8, gud 4 u!

She smiled nervously as she texted back and hit send.

omg he dont no?! y u no tell him?

Liz layed back on her bed and texted back. This was going to be a long afternoon.

ok, but u 3 him, rite?

She sighed and typed. It was a fair guess that she definently felt strongly about him.

mhm... go 4 it! u 3 him, u shuld tell him. :)

Liz sat up, her eyes wide at the fellow weapon's response. Tell him? Just like that?! That straight forward stuff might have worked fine for her and BlackStar, but it was not something she would just do. Besides, she didn't know if he felt the same way and she was not one to shoot into the dark and hoped she hit something. Well, not in this case anyway.

watch him ( _ ) men are very strange with their emotions, they show it in wierd ways. look for the signs..and if b(^.^), then you tell him! :O
we'll b bck in town in 2 days so i can help you when i get bck if you want to w 4 me.

Liz smiled at the message and giggled as she replied.

alrite! cya! 3 U XOXOXO

Liz put her phone down next to her and sighed. Tsubaki to the rescue! Oh, she had to remember to buy her something really nice for when she got back. All of this wedding preparation and falling in love was just to much for one woman to handle! Neither of them were something she could change, no matter how hard she wanted to. Soul was a cool guy, no doubt, but how would you approach someone like that? The shy type would only annoy him, coming on to strong would turn him away but he likes the strong type, judging by his attitude. Liz pulled frustratedly at her hair.

"Why do these things just happen to me?" she whined. "How come I don't ever have a choice in the matter? It's my life right! Why couldn't I choose who to fall in love with?"

The real question was who would she have chosen? Who else knew her better than Soul? No one else could probably handle her attitude. Soul knew how to handle her. He knew her favorite foods, what she didn't like, how to get her to smile no matter how mad she was with him, all of her ticklish spots. Liz smiled as the list rolled through her mind. There was no one else, as painful a thought as that was. She was going to loose her bestfriand for a...boyfriend? It was still to wierd. Worse yet, what about Patty? They were like the three muskateers, inseperable! If she started dating Soul then Patty would be a third wheel and it would be all the more aawkward hanging out.

"I can't do that to her," Liz whined. "Hmm~ What if I could get Patty a boyfriend as well? Then it wouldn't be so wierd if we did start dating." It sounded as natural as anything coming from her mouth, but thinking about it made her blush madly. "I'd start dating Soul..." She shook her head free of the fantasies crawled under her covers. "This whole thing is giving me a head ache~"

Downstairs Patty lay sleeping on the couch with the tv off. Blair was curled up next to her, also sleeping soundly. Soul stared out the window distantly. It was late evening but he didn't notice. He replayed the image of Liz staring at him in the dining hall in his mind. She had left so suddenly.

"Was it me?" he asked his reflection. "Did I do something wrong? Gah! Why are women so confusing?!"

"What was that about women?"

Soul looked over to see Maka and Kid come in with some bags. He smiled and got up to help them.

"What's all this?" he asked. peeking through the bags.

"I'm making dinner tonight for Kid," Maka announced proudly. "I suppose I could make enough for everyone if you stay."

"Yeah, we'll stay if your askin'," the death scythe replied.

"Where is everyone?" Kid asked. "It's so quiet.."

"They're all asleep," Soul answered. "So, did you two have fun or what?"

Maka smiled at Kid over her shoulder. "Yeah, we had a lot of fun. I wanted to thank you guys so I was going to make something really nice for dessert. You know, there's a lot of things for couples to do around the city."

Soul leaned forward on the counter on his elbows and rested his head in his hands. "No kidding," he yawned. "Maybe I'll get to try 'em someday."

Kid raised his eyebrows at Maka who turned away smiling. Soul narrowed his eyes at them and stood up.

"So did you all get the papers organized?" Kid asked to quickly change the subject. "I'm sorry about the huge mess we left for you guys to clean up."

"It wasn't that bad," Soul said. He shoved his hands in his pockets nonchalantly. "There were enough of us to get it done. We just wanted to help you two loosen up. By the way, BlackStar and Tsubaki should be getting back into town in a few days."

"Great!" Maka exclaimed excitedy. "I can't wait to talk to her about everything we've gotten done so far. I'm still so excited for the wedding even though it's still three months away. I wish time would speed so that we could get it over with already!" She attached to Kid's arm and he smiled down at her.

After they got everything put away Maka went to wash up before starting the dinner. Kid sat in the living with Soul nodding off next to him. The death scythe had his head resting in a hand and leaning ever so slightly.

"What was with that comment earlier?" Kid asked, his eyebrows raised moe so in amusement.

"What comment?" Soul asked with closed eyes.

"Don't try to play innocent Soul. So who is she?"

Soul opened a red eye to look at the shinigami. "No one," he said simply.

Kid was far to adament for tha to throw him off. "Come on Soul, you have to tell me. Maybe I can get you two together."

Soul looked away before he started to blush. "It's no one, I told you."

"Ah, you're lying! I see it, you're blushing," the shinigami teased. He was having to much fun. "Do I know her?"

Soul sighed tiredly. "No, you don't know her. Now you have to stop attacking me. I'm going to bed, tell Maka to save me a plate."

Kid watched as the death scythe went up the stairs to the room he knew to be his on occasion. His interest was officially peaked. Soul was interested in someone and it was a someone he knew. Now he only had to find out who it was. Already a plan was forming in this shinigami's mind...

A/N: I feel like it's going well so far. The more I go through the more often I end up with a new way to drive Soul crazy! Just more people to add into his business. :3