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Soul didn't hear anything from Maka after that day. All he could see was Kami and Spirit outide of their lawn talking about something. He wondered what could've happened to her. He started to think about things that she might have committed suicide based on her actions that Saturday. On Monday he prepared for school. He stepped out of his house and looked at Maka's house.
"The car's still there... Maybe she left walking?" he started to walk together with BlackStar. Even though he owned a motorcycle he's still too young to drive it. When he reached school he looked around his classroom to see if Maka's already there... She still wasn't. He took his seat. He was uneasy aboout it. Then the bell rang. Ms. Marie came to class.
"Good Morning class!" she greeted. The students greeted her lively. Then someone knocked on the door and opened it. It was Maka panting.
"I'm so sorry, Ms. Marie! I-I came in late!" Maka apologized. Soul sighed in relief to see that she was still alive.
"Very well... take a seat please!" Marie smiled and Maka sat. Soul watched her as she arranged her things on her desk. After a few hours, lunch break came. Maka had joined Kim and Jackie at the cafeteria.
"So.. having a good time here?" Kim asked Maka as they swallowed their food.
"I don't know... for now, all I could see good here at the school is you, Jackie and Ms. Marie..." Maka looked up from her food.
"Don't worry, you'll find other friends" Jackie smiled.
"I don't plan on having other friends..." Maka looked away but then she saw Soul walking around the cafeteria with BlackStar. Kim and Jackie looked at what she was staring at, and they saw that it was Soul. They smiled.
"That's Soul Evans..." Kim started.
"Yeah, I know.." Maka continued to eat.
"Oh, you two already met?" Jackie asked.
"He's my neighbor..." Maka made a disgusted face.
"Oh, so you two must be really close!" Kim smiled.
"No... I hate him..." Maka said.
"Well, that's odd... girls would kill each other just to get a date with him... heck, girls would kill you if they found out that he's your neighbor!" Kim said.
"Huh?"
"Don't you know he's the most popular guy here in school?" Kim asked.
"No way..." Maka raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, and according to the daily magazine that the students publish here on school... he ranked 1st in being the most handsome student in Shibusen..." Jackie said.
"Ew! Are you sure?" Maka was about to throw up. She sighed. "I'd take him as a boy who'd do anything to ruin a relationship to get the girl he wants..." Maka compared Soul to Liz in her mind. I mean, they both are the most popular students of both schools.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that..." Jackie said. Maka looked at her.
"When we where still sophomores, he had a girlfriend... Her name is Erika. She was one of the most beautiful creatures to ever step on earth. She was everything a boy could ask for a girl. They seemed very happy when one day..." Kim looked around to check if someone was eavesdropping then leaned towards Maka. Maka stuck out an ear.
"A boy, snatched her away from him. He was so sad and angry that he almost broke the boy's arm!" Kim whispered.
"Broke... his... arm...?" Maka remembered the time where she almost broke Liz's.
"Yeah... and of course... Erika got angry with him... he tried to apologize to her through the phone but no one was answering... until the next morning, he heard from her parents that she eloped together with her new boyfriend..." Kim retold the story with sadness in her eyes.
"That... was... depressing..." Maka bowed her head and felt sorry for him. "That was even more depressing than my story..." she thought.
"Yeah, very depressing... He was absent for weeks after he discovered the news..." Jackie said.
"But why is he still there... I mean... he's still smiling and all... he managed to keep his cool..." Maka asked as she looked at Soul and BlackStar laughing.
"Who knows..." Kim answered. Then Maka remembered what Soul told her about BlackStar.
"I know, but that's his only way in forgetting his hard past..."
"He must've had a hard time too... I can relate to him now... Now I understood him more..." Maka, Kim and Jackie went up to their respective classrooms. After another few hours and the dismissal bell rang.
"Maka, for a moment please..." Marie called out to her. Maka ran to her as her classmates went out of the classroom.
"Can you please help me check these papers?" Ms. Marie asked her. "If it's ok with you not leaving early..."
"I'm sure my parents would understand!" Maka agreed to it.
"This is going to be your punishment for stepping late into my class" Ms. Marie smiled to her as she gave the papers to Maka. Maka smiled back as she sat at the table to check it. After a 15 minutes of checking, Maka was already sweating.
"Are you still alive, Maka?" Ms. Marie looked up from the papers she was checking.
"Yeah! Of course!" Maka continued to check the papers. Then thunder rumbled. She looked at the windows and saw lightning and dark clouds. Rain started to pour hard.
"Looks like it's raining... are you done yet, Maka?" Ms. Marie arranged the papers with her.
"U-uh, yeah! I'm almost done!" Maka put checked the last paper she had in her hands and handed it over to Marie.
"You may go... Take care!" Ms. Marie waved goodbye at Maka as she got her bag and left the classroom. She rushed out of the room. She stopped at the waiting area of the gate. The wind was blowing hard and the rain was too much for her. She reached in her bag to get her umbrella.
"C'mon, c'mon... umbrella... where are you?" Maka finally gave up on searching.
"I guess, I left it at home... I must've snatched it out of my bag while I was arranging it for the weekend..." she sighed as she sat down at a bench. She closed her eyes as she listened to the relaxing sound of the rain. "Hey..."
Maka opened her eyes and looked at her side. She saw Soul slouching beside her on the bench.
"S-soul! What are you doing here? Where's BlackStar?" Maka asked nervously.
"Oh, so you favor him more than me now?" Soul raised an eyebrow.
"That's not what I meant! I thought you two already got home!" Maka answered.
"I had a few errands to run for so I made him go home by himself... don't worry he knows his way home..." Soul sighed. Maka groaned and closed her eyes again.
"So what happened to you last Saturday? You went in the house and never showed up..." Soul asked.
"Oh, I just got excited because I got a letter from my best friend..." she smiled.
"What's his name?"
"His? My best friend's a girl you idiot..." Maka glared at him.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to assume... So... what's her name...?"
"Tsubaki"
"Why didn't you show up the next day?"
"Is this an interview or what?" Maka glared at him more.
"You know... you can tell me anything... after all, I am your friend..."
"Your... friend? Pretty self-assuring, huh?"
"C'mon, you can trust me..." Soul persisted.
"How can I trust you?"
"If I where a normal boy, I could've done stupid things to you right now..." Soul leaned his face closer to Maka's and grinned naughtily.
"Urgh!" Maka pushed his face away from hers.
"So.. your mom told us that you had a hard time in your past school... what happened?" Soul tried to juice some information from her. Maka remained silent as she closed her eyes.
"Ok, I get it... You don't wanna talk about it... I won't complain... I understand..." Soul leaned at his back. Maka opened one eye to see what was Soul's reaction then sighed.
"When I was still 13... I had my first love... his name was Kid.." Soul looked at her as she opened her eyes slowly.
"I don't know why I fell in love with him... he was the first to help me... he noticed me for me... He was so kind, gentle, handsome..." Maka bowed her head. "and then..?"
"This girl, Liz, snatched him away from me... as well as my other friends..." Maka closed her fists.
"Only one truly remained at my side... and it was Tsubaki..." Maka paused and then continued.
"Last Saturday, a letter from her arrived... I was so happy... but then there's this follow up message saying that Kid wants to say 'hi' to me..." Maka bit her lip.
"I was so pissed off..." Maka sniffed silently hoping that Soul won't notice.
"He could've just let me be..." Maka couldn't cry. She can't let Soul see it. They just met last week. They aren't really that close like her and Tsubaki. Maka then realized, why was she so comfortable retelling her story to Soul? Then she bursted.
"The hell! Why am I telling you my personal life?" Maka exclaimed.
"Don't blame me... I told you that I won't complain but still you ended up confessing your personal life to me..." Soul put his hands in the air. Maka glared at him. Soul looked up at the sky and stood up.
"Looks like the rain isn't too hard right now... Now's our chance..." Soul reached for an umbrella in his bag.
"You had an umbrella?" Maka was furious. Soul looked at him as he opened it.
"Why didn't you say so in the first place?" Maka asked while shouting.
"Because having a conversation with you is so much fun!" Soul smirked.
"Hey... wait a minute..." Maka looked at the umbrella.
"That's mine!" Maka tried to snatch it from him but failed.
"You know, you really should check your things while leaving school! Last time you left your cellphone and now your umbrella! What's next? Your wallet?" Soul laughed as he walked outside of the campus.
"H-hey! Wait for me!" Maka followed him outside. While walking to their home, Maka kept her distance from Soul. They where sharing the same umbrella so they didn't have enough space. Maka was getting a little wet at her left side. Soul noticed it and wrapped his arm around her neck and closed the space between them.
"H-hey! What do you think you're doing?" Maka looked at him.
"What else? Preventing you to get wet from the rain, it's hard to get sick these days..." Soul looked away but Maka knew he was smiling. Maka stomped on his foot.
"Ow! What did you do that for?" Soul looked at her in pain still holding the Maka's neck.
"What else? To prevent you from doing anything stupid, it's hard to make a warning these days..." Maka saind. Soul chuckled. "You're a pretty smart girl you know that?" they finally reached their house. They went in front of Soul's house first, since the umbrella was Maka's. It was already 6:30 pm.
"Rest up, princess..." Soul grinned as he prepared to open the door to his house. Maka stuck out her tongue. "Blech!" Soul smiled as he faced his door.
"Soul?"
"What is it?" he faced Maka again.
"Thanks... for being a friend..." Maka looked away. Soul gently smiled at her.
"No problem..." he entered his house. Maka sighed and went to their house.
"Maka! What happened?" Spirit fell on the floor as he approached her.
"Maka! We where so worried! It's already nighttime and it's raining too!" Kami said.
"Don't worry! I was with Soul the whole time!" Maka said. "Shoot! Why did I have to say that?" Maka's inner self panicked.
"With... Soul?" Kami looked at her.
"What did he do to you? Tell me Maka! Or I'll rip him apart!" Maka smashed her umbrella onto Spirit's head.
"I-I had to do something in school because I was late in the morning. When I was already done it started raining so I had to stop until it gets better. Soul was there too because he had to run some errands and we had to wait for the rain to get better and when the rain got better, we only had one umbrella so we shared it until we got home!" Maka panted.
"Whoa, whoa! You don't have to explain too much... We trust Soul, don't we honey?" Kami looked at Spirit on the floor.
"What? We do no-!" Spirit saw Kami glare at him.
"Y-yeah! Of course we do, Maka!" Spirit said. Maka sighed.
"So, are you feeling better?" Kami asked Maka. Maka nodded with a smile and went upstairs to her room.
"I think, being with Soul helps her to move on... look at her, she's already smiling even though she was crying the whole day yesterday..." Kami went to the telephone.
"Huh? What? Who are you going to call?" Spirit stood up. Kami smiled at him as she punched the numbers.
"Alexandra Evans"
Ok, I didn't really plan for Soul to have such a past but I thought that his past would make Maka relate to him and understand him more...
What happened to Maka when she forgot her umbrella on her table, happened to me also. Though, a friend didn't hand me my umbrella. Good thing I had the keys to the lock of my classroom. One of the advantages of being a president, hehe :P
Anyways, I hope you like this chapter! :)