Hi! Shadowmistx98 here! :)

Sorry for the late chap... Well, here it is, on to chapter 6!

Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater.

Days flew by pretty quickly for Maka. Tsubaki sent her a reply with e-mail but it was only 2 sentences and didn't mention Kid. That was a relief for her. It was Friday and lunch time at school. Kim and Jackie approached her as usual but Soul and BlackStar did too.

"Maka, you want to have lunch with us?" Soul asked. Kim and Jackie looked at each other and giggled.

"Sorry but I already have someone to eat lunch with..." Maka pointed at Kim and Jackie with her thumb.

"Sorry Maka but we have other things to do! Bye!" they left the classroom with a smile.

"Hey! W-wait! Don't-!" Maka stood up. Soul chuckled. Maka eyed him evilly.

"Fine..." Maka's voice was rough.

xXxAt The CafeteriaxXx

Everybody looked at the three of them and whispered. Maka was looking around nervously.

"C'mon, Maka... just think of it as a date!" Soul swallowed his food. "Yeah! A threesome!" BlackStar added. Maka glared at him and was about to throw a fork at him.

"What did you say?" Maka's eyes glowed red. BlackStar gulped. "I didn't say anything!" Maka relaxed after what he said but still glared at him. Soul smiled and continued to eat his food. Maka noticed that he smiled even though she was looking at BlackStar.

"Soul?" Maka said in a soft voice.

"Hmm?"

"Thanks for the advice..."

"No problem!"

"You really are a friend..." MAka smiled at him. Soul's eyes widened as she saw her smiling sweetly. They stared at each other for awhile making BlackStar's jaw drop.

"Oh, so you two are friends! How about me Maka? You're completely ignoring your god! When will I be your friend?" BlackStar stood up making everybody look at them.

"Don't be an idiot and we'll be friends..." Maka looked away. BlackStar continued to rant about it. Maka stood up and carried her food in to another table.

"Yeah... good luck with that BlackStar..." she walked away from the table. Soul chuckled at BlackStar who still haven't noticed Maka leave.

After class, they headed home quickly. Maka waved goodbye at the two lamely as they entered their house. She sighed as she stood by the mailbox. It was 4:30 pm. The sun made her sweat. Then, a mailman passed a letter to her.

"Huh?"

"It's for you miss... Maka Albarn, right?" he asked. Maka nodded.

"Goodbye then..." he drove his motorcycle away. Maka looked at the letter and it was signed T.N. Maka's eyes lit up and rushed into the house. Maka greeted her mother as usual and got to her room. She sat on her bed and opened the letter.

"Dear Maka, I read the e-mail you sent me but I don't have much time to reply to it using e-mail. My parents would kill me if our bills go high again. So I sent you another snail mail instead. Sorry! Anyways, I'm so happy you're doing fine there... and to mention you met some friends too! I'm doing fine here too! Well, bye! I've got many projects and homeworks to do! Take care!

Love, Tsubaki"

"Wait... That's it? Then how come there are two papers in her envelope?" Maka shuffled the paper. Her eyes widened. She couldn't move. The other letter was from Kid. She read it, crumpling the sides of the paper.

"Dear Maka, How are you? Are you doing fine there? I hope you are... I was so happy when you replied to Tsubaki saying you wanted to say hi to me too. I couldn't send you a personal letter because I was scared you'd reject it. Everyone in this school misses you... Liz, Patty, Caroline, Sasha, Samantha..."

Maka stopped reading. "Urgh! What plastics!... And Kid had the nerve to mention his cute little girlfriend to me..." she continued reading.

"And me too... I miss you too... Everything has gotten lonely ever since you left..."

Maka's eyes widened. "What...? That bastard... Liar..." some tears fell out but she wiped them off.

"Maka, I'm very sorry for what I did..

Love, Kid"

Maka crumpled the paper and threw it at the door hard. She covered her face with her hands and sobbed. "Damn it... I shouldn't be crying... I shouldn't be affected this much..."

"Oi!" someone called her out. She wiped off her tears quickly and faced at her back. She saw Soul with his chin resting on his arms, lazily looking at her.

"What do you want?" Maka eyed him. Soul raised an eyebrow.

"Where you... crying?"

"N-no! I wasn't!"

"Then why are your eyes red?"

"It's just the lights!"

"You expect me to believe that?"

Maka groaned and looked away. Soul knew no other things that can make her cry. He knew it was that Kid again.

"Hey, you wanna go out? After all, there are no homeworks and quizzes..." Soul asked.

"With BlackStar?" Maka made a disgusted face.

"Uh, no... I don't think he won't be joining us... he's out cold here..." Soul looked at BlackSTar as he snored in his bed.

"So, what do you think?" he looked at Maka again. Maka thought about it. Leaving her house would make her forget what she read.

"Ok, but I have to ask my parents first..."

"Sure, I'll wait her..." Soul smiled. Maka got down from the second floor.

"Mom, can I go out?"

Kami was serving chicken to the just-arrived-from-work, Spirit.

"Sure, but with who?" Kami asked.

"Soul..." Maka looked away.

"With BlackStar?"

"No, just Soul..."

"With him! ? No, I wo-!" Kami put a chicken in his mouth and glared at him.

"Of course, dear!" Kami smiled. "Thanks mom!" she went back to her room and told Soul. She got dressed.

"Kami! ?" Spirit whined as he took the chicken off his mouth.

"Don't worry, Soul can be trusted. After all, he is our neighbor. If anything goes wrong we just have to call his mom..." Kami said. Maka got down all dressed up.

"Bye, mom, dad! Don't worry! I'll come home early!" Maka closed the door. Spirit was crying. Maka sighed. Soul approached her outside.

"C'mon, let's go!" he smiled.

"Where exactly are we going?" Maka eyed him as she pouted her lips.

"How about a fast food chain?"

"Sure..." they walked and found a nice one. They sat and ordered their food.

"So, what happened? Did that Kid sent you a letter this time?" Soul ate some french fries. Maka looked at him.

"Is this why you asked me out?" Maka paused. "You don't have to do this... I don't want you to be burdened because of me..."

"I will if I have to... I am your friend right?" Soul drank his water. Maka looked at him, then finally gave in.

"Yeah, he sent me a letter..."

"That's good.."

"GooD? He's got the guts to mention his girlfriend and the people I hate and even say sorry to me for what he did!" Maka narrowed her eyes. "What an insensitive freak..."

"At least he's comfortable to talk to you about stuff like that... that's the beginning of your so called 'moving on'..." Soul chewed his food.

"Why can't I just move on fast? It seems so easy in the movies..." Maka sniffed about to cry... again. Soul sighed.

"Well, Maka.. That's the difference... this is reality..." Soul looked at her. Maka wiped her tears.

"Sorry, I better not cry... people would think you did something horrible to me..." Maka rubbed her eyes. Soul chuckled.

"What?" Maka looked at him.

"Nothing... it's just that, you're completely different from other girls that I dated... they would purposely cry in front of me so that I would have to comfort them in front of all the people... but you... different..." Soul smiled.

"You're saying I'm weird?" Maka eyed him.

"No! It's not like that. I mean all of you are girls..." Maka rolled her eyes. "And all of them liked me so much..."

"You're saying, I like you?" Maka grabbed the fork.

"I didn't say anything!" Soul grinned. "But... It's a possibility..."

Maka stomped at his foot under the table. "Ow!" Soul groaned. Maka ate some of her food as Soul crouched in pain at his seat. Maka suddenly remembered, Kid was off the subject. She completely forgot that they where just talking about Kid one minute ago. Whenever she was with Soul, she always forgot the pain. Why was that? Why was she so comfortable with him? The way they had a conversation was so natural. It's like they already met a long time ago. Maka felt silent for awhile and Soul noticed it.

"Hey... Are you ok?" Soul startled her.

"O-oh! Yeah, I'm fine!" Maka looked at her watch and outside the window of the fast food chain. It was almost 6 and sunset.

"Are you done with your food?" Soul asked her. "Yeah..."

"C'mon... I've got something to show you..." Soul stood up and headed for the door.

"H-hey! Wait!" Maka stood up quickly and hurriedly followed Soul.

"Stay close, princess, you might get lost without me!" Soul smiled as they walked up to the sidewalk.

"Shut up! And stop calling me that!" Maka replied to his teasing.

"Oh... That girl is with our Soul Evans again..." a girl hiding from the shadows said to one of her companions. They watched the two walk from afar.

Soul took her to a playground. An abandoned one. The leaves and the vines covered the broken see-saws, slides and swings.

"Um, Soul? Are you pranking me? Where exactly are you going to take me?" Maka stopped following him and asked nervously.

"C'mon... I won't do anything stupid... just trust me..." Soul reached a hand for her. Maka hesitated at first but took it. Soul guided her in a jungle-like place. Full of trees.

"We're almost there..." Soul assured Maka. Then they stopped. Maka opened her eyes and looked at her surroundings. There where no more trees. It was a large hill with green grasses. The wind was fresh and blowing. She could also see the sunset and it was beautiful.

"Wow! I've never seen a place like this before! I've never even thought a place like this existed!" Maka was amazed.

"Like it?" Soul asked her. "Like it? I love it!" Maka replied.

"I found this place when I was depressed... I ran from home that time... This place is my comfort zone..." Soul said as he took a deep breath.

"Really?" Maka looked at him.

"Yeah... It was the only place that let me think about things clearly..." Soul paused.

"That's why I showed it to you... I'm thinking it may help you... you can come here if you want to..." Soul smiled at her gently. Maka looked at him.

"Thank you... you're not so bad after all I guess" Maka returned the smile.

"C'mon, let's go back... your dad would kill me..." Soul smiled as he prepared to leave. Maka followed. They went back to their houses and it was already 7:15 pm.

"Goodnight... sleep well, princess" Soul looked at her as she entered.

"You too..." Maka replied.

"Maka! ?" Spirit cried. "It's late!" Spirit said.

"Dad, it's not like I came home midnight... It's still early..." Maka said.

"But it's still la-!" Kami covered his mouth.

"So, how was your night out?" Kami asked her sweetly.

"Surprisingly nice." Maka smiled as she got up to her bedroom. Kami looked at Maka.

"See, that wasn't so bad!" Kami looked at SPirit. Maka opened the lights in her bedroom and picked up the crumpled paper. She flattened it and looked at it.

"I completely forgot about this..." Maka said.

"I guess I'm on the right track..."

:) Hope you liked it!

I just got back from a friend's house for their house blessing. I usually update every other day, but it looks like I got a little obsessed with playing minesweeper :P