So...Thing's Maka knows about Crona.
His full name is Crona Gorgon.
He is a boy.
He has a bitch for a mother who abandoned him.
He's afraid of his mother.
He's very timid and shaky.
Likes to hide in corners.
Likes cherry bread.
He doesn't like to eat in front of strangers.
He is a patient in the asylum.
He knows someone named Ragnarok.
Doesn't like to be called interesting or special.
Doesn't like nurses.
Escaped his cell to try to get to a phone to call his mother.
His eyes hold concern for her.
Maka looks over all these facts on the piece of paper she's writing them on before nodding. She skips a couple of lines.
Ok..now things she doesn't know about Crona.
Who his mother is, what she looks like, or her name.
Why Crona is afraid of his mother.
Why she would just abandon her son.
If he has a father or other family.
Who Ragnarok is.
Why he is a patient.
How old he is.
Why everyone says he's so dangerous.
Why he got offended with being called interesting.
His past.
Maka looks between what she knows and what she doesn't know. It seems she knows more things then she doesn't know but the things she doesn't know are the things she wants to know the most.
Maka frowns and begins to chew on her eraser, a habit she has when she's thinking hard about something.
A couple of the things she doesn't know are really bothering her.
One is, who the heck is Ragnarok? Crona said he likes to mess with his head.. and when she asked about him he said he's not suppose to talk about him because he's bad.. So what does that mean? He said Ragnarok's not a patient, so then what is he? A nurse? A doctor?
Who ever it is she knows she doesn't like them, the look on Crona's face told her this person isn't his friend. He could be a bully maybe or a jack ass doctor.
The grip on her pencil tightens.
She swears if she finds someone is bullying Crona..
Wait, why does she care so much?
Maka can feel her face turn hot with anger just at the thought of someone messing with Crona..
Why is she so concern with the boy?
She doesn't know.
Another thing that she doesn't know that's really bothering her is why Crona's scared of his mother..
Was she abusive? Did she hurt him? Maybe he's scared of her leaving him..or not caring..
Maka bites hard into her eraser, the taste of rubber ruining her taste buds.
Whatever the reason Crona is afraid of her it can't be good..and she hates this.
A mother is suppose to be caring and loving of there child!
Maka's mother is..the only reason she's scared of her mother is because..well she's insane.
Maybe so is Crona's mother.
It then hits her.
What if Crona's mother is a patient at the asylum too?
..No then why would he try to call her?
...Maybe-
"...What are you writing Maka?"
Maka looks up from her note book to look at Kid, who is sitting across from her. His eye brow is risen, looking at her with curiosity. He holds a cup of coffee in his hand, steam slowly coming off.
He must have just came back from getting it from the coffee shop, she didn't even see him return.
"Nothing. School work." She grunts as she closes her notebook up and puts it back in her book bag that is resting by her chair.
She has to lie, she could never tell Kid about Crona...It may be greedy but she wanted to keep the boy to herself. She feels like she's found a treasure and she doesn't want to share it with anyone. Not even Kid, her best friend. He wouldn't be able to appreciate him anyway, he would probably think she's creepy for writing such things but oh well. She doesn't have to worry about that for he's not finding out.
"Ah I see, always the hard worker." Kid smiles at her as she looks at him. "If I'm not careful you may surpass me."
"Pssh I already have Kid." She smirks at him. "I totally bested you in that biology test today."
"Please." He waves his hand as if waving off the idea. "I studied all week for it."
"So did I." She counters.
The two glare at one another for a moment before there lips rip out into smiles.
"Nothing's changed." Kid chuckles. "We are still like how we were as kids. So competitive."
"Yeah, it doesn't help we both hate losing." She grunts
"Yes- Maka are you hungry?" Kid looks at her with blank eyes, staring at her mouth.
"Huh- She pauses when she realized she was chewing on something.
She glances down seeing her pencil is still in her mouth.
How charming.
"Uh..no." She takes the pencil out of her mouth and spits out a piece of eraser that she chewed off.
Kid watches her and she expected him to wrinkle his nose at such a disgusting sight like he does when he sees something unsymmetrical but he doesn't. His face is kept blank.
"Are you sure? I could buy you something to eat Maka."
"Kid your spending to much money on me." She sighs.
He really was. Kid has taken her out every single day of this week, he took her to the diner, to the park, and to the movies.
She doesn't understand why he would even want to spend so much time with her or spend so much money on her..then again he is rich so she guess money doesn't really matter to him like it does to her.
Today it's Wednesday and he's taken her to the mall..The town which they live doesn't have one so he drove them outside the town in his hummer. yes hummer, he's rich.
"You have done so much for me already, your starting to make me feel bad."
"Do not feel bad Maka, it's my pleasure really." He gives her a charming smile, a smile most girls would melt at seeing but Maka just blinks.
"I'll never understand you Kid. You say it's your pleasure to spend money." She grunts and rolls her eyes. "Rich kids I swear."
"Not just spending money Maka, spending money and time on you is my pleasure is what I meant." Kid's smile still hasn't fallen, his golden eyes holding something Maka's been seeing a lot in them lately.
Adoration.
She doesn't understand that..What could he be adoring so much? Is it really her hair? or something else?
She doesn't know but really she's getting tired of drawing that emotion. Maybe she could cause another one.
"I don't know why Kid, I'm not fun to be around, I'm broke so you pay for everything, I-
"Maka, forgive me for interrupting but I must say that is not true. You are a lot of fun to be around, like I said I enjoy having you around." His golden eyes flicker with something but it's gone to quick for her to even think about drawing it.
"Well thanks man." She forces a smile because he deserves one. " If it wasn't for you I'd be stuck home.."
Alone or with Spirit.
She didn't like either.
"My pleasure." He smiles again, placing his hand over hers.
She glances at it curiously and he quickly pulls away, his cheeks flushed.
"I'm sorry Maka." He averts his gaze.
"For what? You just touched my hand." She blinks.
"You don't mind?" He looks back at her, excitement flickering in his golden orbs.
"Not really." She shrugs. "but it may look wrong."
She sees excitement a lot too in his eyes so she doesn't want to draw that.
"Wrong?" He frowns.
Ah, now there's a emotion she hasn't drawn.
Uncertainty..maybe even..
fear?
"Yes wrong." She comments as she pulls out her sketch book, flips to a page, and places her pencil on the paper her eyes never leaving Kid's.
The fear has grown, but it's hard to see...like a small candle light in the blazing sun that is his eyes but she sees it.
"What do you mean wrong?" He averts his gaze down to his hands and readjusts his rings, a slight frown on his face.
"I mean people will think we're dating." Maka's hand is a blur, drawing the boy's eyes as she stares at him. "and that's wrong because we're not."
"...Maka I-
"Done." Maka beams finishing her drawing. She looks down at it, deciding it's good enough to show Kid and she pushes it over. "You have fear in your eyes, what are you afraid of Kid?"
"U-Um..nothing.." He coughs into his hand, his cheeks tinted at seeing the drawing.
"Your eyes don't lie."
"W-Well.." His gaze shifts and it reminds Maka of Crona.
she can't help to smile, not at Kid but because of the thought of the boy.
"What's with the smile?" Kid's blush deepens at looking at her, his eyes flicker with hope.
Maka just shakes her head.
Crona is her secret.
"Well..ready to head home?" Kid looks down at his watch and frowns. "It's already seven, and we have school tomorrow."
"Nerd." She grunts smirking at him as she gets up, Kid following her.
"Oh your one to talk." He smirks back as he grabs his back pack. Maka puts her sketch book back before throwing her book bag over her shoulder.
"Whatever." She rolls her eyes as the two walk out of the food court together, no one paying them no mind.
That's why she likes coming out of town.
No one really knows who she is, they don't know her as the crazy girl.
She didn't have to worry about Kid getting shun more or about the rumors.
To these people she's a nobody, just another face and she likes that.
She likes that a lot.
"Rude" He fake pouts as they walk out of the mall together.
"Yup that's me." She grunts. "and don't you forget it."
"How could I?" He sighs.
Maka just shrugs.
Yeah she's rude but..
She's not to Crona.
He's a exception.
"I thought we were going home Kid?" Maka raises an eye brow at the boy as he parks his car in front of a forest.
She noticed that they were taking a different way then usual to get back from the mall to home but she didn't think anything about it.
Now she is somewhere she doesn't know and she doesn't like that.
She's not a trusting person.
"W-Well.." He tenses a little at her tone, she didn't sound happy. He takes a deep breath as if to gather himself. " I apologize this may seem a little odd but I have a legit reason for it."
"You know I don't like that word." She glares, talking about legit. People say it way to much that it just pisses her off when she hears it. "and what the hell is the reason?"
"I wish to show you something." He looks her in the eyes, his golden orbs are firm. "I was going to wait to do this some other time but..tonight is perfect and I wish for you to see the full effect."
He holds his gaze, and Maka almost feels like praising him because she knows she's glaring holes into the boy.
"But I understand it's late, if you believe you will get in trouble say the words and I shall take you home."
"..What do you want to show me?" Maka's glare falls, her eye brow raising in curiosity.
"It's a surprise." Kid smiles, seemly pleased with the change of her attitude.
Maka opens her mouth to tell him she hates surprises but before she can Kid gets out of the car, walks around, and opens her car door.
"Come." He smiles charmingly, holding out his hand for her to take.
She looks at it a moment before she hops out of her seat by her self.
She didn't need any one's help.
Kid doesn't seem offended by this, he just closes her car door.
"Now close your eyes."
"What?" Maka glares.
"Close your eyes, it's a surprise remember?" He smiles reassuringly, his yellow eyes shining threw the darkness.
Maka just keeps glaring at him.
Hm..Ok so lets do a little thinking here.
Kid has been really nice to her lately for some reason..spending all his time with her and money.
Today she saw fear in his eyes..fear she believes because he just realized what he's doing with her looks like to the other people.
If he's fearful of what people think, then why would he be spending time with her in the first place?
Maybe this was all a part of his grand plan, and he's really in cahoots with all the other kids in town.
Maybe this is a prank, or some kind of cruel trap.
Why else would he be nice to her and then drive her to a dark forest?
It's suspicious and she doesn't like it.
Now he wants her to close her eyes..like hell if she is!
"You'll really like this Maka." Kid takes a step forward and she takes a step back. He frowns. "What's wrong?"
"What is this Kid?" She growls causing his eyes to widen a little. "Some kind of sick game?"
"What on earth are you talking about Maka?" His frown deepens.
Maka turns her back on him, her arms crossed.
She's been threw this before..she use to have a lot of friends believe it or not but after what happen with her mother..
She lost them all.
Some stuck around for a little bit..Maka thought it was out of kindness but no.
They all ended up betraying her somehow, earning themselfs some points to there reputation in that stupid town.
Kid is probably no different.
"If it upsets you so much you don't have to close your eyes.." His voice sounds weak. "I just thought it would add to the effect..this isn't a game Maka. I don't know where you would get that idea."
"I've been though this many times before Kid, I'm not falling for it again."
"..You think I'm like them?"
The boy's tone causes her to turn to look at him.
He's looking at her with a hurt look in those eyes, a frown on his face, his brows furrowed.
"..." Maka just stares at him, not speaking.
"Maka..I am nothing like them." The hurt in his eyes grows as he takes a step forward. "I would never betray you like they have, or abandon you...Do I come off as shallow as those people? Do you think of me as a judging person? for I never passed judgement on you, and I have been loyal to you."
".." She just keeps staring not saying anything.
"..Do you really not trust me?" His voice is weak again, and his yellow eyes shake.
"No I don't." She grunts. "Do you think I'm stupid Kid? After every fucking person in my life turned on me do you think I would still trust? No." She shakes her head.
" I see.." Kid looks down a moment in thought before looking back up at her. "..I understand. I do not wish to make you uncomfortable Maka, so I can show you this some other time."
He walks back over to the car and opens the door for her, his face blank.
"..." Maka just gets in with out speaking.
Kid walks over and gets into the drivers seat.
He takes a deep breath.
"I know you do not trust me..but I want you to know." He locks eyes with her, his yellow eyes seeming to glow in the darkness. "I am a true friend to you, I'm not like the others. I care for you Maka..and I'm going to work hard with you. I will un harden your heart, and show you it's ok to trust again. For you can trust me Maka. I will never hurt you."
Maka just nods.
She doesn't believe him.
Kid sighs sadly before turning on the car.
This is going to be an awkward ride home.
"So Maka what do you wish to do tomorrow?" Kid parks his hummer in front of her house as he looks over at her.
"I can't hang tomorrow, I'm going to visit my mom." She opens the door and gets out of the car, not giving him even a glance.
"I see." Maka looks back at him to see he is smiling. "I hope your visit is good Maka, I'll text you."
"Alright see ya." She waves before she starts walking up to her front door.
"Bye Maka.."
She hears the car zoom off behind her as she opens the door to her home and walking in.
"Oh...guess who's back." Spirit slurs sitting on the couch facing the front door, his arms crossed and his face red. "Coming back a little late don't you think?.."
"No." She grunts as she puts her book bag down.
"..Your never here anymore Maka.." Spirit's eyes start to get watery and he sniffles. "Your always gone.."
"So are you." Maka rolls her eyes. "I'm surprised your even here now, even if you are drunk."
"Maka why are you...so..so mean to me?" Spirit suddenly stands up, he stumbles a little but he's glaring at her. "I work hard..to put food on our table...I bought us a new home after what your mother did..I protect you from those nasty rumors..but you still hate me."
"You hurt mom, you don't care for her." She glares back. "and I don't care for you."
"..Why do you always talk like that?" He sobs. "You have to care for daddy.."
"I don't." She walks past him, towards her room.
"..Your cruel Maka."
"And you're a dick." She grunts before waking into her room and slamming the door.
Shit she forgot her sketch book..
Oh well she isn't going back out there.
Right now Spirit is in his crying mood but..soon that would change.
She didn't want to be out there when that changes.
Maka holds her head in her hands for a moment before she flips off the lights and jumps into bed.
She doesn't want to be awake anymore.
Her thoughts start to drift away from her as she hears Spirit yelling and cussing, something hit's her door and she hears glass shatter.
Nothing new.
She thinks of Crona..and how she would see him tomarrow...
She smiles..thinking of the boy.
She can never stop thinking about him..every night every day she thinks of him and wonders about him. Crona has captivated her mind, making anything she see's relate to him in some way..like how she did with Kid when his eyes shifted like Crona's.
She misses him..Thursday could not have came any slower.
It's sad really how Crona has taken over her mind..because she doesn't even know if he thinks about her..if he's curious about her like she is him.
She wonders if Crona has thought about her..she hopes so, because all she's done is think about him.
Maka starts thinking of how he blushes, how his blue eyes always shift everywhere as if he can't look at something for to long, how he smiles so big when she says things he thinks are nice, how Crona makes her heart feel..how he makes it tug, how he squeaks over the smallest things, how he makes her into a different person..
Maka thinks of how small Crona is..how he fits so snugly in that corner, how his face is so pale and sunken in.
She thinks of the bones she can see, and how frail he felt.
Maka hopes he ate all of that bread..maybe she should make something else to bring him too.
The boy needs to eat.
Maka remembers that smile Crona gave her..when his eyes became half lidded causing her stomach to turn.
Now all she can think about are those small lips..and that wasn't normal was it?
All of this isn't normal..she's way to fascinated with him for it to be normal.
Maka remembers how Crona leaned in so close..His breath touching her lips and her face gets hot.
Is she...blushing?
She touches her face and it feels hot.
Huh.
She's never felt this way before..her heart beat speeds thinking about how soft his face felt as she brushed his hair out of his face, how he had gasped..such a small sweet sound that made her stomach turn..how his doe-like eyes looked at her with such awe..those cute lips parted..
..Is this still fascination or..is this something else?
She doesn't know but one thing she does know..
Maka slowly drifts to sleep, Crona still on her mind a smile frozen on her lips.
She can't wait for tomorrow.
Yay! I updated this pretty fast :) so another chapter with kid and maka, I think I might make this into a pattern. Even though kid is a big part of this story, I will keep it one sided like you have requested, maka only has eyes for crona..sad really. Please review and thank you for the ones that do! They motivate me:) till next time.