"M-Maka.."
She opens her eyes at his voice...
She's in his room..
Wait how did she get here wasn't she just-
"M-Maka.."
She looks over in the corner but..he's not there.
Maka raises an eye brow and starts looking around the room.
"I'm right here."
She feels small arms wrap around her from behind..a body being pressed against hers.
She can't move, can't speak.
"D-Did you miss me?" The boy is whispering in her ear..His small finger drawing a circle on her bare shoulder..
Wait bare?
She opens her mouth but no words come out..
"I missed you..I-I always do."
Maka feels his chest against her back..She feels his skin against hers..
She feels so warm..She doesn't understand what's going on and maybe she doesn't have to.
"..Can't you just stay with me Maka?"
She can feel his breathing on her neck..It's shallow and soon she feels those soft lips on her neck.
Maka gulps as the boy's small tongue licks her neck..He's barely touching it.
"Can't you stay with me.." He turns her head so she's looking at him.
Crona looks at her with half lidded eyes..his face so red..his bangs in his face.
"..Stay with me.."
He leans in and pushes there lips together.
"Stay with me..forever."
"...Hey.."
She feels someone nudge her.
Maka grumbles and pushes there hand away.
"Wake up Maka."
She groans and opens her eyes.
"..Am I so boring that you would fall asleep on me?" Kid frowns sitting across from her, holding a cup of something in his hand. "..I was only gone a moment to use the rest room."
"Uh..no.." Maka sits up and lets out a yawn. "Sorry Kid..I didn't really get any sleep last night."
Please don't ask why.
Please don't ask why.
"Why is that?" Kid's frown deepens.
Shit.
Maka blushes..She can't help it.
Last night she couldn't get any sleep because..well she couldn't stop thinking about Crona..
Couldn't stop thinking about his cuteness.
Couldn't stop thinking about there kiss..
Saturday was amazing..
Just wow..
She would have never thought she would have her first kiss..but she did and it was with Crona.
She has felt those lips against hers..she has felt his body pressed against hers..
It just felt right..Crona makes her feel right.
That first kiss was a mistake.. but then she had kissed him...and he kissed her.
It was such a simple kiss..just there lips pressed together and nothing more but..
It was wonderful, it was amazing, it was lovely.
There wasn't lust behind it..or anything really..
All she can think to call it is affection..They were showing affection for each other..
That small kiss wasn't suppose to effect her so much..but it did.
She wants more.
And she can't help to wonder if Crona feels the same..
Is it possible she actually has a crush on the boy?..That it's not fascination that drives her but..something else?
But what?
Kid suddenly reaches out a hand with a napkin in it to her face and wipes the corner of her mouth, his face blank. "Sorry Maka but you were drooling on one side and not the other causing your face to be unsymmetrical. I couldn't take it for to long."
"It's um..fine.."
Kid pulls back and throws the napkin away in a trash can that he brought over to his seat..
Yeah don't ask her why.
"Now.." He puts his hands on the table and smiles at her. "Tell me why you could not sleep last night?"
"..Uh..You know thinking about stuff.." Maka takes a slip of her tea, trying to keep her self busy.
"..." Kid sighs but he seems to force a smile. "I understand Maka..you have things you wish for me not to know."
"Don't worry I'll tell you sometime Kid." She looks down at her tea. "..Just not now."
"Okay." He smiles and this time it isn't forced. "You know if you were tired..I could have picked you up later and you could have gotten some sleep."
"Nah, I wanted to get out of the house." Maka looks out of the window for a moment before she looks back at Kid. "So..what's the surprise?"
"I'm not telling you." He smirks. "That would ruin it."
"I hate surprises." She sighs.
"Oh well." He smiles teasingly.
"Ass." She glares.
"Now, now." Kid chuckles. "I'll make it up to you..come on, I know something that will make you like me again."
"I doubt that." She grunts but she gets up with him anyway.
He leaves a tip on the table before the two walk out of the diner together.
"So what are you showing me now?"
"Another surprise."
"Ass."
"Jail?" Maka blinks as she looks at the town's very small jail house. "Your surprise is jail?"
"Not quite." Kid smiles as he grabs her wrist, leading her into the small building. "You'll see."
"..If this is about calling you an ass.."
He looks back at her.
"Your still one." She sticks her tongue out.
"Charming." He smiles smugly as he leads her threw the building, the guards take one look at him before they just turn around and let them threw. "I won't be after this.."
Maka just gives him a doubtful look.
"Here we are." Kid stops in front of a cell, looking to Maka to see her reaction.
She blinks.
Well she be damned.
Those five boys that tried to beat her up are all in that one small cell..They all look so pissed off.
Maka smirks.
"I take it back Kid..Your not an ass."
"I thought you would say that." He chuckles
"Fuck you Kid, fuck you and that freak!" One of the boys growls but it's weak.
"I feel so refreshed." Maka sighs. "I love justice."
"Yes, so do I." He puts a hand on her back. "Now lets go and get some ice cream while these gentlemen stay in here..for awhile."
"Hell yeah!" Maka gives those five guys the middle finger before she leaves with Kid..
Justice is best served with ice cream..
Everybody knows that.
"What are you doing?" Kid's cheeks tint a little as Maka pushes him down so he's sitting on the park bench.
"I'm drawing you." She grunts as she sits next to him with her sketch book..She had made Kid take her home to get it.
"N-Now?" His cheeks are still pint as he straightens himself up.
"Yes." She flips to a page as she take out a pencil from her pocket..The pencil that man had gave her. "I need to use this special pencil apparently."
She holds it above her head like it's the holy grail.
" This is such a awesome pencil to draw 'details and shit' says a jack ass." She chuckles to herself. " Even though really it's just an old crappy pencil."
"..Oh.." Kid just looks up at it, not getting the joke.
He doesn't know about the male nurse.
He doesn't know about a lot of things.
"Lets see what this baby can do." Maka locks eyes with Kid and begins to draw.
Her hand is a blur.
"..I'm actually quite happy your drawing me again." Kid smiles but that same look is in his eyes so it doesn't ruin the drawing. "You haven't done so in a while."
"Yeah I don't know I've been.."
Wanting to draw Crona's eyes.
"..Not in the mood."
"Hmm." He hums and stays still.
"Done." Maka looks down at her picture..
A pair of Kid's eyes stare back at her and like all the times she draws they look life like.
They look the same.
Special pencil her ass.
"Do you really have to cover my eyes Kid?" Maka sighs as the boy behind her leads her threw a forest.
It's dark, it's night and she's letting this boy lead her blindly in a forest.
When did she become so trusting?
"Yes it adds to the surprise."
Maka can hear the smirk in his voice.
"Hate surprises." She grumbles.
"You'll like this one."
Maka's silent as she keeps letting Kid lead her..
Damn how far are they going in here?
Where is Kid taking her?
What is-
"Here we are..now open your eyes."
Maka feels Kid take his hands off her eyes so she happily opens them.
..Wow..
There in what seems to be a clearing in the forest..on a hill and all Maka can see is sky..a sky full of stars.
It's so beautiful..She's never seen so many..There as far as the eye can see.
"Do you like it?" Kid smiles over at her, seemly pleased by her expression. "I found this place one day when I was going hunting with father..There were a lot of stars out that night too."
Kid looks up at the sky with a smile on his face but all Maka can think of is..
Kid goes hunting?
"I remember you saying you liked stars." He looks over at her. "You seem to be a big fan of horoscopes."
"..Just wow Kid.." Maka takes in them all and can't help the smile on her face, a excitement bubbling in side her as she starts to walk up the hill more. "Yes I love stars! You can see the constellations almost perfectly.."
Her eyes get wide as she starts running around pointing at different parts of the sky.
" There's Caclum! Oh and right there that's Dorado! You can tell by how the stars form a fin!"
Maka is moving around like a child in a candy store..and Kid's just watching her with a smile on his face.
" And look there to the right..." Kid walks up so he's right beside her and he points up. "There's Taurus, that's one of my favorites."
"Why's that?" Maka studies the bull in the sky..It's so clear right here.
"I'm kinda into Greek mythology." He smiles sheepishly. "Call me a nerd if you must but I know most of the stories by heart."
"..Isn't Taurus like that bull that kidnaped that chick?" Maka tilts her head.
"I guess you could say that." He chuckles a little as he looks back up at the stars. "The Greeks believe that Taurus was Zeus in disguise..The story is that Zeus fell in love with this woman called Europa and that one day when she was alone playing by the water she caught sight of Taurus. Stuck by curiosity she approached the bull, it knelt down before her and she got on it's back. Taurus then sprang to it's feet and took her to Crete where Zeus made her his mistress."
"Yeah so pretty much a kidnaping bull." Maka grunts.
"I guess." Kid takes a seat on the grass looking up at her. "If you wish you can sit on my jacket if your afraid about getting dirty."
"Kid what do I look like?" She flops down next to him. "I'm more of a man when it comes to dirt then you anyway, I should be asking you if you want my jacket."
"Ha, very funny." He looks up at the sky. "Does it make me any less a man that I don't like to get dirty?"
"I guess not, your just a prissy one." She looks around the sky just taking it all in.
"May I ask..?"
Maka looks down to see Kid looking at her.
"Ask what?"
"Do you believe in fate Maka?" Kid averts his gaze looking at the sky. " You are a fan of horoscope..So do you really believe there is fate? and that the stars can some how tell us this?"
"That's a hard question.." Her eyes get glossy as she looks away from him. "I believe that there are some things that we can't control..and that is fate but then there are things we bring on are selves and that's not."
"What do you mean?" He looks over at her.
"Well lets say you had the choice of going to the mall or going to the beach..Well you pick to go to the mall, and that was your choice. Now some people will say that's fate..that it was fate they picked that but I don't know about all that. Now lets say while your at the mall..someone pulls out a gun and shoots you. You could not prevent this and it wasn't your fault. You were just at the wrong place at the wrong time and that's fate."
She grips her fist.
"..If fate is completely real, and we really don't have any choice in the matter..That every thing we do has already been planed out..that's like saying all the people who kill aren't really murderers..fate just did that to them..No they choose to kill others..but people who get cancer or die randomly..that's what I call fate."
Kid just stares at her blankly as Maka takes a deep breath.
"When I think of fate I think of death sentence...or a trap. If you make your own fate then It wasn't fate to begin with..You caused it. Like if someone smokes all there life and then dies of lung cancer that isn't fate, ..At the end of it all at least they can say that they did this to themself..that it was there doing..but with fate it's different.."
She's starting to tremble.
"What happen to my mom couldn't have been her fault..she has done nothing to deserve this..so I can only say that it is fate..that for some reason what ever god that is above us has set that my mother would become insane..Who knows maybe it was a way to punish me..but..why couldn't it have happen to Spirit?..He's a horrible person but nothing bad happens to him..He's not cursed by fate and he's blessed by luck..."
Kid studies her for a long moment, his eyes flickering with something before he looks back at the sky. "..So you believe fate is only a bad thing?"
"What could be good about it?" Maka looks over at him. "I haven't seen anything good come out of fate."
"What about meeting someone? That could be a good fate..Some believe love to be fate."
"Love?" She scoffs and looks up at the sky. "That's not fate..it's not even a thing."
"What do you mean?"
"Love is a lie..It's a lie people tell them selves."
Her eyes become glossy, a picture of her mother with spirit flashing threw her head.
"Love is certainly not fate..people choose it, they choose to be with that person and to deal with there shit. People hold on to the lie of love..and that's why so many people get hurt. They say things like..'Oh he loves me..He'll change because he loves me'..But what they don't understand is that it's all a lie..Love isn't real."
" Does he not love me Maka?...W-Was I the only one In love.?" Her mothers painful words repeat themselfs in her head and she grips her fist.
"People lie all the time..but love is a lie the world has spoken." She's trembling. "Love is kind, love is patient, love is forgiving and if all that is true why do couples fight? why do they hold grudges? Why do they hurt each other? Why do married men cheat? Because love isn't real..if it was this world would be a lot better then it is."
"We are not a perfect people Maka." His voice is soft, the stars casting shadows over his face. "So are love can't be perfect either. People make mistakes..people will hurt you but you forgive that person because you love them-
"Forgive them for what? So they can do it again? So they can keep fucking hurting you only for you to speak that lie!" Her voice is raising and she can't help it. "No..it's all a lie."
"Then what do you think it is that brings people together? You truly can't believe that love isn't real Maka I-
"What brings people together is attraction..and what makes them stay together is attachment." She takes a deep breath. "I believe in caring for another, and even in loyalty but love? No. That's only in fairy tales."
"...I know what ever I say could not change your mind." He sighs. "Your very stubborn but..if there wasn't love I think are world would be a lot worse then it is."
"Give me a example of love in the world."
"A love a mother has for her child-
"Some mothers hate there kids, some drive them insane, and even if they have a good relation ship with your mother, you fight,..they can hurt you too."
"No one is perfect Maka it can't-
"Love is though." She looks up at the sky. "..or at least that's how I see it. Love is all these great things..but no one has it. Every one hurts one another...We betray one another. Love isn't selfish but we are all selfish. So how can we love?...We can't. Love is a perfect concept and we are imperfect people."
"I-
"But if you believe in love Kid." She looks at him coldly. "Just don't believe it's fate..that a person was actually chosen for you from the beginning..No you choose who you care about, you choose who you like."
She looks away.
"..and you choose to believe you love them."
"But what if you see some one..or meet someone and your instantly attracted to them..you didn't choose to see them but you did, don't you think that's fate? it's out of your power"
At him saying this..Maka can't help but to think of Crona..of how that day she was just going to go home but he had ran into her..
She wasn't expecting it, and it wasn't her fault it happen.
Crona decided on that day to try to get to a phone..and he decided to run down that hallway..
But he didn't decide to bump into her.
Could that really have been fate? That they met?
No..To her fate is a trap..and meeting Crona hasn't trapped her..It hasn't sealed her to something she can't stop..some fate...
Right?
" Maka?" Kid frowns and puts a hand to her forehead. "Are you alright? You look awfully pale..I'm sorry I shouldn't have pressed the conversation I didn't mean to upset you."
She blinks refocusing on Kid's concerned look.
"Yeah I'm fine.." She shakes her head. "I'm alright..I know how you love to debate with me..neither of us like to give huh?"
"Yes.." That concern look doesn't leave his face.
"Well thank you so much for showing me this Kid." She forces a smile as she gets up. "I think I should be heading home though..I'm still pretty tired from not getting sleep."
"Of corse." Kid stands up with her and brushes him self off. "I enjoyed taking you here..your face was priceless."
"I bet, you made me one happy girl." Maka looks up at the sky one last time..taking in all the stars..how beautiful they are, how-
Something shoots across the sky.
Maka blinks.
That looked like..No it couldn't be..
She must be going insane..There's no way..
How could-
"Maka stop!" Kid shouts.
But it's to late.
With out her realizing she had walked herself right over the edge of the hill..and now is tumbling down it.
She hits her back, and feels her foot hit a rock before she's jolted to a stop.
Maka's to startled to even comprehend what's going on, her heart beating so fast as she's pulled back up the hill with strong arms.
"Maka! Are you alright?" Kid gets her back on the edge of the hill looking her over, he takes a in take of breath when he looks down at her feet. "Oh god your foot! Your bleeding..Does this hurt?"
She feels him move it a little and she grinds her teeth
It hurts..it hurts a lot
"..The good news is it isn't broken. some skin got skinned off but I believe that's it.." He gives her a glare but it's weak. "What were you thinking? You could have been really hurt!"
That's the problem, she wasn't thinking.
"..Come on, I'll carry you back to the car-
This jolts Maka back to reality.
"I don't need any help." She pushes his hands away and forces herself up..As soon as her hurt foot touches the ground she winces a little but..she bites her lip and starts to limp. "I can get there by myself."
".." Kid walks over and scoops her up in his arms, holding her against his chest as he starts to walk back.
"What the hell are you doing?! I said I could walk!" She struggles a little but..Kid's strong.
"I can not allow you to walk on your hurt foot, you'll just make it worse." He states bluntly as he continues to walk, holding her carefully to him.
"Put me down you ass hole!"
"I will when we get to the car."
Maka struggles a little more only to groan..
Damn it why?
This is degrading..
But no matter what she does kid won't let her go.
"Look I can walk to my house-
Kid opens her car door and before she can push him away he scoops her back into his arms bridal style.
"Ass! I said I can walk! It's like two feet of walking! this is embarrassing!" She groans as he walks her towards her house.
"Your bleeding badly." He states, a odd look in his golden eyes.
Maka can't see her foot and she doesn't care.
"It's not like anyone will see..if that's what your worried about."
"I don't care what people think.." She sighs. "It just hurts my dignity to be carried by a man."
"I'll put you down soon." He gets to the door and looks down at her. "Is it locked?"
"No." She grunts. "No body would rob us, they think I'm a witch remember?"
"..Right." Kid opens the door by holding her tightly to his chest with one arm. He walks in and closes the door with his foot. "I'm going to place you on the couch ok?"
"Whatever." She sighs.
As Kid is placing her on the couch, Spirit walks into the living room, tears are falling down his face and he's stumbling.
"Oh! look who's here! I'm so glad your having fun with your little boy friend while I'm stuck here alone dealing with this shit!"
"..What the fuck are you talking about?" Maka growls..
She's not happy there about to do this in front of Kid but oh well.
The boy looks at the bottle in Spirits hand wryly.
"I deal with so much shit!" He throws the bottle on the ground and it shatters as he holds his face in his hands and sobs. "Maka..I got a call from doctor Stein while I was at the bar.."
"What?" Maka's whole expression falls her face becoming pale.
Dread grips her heart.
"He called to tell me..that Kami is in bad condition.." He sniffles. "I'm so sorry baby your mother..something is really wrong with your mother"
"What the hell are you talking about?"
Maka feels faint...
Kid comes and sits next to her, putting a arm around her shoulder and giving it a squeeze.
This causes her to stop trembling..
She didn't even know she was.
Spirit takes a deep breath.
"..your mother has gone into a coma."
...shit is going down now. As promised, the first person to get the male nurse right is Swordsman Crona! The male nurse is girkio lol, I'm glad you guys can actually see this, I wasn't to sure. Thank you for all your reviews and support!