I woke up to see Maka's beautiful face handing me a plate of bacon and eggs. I looked over at the time, the alarm clock said it was 6:30. I looked back at Maka, she was already dressed and ready to go.

"Are you leaving already," I asked starting to panic.

"No, I don't have to leave until 8," she said sitting down next to me with her own plate of food.

"Okay good," I responded feeling myself calm a little.

"Good morning, Crona. Don't worry yourself too much silly."

"G-good morning, sorry. I didn't want you to leave just yet."

"It's fine, I understand. I won't leave without saying goodbye, promise."

"Kay' good." Then I was a little startled by her kissing my forehead and giggling a little.

"Don't stress, just enjoy your breakfast." I smiled at her, "Thank you." We smiled at eachother once more and then went on with eating our breakfast. Like always, it was delicous. I always love Maka's cooking, and probably will love it forever. We cleaned up our plates and decided to walk to her apartment so she could pack her stuff. On the way to her apartment, she had a conversation with me about about being brave and staying strong. I was glad that she had faith in me, it made me feel better. We got to her apartment, with an (unfriendly) hello from Soul.

"Where the hell have you been!" He yelled as we walked in.

"Places, don't bother me. God, your so possessive," Maka said walking towards her room. I stood by the door hoping Soul wouldn't notice me. But, unfortunatley he noticed me.

"Ohhhh, nevermind, question answered." He said in a very rude tone.

"S-sorry."

"Don't apologize, it won't make anything different."

"Soul! What is your problem! I hadn't even seen you for 5 minutes and your already enraged," Maka said walking out of her room with her bag. Wow, that was fast, maybe she already packed it.

"My problem? You have the problem. I woke up ready to go and you weren't even here! I woke up early today, something I only do for a mission. I've been here for 2 hours waiting to go."

"Why did you wake up at 5 in the morning when you knew we didn't have to leave until 8?"

"Wait, we don't have to leave until 8?"

"Your an idiot. Next time, don't get mad at me and Crona when you can't even remember things correctly."

"Pfft, whatever. Don't leave next time, maybe I could've gotten sleep."

"I don't have to be the one with brains all the time."

"Hey! I have brains!"

"Oh really? Why don't you use them sometime, it's useful."

"Whatever! That is so uncool, don't even start that."

"Start what? I'm finishing what you started," Maka said grabbing my hand. Which made me blush a little.

"Sure you are," Soul said as he started to pout.

"Real mature Soul, real mature."

"What? I ain't doing nothin'."

"Where's Blair when you need her?" Maka whispered to herself.

"What do you mean?"

"Oh nothing, she seems to fix your attitude," she giggled and we walked out of her apartment before Soul could say anything else. I could hear Soul scream "So uncool!" as we walked down the stairs to the first level.

"What are we doing," I asked.

"We're just gonna sit down here until its time for me and Soul to leave."

"Okay, how come Soul got mad?"

"He's just being a jerk, nothing new."

"Oh, okay." I thought it was strange for Soul to get mad. I thought it was my fault for a moment.

"I wouldn't worry about it, it's nothing important."

"Okay," I said, "he's kinda like a big brother."

"Huh?"

"Well, I m-mean, he's super p-protective. K-kinda l-like a big b-brother."

"Oh," she thought for a minute, "I haven't thought of it that way. But that's true." I looked over at the clock, it was 7:39. They would have to leave soon, I better say my goodbyes before its too late. I don't want to say goodbye though, this really sucks. Then, I could feel the ever so slightly pain in my spine.

"Oh, so the fat cows leaving! What a joy," Ragnarok said non-sarcastically.

"R-ragnarok, don't be rude when she's leaving."

"Its a good thing that she's leaving! I couldn't be happier!"

"Watch it! You wouldn't want to get a round of Maka Chop when I leave," Maka said grabbing her book.

"Where the hell did you get that from!"

"Places, now shut up."

"Make me you fat cow!"

"Grrr, your pushing it Ragnarok."

"I don't ca-" Ragnarok was interrupted by a book being shoved into his skull, "Ow! Why did you do that!"

"I had to hit you before you escaped."

"Whatever." Instead of turning into my blood, he rested on the top of my head.

"Well anyway," Maka said putting her book somewhere. Where does she hide that book?

"M-maka, sorry about m-my b-behavior last night," I said.

"Don't apologize Crona, if it were you leaving, I would've done the same."

"No really, don't worry about me. I'll be fine, I over reacted."

"No you didn't, but thanks Crona. It makes me feel better to know you'll be okay."

"Okay, good." I gave her a small smile.

"Don't worry about me either," she said as she kissed me.

"O-okay." I could feel my face burn and start to turn red. Then I could hear Soul snicker.

"Oops, sorry to spoil the moment," he said walking by us. Maka glared at him as he went outside.

"Ignore him," She said hugging me for a moment then picking up her bag.

"Yeah, I know." The clock said 7:50. She had to leave soon.

"That sucks, I have to leave soon," she said as she glanced at the clock.

"Y-yeah." Soul pulled up on his motorcycle signalling Maka to get on.

"Well, I gotta go. Bye Crona." She kissed and hugged me once more before she got on Soul's motorcycle and waved as Soul drove away. I waved back, lowering my hand slowly as they vanished from my sight.

"Wow Crona, how pathetic," Ragnarok said. I forgot he was there.

"What?"

"You already feel alone. How annoying."

"How do you know!"

"I can feel everything you feel genius."

"Oh."

"Go buy ice cream!"

"Why?"

"Because I said so nimrod! Go buy ice cream," Ragnarok yelled pounding on my head.

"Ow! Fine." To get Ragnarok to stop slamming his fists against my head I had to go buy a double fudge ice cream from the shop. Of course he ate it in one bite, so gross. He was delighted with the dumb ice cream and decided that he'd had enough tormenting me for now and turned back into my blood. But he was right about earlier, I do feel alone. But, I have to try to fight that feeling, try to stay strong for Maka. I went home trying to find out what to do while it was the weekend. I might as well enjoy it, when the week starts i'm going to be herded by people wanting to know about Cumo. I can already imagine it, people staring at me and her walking around school. I started to get the nerve racking feeling so I stopped thinking about it. I let out a big sigh. I looked at the bookshelf that held only a couple books that hadn't been touched. I guess I could get caught up on my reading. I picked up the book that I was currently reading. It was a book about a little girl finding out how much the world could bring for her, she was abused by her parents and ran away to find a new family. She's traveling around trying to find someone who she could call family, one day she stumbled upon a small cottage where a sweet old lady lives. The old lady let the young girl stay with her until the old lady had died of a heart attack when she was sleeping. Then the girl goes on about finding a new family. I continued reading for a long time, I got really caught up in the book, I finished it when I looked at the time, it was noon. I walked to the fridge to find something to eat. I opened it up to only find leftovers of the sloppy joes that Maka made. I ate the rest of the sloppy joes and decided to clean up the apartment a little. I was in the middle of cleaning when I heard a knock on the door.

"Hi Crona," Tsubaki said.

"Oh hi."

"May I come in?"

"Y-yeah," I invited her in and she sat on the couch.

"I like your apartment, it's really nice."

"T-thanks." I'm still not used to talking to my friends without stuttering.

"So we were thinking about going out to eat tonight. And we wanted to invite you."

"S-sure, that would b-be f-fun."

"Good! It'll only be you, me, Kid, and Patty."

"Oh okay. T-thats fine."

"I'm glad, we'll be leaving at 6 so we can get there early."

"W-where are w-we g-going?"

"A surprise, don't worry about it."

"O-okay. W-where d-do you want to m-meet up a-at?"

"Let's meet at Kid's mansion, it's close to the restaurant." I gave her a small, weak smile and nodded. I sat down next to her and we chatted for an hour or two before she said that she should get home before Black Star tears the place up. I understood, Black Star is one wild person. He scares me sometimes, I wonder why he hasn't ever been able to fall into darkness. Maybe because of his excited tendencies, I don't know and I don't want to think about it. Tsubaki told me that I didn't have to dress fancy (luckily). I didn't worry too much about it, if Tsubaki is there then i'm not in danger of walking into some bar or something that Kid or Patty would've thought would be a good place to go to. I went and finished up cleaning, I never realized how dirty my room got since I moved into this apartment. I walked over to the calender to see if there was anything important this month. Nope, good. I started looking through the calender a bit. Next month, oh, Maka's birthday. Its the 19th of September, my birthday is the 23rd of December. Hm, Maka is older than me, by a couple months of course but still. She will be 17, I will be 16. I wonder what I could get her for her birthday, I might as well think of a gift early instead of later. What does she like? Crap, I don't even know. Maka doesn't have much jewelry so I could get her a necklace or bracelet. A charm bracelet would be nice, then she could add any charm she liked on it. Perfect! Bam, already got a present idea for her! I looked over at the clock wondering how long until I should get ready to go to dinner. It was only 3:30, ugh, what am I supposed to do! Stare at the wall while I wait for it to be 6? Nah, i'd rather not. I guess i'll watch T.V. until 5, get dressed into semi-normal clothes (t-shirt and pants), then walk to Kid's mansion. I did exactly what I thought I would do.

"Hey Crona!" Patty yelled as I walked up to the mansion.

"Oh, hi now we gotta wait for Tsubaki." Kid said kinda waving at me.

"H-hi."

"Sorry i'm late guys! Black Star was being... well himself." We all kinda laughed and started walking to the restaurant. We all were having fun already, we were only a block away from the restaurant and I could already smell the delicous scents of food. They chose a good restaurant, it was called "Hungry Hips". Yeah, strange name, but good food.

"Ooh! I love this place! Who chose the restaurant?" Patty sqealed jumping up and down.

"I did, now don't be afraid to order anything. I'm buying." Tsubaki said.

"Well, thanks Tsubaki how nice of you," Kid said choosing a table for us.

"Y-yeah, thanks," I said a bit more nervously than I wanted to.

"No problem, now sit and order," Tsubaki literaly shoved me and Patty into our seats. Kid laughed a little bit and waved a waiter over so we could order our food. We all ordered our food and started talking. It was strange not having Black Star stand up and start yelling random things, or to have Liz whining about dumb stuff. It was relaxing though, I wonder why they didn't come.

"Hey, how come Black Star and Liz didn't come," I asked. (Totally surprised I didn't stutter)

"Black Star said greasy foods ruin his godliness," Tsubaki sighed.

"Liz said her nails and hair couldn't handle the greasiness this restaurant has," Patty laughed.

"W-whats so bad about t-this r-restaurant," I asked.

"Nothing, it's just that the food is kinda greasy, Black Star and Liz are dramatic," Kid said.

"True, when are they not dramatic?" Patty said laughing. I wonder why she laughs so much. We were interrupted by food being set down at our table. We all instantly dug into our food, it was good. Nobody can resist how delicous grease soaked food can be. Except McDonalds, thats gross. After only minutes we were all finished with our food and we were stuffed.

"Ugh, I can't move." Kid said.

"Same here, at least the foods good." Tsubaki said as she was paying the bill and leaving a tip.

"Yeah! Wait, don't go yet! We haven't had any shakes!" Patty said taking the money from Tsubaki.

"Shakes, really? Aren't we all stuffed already, give me my money."

"We can take them to go!" Patty said throwing the money back at Tsubaki.

"Okay, just make sure not to be over active tonight. Your sister will blame me." Kid said waving a waiter.

"I promise, i'll go to bed at 11 okay? It'll be fine!" She laughed a little. Kid rolled his eyes and muttered whatever. We payed for our shakes and decided to walk through the park and talk a little. The park looked magical when it got dark. The lights that lit up the park were pretty and you could hear the slight breeze rustle the fall leaves. It was relaxing. Then I felt like something wasn't quite right, like I should leave. I looked around a little to make sure no one was stalking us or anything. Nope, there isn't anyone else here other than us. Hmmm, strange.

"Crona? Is something wrong?" Tsubaki looked at me with a worried face.

"Uh, n-no something just d-doesn't feel right." I looked around a little bit more to make sure nothing was stalking us. Tsubaki glanced around a little and looked back at me.

"Are you sure? Its relaxing out here."

"Y-yeah, you don't f-feel like somethings w-wrong?"

"No." I looked around a little confused and tried to brush the feeling off. I gave Tsubaki a fake half smile and started walking with the group like nothing happened. I still have the feeling though, weird. We all got tired of walking after a while and sat down at a bench. Well, Tsubaki, Kid and I sat down, Patty was climbing trees.

"Patty! Get down! If you fall it'll be me dieing when we get home," Kid said.

"Well, she did drink that shake within five minutes, I would let her get the energy out," Tsubaki said.

"Yeah but still, Liz will KILL me if she gets hurt."

"Yahoo! This is sooo much fun!" Patty laughed.

"She'll be fine, she'll get tired out sooner or later," Tsubaki gave Kid one of her sweet smiles.

"Fine," Kid said starting to eat his shake, with two straws. (It would be symmetrical) I giggled a little. I love hanging out with my friends, even if Maka isn't here. Maka. I miss her, a lot. I wish she was here having fun with us. Then all of the sudden, I get the feeling again. I looked around a little bit, nope, there isn't anyone else here. It's strange. I looked around a bit more and caught a small shadow somewhere on the other side of the park. I looked a little harder on the other side, when I saw three figures walk out of the shadows. It was Spirit, Stein, and... Oh god, why here? Why is she here? It was Cumo, walking in between Stein and Spirit. I could feel my body instantly tense up and my grip on my right arm got harder, I could no longer move. I accidentally dropped my shake, which caught Tsubaki's attention.

"Huh? Crona? Whats wrong," Tsubaki asked. Then she followed my eyes to the three people.

"Oh crap, uh, Kid," Tsubaki said trying to get Kid's attention.

"Hm?" He paused trying to get Patty out of the tree. Tsubaki pointed to the bench across the park where the three people sat down. He followed her finger and I could tell he got a little worried as soon as he saw them.

"Patty, get down now! We're leaving," Kid's voice got stern and he was pulling on Patty's leg.

"Aww, how come? I was having fun." She jumped down from the tree.

"Come on, lets go." Kid was dragging Patty with her hand trying to keep her from jumping into another tree. I stood up slowly trying my hardest not to faint. I don't know how to deal with this. Then I saw Cumo's gaze lock onto me. I froze in place unable to move, I couldn't avert my eyes from her. I was having flash backs of Medusa and me killing. How she forced me into killing innocent people, even children. It started out with bunnies and the little one but soon started going to children and adults. That was when I was driven into madness unable to see a way out, I was afraid of everthing and I thought killing people was my only escape. I started to shake and tremble, I could see my vision start to blacken. Tsubaki grabbed my arm gently and started pulling me away from the park. Thank goodness she did that, or else I would've been passed out on the grass. Cumo's eyes flashed hurt and confusion, and looked away from me as Stein and Spirit got up from the bench. I started to walk with the group without Tsubaki holding on to me. Before I knew it we were back at Kid's mansion. I was still shaking and trembling.

"Crona, are you okay?" Kid said putting his hand on my shoulder. I opened my mouth but no words came.

"Crona, it's okay. She isn't here." Tsubaki put her hand on my other shoulder. I still couldn't speak.

"Yeah! Miss witchy witch ain't here no more to spook ya," Patty said jumping up and down.

"Patty your not helping, go inside and bug Liz," Kid pointed towards the doors of his mansion.

"Okay! Liiizzzzzz!" Patty screamed, running inside the mansion.

"Crona, are you alright," Tsubaki said pulling my face to face her. I still couldn't speak, I started to cry. I couldn't help it. Cumo scares me, she reminds me of my horrible past. I can't be around her, the only reason I could meet her is because Maka was there with me. My knees could no longer hold me up and I fell to the ground crying. I covered my face with my hands so I could stifle the sound a little. I could hear Kid and Tsubaki saying things but I couldn't make out what they were saying. I could feel Tsubaki and Kid lift me to my feet and my hands were no longer covering my face.

"Crona! Can you hear us?" I heard Kid say. I still couldn't let any sound out of my mouth.

"It's okay, nothing is going to hurt you," Tsubaki said.

"Here set him down there." I could feel Kid and Tsubaki set me down on something soft. I think its the couch.

"Crona, your going to be okay. We aren't at the park anymore." Kid said.

"Don't worry, okay?"

I could feel Tsubaki hug me. It surprised me at first, but I relaxed a little. After a while of Kid and Tsubaki trying to calm me down, my crying developed into little hiccups. I still wasn't able to speak but I could nod.

"How come you started crying? Was it because of... that... girl?" Tsubaki asked. I nodded.

"Hmm, Father said Stein and Spirit was showing her the city, but I didn't think they would've been out this late. I'm sorry Crona, I didn't mean for this to happen."

"It wasn't your fault Kid, it was just an accident." Tsubaki said.

"I could've picked a different place to go, like Deathbucks or something. We all know how she affects Crona."

"Kid, it's okay. We didn't know she was going to be there."

"I still don't feel any better."

"H-how d-did you guys know t-that she... s-s-scared m-me," I asked. Ugh, the horrible stuttering.

"It's kinda... um, obvious," Kid said.

"She scares me too." Tsubaki said.

"O-oh." At least I could finally say something.

"I have to go home," Tsubaki said standing up.

"Do you want to sleep here tonight Crona," asked Kid.

"N-no, i'll go h-home."

"I'll walk you home, if thats okay with you," Tsubaki said.

"Y-yeah, t-thats okay."

"Be careful, bye guys." Kid waved us goodbye as we left. Tsubaki and I left Kid's house and started walking towards my apartment. When we got there, Tsubaki waved goodbye and left. I'm really tired, today was really hard on me. I walked over to the clock to check the time, it's 9:30. I guess I could go to bed now. I went to my bedroom and changed into my normal pjs. (nothing but underwear and socks.) I lied down in bed, but I couldn't sleep. I tossed and turned for what seemed like forever but I couldn't sleep. I turned one more time until I got really comfortable and I could feel myself drift off to sleep. I was suddenly in some dark, black room. I couldn't see anything so I walked around a bit so I could find a light switch or a way out. I could feel a wall, but nothing jutted out, no door knob, light switch, whatever. Then I tripped over something. I couldn't see it, it was too dark in here. I started feeling around and when I found it, I poked at it. It was squishy and some parts of it was rough and felt like rope. Then all of the sudden, really bright lights came on, it took a second for me to adjust to the light. When I could finally see again, I looked down at the object that had tripped me. What the hell! It was Maka with her mouth duck taped and she was tied with rope. She was breathing but she wasn't awake. I started to untie the rope from her, why the hell was she tied up!? Her eyes bolted open and she tried to scream and scoot away from me.

"Maka! It's me Crona. Don't worry i'll get you out of here!" I tried to untie her again but the rope was really thick and tough. I pulled the duck tape off her mouth carefully. She was still screaming and scooting away from me. Is she scared of me? No, she couldn't be.

"Maka, calm down. It's me Crona!" She didn't stop screaming, or scooting away from me. I tried to untie the rope again but it still wouldn't budge. I pulled Ragnarok out, which really spooked Maka. I cut the rope from her carefully making sure not to cut her.

"Get away from me you monster!" She screamed at me. Her words hit me like a sack of daggers blown out of a giant fan and into my heart. Why would she call me that? Did I do something?

"M-maka? W-whats wrong?" She started to run away from me but soon ran into an invisible wall which knocked her onto her butt. I hurried to her to make sure she was okay. I tried to pick her up but she slapped my hand off of her and scooted into an invisible corner.

"G-get away! Please don't hurt me!" Why did she think I was going to hurt her? We were dating now, we are best friends, I couldn't ever hurt her. I started to step away from her so I didn't scare her to death. Why is she scared of me? My eyes started to fill with tears, but then I heard her voice.

"Crona, you should quit playing with your food." It was Medusa.

"M-m-medusa?" I slowly turned around to see her standing there with her arms crossed.

"Quit playing around and kill her already, before you dissapoint me again and i'll have to punish you."

"N-no, Maka is m-my f-friend." Medusa slapped me hard. I fell to the ground gripping my cheek.

"I said, kill her now. Before Arachne and her abomination shows up."

"Excuse me? What did you call my trophy?" Arachne walked up with Cumo walking right behind her. Cumo looked a little different. Her bangs were clipped to the top of her head and not over her right eye. Her right eye looked like a spider web.

"You call her a trophy? Oh please, try again Arachne."

"Cumo can do a lot better than your failure does."

"Prove it."

"Okay, we'll start with that girl over there in the corner. Your son can't even kill her. Now watch Cumo finish the job. Cumo, ill the pathetic being now." Arache flicked her wrist towards Maka.

"As you wish," Cumo started walking towards Maka.

"No! Don't touch her!" I ran up to Maka and stood in front of her. Maka started to bawl and scream.

"Who said anything about touching her? That disgusting being, who would want to touch her?" Cumo started to laugh, and not the happy laugh. It was psychotic, her face formed a gigantic mad smile. Her eyes filled with hatred and madness. She stuck her hands out and a black mist started to come towards us. I then no longer had any control over my body, I for some reason walked out of the way. I walked over to the side of Maka and made Ragnarok. On the oustide I had formed a huge smile and was laughing psychotically, just as Cumo was. But, on the inside I was screaming telling myself to stop. I lifted up the sword and whispered, "bye bye, little one." Cumo's black mist had reached Maka first and had started to burn Maka's flesh. I thrusted my sword right through her skull. The screaming had stopped and I couldn't stop laughing. Medusa walked up to me and whispered in my ear,"Good job my son."

I sat up in my bed yelling. I calmed a little after a minute and stopped yelling. There were tears running down my face like a broken faucet. Then I felt Ragnarok.

"What the hell you pussy!"

"S-shut up Ragnarok!"

"No, you shut up! I'm not the one yelling and waking everyone up."

"S-sorry."

"Whatever, go back to bed. Why the hell were you screaming?"

"Reasons, l-leave me alone."

"Okay little miss princess, next time you wake me up i'll be taking your food for a week."

"N-no!"

"Don't wake me up then!"

"Okay, g-goodnight."

"Whatever." Ragnarok dissolved back into my blood. I grabbed my pillow and walked to the corner of my room. I knew I couldn't go back to sleep and I didn't want to. I don't want to go through that again. I wish I could've saved Maka, but instead I killed her. How, no, why did I do that? At least it was just a nightmare. I don't think i'll ever be able to sleep again. I looked around my dark room, I could see shadows everywhere. They're mocking me, wanting me to fall back to madness. I don't know how to deal with this. I want to sit here in and be safe. Safe from the shadows.

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