Sooo... I decided to be nice and upload another story in the same day. You're welcome! Anyway... I hope you enjoy, this one is a bit longer than the other one. Well, read on!
I woke up the next morning with someone's face, in my face. I sqeaked loudly and tried moving away but ended up falling out of the bed. That next moment, I was staring at the ceiling while I heard someone on the other side of the bed laughing uncontrollably hard.
"P-patty?" I questioned. My only answer was her continuous laughter.
"Holy crap. I didn't expect him to wake up." Liz said.
"Hey, hey, hey! Why is he on the floor!?" Maka ran around the bed and helped me up.
"Patty." 5 people said at once. I looked around. Patty, Liz, Kid, Soul, Amanda, and Theresa. Plus Maka, who was helping me back into the bed. She handed me a pastry.
"I went to get you breakfast and apparently I shouldn't of left." Maka let out an irritated sigh.
"Calm down Maka. Patty didn't do any harm, she was just trying to be funny." Soul said.
"Her 'funny' caused Crona to fall on the floor. Stein would dissect you all if he found out Crona fell out of bed." Maka argued.
"Whatever. Can we go see Lord Death now?" Soul asked.
"We have to wait for Stein."
"Screw Stein." Maka threw a book at Soul and hit him square in the face.
"Ow..." Soul whimpered. Amanda poked his face.
"You deserve that." Amanda said. Soul grunted in response. All of the sudden, the door flew off of it's hinges and came in Black*Star.
"Haha! Your great god has arrived!" He laughed.
"Black*Star! Not the door again." Tsubaki came in running after him.
"Looks like the whole Welcoming Comittee is here." Stein said as he walked in. "And the door is broken... again."
"Sorry." Tsubaki whispered.
"It's fine, just means more library time for Black*Star." Stein smiled.
"What!?" Black*Star almost screamed.
"Anyway, one final check up for Crona and then he'll be up. The rest of you may leave now." Stein said. Patty was still laying on the floor.
"Patty, let's go." Liz said. Patty continued to laugh. "I bet Lord Death has a giraffe." Patty was up in less than a second and was running down the hall.
"Giraffe, giraffe!" she sang. Everyone had left. Stein was checking everything so I could leave.
"He stayed in bed, correct?" Stein asked Maka.
"Uhh, yep!" Maka lied.
"Okay, good. Everything here looks good. Except your blood count has gone up enormously, I think that means the kishin is getting near." Stein said.
"Can Crona leave?" Maka asked.
"I suppose. But with the kishin drawing near, his blood is tripling every night. I don't know how much longer you'll be able to resist Crona. With your blood tripling and the kishin's madness coming closer, whether you resist or not you're going to have thoughts and ideas."
"And not the good kind." I didn't phrase it as a question, but Stein answered anyway.
"No, they won't be."
"I guess that means we need to train harder and attack before it does." Maka said.
"Yeah. So, can I go now?" I asked. I started to leave anyway.
"Yes, but as soon as your thoughts start, come and get me." Stein said.
"We will!" I answered as Maka and I walked towards the Death Room. I ate and finished my pastry on the way there. When we got there, everyone was lined up and quiet. For once.
"Hiya! Welcome back! Let's begin shall we?" Lord Death greeted. "Well, first of all. The kishin-" Lord Death gave the rest of the group complete background of the Kishin. He told them everything that Stein told me.
"So, Matilda is coming after you?" Liz asked.
"Indeed." Lord Death answered.
"I think it's odd that Mayhdan wanted to kill your surroundings before she goes after you." Kid stated.
"Yes, well she wanted me to be afraid. It'd be a bit hard to kill my surroundings now.. Death City is in the middle of nowhere, exactly where I wanted it to be."
"So the kishin, Matilda, is killing the small villages that people have placed in the desert?" Maka asked.
"She is. I have a feeling that she will be able to enter Death City soon. We must be prepared, she may attempt to flee, she may not. If she flees, we must follow her. I unfortunately, will not be able to go." Lord Death said. We all nodded in understandment. "I have evidence that Matilda is now associated with Medusa. Medusa is weak and vulnerable, which is why she is using Matilda to interfere with us."
"Hold on, Medusa is alive?" Black*Star asked.
"Not exactly. You can say she is a.. spirit, ghost.. call her whatever you'd like. However, she is gaining a solid form and that's why we need to stop her immediatly. I have gathered the groups." Lord Death pointed out the people, "You all, except Crona, will go after Matilda. She is, like I said a bit ago, made of sand. We defeat her with fire and water, which I will supply for you, we can only kill off her sand after we break her human shell."
"That makes sense. So, who is going to kill Medusa?" Kid asked.
"Crona and Stein."
"Are you kidding? Medusa nearly killed Crona last time! Who says she won't now?" Maka blurted. I looked at her like it was okay, but she gave me an irritated look.
"Maka, I know. Medusa doesn't have the power she did before, Crona is stronger. Stein will be with him." Lord Death explained.
"That doesn't make it any better. Medusa got into Stein's mind last time, she can do it again. She'll only make a puppet out of Stein." Maka argued.
"Maka, I know what's happened. But it will NOT happen again."
"You promise?"
"I cannot promise what I don't know. I'm sorry. Facts is all I can give you, Crona and Stein are stronger and have more control than they did last time. Anyway, our attack day will be next week, Wednesday. By then, Matilda will have moved in closer and we can get a force to attack her at all sides. We will attack her before she can infiltrate the city." Everyone but Maka nodded their head in agreement.
"What if she comes earlier?" Tsubaki asked.
"Well, then we attack with all we've got."
"You said something about Kim yesterday." I remembered.
"Oh, yes! I can't believe I have forgotten that. Ahem, well another piece of our attack Matilda at all sides plan... Kim, will aid us."
"And how exactly?" Soul asked.
"Kim is a witch! But, she is here for our good. She will seal all of your wavelengths, she is also our healer. She will sheild your minds from Matilda's dream magic."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa... Did you just say that Kim is a witch!?" Black*Star exclaimed.
"Who's Kim?" I heard Theresa whisper to Maka.
"A friend and a student here. Apparently also our witch healer." Maka whispered back.
"I know, it's a shock. But, atleast she's fighting with us and not against us!" Lord Death said. I saw Kid facepalm. "You're all excused! Ta ta, have a nice day!" Lord Death waved us off with his big hands.
"I never would've guessed." Tsubaki said.
"Right?!" Black*Star agreed. This kind of annoyed me. Kim has always been a friend and a classmate to them, but if they figure out she's a witch it changes everything? I don't understand.
"Crona." Maka tugged my arm.
"Huh?"
"Class is this way." Maka pulled me towards her direction.
"Oh, whoops. Sorry, I was thinking."
"Obviously. I don't like the plan, I think it's another failure."
"So you think I can't fight?" I asked, slightly offended.
"No, that's not what I meant. You've already gone through a bunch, why should he force you into that again."
"Don't you think that our last fight would make me stronger? Make me hate her even more? Cause' that's exactly what happened, you don't think I can do it." I stated.
"No, I don't." She admitted, "I don't think you or Stein can do it. I think you both are going to end up in the same place you did last time. I'm sorry, but I can't handle you going off and attempting to kill Medusa while i'm off killing another kishin. I won't be able to focus."
"So, I affect your fighting?" I questioned.
"No! Okay, stop. Please. I don't mean any of that." she took a deep breath, "What I mean is, if you nearly or completely die this time, I won't be able to handle it. Not right now, not ever again." Oh.. I get it. It's because of THAT. I need to figure out if i'm going to ask her about it or not.
"Okay, sorry. I get it." I wonder if she knows what i'm talking about. I need to find a way to tell her and make her believe that I won't ever leave her. Death is definitely not going to keep me from her. We sat down in our usual seats. Class started like usual, except Stein was in class on time. Stein talked about Lord Death's plan, he also talked about the emergency plan. Which was to attack Matilda with our best fighters and attempt to push her out of the city. Then Stein made an announcement to the class...
"This class will start practicing their defense starting tomorrow. You will start practicing attack on Wednesday. If you fail to meet my requirements I will put you back into the NOT class." Stein scanned the crowd, "Alright seems like you all understand, today is the exam. We have already wasted most of our time, the tests are on your desks, so let's begin. Ready, set, go!" Stein turned the knob on the timer for 40 minutes. We all instantly started the test. I was sooo not prepared for this! I remember Maka and Lord Death telling me that it was going to be soon, plus all of the teachers putting up note reminders around the school. I didn't pick a book up to study once. I'm dead! I started to fill in questions, I got about 40 done when Stein said we had 15 minutes left. There are 100 questions, I have 40 done, 15 minutes left, I don't think i'm doing very well. Most of them are pretty easy, considering that i've heard everyone talk about them all the time. They were starting to get tricky, with trick questions, confusing explanations, etc. Plus there's an essay part, I most likely won't get that far. I continued, guessing for the answers I didn't know and reading as fast as I can to get through it.
"Time's up!" Stein yelled, the bell rang not even 3 seconds after he excused us. I only finished 82 of the questions, if I missed any then I didn't get a passing score. We handed him our papers on the way out of class. Stein got my attention.
"Good job Crona." he said.
"I didn't get that far, I tried though." I replied.
"You surprise me. You did very good, you got through way more questions than anyone else did. You answered more questions than Maka and Ox." I blinked in surprise.
"Wait what?"
"Maka only answered 68, Ox got 64. You answered the most questions out of the entire class. Good job."
"Let's see if I actually got them right." I said.
"You did fine." Maka said. I smiled. There is no way I outdid Maka and Ox, they are the best students here. Even if I answered more questions, that doesn't mean I got them right. I bet I got more than half of them wrong, leaving me at less than 41 answers.
"So, we go to Soul Mechanics now correct?" Maka asked me.
"Yeah, Marie usually teaches that class." Maka stopped.
"Oh crap."
"What?" I asked.
"That means Spirit is the sub." She brought her hands up to her eyes, "I already have a migrain. This is going to be a long class period." Maka slowly walked. I guided her to the classroom, as soon as I opened the door she moved to the side and I got caught into a tight embrace from Spirit.
"Papa has missed you so much! I haven't seen you in ages!"
"I haven't missed you." Maka walked to her seat. Spirit watched Maka walk away and then realized that he wasn't hugging HER. He looked down at me then let go in an instant. I could see he sweat dropped then shuffled to the desk in front of the class. I am slightly horrified. I know why Maka avoids him now. It wasn't that he hugged me, well maybe slightly, but the way he hugs. I don't usually say this, I wanted to barf. Which is odd for me because it sounds an awful lot like Ragnarok.
"I'm sorry for ever doubting you." I apologized when I sat down next to Maka.
"What do you mean?" Maka asked.
"I thought that maybe you should actually get to know him, accept him. I completely regret it." I smacked my head down onto the desk.
"Holy crap, what did he do to you?!" I could feel Maka poking my face and head. Then she poked my ribcage which sent a loud squeak out of my mouth. I covered my mouth with my hands and tried to sink low into my seat, my face heated up with embarresment. I could see that Maka was trying her hardest not to laugh. The bell rang and Maka couldn't help it, she laughed. Which caused my blush to grow.
"Alright, to start-" Spirit started, "Maka as much as I love you, I need you to be quiet during class." Maka completely ignored him and continued to laugh until it slowly died and she was drying her tears. Spirit was patient the entire time.
"Ahem, well anyway. I'll start with role taking, then we can begin our test." Crap another test! I don't know nearly as much in this category. I hope I do good. Spirit handed out all of the tests (starting with Maka of course) and started the timer for 60 minutes. This test was actually way easier than the other one. I knew every single answer, and I finished the essay question no problem. I looked at the timer, 19 minutes. I looked over at Maka, she was still working... What is wrong with me? When did I all of the sudden become smart and understand everything? So Maka wouldn't notice that I finished first, I went back and darkened all of my answers.
"Stop!" The bell rang and we did the same thing as last time, we handed the 'teacher' our paper as we left.
"Wow Crona, look at you today. You answered more questions than me and you finished before me. You're on a roll!" Maka bumped me.
"You noticed?" I asked, I could feel that I blushed.. again.
"Well yeah, you darkening all your answers isn't going to fool me." She was smiling, "I hope we don't have fitness testing. It's so cold outside, especially with the gym attire we have to wear." Maka whined.
"I don't think we do, I hope we don't. I guess we'll have to see." I said. We walked to our next class, fitness. Sid's my teacher, Nygus is the girl's P.E. teacher, but both of them were replaced with subs. I lined up with the rest of the class and waited for our schedule.
"I was told to make this announcement. If you are a student in Professor Stein's first hour History class or in Professor Marie's fourth hour Soul Mechanics class, you are excused from this class for the rest of the week." He looked up from his clip board, no one moved. "I have a list. Crona, Kilik, Ox, oh nevermind here is the paper. If you're on it leave." he handed a kid the paper. About 13 of us left, the sub had to count us to be sure no one skipped. The girl's class only had 3 people leave. I started to get dressed.
"I wonder what this is for." I heard someone say.
"There's another kishin loose." said another.
"I bet I know who's behind it." I heard. I walked out into the hall before I could hear who they blame. I wouldn't be surprised if they pointed to me. I've always been the bad guy, the traitor, the monster. I won't ever get to leave those names.
"Hi." Maka slightly startled me.
"Hi, um where do you want to go, since we're excused?" I asked.
"I don't know, I think it's a bit odd that we got excused today, we haven't started training yet." Maka stated.
"Maybe they weren't supposed to announce it until tomorrow but did it anyway..."
"I'm not sure. Oh well, it got us out of fitness testing."
"But you like to test."
"Yeah. I like to test, it's fun. But, fitness testing isn't fun. I finish way before everyone else and I get glares and stupid nicknames. I usually ignore them, but i'm a little annoyed that i'm way more advanced than the rest of the class."
"Me too." I admitted.
"Well, we have a full hour to waste. So, want to go to Deathbucks and back?"
"Yeah." She took her hand in mine, which made me blush. I blushed the entire way, but we went to Deathbucks. We walked in from the cold wind into the welcoming warmth. It was comforting, coming from the cold and being invited by coffee scents and warm surroundings. I was about to order the usual, but Maka decided differently.
"The usual for Crona but a Decaf for me please." She ordered. The man tipped his hat and began to make our beverages. I raised an eyebrow in question.
"I want to try something new." Then she gave me a big smile and payed for our drinks. I didn't think anything of it. I took my drink and conversed with her on our way back to the DWMA. When we got back it was lunch and the 'gang', as I call them, were waiting for us by the stairs.
"When did you get coffee?" Amanda questioned.
"Just barely. We don't have to take P.E. because of our situation, so we had an hour of free time today." Maka answered.
"Wait, so the people participating in this fight don't have to take P.E.?" Soul asked.
"Nope." I answered. Then he fist bumped Black*Star and made weird noises with him. Friend thing I guess...
"So, shall we go to lunch?" Maka asked.
"Sounds like a good idea." Theresa said. Then, Maka took my hand in hers and we started to walk to lunch. Maka's been grabbing my hand the entire day, I wonder if it has to do with our mission. I really need to figure out how to tell her I will NEVER EVER leave her, i'll even go against the marriage vow, 'till death do us part.' I won't leave her then either. Wait, marriage... No, that's silly. We haven't even been dating a full year yet, not until April 29. Well, she is... No, that's not an excuse and I don't know if she is or not! I need to conteplate this...
"What do you want Crona?" Maka asked me.
"Huh?" I looked at the lunch board. I was so lost in my thoughts that I hadn't realized we were in the lunch room, "Oh, uh.. The spaghetti sounds good." I answered.
"Great." Maka agreed. We stood in line for what seemed like forever! When we finally got out of line, we sat down with the gang and chatted while we ate. They mostly talked about the DWMA dance this Saturday.
"Are you going Crona?" Tsubaki asked me.
"Why wouldn't he go?" Amanda asked.
"Long, long story..." Soul replied to her.
"I, uh, I don't know.." I answered Tsubaki.
"What do you mean, you don't know," Maka said, "Of course you're going. Last year was, troubling... but that's in the past and we can let all of that go." Maka said squeezing my hand and giving me a bright, reassuring smile.
"O-okay." I can't disagree with that face. I can't really disagree with her anyway, I try but I get so nervous that I fail. I'm getting better at standing up for what I want though.
"So, is this a fancy party or whatever?" Amanda asked.
"If you're asking whether you have to wear a dress or not, yes you do have to wear a dress." Soul said.
"Why!" She whined.
"Why is it a problem? You wear a skirt and a tube top everyday." He stated.
"Dresses are different..."
"How? The only difference is that they aren't connected to your top." Theresa argued.
"They're different!" Amanda repeated.
"Why don't you just wear a fancy skirt and not your usual one?" I suggested, "It's a formal dance, but it doesn't restrict skirts."
"Good idea!" Amanda said.
"My father only put up that rule this year. Some morons came dressing like girls and offended A LOT of people. So to avoid that, girls have to dress formally as do the boys. I am not the door greeter this year atleast..." Kid said.
"Thank Death that those boys are expelled from all DWMAs." Liz said.
"Oh, it was those boys.." Maka said.
"What boys?" I asked confused. They all looked at me and then looked at the table shyly. Except for Black*Star.
"Black*Star, who are they talking about?" I asked him.
"Huh, oh, I probably shouldn't..." then he looked around, seeing that everyone else had cowered, "it was the boys who pushed Cumo down the stairs and bullied you." Black*Star said.
"Thank you."
"Whatever, atleast I was man enough to say it." Black*Star began to boast about how he is so much manlier and awesome than everyone else.
"Are you okay Crona?" Tsubaki asked me.
"I'm fine. I don't understand why you guys think I couldn't handle that. I'm actually really glad that they are gone." I looked down at my spaghetti, i'm not that hungry anymore.
"Crona's right, we kind of have been treating him like a little kid." Kid said.
"Yeah, sorry Crona." Soul said. Then everyone began to apologize, except for Theresa and Amanda. They had no idea what they were talking about.
"Well... Since we are over that, what's been going on with Cumo?" Liz asked Kid.
"I'm not allowed to talk to her anymore, she's gotten out of hand. I wish we could kill the kishin already, every week my guilt and regret builds." He answered.
"Guilt and regret for what?" I asked.
"I feel like it's my fault that she's there. I'm the cause that she couldn't escape from her madness."
"That's not true. I promise that you aren't the reason. Trust me, i'm going through it too."
"Why is it that she can't be sane but you can?"
"I'm not sane. I'm actually killing myself slowly, that's why she hasn't been holding back."
"Oh, so you, sitting in front of me, are dieing?"
"I am, but it'll be gone as soon as we kill this kishin." I said. I looked down at my plate of food, yeah, i'm definitely not hungry. I got up and threw my trash away, then went out into the hallway. I could hear Maka follow me.
"Are you okay?" She asked. I leaned against a wall, I suddenly felt very dizzy.
"Yeah, just dizzy. I think i'm fi-" Then I fell to the floor. It wasn't like last time, I just fell..
"Crona! You are not fine!" She helped me sit up. I lifted my hand, well atleast I can move.
"I'm fine. Just dizzy." I said, "Well I think i'm fine. Like Stein said, my blood is tripling every night, so how much has it duplicated by now?"
"I don't think you're fine. I think we need to get Stein before you pass out or hurt yourself."
"Okay, Stein is a good idea-" then I passed out. I could tell I wasn't out for very long. I woke up in the arms of Stein. I looked around me, I was being rushed to the infirmary. I could see Maka's face, she was red-faced and crying hard. I tried reaching my arm out for her and tell her i'm okay, but I couldn't feel my arm. I could feel every other limb but my left arm. I looked down at it and found that I was bleeding from a gushing wound on my wrist. Then I passed out again. When I woke up, I heard a bell ring. Maka was at my side crying heavily still.
"Hey." I croaked.
"Crona! You're awake!" she surprisedly said. Then Stein came into view, pushing her aside. Then Stein started to flash a light in my eyes.
"He seems normal now." He whispered to himself, "his arms are completely healed..." I could feel him moving stuff on my arms. I looked to see that there were bandages wrapped around them. I was also cuffed to the bed.
"What did I do?" I asked.
"You had a madness attack, if you would call it that." Stein said. When I raised my eyebrow in confusion he continued, "You blacked out, but you were still awake. You tore open your arms with your bare hands and I had to restrain you, before you hurt someone."
"Was I attacking?"
"Not at the moment, I think you were trying to get your blood flowing for a big attack. I restrained you before you could even move your wrist."
"Oh. So, i'm a danger now, aren't I?"
"I'm afraid so," he sighed, "but I can't keep you locked in here or in a cell. You can't go anywhere at all, except I will allow you to practice with the other students but with a major amount of supervision."
"Okay." I almost whispered.
"What could of been the cause for this?" Maka asked, "he was fine earlier, is there some kind of trigger?"
"Well, his blood could be speeding up more than I thought. For triggers, I could say that fear, anger or stress could set him off."
"That would make sense, especially what we were currently talking about." Maka said, nervously scratching her arm.
"For his and student safety, he won't be able to leave this infirmary. His lunch will be delivered here and you can visit him during passing time and during lunch. He's only allowed to leave when he practices, but it won't be much of leaving because he'll be heavily supervised." Stein explained to her.
"I see... Well, while he's okay now... Can we take a small stroll around Death City? We won't be long, I promise. Just two hours and there won't be anything to upset him." Maka pleaded. I watched her plead and it was actually really cute. I blushed at the thought... Stein stayed quiet for a bit, I bet he was thinking really hard. Then he sighed, glanced at me, then went back to Maka.
"Alright, fine. Only two hours, nothing upsetting, be back here fast." Stein said. Maka's voice was really high pitched and almost a squeal.
"Thank you so much!" she rushed to my side and unbuckled my wrists from the bed. She grabbed me and hugged me tight.
"Where are we going?" I asked her. She let go of me with a big smile and pulled me out of bed into a run.
"You'll see!" We slowed from our run to a walk as we left he DWMA entrance. First we went to our apartment. It was really clean and it smelled nice. She grabbed her purse and we walked to the park. It was a slow, steady walk, which made everything nice. We sat down on a bench.
"I wanted to give this to you." Maka said handing me a small box.
"Thank you." I said. I shobok the box slightly and almost opened it.
"No, don't open it right now. Wait until the DWMA party, then you can open it."
"Oh okay. I have something for you too, I don't have it with me right now though." I said, "Did you have any other plans before we go back to the DWMA?" I asked her.
"No, I just wanted to take you here to relax and give you that. What do you want to do?" I smiled.
"Follow me." She giggled, I took her hand in mine this time but I still blushed. I brought her downtown.
"Are you sure? Aren't you afraid that something will stress you out?" Maka asked me as we walked down the street.
"A little, but i'm in too good of a mood to care." I said. I pulled her into the jewelry store.
"What are we doing?" Maka asked.
"Go pick out a piece of jewelry." I told her.
"Are you serious?" I nodded and waved my hand to tell her to continue. She smiled and started to walk around the store. She pointed to a couple, then changed her mind, then a few more, then changed her mind again. She finally settled on a small, red rimmed bracelet. She said she loved it, but I had a feeling she only got it because it was the cheapest thing in the store.
"I would like to buy this please." I said to the cashier. She nodded and rang it up. I noticed that Maka had liked the pure emerald necklace and ring that was on the counter. She didn't say anything about it. I acted like I bumped into a stand and knocked some things over.
"Woah! Are you okay Crona?"
"I'm fine, just bumped into the stand. So, theres a dress store next door, go ahead and find something i'll be there in a second." I said.
"I should help you clean this up." Maka said.
"No, it's okay. I need to finish paying for this and clean this up. You'll be a bit anyway, so go ahead." I gave her a big smile, which she returned. She reluctantly went to the next store. I picked up everything and put it away then went back to the counter.
"I'd like to purchase these." I said picking up the emerald jewelery. She looked at me, the jewelery, back to me.
"You are very nice. There should be more people like you. What are you buying this for?" The girl asked me.
"I feel like she deserves something really special. Especially after what we've been going through, what she's gone through. So, she needs something. I think i'm going to marry her." I unsubconciously blurted. Then I realized what I said and blushed enormously.
"That's really sweet. Here, I even gave you a discount. Don't tell the boss." She gave me a wink and handed me a velvet box that had the ring, a nicely decorated box for the necklace, a cute little plastic container for the bracelet and a bag for it all. This is awesome.
"Thank you." I gave her a smile then walked over to the other store.
"What do you think?" Maka said walking out of a dressing room.
"That's really pretty, what else have you picked out?" I asked.
"There are a couple others, I like them a lot too. I don't know, I think i'm going overboard." Maka said.
"No your not. Show me them." I said. She had a big smile on her face again and she began to try on dresses and show me them. They all looked wonderfull. She skipped one, I noticed.
"What about that one?" I asked her.
"Huh, oh. This one doesn't really fit.." she lied.
"Just because it's expenisive doesn't mean I won't buy it. Pretend they don't have price tags. Just, choose what you like." I said. She smiled and handed me the dress. The price tag said $2,450. Yeah, I understand why she wouldn't want me to buy it.
"Pshh, you call that expensive? It's only two hundred and fifty dollars." I said, lieing. I said it so she couldn't tell, I think I did a good job.
"Wait what? I thought it said more." Maka tried grabbing the price tag to see it.
"More what? There are no prices, just what you want." I smiled, "So, do you like this one the most?" I asked her.
"Yes," then she tried grabbing it again, "if it's too expensive then forget about it."
"No, it's not expensive. It doesn't have a price. Go to the flower shop and pick something. No price tags." I said. She gave up trying to get the price tag, kissed me on the cheeks and walked to the next shop.
"Are you buying all of those?" Some lady asked me.
"Uh, no. My girlfriend was trying them on and picked this one." I said handing her the other dresses.
"Okay, Miranda can check you out." she said. She started to put the dresses away. I walked over to the counter and rung it up.
"Wow, that's one of the prettiest dresses we have," Miranda said, "here, this comes with it. It's free." The lady handed a bag with a dress in it and some kind of fancy perfume.
"Thank you." I smiled and went to the next shop to find Maka. I found her gazing at the tiger lilys.
"Why are you buying all this stuff for me?" she asked.
"Because you deserve to have them. You've earned it." I said.
"I don't understand though. You've gotten me everything I want, I haven't given you anything." I could see her tears as she continued to examine the tiger lilys.
"You've given me a life, you gave me love, and friendship. Things that wouldn't of ever seemed possible for me, but you did it. I love you because of that. I-" Maka interrupted me with a big kiss on my lips.
"Don't say anything else. I get it." Maka wiped away her tears and grabbed a bundle of tiger lillys. I smiled and bought her the flowers. We walked back to the DWMA, the day was over and I could tell that we were a bit longer than two hours. Stein was at the entrance, he looked furious. I couldn't see a scalpel, which is a good sign, but then again I don't know where he could be hiding them.
"Do you realize how long you've been gone!?" Stein nearly screamed. I looked at the clock inside the building. Uh oh...
"Four and a half hours..." I squeaked. Stein's face stayed stern but he sighed deeply.
"Yes, four and a half hours. I thought something happened, but Jessica called me and told me what a good son I have."
"Jessica?" I questioned.
"Son?" Maka said. We were both confused.
"Jessica works at the Monty Harv Jewelery store. She chatted until her jaw fell off about what a good kid you are. Marie tells the entire city about Crona, some she's told that Crona is our son, some just assume. Marie is best friends with Jessica." Stein explained.
"Oh... I didn't know that." Maka said.
"Well, if someone comes up and asks me if i'm actually Stein's son, i'll know how to answer." I said.
"Well, looking at your bags of items, would you like to take a stop to your apartment and then back?" Stein asked. I lifted the bags a little and examined them.
"That would be great..." I answered.
"Hurry, this time. I don't want you to be out any later than half an hour, no exceptions." Stein said. We nodded, I was scared that he was going to dissect me.. We hurried, almost ran, to the apartment. While Maka was searching for a vase for her flowers, I hid the necklace and ring I bought for her. I set them in my suit that I planned to wear to the DWMA party, hopefully I get to go to it. Then I put the perfume I got for free next to the dress I bought her and added a note that said, "This'll come handy this weekend. I love you 3"
"Crona? Where did you go?" I could hear Maka walk towards the bedroom. I came out before she could enter.
"I'm right here. Are you ready to go back?" I asked her.
"Yeah, just making sure you were alright. You were awfully quiet."
"Eh, just putting some stuff away. We better go before we get dissected by Stein." I said. I took her wrist and wrapped the bracelet she picked out around it. She gazed at it for a moment then gave me a big smile. She grabbed my hand, making me blush, and we headed back to the DWMA. We were only gone for twenty minutes luckily. Stein wasn't waiting for us this time, we found him in the infirmary. When we walked in, the lights were shut off and he was staring intently at a computer. The computer screen was mostly black but had some kind of orb, I couldn't see what was in it though.
"Stein?" Maka said worriedly. Stein got up and clicked out of the picture really quick.
"Ahem, good you were on time." he said turning to face us. His movement turned the lights on, I guess they're automatic.
"Yeah, what were you doing?" I asked.
"I can't tell you, unfortunately. Why don't you come in and sit down."
"You look stressed and worried." Maka told him.
"Well, what I just found out is stressfull and worrying." I sat down on my bed and Maka sat in a chair. "I wish I could tell you, but we should wait to see what happens before I do that." Stein continued.
"Who does that belong to?" Maka asked.
"What do you mean?" Stein replied.
"I know what you were looking at, who does it belong to?"
"I can't tell you. It's too upsetting for everyone."
"We can handle it."
"No, i'm sure you can handle it. But Crona, and some one else can't." Stein replied. I could see Maka's eyes squint in thought then burst open in realization.
"No way. Are you sure?" Maka said.
"Well if you saw it, you know it. You can't tell anyone, not even you-know-who." Stein said. At this point I was totally confused and I really wanted to know.
"He has to know. He has the right to know." Maka countered.
"No, not right now. Not until after the kishin is vanquished." Maka sighed.
"Fine, but you should wait to tell him when he's surrounded by his friends." Maka said.
"What's going on?!" I nearly screamed.
"Nothing." They both said at once. I sighed really loud and annoying and flopped on my bed.
"I promise we'll tell you at a different time." Maka said. Upside down, I checked the clock. It's four o'clock.
"Hmm, school ended an hour ago?" I said.
"Yeah, i'm surprised you both didn't get spotted on your way back here." Stein said.
"I didn't see any students on our way up here." Maka said.
"That's odd."
"Oh my Death! We missed your biology test!" Maka then flopped down next to me.
"Yes, you did. But because it was for good reason, I can give you both a retest."
"We'll be in practice tomorrow."
"Take it now. I have the extra copies with me, plus I need to start grading everyone's tests." He shoved the tests over our faces.
"Why did you have to put it in my face?" I said spitting out the paper.
"I felt like it. Now, Maka go to the other side of the room, I'll start the timer when you're both ready." Maka moved to the other bed and set up her work space. Stein supplied us with pencils and started the 60 minute timer. I didn't study for this test either... I was two seconds away from finishing my 98th question when the timer went off. It scared me, which caused me to squeak and accidentally throw my pencil. Next thing I know, Maka bursts out laughing and she's on the floor crying.
"Hey, not my fault I squeak when i'm startled!" I said blushing furiously. Maka tried talking but couldn't over her laughter. I looked up to see my pencil and a bunch of paper on the floor.
"Oops..." I whispered. When I threw my pencil, it hit the stack of ungraded papers Stein had and sent them tumbling. He sighed and started to rub his eyes.
"It's fine. Just clean them up." Stein continued to grade the paper he was working on. I got up and started to clean up the paper mess I made. I could hear Maka's laughing stop but instead of her being happy and coming to joke with me some more, she ran to the bathroom. Stein turned in his chair and followed her. I was about to get up and follow too but Stein put out his hand as a gesture of, "stay here." So, I stayed and continued to clean up my mess. It took about five minutes to clean up, there were a lot of papers, but Stein and Maka weren't back. They were taking a long time. Just then Stein came back in, but no Maka.
"Is she alright?" I asked him.
"She'll be fine. I went and got her some water and some food."
"What's wrong with her?"
"Nothing. She's..." then he stopped, examined me, then chose a different answer, "She'll have to tell you. It's not my place."
"But.." then I stayed quiet. "Can I go to the library?" I asked.
"No, you cannot leave the infirmary." I sighed.
"Okay." I went to my bed and made myself comfortable. I can tell this is going to be a looong week and a half.
Shout out to Yellowpikmin. They gave me the suggestion of going to Lord Death. Sorry I didn't give you a shout out last chapter. Things are getting a bit heated, aren't they? Wow, it's starting to all add up... It's going to be a really sad moment when I give you guys the last chapter of this series... I hope that won't be for a while though. =) Anyway, I hope that you guys are satisfied with my chapters. I've been busy, so I usually have been writing these from 11 at night to 3 in the morning. So, if there are mistakes, you'll know why. I uploaded a christmas short-story for Soul Eater (Even though it's February, ugh CronaDarkOne get it done!) Ahem, but yeah... I'm also going to upload a sneak peak first chapter of one of my next stories. So, definitely check them out. =) The christmas one is obviously labeled christmas... The sneak peak is labeled, Help Is Needed Not Wanted. Enjoy those. Enjoy the rest of this. Enjoy everything! Okay... Bye Bye!