Chapter 4: Sing for us already!
It was no Saturday, so no school today! Yes! Though Maka said we'll see each other again last night, I wanted to be alone for a relaxing weekend. But I figured since Maka and Soul knew where I lived, the others will know too soon enough. Before anyone came to me apartment I left with my guitar and a bag full of supplies I'll need for the day. I know I won't make much money from monster fighting since one; I don't have a partner, so I can't sign up for jobs yet. Two; I can't fight. So I'm going to make money by doing what I can pretty well, street performing. I just plan on going to the park I saw yesterday and play my guitar. Hopefully I'll cash in a lot of money today.
I locked up my place and left my building and went to the garage for my motorbike. Yeah that's right, I have a bike. How badass am I? I rode my bike out and headed to the park. Luckily I didn't see Soul, Maka or any of the others on my way to the park. It was a very peaceful day and the park was crawling with people. I went under a nearby lamppost and set my case down and opened it. I have a special guitar my dad gave me on thirteenth birthday, when I really got into music; it was special because it was black with roses painted onto it. I love it so much. I put my hand though the strap, positioned my fingers and add a pick to my other hand. Thinking over it, I decided on the song I wanted to begin with. I mostly played original songs but only by myself and friends. I don't want to bring out any songs I wrote to the public because I don't want someone to steal it or say how much the lyrics suck. So today only covers.
An hour pasted by and I've lost track of the songs I played. I know I sang some Falling in Reverse, Good Charlotte, Maroon 5, Avril Lavigne and Demi Lovato. I loved all of those bands/singers. I continued to play without a care in the world, except of course making some money. I love how people actually want to listen to me playing and want to make a tribute. It fills me with pride and happiness. When I finished What the Hell by Avril Lavigne, a very generous person dropped a fifty in my case.
"May I make a request?" a voice asked.
"Sure what's the song?" I asked without looking up from my guitar.
"How about the song you sang last night?"
"Huh?"
I looked and saw Soul and Maka in front of me and the others closely behind in the crowd.
"Soul? Maka? What are you guys doing here?" I asked.
"We heard music playing so we followed it and lead us to you." Maka explained.
"So are you going to take my request or not?" Soul asked with a smile.
"I don't normally play any originals to the public but after such a generous tribute, I can manage it." I said with a smirk.
Soul and Maka joined the others in the crowd and stood respectfully, waiting for me to play. I strummed the stings all together to get everyone's attention again. I took a breath and began to play my own original. When I play this song on my guitar it actually longer than when I sing it out loud with no music. It was one of the very few songs that didn't suck, I wrote. I was surprised because there were actually more people then there were when I was doing cover songs. I can't believe people are actually enjoying this. When I finished I was rewarded with a loud roar of applauses and a pretty hefty pile of cash. I was going to call it a day and pack my things. Soul and the other came up too me obviously to ask me to hang out with them.
"That was great Dagger." Tsubaki said.
"Thanks." I said back.
"Hey want to have lunch with us?" Maka asked.
"Ah, sure. Where to?" I answered.
After yet again long and loud argument, we settled with a small café not too far called Café Death. I liked the name, cute. The food was pretty good. We all had a casual conversation until the subject of a ball came up.
"A ball?" I asked, "The school actually holds a ball? This ball gowns and fancy music and all that shit?"
"It's for the anniversary of my father founding the DWMA." Kid said.
"Yeah, but it's not as formal as you think." Maka answered.
"You get wear whatever you want and dance all night." Tsubaki said.
"Oh, so it's basically a school dance?" I asked.
"Yup. But it's boring as all hell." Soul said with a groan.
"Come on Soul, don't be that way." Maka said.
"It's true though." Soul whined.
"Wow Soul, you know it's so not cool to whine like a little kid." I said with a smirk and everyone laughed while Soul gave me a death glare.
"So Dagger you want to go to the ball with us?" Patty asked with a smile.
To be honest I'm not really into the formal shit. But then again this entire place is completely crazy and awesome. It might actually be fun.
"What the hell, why not. Sounds fun." I answered.
"Yeah!" Patty said and rushed to over to me and squeezed the air out of me, "It's going to be soo much fun!"
"Yeah, totally. Now can I breathe again?" I asked. Patty finally let go, "So when is it?"
"Tomorrow." Liz answered.
"Tomorrow? And I'm just hearing this now?" I asked surprised.
"Well you are new, so it doesn't surprise me that you didn't know of the ball till now." Tsubaki said.
"Well I guess I'll have to go dress shopping today." I said with a gloom face.
I hate dress shopping. It's always so frustrating when you can't find a perfect dress or you do find a dress but you try it on and you can't fit into to and have to settle for any dress you can fit your fat ass into. I hate dress shopping. Dresses are bitches.
"Hey why don't we girls go shopping and find you something pretty?" Liz said with amusement.
"Yeah that sounds fun." I replied, "And the guys can be our personal mules."
"Oh hell no!" Soul said.
"You got that right. We're out of here." Blackstar said and with that Soul and Blackstar left.
"Oh come on guys," I called out to them, "I was only kidding, not really."
I've notice Kid was still with us," Kid why you are still here?"
"I would like to make sure you ladies will be perfectly symmetrical for my father's celebration." Kid answered.
"Yeah no. Go with the guys." I demanded.
It took awhile, but we eventually got rid of Kid and were to go shopping without any conflicts. We went to like fifty fucking stores. I have never been so bored of shopping. The girls kept pulling me around town to dress shops that looked like rainbows and marshmallows threw up all over the damn place. I lost count of all the dresses I was forced to try on after thirty-six. But after I thought it was hopeless and I would end up in a fucking hot pink poofy, sleeveless, mermaid tail dress, I saw a gothic boutique across the street. Thank dear God!
We stepped onto the shop and right away I found the best dress ever! It was black with lacey sleeves, a large skirt with red black rose on the waist and a simple neck line. I loved it! I grabbed it off the rack and rushed to the dressing room. A perfect fit! I stepped out and heard gasped from all the girls and was soon swarmed with compliments. If I look as good as they say I do maybe Soul might think as well. I was so happy; I also bought a spiky hair band and a black chocker with a red rose on it. And thanks to the money I made I also got my hands on black onyx boots. I'm ready for this ball.
~Time skip the next night~
It was the night of the ball; I couldn't ride my motorcycle to the school because of my dress so I have to walk. Great. I had just finished my makeup and hair and was ready to leave. I grabbed my purse and keys and left my apartment. I exited the building and found Soul and Maka across the street.
"Were you guys waiting for me?" I asked.
"Well yeah. Why won't we?" Maka said.
"Ok. But it's a bit creepy since we didn't discuss this." I said nervously.
"Oh right." Maka said a bit embarrassed.
"So are we going to just stand here all night or go to this fucking ball?" Soul said all ready walking away.
"Hey wait for us?" I shouted as Maka and I ran after him.
As we walked I've notice how loud and happy the town was tonight. Everyone was buzzing with excitement. Most of the people out were students going to the school for the celebration. I was actually looking forward to this. I hope it would be fun, knowing who I'll be with tonight I could only imagine how crazy it'll be.
"Say Dagger you really look pretty tonight." Maka said, "Don't you think so Soul?"
Soul stop walking and actually looked at me, "Ahh, yeah. Beautiful actually." He said with a red face.
"Thanks." I said back with a slight blush, "You both look great too."
Maka was wearing a simple red dress, her hair in its usual pigtails but with ribbons that match her dress. Soul wore black trousers, a black blazer and a white button down with the collar popped up and with no tie. He looked so casual and cool at the same time. Wow, he is cool. Man I do I have a crush on him. I'll admit it I have a crush on Soul the Death Scythe. We continued to walk to the academy. We were up the stairs when my bag began to vibrate. I reached in and pulled out my phone. I looked at the caller ID, it was an unknown number.
"Hey you guys go on, I'll meet up later." I said.
They nodded and continued their climb and moved to the rail and answered. It was a fucking wrong number. It was some guy calling for a Miss Angel and obviously wanted to have some fun. Sexually. Fucking pervert. I hanged up and climbed up the stairs to reach my friends. There are too many fucking stairs. It took too damn long for me to reach the top. I finally got to the top I found everyone waiting for me.
"You guys didn't have to wait for me you know." I said with a smirk.
"Of course we do. What kind of friends would we be?" Tsubaki said with her usual smile.
"Wow guys you look great!" I said looking at everyone.
"Thanks." Patty said, she and her sister wore similar dresses just slightly different. Both were green and had ruffles but Liz's dress was longer than Patty's and had no sleeves. Tsubaki wore a light blue dress with a long skirt and tied up behind her neck. Blackstar looked like a total dumbass and a jackass combined. He wore an extremely over sized suit. His pants were practically lying around his ankles. Kid look so formal and handsome, not like Soul though, he had on a black suit similar to the one he wears everyday but more formal. He fitted right in.
We got into the ballroom and I was amazed by how big it was. There was so many people, students and staff. How many students go to this school? Maka must have read my mind because she said, "I know right?" I laughed. It's going to be a great night. The food was great but the music could have been better, I mean come on! One of the violinists was asleep!
"Man this music suck!" I heard Soul complained.
"God! I know right? I could totally rock that stage!" I said.
"Oh yeah?" Soul said with a smirk.
"Hell yeah!" I said with confidence.
"Then do it!" Soul said.
"Say what?!" I asked.
"What? You said and I quote, "I could totally rock that strange!" Soul said mimicking my voice.
"I can't just go up stage and interrupt the musicians!" I explained.
"Um have of the band is gone!" Soul said, I looked at the stage. Yup, they were gone alright and rest looked like they were going to leave as well, "I don't think you'll interrupt anyone."
"But, what if I get in trouble? I can't be in trouble already! I've been in this school like one fucking day!" I said.
"I can fix that." Soul said with a smirk and walked to a man with red hair talking to Maka.
"Spirit!" Soul shouted to the man.
"What do you want bastard? Can't you see I'm trying to have some father-daughter time?" Spirit said.
"The music sucks." Soul said annoyed.
"So what. What do you want me to do about it?" Spirit asked pissed that Soul interrupted him and Maka.
"Let Dagger on stage." He said pointing at me.
I felt so nervous as the grown man approached me. He smiled at me and extended his hand, "Hello. I'm Spirit, Lord Death's weapon." I took his hand and introduced myself "What's a pretty girl like you doing with a bastard like him?" He asked pointing at Soul.
"Dad!" Maka said.
"Oh you're Maka's dad?" I said.
"Sadly yes." Maka answered.
I could sense some tension between the father and daughter and it was getting awkward.
"So will let Dagger perform or what, old man?" Soul asked annoyed and pissed.
"Sure." Spirit said to me, "Go right ahead. I bet you'll be great."
"Wait I can't just,"
"Sing for us already!" Soul shouted at me.