The Bet: Soul Eater Fanfic

2: The Next Morning and Movie Night

Soul's POV

I was nervous when I woke up. Not about asking Maka out. I hoped with everything she would say no, even though I knew she would say yes.

The reason I didn't want to date Maka wasn't so much that I didn't like her. I was still trying to figure out just exactly how I felt about her still, and dating her would be a good way to figure it out.

I didn't want to date her because I didn't want to risk loosing her, like I said last night. Asking Maka out because of a be tight make things seem worse if I slipped up about it or if we broke up and I didn't want that. If she wasn't my meister, then I would have probably at least thought a little more on how I felt rather than just avoiding everything. But she was my meister, and I didn't want to fuck things up between us.

I always just said I didn't like Maka because I didn't want to say that and just realize afterwards that I didn't.

Black Star was giving me no choice, really. I don't know why he was trying to make me take the bet so much, but knowing how stubborn he was, I wasn't going to be able to turn him down, because he would but me until I accepted it.

I took a deep breath and sighed. Maka and I were walking home in silence. Neither of us had said a word since we left Kid's house, or to each other in general all morning. Things had been awkward for everybody when we were still at Kid's house, and it was even more awkward now that the two of us were alone.

When we were at the house, I went straight to my room and tried to avoid asking Maka out for as long as possible.

I didn't know what I was going to do about it. I didn't want to hurt Maka like this. I hated the idea of doing this, but if I didn't, Black Star would never leave me alone about it.

I left my room, taking a deep breath, knowing what I was about to do was wrong.

"H-hey Maka?" I said when I stood outside the living room.

"Yeah?" Maka replied.

"I-I was wandering something, about last night...." I said. I didn't know why I was so nervous about this. I just was.

"W-What about last night?" Maka stuttered.

"About when you said you had a crush on me..." I said, and I could feel the awkwardness surrounding us. "I was wandering after that if... if maybe you wanted to be my girlfriend?"

"Y-yeah." Maka said, blushing a bit.

Time skip

"So have you asked her yet?" Black Star asked me over the phone.

"Yeah." I answered.

"And?"

"She said yes." I sighed. "I swear I hate you for making me do this."

"You never know, you may be thanking me later." Black Star replied.

"Will you stop with that? You act like you just set us up to be together longer than four months." I said.

"Hey you never know how things will go. I mean, nobody said you had to break up with her at four months." Black Star said.

Time skip

Maka and I had planned a movie night at our house before the last party and the whole dating thing started. Everybody was at our house, and by majority vote, from Kid, Patty, Black Star, and surprisingly, Tsubaki, we were watching a horror movie. Since Liz, Crona, Maka and I didn't all agree on the same kind of movie, we couldn't do anything about the horror movie.

The movie we were watching was Paranormal Activity. I'll admit, I haven't seen it yet and I freaking love horror movies, but I didn't want to watch it with Maka. I didn't know if she would be like that stereotypical girlfriend that uses horror movies as an excuse to cuddle or something, or if she would actually get scared from it. I mean, I already know she hates horror movies. I remembered that from one of the first times we had a movie night, just the two of us, back when we were just trying to get to know each other more.

I remembered that night pretty well. We watched the Shining, and she spent the entire time hugging a pillow. I didn't want to be the pillow this time, especially with how tight she held that one.

Black Star put the movie in and sat down on the opposite side of me from Maka. The ads from the CD were coming on, and Black Star groaned every time it didn't let him skip them.

"Just be patient, Black Star. The whole groaning thing is getting annoying." I said.

"Oh come on, I just want to get to the movie like everyone else." Black Star replied.

"Yeah but nobody else is groaning about every ad we can't skip." Kid said.

"Yeah really it's anoying." Patty said.

"Whatever." Black Star mumbled a as the screen came to the spot to where we had to start the movie.

Crona left in the middle of the movie, because he 'didn't know how to deal with it', and during most of the movie Maka practically had a death grip on my arm. When the movie was over I couldn't even feel it very much anymore. Even for a few minutes after the movie was over, Maka wouldn't let go of my arm.

"Maka, you know the movies over, right?" Kid pointed out. "You don't really need to keep holding onto Soul's arm."

"But they're so cute together!" Patty burst out.

"I didn't say they weren't cute it just looks like Soul has no blood circulation in his arm." Kid said, and Kid Black Star and I all exchanged glances at each other for no real reason, and then I looked at Maka as her grip loosened a but on my arm, and her cheeks were almost as red as my eyes, and I had no doubt mine were too.

"Maybe we should leave them alone." Black Star said in a very suggestive tone, as if we would do anything with them gone. Literally the closest Maka and I got to ever doing anything was her holding my arm right now, which I was fine with, considering that I didn't even really want to be in the relationship in the first place.

"Oh please, it's not like we act any different when we're alone." I said.

"Not like you can start acting any different when you're alone if you guys aren't ever alone!" Liz said, her and Patty already at the door.

"Yeah let's go." Tsubaki said, and Black Star followed, while Kid followed his weapons as well, leaving Maka and I alone, and she slowly let go of my arm.

"Sorry about that..." Maka said.

"It's fine." I replied. It seemed really obvious that we were still definitely in that awkward transition between friends and more than friends, and that was more because I still didn't think of Maka as more than a friend.

And I still had to deal with 3 months and 3 weeks of this. The second the four months was over, I was going to kill Black Star.