The Bet: Soul Eater Fanfic

4: After a Month

A month had gone by since Black Star and I made our bet, and I was still trying to figure out how to deal with the guilt. I was also trying to figure out how the hell I was going to break up with Maka when it was all over.

I was sure as hell about one thing, though. I wasn't going to go get another meister. I didn't know anybody who would be as good as Maka. I didn't want to have to loose a friend just to have to have to get a meister at the point where I'll only have one year left at the DWMA.

After an entire month, I still hadn't exactly figured out how I felt about Maka. I felt pretty much the same as before we started dating: confused.

Maka's POV

I was seriously mad at Liz, even after a month. Before the party, where  told everyone that I liked Soul, Li tried betting me that I wouldn't tell everyone that I liked Soul if the question came up, and then she wouldn't leave me alone until I told her I would do it. After we all went to separate rooms from the boys, she bet me that I wouldn't be able to go four months of dating Soul if he asked me out without him finding out about the bet.

And what does Soul do the next damn day?

He freaking asks me out.

I don't even like Soul, and Soul has always denied liking me. I could tell something fishy was going on, but Soul was also acting like he actually did like me for a change. Sure it was awkward for he first couple of weeks, but I pretended to like him too.

At least We're already a quarter of the way through this. I thought.

Kid's POV

"Liz, what the hell is wrong with you, planning all that with Black Star!" I yelled at Liz. "Has it occurred to either of you how it might effect them afterwards? They don't like each other at all! What made you guys think this would change that?"

"It's just a shot in the dark, Kid. If they both find out its because of a bet that they dated each other, they won't really be effected too much because they don't even like each other in the first place." Liz explained.

"Either that or one of them will get hurt if they start to have real feelings toward the other." I said.

"But the point is to get both of them to realize that they like each other." Liz said.

"But what if only one of them realizes that?" I pointed out.

"Then they learn how to deal with a break up." Liz said a bit harshly.

I already knew if that if one of them were to realize they really do like the other, it would be Soul. The entire past month he's been saying how he didn't want to do the bet because he didn't like the idea of doing it to Maka, yet Maka was just wandering why the hell she was doing it because she knew she didn't like him. Not to call Maka selfish, but Soul seemed more concerned there with Maka's feelings than Maka was about his feelings.

I flat out knew from the start Soul really only accepted the bet because he thought it would help him sort out his feelings for Maka, but Maka just accepted it for no reason. She knew from the start exactly how she felt about Soul. Like sh'es told me so many times in the past month: She see's him as her weapon, and her best friend, but not a boyfriend.

I knew exactly how this would end in three months, and I knew it would not be pretty.

Liz's POV

I didn't understand how Kid thought that Black Star and I made a mistake with planning our bets with Soul and Maka. The two of them have chemistry yet they didn't even realize it. Black Star and I were just giving them the push they needed to realize how they felt.

I don't care how many times the two of them have denied having feelings for each other, I can't think of a single person who can look at them and not see that they naturally seem like they just need to be together.

Yet Kid was telling me it was a bad idea, that they would break up. I hated how he always assumed he knew exactly what would happen.

"Let's make a bet, then." Kid said, after a long pause. "If Soul and Maka break up within the two weeks after the bet is over or sooner, I win. If they stay together for longer than that, you win."

"And exactly what will I win?" I asked him.

"You mean what I'll win?" Kid tried correcting me. "Loser has to be the winners slave for a month. And winner can use the loser in any way they see fit in that period of time."

"Oooh, I'll get a slave for a month. You got yourself a bet, Kid!" I told him, both of us grinning from ear to ear, both of us having the feeling we knew who was going to win, yet only one of us would end up being right. I just didn't know who yet.

Soul's POV

I don't know if it was just me, but it felt like nothing had really changed between Maka and I. At all. Like, not a single thing. Like we were still just weapon and meister, except now with the title of boyfriend and girlfriend, but that's all it was. A title. Part of the reason I even took Black Star's bet in the first place was to sort my feelings out, yet the fact that nothing seemed to change made doing that extremely hard to do.

What confused me more than anything was Maka. For the first week or two, she acted like she genuinely had feelings for me, but after that, she stopped acting like that and went back to acting the same as we were before. She didn't seem to want to do anything together and yet she was supposedly the one with feelings for me? It felt like I was trying in this relationship more than she was already and yet I didn't even originally want to be a part of it, and I was still unsure on whether or not I wanted a relationship other than weapon and meister there.

I had no clue how to feel about her though. I felt like if I actually did end up liking her, I would get my heart broken by her (which is hard to do, since cool guys like me don't get broken hearts that often). At the same time, I felt like if I ended up not liking her, if we broke up, things between us wouldn't be the same, and I would regret it for the rest of my life if things between Maka and I got bad enough to where we would never be the same.

I'm sooooooo sorry that took me forever to update. I was taking a break from wattpad for a while( in case you didn't see). This is the first update marking the end of my break to wattpad, and I will try to finish this story before starting on updating other stories, so expect me to update this probably once a week or so.