A Missing Soul

Chapter 30---Finale Part 1

Soul:

I sat in the all on one f the white benches. Stein had pulled it out and told me to stay...as if i was some kind of dog...

I don't usually cry, I mean...haven't in a long long time. But I guess it's what happens when you lose someone...important. 

I look up at the wall across from me. My gaze turned toward the end of the hall, I waited. I don't know how long I stared at it, as if at any moment Maka would turn the corner, a big smile on her face, and run towards him. Her light hair blowing back as her feet went faster and faster until they were off the ground leaping into my arms. 

It brought tears to my eyes just thinking about it. God...if Maka saw me crying..she would have slapped me along side the head without another word. 

There's this saying, that I...I must have read somewhere. It says that you don't realize the importance of something..until its gone. I wonder if Maka had  ever thought the same thing, when it was me in the hospital bed. I guess I can't really ask her...now can I...

I heard foot steps coming down the opposite hall and my heart skipped a beat. I turned my head...but it wasn't Maka...and my heart dropped to the very bottom of my chest as if locking itself in a safe locked from the inside. 

Black Star, of all people, was running down the hall towards me, followed by Tsubaki, Kid, and the twins. They stopped a few feet away from me not saying a word. All I could see were there shoes as I stared at the floor. I heard a sniffle, maybe two coming from the group.

"Is it true?" Is all Black Star could let out.

I don't respond, but I think that says more than words itself. Tsubaki mutters something...but I couldn't quite understand it. The twins were talking to Kid, and for once, Black Star didn't say anything. and it kind of relieved me.

"How could this happen...Maka did..nothing wrong...and yet...she's the one facing the consequences" Liz mutters softly. "She was so strong...and brave-" I couldn't do this...I got up from the bench and walked down the hall away from them. I heard them say my name a few times, but I was already around the corner.  

I sat in the chair next to her bed. The doctor earlier had come in and folded the sheet so it covered her face...I guess that's what they do to the deceased. 

I gazed at the sheet, "They'll be taking you away soon" I said to her. "Your dad and mom were in here earlier...arguing about how to, ow they put it, send you off" I take a breath. "It's gonna be different around here now...everyone has already started treating me like im some sort of glass doll, and the slightest movement will break me" I look towards the floor. "Looks like I'm gonna have to learn to make my own sand witches from now on...not that they'll ever be as good as yours" I smile and look at her standing up from the chair.

I walk to her bed and carefully remove the sheet from her face. She looked so pale...so blue...so...lifeless. "They'll have to assign a new meister to me. Knowing Death, hes already got a list" I try to clear my head with what I was saying, but they just kept coming. "Ya know....I always thought I would be the first to go...Me and my arrogance-" I stop midway as a tear falls onto the sheet.

I stare at her face, "Why'd ya have to go Maka? Why couldn't you just wait-" My voice breaks, but I needed to continue, I needed to say this...even if she couldn't hear me, "But...you wanna know the worse part...of all of this...is that I never got to tell you the truth...that every time I woke up and saw you on the couch with a book , my heart skipped...that every time you yelled at me nothing else didn't seem to matter, only us. And that...every time you smiled...the Sun just shined on you, only...you..."

He felt the anger and sadness inside I'm build up, "I never got to say that...out of everything in this Hell hole...you made everything brighter...you brightened my world...." I smiled as another tear fell, "You were my world..." There's a long moment of silence, "All I'm asking..." I take her hand between mine, " ...is that you wait for me...just wait for me Maka"

That's when I felt it...the slight movement of her fingers....entwined with mine.

Too Be Continued in Part 2 of The Great Finale... of A Missing Soul