Last Dance {Soul x Kid}

Tension

" Not quite."

" Or were you talking about... the..." Kid's anxiousness began getting the better of him. " The t-tension?" He hated stuttering, being that it was so ineloquent and made him feel dumb.

Soul grabbed his hand at long last. Kid turned in a little to face him.

" Something like that..." Soul said, leaning closer and pressing a gentle kiss to the other's cheek, almost like he was testing the waters without going too deep.

The reaper's eyes grew wide and he stiffened under the soft lips of the boy next to him. He locked his hand together with the other's and it felt like the perfect fit.

" S-Soul... I..." Kid laughed lightly through his self consciousness. " What was that for?"

Soul pulled back, his sharp teeth showing as his lips turned upward into a grin. Yeah... he could get used to doing that. Seeing Kid's reaction made the pit of his stomach drop, and he felt himself growing confident.

" I feel it... now, what about you?" Soul asked him.

Kid tried to piece together what the weapon meant, and by it, he could only assume that Soul meant... the gay.

" Depends who's asking." Kid got more serious. " If Maka knew how I felt, things wouldn't be pretty."

Soul squeezed his hand. He liked the way it felt, even if he wasn't quite sure of the meaning in that moment.

" Listen, I don't know what I'm feeling. But there's a lot of it, and I only feel it when I'm around you. This whole time I never realized." Soul paused and looked into Kid's amber eyes. " After all this Maka and dance stuff is over... I wanna explore it more with you."

Kid had tears in his eyes and wasn't sure if this was actually happening. He wrapped his arms around Soul and hugged him, not even thinking it through. He'd waited so long to hear that.

Soul laughed somewhat at the other's reaction, knowing that the feeling had to be mutual. Kid hadn't just said it to say it, and that came as a relief. He'd really spilled his guts to him in hope of understanding, after all.

" So is that a yes then? Woah!" He fell on his back and Kid landed on top of him. It took a second for Kid to realize their position, then frantically pull back. Yeah, not a good idea.

" Yes..." Kid blushed heavily. Basically, how he took it, he would get to be Soul's after all the dance stuff was over and life went back to normal. That sounded like a wonderful time, as well as a dream come true. Maybe that wasn't the best idea considering their resonance link and all, but it was still too tempting to resist.

{ Soul and Maka's Apartment }

Soul grabbed a soda from the fridge and sat down on the couch beside Maka. She shot him a passive aggressive look, then turned up her nose.

" What? Did you want one?" He asked. No response. He handed her the soda and grabbed another one for himself. She set the unopened can on the coffee table and crossed her legs angrily. " Are you mad at me or something?" Soul asked from the kitchen.

No answer. 

" Whatever, when you're ready to grow up and tell me what's wrong, I'll be in my room." He said with a wave.

After sitting in his room for a while, Soul put in his earbuds. Music was sort of his escape from reality. But leave it Maka to bring him back down to Earth when he most needed a way out.

Maka knocked on his already open door causing a loud bang. He took out his earbuds, annoyed, then raised a brow at her, as if giving her permission to speak.