Trisha had always been good with kids, which might have played a part in getting her job as a daycare teacher.
She viewed her classroom full of children as her own, and no matter how old they are they were still her's.
She was startled when she answered the door of her home to a woman that was in her twenties.
Rose Thomas was trying to stifle her sniffles.
Rose had had a tough childhood with having never known her biological parents, and having moved from home to home very frequently when Amestris seemed to decide that none of her adoptive parents were good enough to raise her.
She had when she was younger found stability in the school system, and Trisha's family.
When Rose had gotten older, she had found comfort in the two Elric boys that were Trisha's biological children.
Now Rose though went to the only place that she felt that she would be comforted, Trisha Elric's home.
Both of the Elric children had to be away at college now, and Trisha was amazing at providing comfort to any human being.
"What's wrong?" Trisha asked at the sight of Rose's tears, and she led the younger woman in to her home.
Pictures were hung up of Trisha's family, both before and after her husband had left her.
"I don't know if you remember me, but I'm Rose." Rose confessed nervously after she had sat down on the couch at Trisha's request.
"You must be Ed and Al's good friend, Rose Thomas, then." Trisha is a kind lady; she had just let a perfect stranger in to her home.
"Yeah, but you had me at the daycare when Ed was still in it." Rose admitted; her face turned red at the memory, because when she was in the daycare, she had had a crush on Edward.
"I remember now. You used to play with Ed and Al all the time." Trisha seemed delighted at the memory.
Rose nodded.
"I fell in love at college with a wonderful man, and we were in engaged," Rose started to try to explain her sudden appearance.
"He didn't leave you, did he?" Trisha asked; she looked ready to severely hurt him, if he had.
"No, nothing like that. He died recently. He had been walking home to the male dorms, when a car had hit him." Rose sobbed.
Trisha wrapped her arms around Rose to offer the younger woman comfort; Rose leaned against the motherly comfort of the embrace.
Rose went on, "I'm pregnant with his baby, and I miss him so much."
"It will all get better." Trisha soothed the young woman that was now clinging to her.
"I sure hope so. I don't know how I will support myself and my baby." Rose admitted.
"I can babysit your baby while you go to college." Trisha reassured the young woman that she had let in to her home.
"I can't possibly afford college, and my baby." Rose cried.
"I'll pay for it. You don't have to worry about it." Trisha told her.
It reassured Rose, but she knew that despite that it wouldn't be easy.