Chap 1: Afternoon Flirting

The sky was blue, the cute little birds were chirping, and the sun shone as radiant as ever. The dare is say short alchemist and his armor consumed brother lay stretched out on the Rockbell's sofa. They were enchanted in dreams of feeling n and having flesh limbs back. They were content in their dream world. That is until Winry displayed her signature move on Ed. She took a wrench from the table and pin-pointed it directly between Ed's golden eyes. He tumbled over onto the hard wood floor and woke up Al in the process. While rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he felt his anger building inside his petite body and fumed at Winry while still rubbing his eyes.

"What the hell Winry? Dammit! I- I-uh." Of course with his tantrums , he would've continued to yell at her, but once his eyes were adapted to the bright room, he couldn't stop looking at Winry, She was wearing a beautiful turquoise halter dress and her hair in a high pony tail. He forgot for a moment what he was upset about but soon remembered when Winry began yelling back.

"Ed you idiot! It's already the afternoon and you and Al are still sleeping!" Her temper slowly faded. "And plus, I- I wanted to take you to the beach. Just, well, just you and me." Winry couldn't believe she had really just said that. She blushed heavily. "Um, sure I guess. Al you mind staying home today?" Al was actually kind of happy that he didn"t have to go. He hated the beach. With getting all that sand in his armor. No thank you. "I'm fine here brother. You guys go and have fun." Winry spoke up. "Alright then it's settled. Ed, I want you be ready in about a half-an-hour ok? Or i'll have to get another wrench. Ed cringed. "Alright, alright." Ed headed to his room.

Ed was happy that he got to go somewhere with Winry. Quite frankly, he was afraid.

"What would happen? What am I gonna say to her? What if she makes fun of my height? I hope we have fun. After all, this is my first date."

He took a bit of an exasperated gasp after saying the word 'date' "No. It's not a date. But why does she just want me to come. Why am I so worried? I've known her all my life. It's nothing personal. Right? Winry stepped into the room as gorgeous as ever. "Are you ready Ed?" His time was up. No more questions. "Yeah I guess." Winry, unsurprisingly, was pondering the same thoughts on the walk there. Once she realized the awkward silence. She tried to start up a conversation. "So Ed. How's alchemy and all that?" "Fine." Ed responded briefly. After that topic failed she thought of another topic. One she knew would last long. Ed's height. "Drink any...milk lately?" She burst into laughter. Ed was pissed, but loved to hear her laugh so he kept the conversation going. "No! I hate milk! It's so, so milky!" "Great vocabulary shorty!" Winry couldn't help but to laugh at her own jokes.

"Winry, I'm gonna kill you!" "Just see if can catch me with those short legs!" Winry took off. Running away from Ed was so fun to her. It was like they were kids again. She really felt like they were...a couple. They ran faster and Ed picked up speed. Winry felt the sand and stopped. She turned to Ed, who was picking up speed, but quite a ways back. From his distance, he couldn't tell whether she had kept going or had stopped, although he was soon to find out. "Ed? What are doing." He got closer and closer, when right when he noticed she was standing still he couldn't stop the speed. BAM!

He and Winry lay flat on top of each other in the warm sand. Blush reached to the top of their heads. Ed jumped off of her immediately and expected the ol' wrench treatment, but instead Winry almost died of laughter. She rolled around in the sand, clutching her stomach. He chuckled a little and looked at Winry. She looked kinda cute when she's laughing. She popped up and dusted herself off and counted out loud. "Beach memory number one." Ed looked at her quizzically. "What was that about." "Well, anything I think is worth remembering today I will count it out loud to myself. 'That's stupid." Ed replied. "Well fine then." Winry picked up her bag and headed to an empty area of the beach. The chairs were set up, the umbrella's were placed upright, the blankets were laid down and Winry was ready for a swim. "Hey Ed, wanna swim with me?" Ed was worried.

"Oh God! Swim? That means, in our...bathing suits. Holy crap."

He had to play it off "Sure why not?" He couldn't help but watch as Winry took off her dress and reveled an all black two piece. She ran towards the tide and called to Ed who was still drooling. "Come on Ed! The water's super clear!" Ed fumbled around, tripping over umbrella poles and other inanimate objects. Once he gained control of his body again, he stripped down and ran towards the water.

When he reached the tide, his eyes widened. Winry was laying flat out right where the water was barely brushing her hair. She was sopping wet, as if she was washed up after drowning. Ed was frantic "Oh my God! Winry. What am I gonna do? Stay there. Well of course you're gonna stay there." He thought out loud to himself. As he leaned over her staring at her perfect complexion, Winry's eyes opened wide and she splashed water in his face. "Ha-ha! I can't believe you fell for it! 'Stay here' he says. Oh, that was classic! Beach memory number two!" Ed couldn't believe the devious tricks she could come up with. "You suck! You metal freak!"

"You should talk 'Full metal'!"

Winry exclaimed with a taunting voice. She swam deeper into the waves with Ed swimming after her. He finally caught up with her and pulled underwater. He laughed with his head poking above the waves. That didn't last long once he felt something grab his ankle. He, too, was underwater. When his head popped up, he found two deep blue eyes staring back at him. They stared into each other's eyes for quite some time until "Ow! What was that?" Winry had gotten stung by a jellyfish. "You ok?" Ed had a worried look in his eyes. "Yeah. I can swim back." Winry swam a fast a she should with Ed right beside her. She stood upright, but felt herself falling over to one side because of the pain. "Winry!" Ed caught her in his arms and put her on his back. He walked her back to their spot on the beach and sat her down on a beach chair. "Are you feeling any better." Ed questioned.

"I'm always better...when I'm with you."

A/N: Sweet! done with the first chap. Finally. My fingers were about to fall off. Sorry it's a little short. If you like it, please review!!

thanks so much. -alistar07