Chapter One
Almost time to go home, Ed thought to himself, noticing that it was getting pretty late at night. He began sorting through some last minute papers he needed to add to a report, throwing them in a manila folder and dropping it on the desk. His jacket was hanging up in the corner of the room; he grabbed it and put it on.
Something sitting under the door caught his eye, and he crossed the room to pick it up. To his surprise, he pulled a folded sheet of paper out. "Weird." He murmured to himself, unfolding it and beginning to scan over its contents. He hadn't had a note stuck under his door since he used to play with Winry and Al back in Resembool.
Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist
I love you. I want you to love me back.
Ed's jaw dropped, confused eyes reading the paper once more. A love note? That couldn't be right. There wasn't even a name on it. He gave off a short, sardonic laugh, refolding the paper and dropping it on his desk. He had better things to occupy his time with. He reread the last sentence; I want you to love me back…
Shuddering, he reached for the paper again. That didn't sound very polite at all. In fact, it sounded a little obsessive. The seventeen year old shrugged it off, assuming that people wrote things they didn't mean or things that came out the wrong way when they went through their crushes and boyfriends and girlfriends. He didn't believe in love.
Either way, he decided to take the note with him. He folded it into fourths and placed it in the pocket of his black pants before leaving the office to go home. He wouldn't mention it to anyone.