Title: Square
Author: Forever Change
Genre: Angst
Rating: PG
Character: Edward, Alphonse (mentions), Hohenheim (mentions), Trisha (mentions)
Summary: Edward always thought it was stupid. Maybe that was just because he didn't want to hurt anymore. Drabble.
Author's Note: First fanfiction. :)
At first, it was them four. His mother, her pretty smile, his brother, his soft giggles, his father, and his apathetic looks.
At first, they were all together and everything was fine. At first, the smiles weren't forced, the laughs weren't faked, when it rained it didn't seem like the world would start to end. At first, he thought it would all be okay.
Of course, it wasn't always like that.
Then, it was them three. Then, it was his mother, with her dimming smile, and his brother, with his weak laughs.
Then, they would sit around the dining table in silence, a heavy storm over them. Then, when it rained, she cried with it, and they could do nothing to stop it. Then, they were left in the shroud of bitterness he left behind. Then was the time where everything started to rip, the smalled, inconsiderate tear, of the large fabric of his life.
He supposed cloth weathered over after time.
After that, it was only him and his brother, who couldn't make any other facial expression than his stony, metallic face that shone every time the sun hit it.
After that, it was only him who held in his tears when there was a hurricane outside, it was him only who didn't scream when his nerves felt like being ripped apart, it was only him who didn't shake and tremble over the death of an innocent little girl by her father's hands. It was him who condemned himself, thinking it would be better, and in his blindness he created something worse. The smooth, circular lines of his life stuck out at odd angles, throwing surprises at him everyday, throwing hate and pain and anguish and blood until he would practically break.
The circles he lived, the breathed, he learned upon were turned upside down and inside out to rigid, straight lines that didn't connect and didn't make sense.
He supposed that it was only time until it completely faded away.
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