No Second Chances

One Shot


We stood in the kitchen with an awkward silence hanging over our heads. My blue eyes boring into his golden ones, trying to find something … Anything to which would give me an indication to what he was feeling right now. Sadly though, I find nothing because Edward's guard is up again.

I sigh and break eye-contact with him while brushing his flesh hand hold off of my arm. I was too tired to bother with 'it' anymore. Too tired because I had had enough of its' foolish game.

Quietly I began to speak this to Edward. "Ed … What is it you want?"

He seems confused by this for he frowns. "What I want, Winry …?"

"Yes Edward," I repeat. "What is it you want?"

His calculating eyes look up and down my figure as he debates upon his answer. He was being careful with it because he knows that whatever words may pass through his lips at this moment will affect the both of us. It may start something new but end something old too.

The question is though; will Ed be willing to take the risk?

I can feel my heart pounding aloud in my ears. Anticipation gets the best of me. I stand as still as a statue as Edward makes his final run up and down of my figure. I can only hope he can see in me what I have seen so long in him …

"Nothing, Winry. Don't worry about it." His reply is like a knife going through my heart.

Sadly my eyes lower to the ground. God, does he have no idea what he has just said? What it will cause me to do?

Obviously not.

A watery smile spreads across my face as tears begin to build-up and roll down my cheeks. I am crying but I don't care. "Nothing … Okay Ed, if that's the way things will be between us then that is fine. But not before you know this; I am only but a girl Ed, not a tom-boy or hard-going auto-mail mechanic, but a girl who is standing in front of a boy … asking him to love her."

I don't bother to lift my head as I turn and flee from the room. To which if I had I would have seen Edward's shocked face.

The thing is though, once someone says something they can never take it back. Even if it proved to be a mistake, there are no second chances.


fin


A/N: Hm… very angst. I like it ;)