A/N

I am really digging this story and I'm hyped on it. Plus the reviews I got are good and I love people,SRSLY. Hey can you guys vote on the poll in my page? I know it's annoying to ask but I'm writing a DBZ Halloween story and I'm at a loss of what Mirai Trunks and Vegeta are gonna wear. PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE?

Rainbowed-Sunned-Spirit: Thank you so much,dollface! I already have my characters all lined up in my head and It's gonna be great. And I thank you as well for pointing that out to me, I really need creative criticism and I am working of fixing what you said. Thank you for liking my story. (=

To the mysterious reviewer named S I appreciate you too! I will not disappoint.

FMA is copyright to Arakawa of course, and she did a fantastic job.

Chapter 2: Friends

Winry found herself up at 5 am, her elation at starting at Central High in Amestris was getting the best of her. She wasn't actually due to leave for another hour because classes didn't start till 8:15 am and it took her a good 2 hours to drive there. The free time allowed her to think about the boy that had called a month ago, talking about killing himself.

Edward had called every day since their first chat, the same time everyday. Like clockwork he would call at 4 pm and they would chat for two hours, about anything and everything. He told Winry about his younger brother, Alphonse and she had even got to talk to him for an hour about a week ago. He was such a sweet kid, about 2 years younger than Ed, but still.

The blonde haired beauty told Ed about her own parents dying while away in Ishval, getting caught up in a war that wasn't their own. She had hated to relive those kinds of thoughts that were buried so deep, but Ed actually consoled her...in his own jerky way of course.

They shared information about hobbies and Ed even shared with her that he had an obsession with science and all it's components. He was researching the forbidden art of Alchemy, which his father detested, but Ed didn't seem to give a crap. Winry shared with Ed her obsession with automail and her hobby of repairing cars in her spare time.

Needless to say that Ed had become Winry's best friend in that time. She was pretty upset upon having to quit her volunteering job until next summer, it plain out sucked to not have Ed call her anymore. She pondered about giving him her phone number before but Al had actually given her his number and made her swear to call them. Of course Ed put up an irritated front of giving Al crap for giving Winry their number but she could tell that Ed was pleased.

She figured she would call him at 4 after school. Ed had said that he was starting school today too and as usual, Winry had wished him luck and told him to ignore the assorted assholes of high school. They were the same age after all and she had a tiny inkling of hope that they might be attending the same school...she had heard Central High was a popular school.

"Winry, wake up! It's six am and you need to get ready!" Gran hollered from downstairs.

Wnry opened her door to tell her Gran that she was already ready but the smell of delicious food wafting into her bedroom was making her salivate. Instead she just grabbed her belongings for school and ran as fast as she could to the source of her glee.

"I've been awake since 5,gran." The blue eyed girl uttered with a quaint smile,sitting herself down in front of the plate of inviting looking blueberry pancakes,sunny side up eggs and sliced strawberries and bananas. Wow, Winry didn't even think twice before tucking into her food without hesitation.

Her Gran could only look on in awe as her granddaughter tore through her food like she hadn't eaten in years, then to have her jump from the chair and quickly wave goodbye as she made her way out the door.

Winry sat alone in the cafeteria at a long white table. It was only 7:30 and no sign of people. She had to make a mental note to never come this early again. Hell, she even stopped to get coffee on the way and still she was 45 minutes early! Her nerves were insane to say the least.

"Hey there,you and I seemed to have the same idea..."Came a soft female voice, noticing that the girl plopped down across the table from her.

The girl looked a little like a book worm, what with her glasses and chin length brown hair. She looked plain adorable though and very friendly. Winry smiled in relief to see that she wasn't the only one to be early.

"Yea...I live in Resembool and it took me an hour and a half to get here..but I wasn't sure how long it would take..."

"I live right around the corner but I always like being early...gives me time to read."She replied, winking as she pulled out a manga book.

"Hey My name is Winry." Her blue eyes only showed friendliness as she smiled. The bookworm returned her smile whole heartily, momentary looking away from her Manga. "My name's Sheska. Nice to meetcha Winry. That's a really cute name." Sheska commented, smiling wide.

Winry blushed in embarrassment at the compliment, not like anybody had ever said that before. "Thanks! So are you a freshman too?" Winry was only trying to make idle conversation to fill the silence that was awkward to her but seemed comfortable to Sheska.

"Yea,I'm 'fresh meat' as the Juniors and Seniors like to call it. Hey whats your first period class?" She still hadn't turned away from her Shoujo manga book...

"Oh um..."She paused only to open a folder to look at her schedule."I have Mrs. Curtis for gym...ugh I hate gym!"

Sheska's eyes seemed to light up at this, a smile on her face. "OH me too! At least we don't have to dress out on the first day." She seemed uber excited now and Winry had to admit she was as well. Before school even started she had made a friend...when in middle school she couldn't make any friends at all.

The cafeteria had started to fill up now and she could see a slew of different people hanging out in their cliques. Huge groups of an array of different looking people were crowding in and Winry hoped that she wouldn't look like somebody who deserved to be made fun of.

She was brought back from her zoning out by hearing people talking at her table, and several people were seated talking to Sheska.

A tall guy with dark hair and glasses smiled at Winry, and well as A girl with a face framing bob haircut with light brown hair. Along with them was a tall beautiful blonde haired girl,a dark haired guy with shaggy hair and dark eyes, and a super buff guy with one curly blonde lock of hair and a mustache.

"Hey my name is Maes and this is my girlfriend Gracia." The guy named Maes introduced, that same kind smile on his face. "Nice to meet you."Gracia said with a lovely smile as well. Wow...they looked like the perfect couple...

"H-hi...my name is Winry Rockbell..." She was a bit nervous and it showed but Gracia just laughed and laid a hand on her shoulder.

"No need to be nervous, Winry." She assured as the others chatted amongst themselves.

"Oh and this is Roy and that's Riza." Maes said, jutting his thumb in the direction of the other two who were now comparing schedules. "How do you know these guys, Sheska?" Winry had to ask because her curiosity was getting the best of her and Win was never one to ignore it.

It was Maes who answered her. "Sheska is actually my younger sister and I figured I had better come and protect her before the vultures set in on the new freshies. I wouldn't want my nerdy sis getting picked on."

Sheska immediately slapped him upside the head and Winry and Gracia laughed, along with Roy. "Hey you look kinda like Riza." Roy mused aloud,dark curious eyes landing on her. Riza nodded in silent agreement, looking at her for a moment. "Yea...you're right..."

Winry fell silent as another few people crowded around the table. This time it was a tall blond short haired guy, mildly cute, A tall chubby guy who was laughing loudly, and a short nerdy looking guy with glasses.

"Hello!" came a booming and overly manly voice, which came from the buff guy. "H-Hello?" Winry's blue eyes darted around to see if everyone was accustomed to this guy talking this loud. "My name is Alex Louis Armstrong! It is nice to see such fresh faces joining us!"

He was right in Winry's face then, seeming like sparkles were surrounding him. He had his hands clasped together in a girly way but he made it look so masculine. At that moment she was 1,000% sure he was gay. No doubt about that.

"M-my name is Winry Rockbell and thank you..."She muttered softly, trying to avoid eye contact.

The rest of the group just laughed until the blonde guy intervened. "Ah give it a rest Armstrong...you're scaring the poor girl."

"Winry that's Jean Havock, Heymans Breda and K-Kain...Feury." Sheska clarified, noticing the way Jean was leering at Win.

"Call me Breda." Breda corrected with a slight smile as he popped a powdered doughnut into his mouth casually. He sat down with the rest of the guys and started chatting away.

"Yea, Sheska kinda has a thing for Kain..." Jean laughed, looking at the two shy nerds trying to conversate. "I can see that..." Winry said distantly, not really paying attention to Havock in the slightest. Instead her gaze was leveled at a golden blonde haired boy with his hair pulled into a high ponytail, the length spanning mid back. He wore A blood red hoodie with a black symbol on the back with a black pair of skinny jeans, and a pair of black and white chucks on his feet.

She was entranced by this kid she didn't know and why he was sitting alone.

"Maes...who's that kid?" Winry asked, a frown tugging at her lips.

Roy and Maes glanced over to where Win's eyes were averted and they both shrugged. "Don't know the kid, must be a freshi." Roy said with little concern but Maes frowned. "I don't know...maybe you can ask him to come over here, looks lonely."

"Yea..." She said softly, getting up from the table and crossing the distance to him. She lingered near him without saying a word for a moment, waiting for him to address her like she was actually there and when he didn't she tapped his shoulder gently.

His head immediately snapped in her direction, the boy obviously pissed off about being bothered,and turned his unique golden eyes on her in fury.

"What the hell?" He asked, an eyebrow arched all the way to his hairline. Winry was taken aback at his sudden rudeness, putting her hands on her hips. But for some reason the blue eyed beauty could swear she heard his voice somewhere...

"Sooo sorry! We thought you looked lonely so I thought you could come join us but never mind!" Winry found herself stomping away from the cute wide eyed boy, plopping herself down at their table.

Everyone stared in awe at her, thinking she was just some cute innocent girl. Well they would be wrong. Well not entirely, Win was cute and innocent but she had fire behind the looks.

"Rawr kitty got claws!" Roy laughed, the others joining in at her expense. Winry shot a death glare to the tall,dark and handsome guy who was keeling over in laughter along with the rest.

"You know, Jean likes his girls feisty..." Breda teased,poking Winry on her side until she began laughing as well.

The platinum blonde felt so lucky once again this day. Thanks to just meeting one person, she in turn became a part of a huge group of friends, protected from the freshman heckling because she was sure the most of them were upperclassmen.

"Shut-up, 'Brenda'!" Jean purposefully changed his name into a female name to embarrass Breda,which failed because he kept laughing.

Winry couldn't help but glance back over at the lonely boy, who looked sullen at this point. She let her sky blue iris's stare straight ahead but she caught him looking over at their table with an unreadable expression on his face. Upon seeing that, she felt empathy for him, she couldn't help it. He was alone and she didn't like that.

Her eyes caught a group of Gothic looking kids, all huddled up like they hated the world.

"Hey who are those guys?" Winry asked, subtlety jutting her thumb in their direction.

"Those are the school goths who have affectionately named themselves 'The Homunculi'. Some of them are related but they are all really creepy. They even nicknamed themselves after the seven deadly sins." Came Jean's voice,low and scary as if he were telling a camp fire story.

Winry rolled her eyes at his biased statement. "You know, they could be really nice people." She remarked, noticing his agape mouth.

"Don't get wrapped up with them, they are bad news, Win." He was warning her like they were a group of murders, which they obviously weren't.

Before she could think much on it, the loud shrill ringing of the bell pierced her ears, jolting her up from her seat. She noticed the golden blonde walking in her direction, towards the gym and she smiled wide.

Maybe...just maybe she thought she could apologize to the boy. He seemed to be a little squeamish around people and she wanted to be his friend.

That's it. She was definitely going to apologize to him.

With her smile beaming and Sheska to her right, chatting away, she practically skipped to gym, her heart happy.