Let's see how far I get
Let's see how far I get! I'm giving the RoyAi one a try… it should be out soon…
Hundred Themes EdWin - 092
Kiss
It was one of the times where they raced, running fast, chubby legs pumping in effort, sweat trickling down their faces, their backs and the sound of high-pitched giggling of manic children filled the air.
They were eight, Al was seven.
They collapsed into a heap under an old tree, the three blonde children who treated each other like family, even though only two of them were actually related.
The youngest laughed at his older brother and their friend.
They looked odd, hair mussed and sticking up at awkward angles. Twin expressions of mock fury on their faces.
"Al..." two voices echoed eeriely in unison
The youngest gulped nervously, scrabbling away from his companions turned somewhat-enemies.
"Brother," he whimpered pitifully. "Winry..."
The two mentioned looked like pure evil.
Their heads turned towards each other in sync and with a slight nod, both lunged, cackling sadistically and attacking Alphonse' sides.
He squealed, giggling madly, attempting to fend off his attackers and failing miserably.
Soon, all of them were laughing.
"Surrender, Al!" his brother said, chuckling, poking a finger into his brother's side.
"I already did!" the youngest wailed, feebly bringing up his hand to stop the assault on his person. "Brotheeer!"
"You can stop now, Ed," their female companion said, cheeks flushed from laughter.
He stopped. They smiled for a moment, basking in the victory, not noticing Al's mischievous smile and how he closed his eyes lightly and evened his breathing.
"Yeah... Hey, Al?" the amber-eyed boy looked at his younger brother's face.
"He's asleep," Winry observed. "Did he laugh himself that way?"
"Maybe?"
The two children shifted positions, ending up side-by-side, with their backs against the weathered wood of the oak tree and Al sprawled against Ed's side.
"Hey, Winry?" Ed started, staring at the dappled sunlight filtering through the green boughs.
Al shifts slightly.
"Hm?" she smiled softly, looking at him.
"We're going to grow up soon, right?"
"Of course! We do every single day!"
"Well, are we going to be parents someday, too?" he asks, a little tentatively.
"Sure, I guess so," she trailed off, unsure.
Al curled up just a little tighter.
"And get kids?" he asks, looking greener by the moment.
"... I guess it depends Ed, why the sudden interest?"
"Winry," he says, sounding like he learned something he'd rather not, and was confirming with someone else, hoping what he learned was false. "Where do babies come from?"
At this, Winry gives him a rather odd look, Al seems to have coughed in his sleep, and then Winry clears her throat and explains the basics of the reproductive system.
Then she asks him what the hell that was about and Ed replies that it was in some anatomy book he found in the middle of the alchemy tomes he and Al pore through.
Edward cocks his head to the side in deep thought. "So," he says softly, deliberately. "Why do people kiss?"
"I think it's an expression of affection."
"Like parents to children?" he asks.
"Yeah."
"But it's different when your parents kiss, right?"
"Um..."
"And when those weird teenagers in town do, right?"
"They kiss each other on the lips?"
Ed nods, looking pale green.
"Um... I guess... if they do that, they get married, like the people who kiss in weddings?"
"The married people?" he says, his voice trembles.
Winy nods, to his horrification. She grins. "Don't worry Ed, not everyone does that."
"Really?"
She nods decisively. "And I, for one, won't kiss a boy. Ever."
His eyes burn with resolve. "Me neither. Never, for as long as I live!"
She laughs, a high, clear sound that shows her amusement. "That would be something I'd like to see, though."
"... And look at us now," Ed smiled, looking at his wife.
She smiled at him, sapphire blue eyes twinkling with laughter.
"You better not have kissed a boy, Edward Elric!"
Leaning forward until his lips were scant millimeters from her ear, he grinned. "Wouldn't dream of it!"
And then he landed a kiss on her lips.
"Brother? Winry?" Al asked, having wakened from his fake slumber. "I want to know where babies come from."
Ed and Winry looked at him blankly.
"Are you going to have some next time? I want to watch!"
Ed and Winry looked at him in terror, cheeks tinged red.
Al smiled and decided that payback was sweet.