Wow, you guys made it to chapter 2 ^_^ It's a short chapter, but still read it keke~ I would like to thank Amy(FalseFacts) for helping me write part of it :3 oh and again, please review (^_-)
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Adrian had to be around six feet, six foot five at the most with a tan complexion and short, dark black hair that was spiked up. He was thin yet muscular at the same time and judging from his features, he had to be part Xingese. The way he smiled, oh his smile was so bright and beautiful, just looking at his grin filled your stomach with butterflies. It made you feel like that you two were the only people that existed, there was no sense of time, space, nothing. Elicia hated to admit it to herself, but Mr. Yunqi was very handsome.
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It was a brief introduction and the exchanging of civil courtesies, and then they swiftly made their way into Adrian's car. It was new and given Adrian's age and rank, it was most likely on loan from the military. Elicia sat in the back, her fingers twiddling nervously as she sat idly listening to Adrian's prattling on and on, trying to impress her already giddy mother. It was there somewhere inbetween her mother's laughes and his glances at both of them that it hit her; Adrian was notably attempting to impress her mother but Elicia as well. This man, this Adrian, was a boyfriend; her mother had a boyfriend. Elicia looked at her mother's hand, as she made her gestures; her ring was gone. Elicia took a deep breath and pressed her back against the seat. It would be difficult for her to hold her tongue but still she would need to try, for her mother's sake. After her father had died, her mother had put on a brave face and held in her sorrow and pain just Elicia could feel safe and happy. Elicia now had to the same for her mother, no matter how much it killed her inside.
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Dinner was a blur, filled with those awkward and pointless conversations that no one ever seems to care for. When they finally went home, and Gracia was too distracted with Adrian's conversation on how great of a job Fuehrer Mustang is doing to notice that Elicia was missing, she ran to her bed to cry. She couldn't take it. Her mother was just too happy at dinner tonight. How could this man, this stranger, take away her mother and replace her dad in just one night? Hearing her mother's laughs, and watching her smile, Elicia couldn't bring herself to tell her mother that she doesn't like her new boyfriend. "Why couldn't Dad just be alive again? I wouldn't have to go through so much heartbreak." Elicia thought to herself. To calm herself down, she bathed in hot water and dressed in her nightgown. After, when she built up enough courage, she went downstairs to find out more about this "Adrian Yunqi".