So, I decided to post another chapter! Fun, right? But nobody really cares because only about 1.7% of the fanfic population actually reads these author notes, so I'm not gonna waste any more time! To the story!

"You have not even been here for a day, Edward, and you are already causing trouble." Hohenheim lectured the young man who was only half listening.

"Well, what did you expect? Me to just accept this situation you forced me into like a good little boy?" Ed responded, tapping a finger on the armrest of the chair he was sitting in.

"No," Hohenheim said, "But what good does setting off the fire alarm do?"

"Like I told you!" Ed yelled at him, leaning forward in his chair. "How the hell am I supposed to know the thing was gonna go off when I opened the door?"

"It's common sense." Hohenheim reasoned.

"Yeah? Then explain to me why I had no idea that would happen."

Hohenheim cleared his throat. "Well, Edward, you've never been the most sensible child. Besides, that's the standard for almost every building or house's security alarms. There is a reason it's called an emergency exit. Did you not have a security system in your house?"

Ed was silent for a while, contemplating whether he should answer his father or not. Hohenheim sat back and watched his eldest carefully. He had asked because he truly hadn't known, he didn't know anything about his son. Not where he lived, who he lived with, how he had been doing these pass seven years. He took Edward's silence as a no, and figured that his home live had not been so pleasant.

"How have you been, Edward?"

Hohenheim's question snapped Ed out of his little trance. "What?" He asked sharply, practically spitting the words. "How do you think it's been?"

"I don't know because you won't tell me."

Ed stood up and walked to the door, excusing himself. "You don't deserve to know, bastard."

And then he was gone, leaving Hohenheim to linger on the words that were thrown at him. He'd be lying if he said they didn't hurt, but it wasn't like he had been expecting Ed to be happy at seeing him again. Seven years was a long time to wait to talk to someone, especially if they were your family member.

The slam of Ed's room door echoed throughout the entire fourth floor.

How dare he! Edward though as he angrily stomped over to his still packed suitcase. He began throwing clothes everywhere. Thinking he can just come and claim that he's still my father, making me go to this stupid school, acting as though everything is ok, when clearly it's not! Who the hell does he think he is?

There was a knock on his door, and Ed stumbled across his now messy room to open it and yell at whatever idiot was on the other side. When he managed to swing open the door, Ed slammed it closed as soon as he saw the grinning face of the boy earlier.

There was another barrage of knocks. "C'mon man, I want to know how the talk with the headmaster went."

Catching the word 'headmaster', Ed flung open the door once more, this time greeted with two smiling faces. Except the second one looked friendlier than the first, which was way more arrogant. "What do you mean headmaster?"

Roy pushed his past the smaller boy, inviting himself and his friend in. "The headmaster, you know, the guy that dragged you away and talked with you in his office."

Fuck!

"That was the headmaster?" Ed asked, to clarify this fact.

Roy turned towards him, and very slowly, said, "Yes…the headmaster. Van Hohenheim, world famous scientist."

World famous?

"He started this school less than ten years ago, and now it's the top school in the country. Impressive, isn't it?" For the first time, Ed noticed the friend that the dark haired guy brought with him. His dark hair was brushed back, two strings of hair falling just above his bespectacled eyes. He extended his hand warmly to Ed. "Hi, my name is Maes Hughes! And that other guy over there is my best friend, Roy Mustang!"

Ed shook it suspiciously. If the other guy was bad, then what was this one like? "Edward Elric."

Maes looked confused for a moment before asking, "Elric?"

"Yeah, something wrong with that?" Ed asked, going into his defensive mode.

Maes shook his head. "No, it's just that Roy here tells me that you're his son."

"Whose son?"

Roy came over to Ed and smirked victoriously. "I know your little secret, Edward Elric."

Not liking the way he accented Elric, Ed backed away from his a step. "What do you mean?"

"You're Van Hohenheim's son, aren't you?"

The blood in Ed's system boiled. There was absolutely no way in hell that he would recognize that clueless, selfish bastard as his father. "No." He gritted out through clenched teeth.

"No?" Roy crossed his arms and snorted. "You guys look identical, I was totally shocked when I saw you two stand next to each other. I mean, you guys both have that abnormal golden hair color-"

Shut up. It's not like I asked to look like this.

"-not to mention that freaky eye color-"

Shut up!

"-which is golden, again. I've never seen anyone else with that eye color-"

SHUT UP!

"-and your posture is kind of the same, like you've spent hours bent over research. Which, in your dad's case, that's probably what happened. Man, I wish my dad was as cool as yours, how lucky are you-"

"Just shut the fuck up!" Edward yelled, silencing Roy's rambles. Ed clenched his fists so hard, his knuckles turned white and his finger nails dug into his palms. "You don't know anything! That lying, selfish, heartless bastard is not my father! He never was and he'll never be!"

Maes and Roy were taken back by Ed's sudden outburst of anger. "Edward…" Maes reached out to him, but was only smacked away.

"Get out." Ed growled. "Now."

Both boys were silent as they shuffled towards the door. On the way out, Maes quietly shut the door behind him. They waited until they were in the hallway to make a comment, Roy cussing on how he had just wanted to tell Ed that they would be neighbors. After grabbing some cash from their room, located right next to Ed's, the two teens headed for the cafeteria for dinner.

Ed sat himself on his bed, ruffling his hair with his fingers. All day he had worn it in a braid, and now, he pulled off the hair bind and shook out his locks.

I'll never forgive him! That bastard…He's been out making a name for himself, becoming a world famous scientist, instead of being with his family. What kind of father and husband would do that?

Ed sprung up from his bed and walked out of the room. It was too white, too depressing. Besides, he needed food, there was no way he could function unless he had his fill. He made it to the lobby, when he was stopped, a golden card shimmering in his view.

"It's your lunch card." Hohenheim explained, dropping it into Ed's hand.

Ed glared. "Listen here you bastard if you think I-"

"I'm very sorry, Edward, but you'll have to excuse me. The entrance exams are tomorrow, so I'm busy getting everything prepared. Good luck on your tests."

Hohenheim walked briskly away, a few of his attendant following after him. Ed stared at the card a moment, before deciding that a pretest buffet sounded really nice, and headed off to the cafeteria.

"This guy is absolutely nuts!" Roy told his group of friends, referring to Edward Elric. "It's so obvious he's the headmaster's son, yet he denies it and insults him. I wish I were that lucky! Just imagine how cool it would be to have Van Hohenheim as you dad. Pretty fucking awesome!"

"I wasn't aware that Van Hohenheim even had children." Riza said, taking a sip of her smoothie. "My grandfather and the headmaster have been friends for a long time now, but he didn't know about this. Are you sure they're related?"

Maes nodded his head. "Yep. If you see him for yourself, it's pretty obvious. It's like he's a copy of the headmaster."

"Now I kind of want to meet him. "Winry stated, giggling to herself. "I bet he's super smart. Smarter than Roy."

"Yes, but that's not hard. "Riza said, her friends nodding in agreement.

"Hey!" Roy shouted, throwing some of his food at them.

At the same moment, Ed walked in and ordered beef stew. Maes saw this and pointed, whispering to his friends, "There's Edward Elric. Over there wearing the red shirt."

Riza and Winry crowded around Maes to see where he was pointing. Riza gave a frustrated sigh when Ed turned away from her and she couldn't see his face. All she could see was this mass of golden hair carelessly tossed into a pony tail. Finally, when his order arrived, he turned to leave and Riza and Winry got to see his face. She didn't know what she was expecting, but Riza felt a little let down when she saw his short stature, old red shirt, and baggy pants. You would think that the son of a celebrity, and not to mention Headmaster of the school he was attending, would dress a little better. Maybe hold himself with a little more pride.

"We should go and talk to him." Winry suggested, standing up.

Roy immediately pulled her down. "No way! Were you not listening to our story? I seriously doubt he wants to see us right now."

"Well, whether you like it or not, you're going to be seeing him a lot." Riza told them.

"What do you mean?" Roy didn't like the sound of that.

"You guys are neighbors." Riza said. "So obviously you'll see each other every day."

"And you could end up having classes together." Winry added.

Roy snorted. "Yeah right, that kid doesn't look half as smart as me. He'll be lucky to even pass the exams tomorrow."

Sighing, Riza got up to dump the remains of her food in the trash. "Boasting again, Mr. All Honors?"

"Just you wait, Roy, I bet Edward is going to beat your scores on the test." Maes laughed, following Riza.

The other two went with Riza and Maes, and then made their way back to their dorms rooms. Maes and Roy shared a room, next to Ed's, and Winry and Riza shared one on the second floor in the girls' dorm. They set about studying and quizzing each other. Throughout the entire school, nervousness was radiating off of everyone.

Amestris High was a different school. For one, they treated the high school students and classes like a college course. Secondly, they allow you to live in the dorms, have you wear the uniform, and let you walk around campus two weeks before the entrance exams so you can be prepared for living in a dorm. The average amount of time it takes to finish the exams is roughly seven hours, or a full school day. If you fail to pass, then you have three days until actual school starts to move out. While you have to take your basic classes for your grade, you also have the option of selecting what other classes you want. Say, if you wanted to be a mathematician, you can personalize your schedule to take more math classes instead of things like pottery.

Winry lay awake, finding it extremely hard to convince herself to sleep. It had been the same last year, she had stayed up all night and was exhausted by morning. She tried to tell herself that she had already passed the exams once, she could do it again. Even though, she was still really nervous. What would happen if she failed?

Just then, her phone buzzed from under her pillow. She checked her screen without looking who sent it, she already knew who it was.

Be there tomorrow. We had trouble on the flight over, but now I've landed and will take a taxi over tomorrow.

Goodnight!

Winry thought for a moment before replying.

You'd better be there on time, idiot.

Night.

Winry stuffed her phone back under her pillow and finally started drifting off to sleep. She had been worried all day, but now that she knew he would be there tomorrow, she felt a little better. Maybe now she could actually get some sleep.

Ok…so how'd I do for the second chapter? Think I should still continue? I kinda doubt I need to say this, but reviews make authors happy! So if you would review my story, it would be great! :3