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Chapter 2: Changes
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Confused at her new enigma, Winry put thoughts of the new student out of her mind and tried to talk to Rose and Maria, hiding curiosity with anger at her unsaved seat.
"I mean, seriously guys. When they let you pick your own seats, at least have the presence of mind to remember your best friend! Honestly," ranted Winry, obviously not liking being estranged from the rest of the class.
Rose and Maria exchanged guilty looks.
"We're sorry Winry, but you just weren't there! And people were saying you'd moved, and no one knew what'd happened to you-"
"I could've just been sick! Ever think of that! Now I'm stuck, friendless, at the back of the classroom, next to the very guy everyone's been telling me to avoid!" Winry nearly screamed. She had friends dammit, why'd she have to be stuck with the jerk that didn't have any of his own?
"Oh yeah, you're sitting next to Elric aren't you?" smirked Rose.
"He's actually not too bad. I got drafted into being his partner in English, and it was fine. If you ignore the height, the guy's slightly cute," grinned Maria evilly, her voice thoughtful.
Winry threw up her hands in frustration, and stormed into shop, ignoring her friend's pleas for forgiveness.
Why am I always the one who gets stuck with some friendless jerk? Ugh! Whatever…
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The day progressed uneventfully, 2nd period moving along nice, and when the bell rang for 3rd period, Winry set off to science, her mind filled with machine-filled happy thoughts.
Winry didn't have far to go to get to her room, so when she entered the room and found a classmate in her seat, she was able to ask her teacher what table she sat at and get settled before too many people arrived.
Winry walked over to the lab table at the side of the classroom, and put her bag on the low shelf surrounding the room. She sat down in her chair, waiting for the other members of her table.
After waiting about a minute, Roy walked through the door, and sat down across from Winry, smiling at her.
"Hey Winry! Like the group arrangements? We got to pick them this 6 weeks, so we grabbed you," said Roy, hand smoothing his short black hair.
Winry smiled back at her friend. "At least someone did. The same thing happened in German, and Rose completely forgot about me!"
Roy laughed, dark eyes dancing.
"Shut up," muttered Winry, reaching across the table to smack him upside the head with her binder.
"Hey, don't be hitting Roy. Retribution sucks," said a familiar voice. Winry and Roy looked up to see a guy with long dark hair and glasses drop his stuff at their table and sit next to Roy.
Maes grinned at Winry. "Firsthand experience was a bitch."
Winry laughed, and Maes took the opportunity to dig through his backpack.
"Hey Winry, I'm not sure if you saw these yet but, AREN'T THESE PICTURES SO CUUUUTE!" sqee-ed Maes, brandishing his photo album in Winry's face like a weapon. "My little sister turned 3! Isn't that great? This is the party!"
"Yeah. Sure. Great. Cute. Roy. Help," said Winry, glad the picture-wielding obsessive wasn't sitting next to her.
"Hey, Riza had to leave second period, she wanted me to tell you- Ow!"
Roy rubbed the back of his head as three figures walked by their table, heading for the back of the room. Winry twisted around in her seat, then stared for a moment at what she saw.
There were three guys that had joined a girl sitting on their table. The girl was Asian had shoulder length black hair tied in a ponytail, pale skin and narrow eyes. She wore a black hoodie, a long black skirt with a white cloth belt, and was perched on the table using her chair as a footrest. On the shelf behind her there was a discarded red and black mask, and she was sitting protectively next to one of the other guys.
Her charge was the normallest of the four, his long dark hair pulled back from his face to reveal himself as another Asian. His eyes were overly thin and rather shifty, and only his left eye was opened completely. He wore a black t-shirt and jeans, and had a dark blue-gold jacket tied around his waist. Under the jacket, the end of a metal pipe stuck out, hanging on one of his belt-loops.
The tallest of the three guys was slender, had waist length black hair with a greenish tint, which hung down in large odd-angled spikes. He wore a skintight black sleeveless shirt with a turtleneck, long black arm-socks, dark boot cut jeans with homemade rips, and black sandals. On his head was a headband with three red circles, and armbands had similar circles. The rips of his jeans showed of a tattoo of the ouroboros on his upper thigh.
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The fourth was Edward Elric, and he had apparently picked Envy, Ling Yao, and Ran Fan as his friends.
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Edit: I changed an OC to Ran Fan, since it kept bothering me that I used her. Sorry for any confusion for you people who've read this chapter already.
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Izumi is going to be rather explosive next chapter, so be warned.
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This story now has a companion, though the roles may end up reversing later on. It's name is "Outcast", and tis from Ed's POV, starting about 2 weeks earlier than this story. So just as a warning, from now on there may be some stuff you guys get left a bit clueless on if you don't read the sister fict, because I kind of mix them together in my head. So read them both!
Edit: Sorry for the slacking off on both these ficts, but I've been busy with school and other shit. Outcast will either be updated soon or deleted, but this one will stay alive.
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