The following day, Edward woke up in her room to hear pounding on the downstairs front door. Concerned, the teenage tomboy ran as fast as her legs would allow her and without hesitation, she pulled the door open, allowing whoever was making the noise to come in. And it turned out to be a little girl, probably the same age as Alphonse running in, towards the closet and slamming the door behind her shut. Sobbing and sniffles could be heard through the wooden door, making Edward's heart clench painfully in her chest.

"Kid?" She called softly, attempting not to startle the child.

"I'm sorry!" The girl screamed, startling Edward, "I'm sorry for barging in here! I'm sorry if I broke anything! I'm sorry if I woke you up! Please, I'll do anything you ask, just please don't let her know I'm here!"

"Who? What does she look like?" Edward asked softly, locking the front door and walking over to the closet to kneel by it.

"My mother! She wants to beat me up because I just wanted to see Alphonse this weekend! Please, don't let her come here, I'm begging you, Edward!" The girl sobbed and half-screamed.

Deciding to question the girl later as to why she knew so much, Edward nodded, "Don't worry, Kid, you'll be safe here, I promise I won't let some dumb old hag get in here."

The girl inside the closet giggled softly, "Actually, my mother looks like a model. You know, the stupid ones with the long blonde hair and 'stunning' blue eyes that get men begging on their knees for a second glance."

"Oh, so I should keep my eyes open for a woman with a pretty face and rotten heart, huh? Don't worry, she won't get anywhere near you." Edward promised.

"Thanks Edward." The child smiled.

"No problem. Now, keep quiet and don't come out until I come to get you, okay?"

"Okay. Thanks again, Edward."

"You don't need to thank me, Kid, now shut up."

With that, Edward stood and walked over to all the windows and doors to the house, locking each of them and covering them with either the black-out curtains or cardboard covers her 'parents' used when they were in the mood for some downstairs activity.

After locking the door with 3 extra locks and covering the spy-glass/pepping-hole, the blonde 15-Year-Old knocked on the closet 3 times, calling, "It's safe to come out now. All the windows and doors are locked up and blocked out so no one will be able to see into the house and know you're here."

The doorknob spun, opened and out walked a girl who Edward had only ever heard rumors of. She had silky dark hair flowing to her hips in 6 brides, her eyes a gentle yet bright green, her skin pale and her face that of a Chinese. She was wearing a pink Chinese-style shirt, a dark pink sash over it, lavender pants and black ballet shoes.

This had to be her: May Chang, Alphonse's beloved girlfriend of 1 month and 2 weeks.

2 months ago, Alphonse had come home completely and utterly smitten and wouldn't stop talking about the beautiful new girl who sat next to him in class. 2 weeks after none-stop talking about how he was so in love with her and yet so unworthy, Edward had finally had enough and all but forced her brother to make a confession.

Next thing she knew, Alphonse wouldn't stop yacking about how it worked and how his precious "May-chan" was now his girlfriend. They had gone on barely any dates (out-side of school) and had pretty much just been having lunch together, talking, become friends with each other's friends and taking an occasional cute picture with each other, but Edward could see how much her brother loved this girl.

But she swore that if May broke his heart, she'd snap her neck. That was a promise.

The possible future-in-law waved shyly, saying, "Hello, Edward. My name's May. I'm-"

"Alphonse's girlfriend, I know. He's completely smitten with you and talks so much about you, that it's almost enough to make me wanna be sick. I'm guessing since you knew my name, he talked about me as much as he talks about you." Edward cut in, smiling.

May giggled softly, sheepishly scratching her cheek, "Yeah, I'm really sorry about that."

The teenager smiled and shook her head, "Don't apologies, I'm glad you make him happy." But then her face took on a deadly and cold beauty, stating, "But if you dare brake his heart, I will break your neck."

"I-I-I'll keep th-that in mi-mind." The black-haired girl stuttered, shivering at the coldness of the look.

Her face taking on a happy and innocent look again, Edward smiled, "Good to know. Now, let's go wake up the others and have breakfast together, okay?"

Nodding, May and Edward went upstairs and after unlocking the door when she wasn't looking, Edward went back down stairs to wake up her own guest and allowed May to be the one to wake everyone up.

When she reached the bottom of the basement, Edward flicked on the light, calling as she turned her head in his direction, "Okay, Roy, I'm gonna start making breakfast, so you better be wake…ing… UP?!"

The poor 15-years-old had arrived just in time to catch Roy with his shirt off and looking at her with little interest.

When his brain finally seemed to register that he was half-stripped in front of the blonde, he smirked lightly and made a pose, "Morning Edward. Like what you see?"

With her face bright red, almost red enough to make Slifer the Sky Dragon envious, she quickly stuttered out an apology and ran as fast as she could up the stairs, not bothering to turn the lights off. Laughing at her back, Roy turned back around and put his shirt back on.

"I'm gonna have to do that sometime again, soon. She was so cute with her face all red." He chuckled to himself.

Back upstairs on ground level, Edward put her back to the basement door and slowly slid down it, her hand over her raising heart and panting chest.

"What the Hell was that?! It's not like I haven't seen guys without their shirts on before, it happens practically all the time in Animes! Hell, I've lost count on how many times I've seen it because of what those bastards make me do! Why the bloody Hell did I feel so embarrassed?! What the Hell is wrong with me?!" She screamed at herself, before groaning and slapping her face, "I need a distraction."

With that, the blonde teenager went into the kitchen and began frying some of the ready-made pancake batter she had made last night for this morning, attempting to get her little encounter with Roy out of her mind. And it worked when she started singing one of her favorite Anime openings:

"Black Paper Moon" by Tommy heavenly6 from Soul Eater.

Back with May, who had woken everyone up and taken Nina out to help her get dressed since that was normally Edward's job, she became a bit distracted when she was brushing the 5-year-old's hair when she heard singing.

"Is that Edward's singing, Nina?" The curious black-haired girl asked, turning her head so she could face the little brunette properly.

She nodded, giggling, "Edward only ever sings when she's trying to distract herself from something, so I think we might get a ruined breakfast if we don't hurry up."

Smiling, the two girls nodded and went over to the boys' room, to see Alphonse, Rio and Rick already making their way down stairs.

"I smell something cooking!" Rio exclaimed in excitement.

"Me too! I think it's pancakes!" Rick added, giggling.

"Awesome! Edward's pancakes are the best!" Alphonse smiled and turned to May, taking her hand in a gentle grip and saying, "You'll love them!"

May smiled and tightened the grip she had on Alphonse's hand, stating, "I'm sure I will."

Nina giggled as she held May's hand, singing, "Alphonse and May-May, eating pancakes, fell off the table on their first date!"

"Nina, don't jinks it!" Alphonse scolded with a bright pink blush.

All the kids laughed softly at the little girl's comment and the oldest boy's blush, coming at the bottom of the stairs and into the living room. They all sat down on the sofa in the living room, Rio taking the left arm, Alphonse and May cuddling on the left seat, Nina giggling on the right seat and Rick lounging on the right arm.

A few minutes later, Edward walked in on that scene, calling, "Breakfast is ready, guys! Eat up!"

Edward sat all the plates of food on the coffee table and handed May the TV remote, stating, "May's the guest so be nice and let her chose what you guys watch today, okay? If I hear any arguing, you're all gonna wish that The Supreme King was here instead of me, got it?"

With slightly frightened looks in all of their eyes, Alphonse, Rick, Rio and Nina nodded, May looking on in slight confusion. Edward smiled and disappeared back into the kitchen, faint sounds of chatter, the TV being turned on and hungry mouths behind fed. Chuckling, she picked up the last plate of pancakes and went down into the basement, seeing Roy sitting on the make shift bed, shirt on and legs crossed, yawning.

"Tired, Mr. Bastard Stripper?" Edward teased, placing the plate down in front of him.

"Nah." Roy waved it off, taking the knife and fork to eat his pancakes, "Just board. But now that you're here, I think we can have a little fun."

Rolling her eyes, she stood up, "As great as 'having a little fun' sounds, I think I'd rather go eat some breakfast. Later, Roy, I'll be back for the plate once you're done with it."

With that, the blonde teenager was already heading up the stairs and disappearing back into the house. Roy sighed, feeling a bit neglected, but shook it off and continued eating the pancakes his hostess made. And damn! They were good!

Smiling softly to herself once she was out, Edward headed into the kitchen again and made herself a plain old bowl of serials. She had planned last night on being rebellious and eating some of her own pancakes for once, since she had been forbidden to, but with her little brother's girlfriend here, she decided to just hand over her pancakes and make herself something less fancy.

After all, it's not every day that you meet someone as important as the girl who holds your only blood brother's heart in his hands.

"Wait, what?! Alphonse is her only blood brother?!" Is that what you're thinking?

You see, Edward and Alphonse weren't Dante's children. Edward and Alphonse had been the daughter and son of Trisha Elric and her father was unfortunately Van Hohenheim. However, a car accident took Trisha from this world and before another family could adopt her and her brother, Van and Dante had taken them in. Edward was 11-years-old when she was adopted and the abuse started a day later. She took on the duty of protecting her little brothers and sister. Even though they were siblings in only name and half-blood, they were still siblings and Edward was still the oldest and she believed it was the duty of the oldest sibling to protect the younger ones. Even if she died, she swore, she would protect them in life and in death, no matter what the cost.

Because if she didn't, who else would?

Finally having finished her breakfast, Edward got up and started running the water in the sink so she could wash the dishes. She first went down into the basement to get Roy's plate.

When she arrived, the blonde found Roy still there and lying on the floor. He looked bored out of his mind.

"Thank Kami, some entertainment! I am bored out of my mind!" Roy cried.

Edward smirked. She was right.

"Far from it. I am only collecting the dishes, as I said I would last time I was down here." Edward spoke with a tint of happiness in her voice.

She didn't know why, but she sorta liked that he was suffering. Edward was in a lot of pain from yesterday and it was his fault for braking into the house and trying to kiss her. At least she somewhat kicked his ass for it.

"Aw…please? I'm all alone down here with nothing to do. Have a heart!" Roy pleaded, sounding like a little kid with each whine.

Edward giggled, pocked her tongue out at him, calling, "Sorry. But my siblings are still here, so is my brother's girlfriend and I've got dishes to wash so, later."

With a hop, skip and a jump, she was gone and Roy was left there, pouting like a spoiled child.

Now that was done, Edward slipped into the living room, took her younger siblings' and May's empty plates away to wash them in the sink. With the sink full of suds and bubbles, along with the happy voices of her siblings and May laughing at Inuyasha getting 'Sat' by Kagome (from the Anime Inuyasha), she really couldn't stop herself from braking out into a singing fest herself.

"Everyday, everyway, is all the same,
when did my life get so boring?
Shows they come and shows they go,
to me, it's all the same, oh-oh-oh.

What would it be like, living on the other side?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Here they come and there they go,
follow them if you want to know, oh-oh-h.

Why can't my life be like an Anime?
What's wrong with a bit little of action?
Why can't my life be like a Manga?
What's wrong with a little romance?
My life is so lame, I don't wanna stay,
please someone shake it up and
take me away.
"

Humming the tune she had come up with, Edward turned on the recording app on her phone, repeated the lines and got on with the second verse.

"Life is alright, could be worst on the out-side,
but I still wanna know.
Call me spoiled, or even ungrateful,
but this small town life is way too civil.

I wanna get out, I wanna fight,
I wanna know what it feels like to fight for my life,
to fight for those I love, to fight for my beliefs.
Oh please, can't somebody please tell me?!

Why can't my life be like an Anime?
What's wrong with a bit little of action?
Why can't my life be like a Manga?
What's wrong with a little romance?
My life is so lame, I don't wanna stay,
please someone shake it up and
take me away.
"

She hummed for a little bit more and was about to break into the last verse before a final repeat of the chorus when a new voice joined in.

"You don't have to stay, let me take you away.
We can turn our own lives into Anime.
We could be Natsu and Lucy,
Sango and Miroku,
Otonashi and Kanade.
We could be all of these things,
if you'd just give us a chance to happen,
oh baby!
"

Turning around, Edward was shocked out of her mind to find Roy standing behind her, singing along to the tune she had been humming. But the recorder didn't have forever, so she decided to hit him for sneaking up on her later.

"Why can't my life be like an Anime? (Who ever said we can't make our own?)
What's wrong with a little bit of action? (Who ever said there isn't any action here?)
Why can't my life be like a Manga? (Who ever said we can't make our own?)
What's wrong with a little romance? (Who ever said there isn't any love here?)
My life is so lame, I don't wanna stay, (If it's that lame, let me take you away,)
please someone shake it up and (let me shake it up and)

take me/you away."

Stopping the recording at that moment, Edward turned back around and glared at the boy who was probably the same age as her, growling quietly, "What the Hell are you doing here, Roy, I told you to stay in the basement?!"

The boy shrugged, stating, "I heard an angel's voice and wondered if it would give me the great honor of singing with it. And I am very glad that she allowed me to sing with her. Maybe she'd like to sing a different song, like Shake It by Maroon 5."

"You pervert! Get back down there or I'm gonna royally kick your ass!"

"What? I just wanted to sing a song-"

"A dirty song!"

"Oh, so you do know that song! And you're the one who called me a pervert."

"Shut up. I'd rather read a crappy fanfiction about Inuyasha and Miroku getting married and then killing each other than sing with you again. You're worst then Hojo and Koga combined."

"How am I like scrawny, little Hojo and wolf boy Koga? I'm complimenting you and you're acting as if it's a bad thing."

"It is a bad thing, you fool! Roy no baka!"

"I'm not an idiot."

"You sure?"

"Very."

"Then who did Sora marry and then get divorced with?"

"Sora never divorced anyone."

"I'm talking about Sora from Digimon Adventures, you dumbass."

"I know and that's what happened, isn't it? Sora had a kid with her, so she must have been married, right?"

"She had been married and then divorced the father of her eldest child. Do you even know who that father was?"

"Umm… No?"

"It was Yamato, stupid! Ugh, just get out of my house right now before my siblings see you!"

"Before we see who, sis? Your new boyfriend?"

Yelping in surprise, Roy and Edward turned to see Alphonse, May, Rio, Rick and Nina standing there, seeing Roy and Edward up close and in each other's faces, it looked like all it would take would be one more push and then they'd kiss. And it looked as if they were about to kiss to before the kids walked in.

"Yo." Roy greeted.

"What the heck are you guys doing here?! Shouldn't you be watching Inuyasha and the crew beating the heck out of Naraku right now?" Edward yelped.

"We heard loud talking and decided to check it out. Just turns out our older sister is having a lovers' spat with her new boyfriend that she never told us about." Rio huffed.

"I never told you about him because he isn't my boyfriend!" The blonde teenager exclaimed.

"Then what's he doing here?" Nina asked, innocently.

The 15-year-old growled and pointed an accusing finger at Roy, stating, "This lumbering idiot broke-"

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

May and Edward gasped, in fright and surprise respectfully, exclaiming, "We need to hide me/you!"

"Why? What's wrong May-chan?" Alphonse asked, placing a hand on her shoulder.

"I think my Mom is here! Please, Alphonse-kun, you have to hide me!" May begged, turning to her boyfriend with a frightful expression on her face.

Edward pointed at the stairs, ordering, "I want everyone upstairs in the guys' room right now! And be as quiet as you can!"

Without hesitation, everyone ran up and into the boys' room, Edward staying out and locking it.

"Everyone be quiet until I come to get you, okay? Don't talk, don't laugh, don't even breathe too loudly." Edward ordered.

"Okay, Big Sister." Nina called back.

"Roy, if you even touch any of my siblings or May, there's gonna be Hell to pay." The 15-years-old warned.

"Fine." Roy grumbled.

With that and the sound of more knocking on the door bringing her back to her senses, Edward ran down the stairs and opened the door a crack, saying in the eeriest voice she could muster, "Yes?"

"Excuse me, but is there by any chance a little Chinese, black-haired girl is in there?" A horribly shrieking voice questioned.

Edward frowned and opened the door enough for her to come out, but after she did, she locked it immediately, turning to face the witch on her doorstep, asking, "And what business would you have with this 'black-haired, Chinese girl', ma'am?"

May's mother looked exactly as she was described to look. Blonde hair, blue eyes, big chest, lots of make-up. Exactly what a model would look like with her fancy-pansy glassy high heels and pretty-witty blue dress appropriate for a gala but not for a normal day. Surprisingly, Edward recognized her as the most popular model in her school that all the boys wanted to fuck and all the girls wanted to be like. Lizabeth Chang, mother of the 'popular/mean girl' Lan-Fan Chang who picked on Edward a lot.

"Her boyfriend lives here and she ran away when I was just taking her out to her first photo-shoot. That child doesn't want to be a model. I mean, what kind of girl doesn't want to be a model? I'm giving her the chance at every girl's dream and she just runs away to her precious boyfriend's house? There is no way she could possibly be a girl with an attitude like that. I am going to have to train her." Lizabeth huffed.

Edward frowned. This ugly hag was reminding her too much of Dante and Van. With a firm voice and an innocent smile, Edward said, "I have to agree, what kind of girl wouldn't wanna be a model? It was always my dream as a child, but sadly, I didn't grow up to be pretty enough for it. My mother and father are away for the weekend and my older brother just took my younger siblings to a fun fair or something, so I'm all on my own right now. But if I see your youngest daughter, don't worry ma'am, I will inform you as soon as I see her."

"You better." Lizabeth growled, and muttered under her breath, "that little bitch is going to get a beating for this humiliation. She will regret not being like her sister and trying to be a model."

"What did you say, ma'am?" The 15-years-old questioned, keeping her sickeningly sweet smile in place.

"Oh, nothing dearie. Well, I had better be off. Ciao." With a bad pronunciation, the model was gone.

And with a frown on her face, so was Edward. She was sprinting towards the police station as fast as her legs could carry her. The teenager had her phone with her the whole time and she had recorded everything. There was no way she would allow May and Lan-Fan to stay in a house with a woman like that.

Not on her life.

When she arrived, she went over to the front desk and asked the receptionist, "Excuse me, but may I please speck to Officer Vato Falman? It's kinda urgent."

The receptionist nodded and pointed over to the seats, "Please, sit over there and wait until I come to get you."

With a nod, Edward sat down and pulled out her cell phone, calling Alphonse's number immediately.

A little while ago, the gang had realized it was safe to come out and so everyone was down stairs in the living room, waiting for Edward to come home and passing the time by talking with Roy.

"So, how long have you known our sister?" Alphonse asked.

"About a day or so." Roy shrugged.

"When and where did you met her?" Rio questioned.

"When I broke into your house last night and tried to kiss her when she was sleeping. She totally kicked my butt, though." The teenager groaned.

"Yeah, that sounds like something she would do. Why aren't you at the police station?" Rick asked.

"I guess because she didn't report me. I was in the basement the whole time." The black-head explained.

"I don't think I've seen you around before, did you just move here or something?" May asked, smiling.

"Yeah. Yesterday I moved back in with my Mom and since I was board, I decided to explore a bit and practice my lock-picking. I didn't realize how late it was and decided to crash at the next house I made it to. Boy, was I lucky it was this house, too." The 16-year-old smiled.

"How do you feel about Edward?" Nina questioned.

His face taking on a slight taint of red, opened his mouth to answer her with, "I think I-"

"My life had been too still,
my heart is unfulfilled.
But you could be the one to set me free.
"

"Oh, that's my phone. Gomen." Alphonse apologized and pulled it out of his pocket, calling, "Hello?"

"Brother, you there?" Edward's voice called.

"Edward?! What's going on? Why did you run away?"

"Put the phone on speaker and get everyone together, right now."

"Everyone is already here, Sister. What's the matter?"

"Just get the speaker on! Or better yet, get everyone down to the police station right now!"

"The police station?! What the Hell are you doing there?!"

"Making sure that May and Lan-Fan won't have to put up with being abused anymore. Now get everyone here immediately!"

"Sister? Sister?!" Alphonse yelled, but he closed his phone with a sigh, "She already ended the call."

"What's going on, Alphonse-kun?" May asked, fearful.

"I don't know. Edward just told me to get everyone at the police station because you and some girl named Lan-Fan were being used anymore or something." The blonde boy sighed.

The black-haired girl gasped, slapping a hand over her mouth. Everyone looked at her in concern.

"Sister May-May?" Nina called, tugging on May's pants.

Roy shrugged and stood up, stating, "I don't really know what's going on, but Edward is at the police station, right? Then we need to go before it's too late and we miss out on what's gonna happen."

Nodding, everyone ran out the door and towards the police station, Alphonse taking May's hand in a gentle grip and stating, "It'll be okay, May, I promise. I'll be there every step of the way from now to the end."

Looking at her boyfriend in shock, but a small smile taking a hold of her face and her hand forming a tighter grip on his hand, May said with slight tears in her eyes, "Thank you so much, Alphonse."

The Alphonse stopped running for a moment, making May stop, too. His brought their linked hands to his face and gentle kissed her knuckle, making her blush furiously. Looking at him in slight surprise, the blonde simply smiled and started running again, tugging the black-haired girl behind him and calling over the winds:

"I love you, May. I will never leave you, I promise I won't!"

May looked at her boyfriend's back, noticing how broad his shoulders were and smiled, tightening her grip on his hand and whispering to herself:

"I know."

Back with Edward, who was waiting on the officer to arrive, she decided to put her headphones in and put her playlists on random. And the song that came up sure had good timing.

Little girl terrified
She'd leave her room if only bruises would heal
A home is no place to hide
Her heart is breaking from the pain that she feels

Every day's the same
She fights to find her way
She hurts, she breaks, she hides, and tries to pray
She wonders why, does anyone ever hear her when she cries?

Today she's turning sixteen
Everyone's singing, but she can't seem to smile
They never get past arms length
How could they act like everything is alright?
Pulling down her long sleeves
To cover all the memories the scars leave
She says, "Maybe making me bleed
will be the answer that could wash the slate clean."

Every day's the same
She fights to find her way
She hurts, she breaks, she hides, and tries to pray
She wonders why, does anyone ever hear her when she cries?

This is the dark before the dawn
The storm before the clear
Don't be afraid 'cause seasons change and
God is watching over you
He hears you

Every day's the same
She fights to find her way
She hurts, she breaks, she hides, and tries to pray
She'll be just fine, 'cause I know he hears her when she cries

Every day's the same
She fights to find her way
She hurts, she breaks, she hides, and tries to pray
She'll be just fine, 'cause I know he hears her when she cries
She'll be just fine, 'cause I know he hears her when she cries

Yep, She Cries by Britt Nicole was exactly the song to fit this moment in her life. Or rather, this moment in May's life.