A week later, Edward is sitting in a radio station waiting room, about to go on the air to talk about his plant.
Lady: "Hey, kid. You're next." She says to Edward. She leads him into the room with the radio's humorist, Jean Havoc. "Mr. Havoc, the kid with the plant is here for you."
Havoc: "Thanks, lady. Here, kid, sit down." He says to Ed "So, it's Edward, right? Good to have you here. So, what kind of weird stuff do you have to talk about today?
Ed produces a large pot with the Winry II in it. It's at least three times bigger than it was last week.
Ed: "Well, sir, I've brought in my plant. It's a new breed of flytrap; I call it the Winry II."
Havoc: "My god, that is something amazing. I wish you listeners at home could see this. I mean, this is truly amazing. Can you tell us all where you found this?"
Ed: "Well, remember that total eclipse of the sun about two weeks ago…"
Back at the flower shop, Mustang is listening to Ed talk about the plant. Winry walks in.
Winry: "I'm sorry I missed Ed's radio show. I wanted to hear it so badly"
Roy: "So, what kept you? Another date with that no-gooder you call a boyfriend? I'm telling you, dump him."
Winry: "I would, but you don't know him. It's not easy to dump him."
The two left the shop, Roy got in his car, and Winry walked across the street to her apartment. At the door, three other women came up to her.
Sloth: "Girl, I don't know who this guy is you been hanging out with, but he is hazardous to your health."
Winry: "Oh, that's for sure, but I can't leave him."
Riza: "Why not?"
Winry: "Well, if I did, he'd get angry, And if he does this to me when he likes me, who knows what he'll do if he doesn't."
Lust: "Girl, dump the chump, and get another guy to protect you."
Riza: "What about the Edward guy you work with?
Winry: "oh, no, we're just friends. And besides, I don't deserve a guy like him."
With that, Winry opened her door, entered the apartment, and locked the door.
Sloth: "That poor child suffers from a low self-image."
Riza: "You got a point."
Lust: "She got a problem."
The three girls leave. Winry is sitting alone in her apartment with her thoughts, pondering what the women outside said.
Winry: "Perhaps they're right. Maybe Ed is what I need."
Music starts.
Winry: I know Edward's the greatest, but I'm dating a total sadist.
So I got a black eye and my arm's in a cast.
Still that Edo's a cutie, and he's got inner beauty
And I dream of a place
Where we could be together at last
A matchbox of our own
A fence of real chain link,
A grill out on the patio
Disposal in the sink
A washer and a dryer and an ironing machine
In a tract house that we share
Somewhere that's green.
He rakes and trims the grass
He loves to mow and weed
I cook like Betty Crocker
And I look like Donna Reed
There's plastic on the furniture
To keep it neat and clean
In the Pine-Sol scented air
Somewhere that's green
Between our frozen dinner
And our bedtime, nine-fifteen
We snuggle watchin' Lucy
On our big, enormous twelve-inch screen
I'm his December Bride
He's Father, he Knows Best
Our kids watch Howdy Doody
As the sun sets in the west
A picture out of Better Homes and Gardens magazine
Far from this crap-hole
I dream we'll go
somewhere that's green.
Finished sining, Winry walked over to her window, and, sighing to herself, thinks of a better future.