Chapter 3- "Caught"

Winry was busy writing in her diary under a tree outside. Edward watched her carefully. He decided to go over and sit with her. He slowly made his way over and sat in front of Winry. Winry saw him and closed the diary.

Edward smiled. "Hi."

"Hey, Ed." Winry replied. "Is everything ok?"

"Yeah, I thought I would sit out here with you." Edward replied. "Is that ok with you?"

Winry blushed a little. She wasn't used to spending so much time with Edward. Edward was usually gone all the time. Winry locked the diary and made sure it was beside her.

"So, how is your travels going?" Winry asked. "Find anymore information?"

"A little bit." Edward replied. "We may have to head North soon. We're not sure yet."

Edward became distracted since Winry was wearing a skirt. She wasn't sitting properly. Edward stared and saw the kind of underwear she was wearing. It was light pink.

"Winry..." Edward paused. "You should sit more like a lady, I can see things."

"Edward!" Winry yelled. "Why were you looking down there?! You pervert!"

"I'm sorry, I got distracted..." Edward scratched his head. "Um..."

Winry decided to change how she sat. "Better?"

Edward nodded. "Yes."

"Edward, you're not acting like yourself." Winry replied. "Are you sure things are alright?"
"Yeah, things are good." Edward replied. "I'm just enjoying myself."

"Are you hiding something?" Winry asked.

"Winry...what's with all the questions?" Edward gave her an odd look.

"I don't know, you were staring at down there for a long time." Winry replied. "How come, Ed?"

Edward wasn't sure how to the answer the question. He proceeded to play with the grass instead but Winry was still staring at him demanding to know an answer.

Edward blushed slightly. "It was an accident, Winry."

"That's what perverts do and people who want sex do." Winry replied. "That's not what you're thinking, is it?"

Edward looked up. "Winry. It distracted me because it was inappropriate"

Winry decided to go back to writing in diary. "Ok, don't look down there again."

Edward looked at the tree and smirked. "She liked that. She doesn't want to admit it."

Edward decided to place his head on the diary facing Winry. "What are you writing about? Anything interesting?"

"Not really, Ed." Winry continued writing. "Just something I noticed today."

Edward's golden passionate eyes matched her innocent blue ones. "You know, you're so cute. Has anyone told you that?"

"Ed..." Winry stopped writing. "I'm not cute.

"What makes you say that?" Edward was laying next to her now as she wrote. "You're cute"

"I'm an automail mechanic. I get covered with grease all the time, that's attractive?" Winry replied. "That's too manly."

Edward noticed Winry sat inappropriate again. "Winry...um..."

She looked up at Edward. "Ed...we discussed this."

"Well...you keep sitting like that!" Edward scowled.

Winry put her finger to her lips. "Oops."

Edward blush a bit further and became hard. "She's begging for my attention." "Winry, please sit appropriately."

Winry decided to get up. She was tired of sitting now. "I'm going swimming. I'm bored of sitting here."

Winry decided to go back into the house to change. She left the diary behind as she ran into the house. Edward knew this was on purpose so he couldn't break it open this time. It was a trick to see if Edward would really do it."

Edward decided to do it anyway. He opened to see what entry she was writing about. Edward was shocked at the first few lines.

"She's wondering how big I am? What is with her?" Edward thought to himself.

This upset Edward. Winry thought he was small! She wasn't sure but Edward couldn't help but feel that Winry took a stab at his manhood.

He continued looking at more entries to see that some were about the day she was having. Then some were about whether Edward had seen things or not. Edward laughed to himself. He continued to read the diary and study Winry's feelings.

Edward locked the diary and placed it back where it was. Winry returned after ten minutes and retrieved it.

"Oh, I left this here." Winry explained. "Sorry, Ed."

"It's ok, I didn't read it. Don't worry." Edward replied.

"Oh, good." Winry smiled.

"Except, I don't think anyone should call me shortie with the package I have!" Edward angrily bragged.

"Edward...did you..." Winry stopped short. "..."

Edward covered his mouth. He realized he gave too much away. He just gave away that he read some of the diary. Edward looked up at Winry.

"Winry...I'm sorry...I-I was curious..." Edward replied.

Winry became so angry she slapped Edward. "It wasn't for you to read! I told you not to look at it! How much did you read?!

"Um...most of it." Edward replied.

Winry dropped her things. "How could you do that?! I didn't want you knowing yet about how I feel!"

"Hey, eventually it would've came out!" Edward argued. "I would've found out!"

"You're such a bastard, Edward!" Winry cursed. "I trusted you!"

Edward blushed intensely. Not because of Winry because he was caught and he was embarrassed. He walked slowly towards Winry.

"Winry, I'm sorry." Edward replied. "I shouldn't have looked."

"My private thoughts..." Winry stopped herself short. "You know everything even the sex!"

Edward nodded. "Yeah I saw that..."

Winry backed away from Edward. "I don't want to speak to you. Leave me alone you bastard!"

Winry angrily walked away with her things. Edward played with fire and now the consequences played out in front of him. Edward had a bad feeling when he went back to the house. He knew things weren't going to play out well when he went home.

OOO

Dinner was close by. Pinako left dinner ready since she was invited to go out and play cards and checkers with her other elderly friends. That meant Edward was going to be alone with Winry and Alphonse.

Alphonse noticed that Edward wasn't himself. "Brother, you've been distant all day and haven't spoken to anyone."

"I don't want to talk about it." Edward replied defensively. "I just don't."

Alphonse knew what happened. "You looked, didn't you?"

Edward growled. "Ok, I did! Happy?!"

"Oh, brother..." Alphonse paused. "You shouldn't have done it, I told you not to!"

"I was just so curious..." Edward replied. "I couldn't help it!"

"It's still wrong, brother." Alphonse replied. "Winry has every right to be angry at you."

"What are we going to do about dinner?" Edward asked. "I can't sit there with her."

Alphonse crossed his arms. "We will be eating dinner peacefully. You two can at least try to get a long at dinner."

Edward sighed. He didn't want to face Winry after all this happened. He'd rather take dinner up to his room and eat alone. With Alphonse being a peacemaker, Edward couldn't say no.

Edward walked downstairs.

Winry came slowly downstairs and sat away from Edward. She didn't even put her eyes in his directions. If she did, she glared. Edward sighed. Alphonse began sharing out everyone's dinner.

"I know what happened." Alphonse began as he shared out the dessert. "We're going to have a nice dinner regardless."

Winry turned away from Edward as Edward sighed. "Edward can sit at the other table, by himself."

"Winry!" Alphonse replied. "Brother is going to stay here right here with us!"

"Does he have to?!" Winry became angry. "I don't want to sit with Edward!"

"No, I'll just move myself over there..." Edward replied sadly. "This isn't working out."

Alphonse sighed. "Brother, I hope you think long and hard about what you did."

Edward moved to the other table and ate by himself. Winry began eating but didn't say a word. Alphonse didn't like the tension and decided to break the silence peacefully.

"So, Winry. How was the lake?" Alphonse asked.

"It was good." Winry replied.

"I can't wait to get my body back to feel the water again." Alphonse replied.

Winry played around with her food and ate what she could. Edward did the same thing. Alphonse realized that this was serious but continued to stay at the table. Winry looked over at Edward who had no interest in eating.

It was a stew night and Edward couldn't even eat his favorite meal.

Alphonse began cutting some bread and putting it in the center. Edward began scribbling something down on paper. Edward tore the paper softly, he got up and went next to Winry. Winry glared at him.

"What do you want, Ed?!" Winry yelled. "I've gone through enough today."

"Here." Edward slipped the note under Winry's plate.

Winry took the paper and saw that Edward put sorry and a heart next to his name. Winry crumpled it up and threw it out. Edward knew she would do that, Winry was so angry about everything.

His apology wasn't accepted.

"Alphonse. I just can't eat right now." Winry replied sadly. "I need to go upstairs."

Winry left the table quickly. "Winry...wait!" Alphonse sighed in frustration. "Brother, you better make this up to her."

"Yeah, I will..." Edward said it annoyingly. "When I want to."

"Brother! You really hurt her feelings." Alphonse replied sternly. "It's not when you want to, Winry is very hurt by what you did."

"So, is she not going to speak me for the...oh let's see...fifty years?" Edward said it in a mean sarcastic way.

"Brother..." Alphonse growled and removed himself from the table. "I'm going upstairs, this is too much tension for me."

Edward sat in the kitchen by himself. He slowly began eating the stew and grabbed another bowl. It was short lived. The stew didn't taste the same. It just wasn't enjoyable on a night like this.

Edward sat at the table and began eating what ever else was left. That food was also short lived again. Edward was feeling a lot of guilt for what he did. It wasn't fun anymore to him. It was in the beginning when it was a thrill.

Winry came downstairs again to get some juice. Edward turned away. He knew it would best not to speak to Winry or talk to Winry about how he felt. He began eating again when Winry walked past him. Edward didn't move but he spoke.

"Winry look..." Edward began. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have looked."

"It's too late, Edward. You did." Winry replied angirly.

Edward sighed. "I feel bad about what I did. There's a reason for it."

Winry crossed her arms. "What?!"

"I was worried you had a boyfriend so I looked..." Edward confessed. "It looks like you only have eyes for me."

Winry's emotions changed for a second but went back to her current state of anger and disbelief. "You should've just asked, Edward."

"I was afraid to." Edward confessed. "I thought you'd flip out."

Winry sighed. "Edward...I feel like we shouldn't talk for awhile, ok?"

Edward's golden pools looked at up at her. "Ok, I'll respect what you want."

Winry looked deeply into Edward's eyes. She could see so much guilt and hurt over the situation. Winry said she would be mad for awhile but felt terrible she was so mean to Edward. She didn't mean it, it was just that Edward saw her feelings and she was afraid.

"You always said...I had no sex appeal." Winry replied. "I think that's different now, huh, Ed?"

"You're sexy..." Edward confessed. "I wouldn't mind giving you what you want. I didn't realize how starved you are."

Winry blushed and looked away. "We'll talk later about that...I wasn't..."

Edward played with her hair. "You're hot sexy thing aren't you?"

"Ed..." Winry blushed. "You're not getting off easy! Don't play that card!"

Edward pressed Winry against him. "You still mad at me?"

"A little." Winry said. "You're not totally off the hook."

Edward held her softly as she pushed away forcefully. "What's that for, Winry?!"

"You're still a bastard for what you did!" Winry yelled. "I'm still mad at you!"

"You're being an insensitive bitch, Winry!" Edward shouted.

Winry stood back. Edward was very mean. She grew very silent. Winry decided to not yell anymore but still glare at Edward. Strong feelings were at the peak. This was causing Edward and Winry to fight.

"What's wrong, can't say anything to me?" Edward asked sarcastically.

"Enough, Edward! You've gone too far today!" Winry yelled. "I've had enough of your foolishness!"

"I've had enough of your meanness, Winry!" Edward yelled. "You've misbehaved today too!"

The two continued to fight. As Alphonse had to run downstairs and be peacemaker. Alphonse had to put Winry and Edward on different sides to prevent the two from yelling at each other.

"Alright, the two of you need to stop." Alphonse replied. "I've never seen the two of you fight so much before!"

Winry remained quiet until she spoke up. "Edward, I think it would be best you go to Central for a few days."

"What? You're kicking me out of the house?" Edward asked. "Winry..."

Alphonse looked at Winry. "Winry...don't you think that's too far?"

"No." Winry replied quietly. "Edward should leave."

"I'll pack my stuff in the morning. Obviously this one doesn't forgive easily." Edward spat.

"Can' t the two of you try to make a compromise over this?" Alphonse asked. "What good is fighting over the diary? Edward already looked and we can't change that."

"I still want him to go to Central." Winry said firmly. "Edward and I need time apart from each other."

"Granny Pianko isn't going to like this. She will find out." Alphonse warned.

"Al, I'm leaving in the morning." Edward replied. "That's final. I shouldn't have looked but I couldn't help it."

Alphonse sat down as Edward went upstairs and started packing. Winry ran to her room in tears and slammed her door. Alphonse went upstairs and decided to see how Edward was feeling. Edward was sitting on the bed.

"Are you sure this is the right decision?" Alphonse asked his older brother.

"Yes, Al. This started over that diary. I wasn't caught the first time." Edward paused as he folded his clothes. "I was caught this time."

"Brother, I told you to stay away from it!" Alphonse yelled. "There were going to be consequences with trying to go after it!"

"Just like how we tried to bring back mom?!" Edward yelled. "That was a consequence too! We paid for that in the worse way!"

"Brother..." Alphonse paused.

Edward slammed his suitcase shut. "I'll be on the first train to Central in the morning. I'll come back in three days."

"Brother, we should try to work this out." Alphonse pleaded. "Everyone was mad then. Sometimes anger makes people do the wrong things."

"No, my curiosity cost me something again." Edward replied. "She's not going to talk to me now. She was so upset I read it."

Edward sat back on the bed and looked out at the moon. He felt really bad that he read the diary but thought he shouldn't have to leave. Winry was in her room crying over how mean she was to Edward and for fighting with him. She was so upset that he saw everything.

This was over a diary. That beautiful book that Winry bought so she could express her feelings.

Winry threw her diary on the ground and regretted buying it. She continued sobbing into her pillow.