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It had been 40 minutes since the little quarrel in Ed's room. Winry was sitting outside by herself, Den accompanying her. She sat hugging her legs with her head lazily resting on her knees. She had stopped crying after about 20 minutes and just stared at the sky, wondering what could have made Ed tick like that, and more importantly, where on this earth could Al be. She sighed.
"Where can Al be? I'm so worried.." she said to herself. As one would expect, she was pissed at Ed; She was only trying to help him. 'If that's a problem, then so be it,' she thought to herself.
She stood up and went back into her house. Who knew where Pinako was?

As she entered, she found Edward standing with the phone next to his ear. He looked up and saw her standing and he just stared at her. Anyone could guess that he was no longer listening to the person on the other line. He put the phone down.
He subconsciously rubbed the back of his neck and looked at her with a guilty face on. Winry read his face like it was the easiest thing to read.
"You should feel guilty. You know I was only trying to help you."

Edward sighed. At first, he had a little trouble talking to her since, clearly, she was mad at him. Ed closed his eyes.

"Winry.. I-"

"Don't even bother trying to apologize." Winry interrupted.

Ed looked at her in shock. "But, Win, I-"

"I don't care, Edward."

"Winry.."

"JUST SHUT UP, EDWARD!!" She yelled. To that she ran up the stairs and quickly ran up to her room before Ed could follow. She slammed the door shut and locked it.

Edward dropped to the floor and pulled his hair in frustration. He sighed. "Girls."

Pinako walked up to him. "Well, well, Mr. Elric. Look at what you've gotten yourself into." she laughed.

Edward immediately turned to glare at her. "What do you mean I got myself into this?! It's her! She just can't get over a stupid thing that I said and get on with her life! I already have to deal with Al and....." he stopped.
He looked down on the floor.

"Al.."

Pinako sighed. "I would start looking for him, if I were you. And take my granddaughter with you."

Ed snarled. "Why do I have to take her with me? Like she would help me, considering she's mad at me."

"That's where your wrong, Ed."

Edward and Pinako were both startled by the new voice in the room. They turned around and saw Winry, with tears rolling down her face.
Pinako gasped and Ed's eyes widened.

"Winry.. don't... don't cry.."

Winry ignored Ed's comment and turned away.

"Look Win. I'm sorry about me yelling at you back there. I was totally out of my mind and I didn't know what in the hell I was saying.. Don't cry.. please.." Ed sighed.

Winry turned back to face him.

Pinako tugged on Ed's arm, gesturing him to kneel down so she could whisper something to him.
"I'll leave you on your own now. You should be able to figure out what to do."
Edward growled as Pinako walked away.

Again, Winry started walking up the stairs.

"WAIT!!" Edward yelled, not realizing what he had just said.

Winry turned around furiously. "You don't mean any of that! You don't care about me at all! You aren't sorry!!"

She ran up the stairs. "WAIT WINRY!!" he yelled, chasing after her.

She quickly slammed the door in his face. Edward sighed in frustration.

'Maybe Pinako was right.. Maybe I was the one who caused all of this..' Ed thought to himself.

He knocked on her door.

"Winry!"

He knocked again.

"That's where you're wrong! I did mean what I said.. I do care about you.." he sighed in frustration again. "I AM sorry."

Still no response.

"Winry.. if you're crying.. please.. just stop. I.. it's just that.. well.." he sighed. "I hate seeing you cry. It's.. like.. a really terrible feeling.. the fact that most of the time I can't do anything about it." he looked down. "I was upset about Al.." he swallowed hard. "I'm really sorry. I took it all out on you.. when all I should have done was cry it all out.. until there were no tears left.. but instead I had to face it the hard way. All my tears were slapped out of me by someone I really care about. And I think I deserved it. You don't deserve to be in any kind of agony. Please don't cry. I don't want you to."

He tried knocking on her door again.

"If you're mad at me, I can understand why. And it's okay if you don't want to talk to me. I should have realized that you WERE only trying to help me.. and that you.. do care about me. I should have never even slapped your hand off of my shoulder.. that's what I needed. A warm, soothing touch from someone as sweet and lovely as you. I needed a hug from you.. or maybe even a ki-... no, never mind. I should give you more credit. You've always been there to support me and you were always there, waiting for me if I needed anything. You never left my side, even when I acted like a jerk, you were always by my side. I should have never yelled.. you don't deserve it. Now I don't care if you come out and throw a thousand wrenches at me. Because I really do deserve it. I've always treated you like crap.. I've always been a big jerk to you.. but you never treated me like a jerk. I.. I'm really sorry." He whispered those last three words in a shameful tone.

He waited a few seconds and realized that Winry still wasn't coming out. He sighed and turned to walk down the stairs.

He went outside and began taking a long walk by himself, until somebody threw a wrench at his head, causing him to fall over.

"HEY! WHAT WAS THAT-!" he was interrupted by the sight of a young lady smiling widely at him.

"W-Winry?" he said.

She ran to him and gave him a bear hug.
"It's okay, you jerk." She hugged him tighter. He sighed in relief and hugged her back.

"Winry?" he asked.

"Yes?"

Naturally, he began turning red, as she hadn't let go of him. "Uh.. I..." he swallowed hard. "N-never mind. How 'bout we.. go look for Al now?"

Winry finally let go. "Yea." She looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly at him. He looked right back at her eyes.

"Let me go tell Grandma, okay?" she said turning around and walking away. He didn't reply and just watched her walk away.

As soon as she entered the house, he turned and kept walking. "Al.. Where can you be?" he said out loud.

'I wonder if Brother found out that I've been kid..napped.." Al thought to himself. He had stopped crying a few minutes after even though he was still in a lot of pain. "I wish Brother were here.."

Man, this chapter was short.

You know, I've noticed that Alphonse barely makes an appearance in this story.. Well he does but Ed and Winry have a bigger part. Hey I've got some good news! Roy and Riza are in the next chapter! Yay!

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