Disclaimer: I don't own FMA, however I do own a pair of tap shoes that are worth more than my car. Lol. (I'm completely serious about my tap shoes.)
Chapter 3
Ed, Al, and Winry finally made it to school, both Ed and Winry were refusing to look at each other, and Al was walking between the two teens as a sort of barrier between them.
Al sighed as he shook his head. He knew that this fight didn't really mean anything and that his brother and Winry would be speaking to each other in a while as if nothing had happened, but that didn't mean that he wasn't tired of their fighting. If only they would get together already then they might not fight as much. Naw, they would fight all the same, but they might make up faster.
The three friends entered the student council room, as that was the place that they always met their friends before school, because every single one of them was in student council.
"Ah. So the lovebirds have arrived." Roy blatantly stated.
For what seemed like the millionth time that day, both Winry and Ed had their faces turn bright red.
"Mustang stop teasing them while you still have paperwork to do." Riza said as she set a whole new stack of fresh paperwork on the desk Roy was sitting at.
For some reason over the years the members of student council had begun to call each other by their last names. "Mustang, you're the president of student council now and lots of paperwork comes with the job so get started."
Roy gave Riza a look of disgust. "Hawkeye the school day hasn't even started yet and you're already trying to make me work."
"Well everyone knows that you won't get it all done unless she starts bothering you about it now." Maes Hughes said as he entered the room with Jean Havoc, Heymans Breda, Vato Falman, and Kain Fuery following behind him.
"But before you get too caught up in that paperwork of yours, I have some new pictures to show you!"
"Well, Winry and I are going to take this completed paperwork to the front office." Riza told Hughes. Winry looked up in surprise when she had heard her name, ever since Mustang had made the lovebirds remark she had been trying to get the blush to leave her face.
"But Riza, I may have shown you all my pictures this morning," Winry shot Riza an apologetic look. "but Winry hasn't seen the new pictures of…" Hughes stopped mid sentence as he saw the glare that was showing on Riza's face. "Umm… I'll just show you later." He directed to Winry.
Winry took this moment to give Riza a smile of thanks as she wasn't going to have to listen to Hughes at this moment. Let's face it the guy loved his little sister a little too much.
Then Winry and Riza both quickly scoped up large armfuls of paperwork that had been completed that morning, and quickly left the room as to miss all of Hughes new rant.
The last thing Winry heard as she left was Hughes telling Mustang that he needed to get a girlfriend.
"Hey Riza" Winry confronted her good friend from over the years. "Did you just hear what Hughes said? Why is he telling Mustang to get a girlfriend?"
"Because Hughes got a girlfriend and now he wants his best friend to feel all of the feelings that he's feeling."
"No way," Winry couldn't believe it. "So who's the girl who fell for him?"
"Some girl named Gracia." Riza replied. "She's a senior, but I don't know her that well, besides how Hughes rants, but she seems really nice."
"Well that's good, as long as she can put up with him." Winry said as she shifted the weight of the documents in her arms so as to be able to hold them better. "Say Riza, where did all of this paperwork come from?"
Riza raised an eyebrow at Winry. "The school always gives us a lot of paperwork to do. Why are you asking? You already knew that."
Winry sighed at Riza. "Yes, I already knew that. What I meant was where did all of this complete paperwork come from? I mean we're practically holding a pound of paper each."
"I completed this paperwork this morning." Riza stated as if it was no big deal.
"WHAT?!" Winry looked at Riza in disbelief. "BUT… HOW AND WHY?!"
"Winry, I always do a lot of paperwork. I'm very efficient at it now."
Winry had to admit that it was true. After all being in student council for three years had taught her how to do boring paperwork quickly. "Still, you didn't answer my other question. Why did you do all of this paperwork, and before the school day started too?"
"Well most of it isn't my paperwork."
Winry gave Riza an incredulous look. "It wasn't your paperwork?"
"No most of the paperwork actually is Mustang's"
"WHAT? MUSTANG'S!" Winry was now starting to attract attention.
"Winry, calm down." Riza said calmly, yet it seemed to have the desired affect on Winry, as she realized a few people were looking at her, and so she smiled and began talking to Riza a lot quieter.
"Why were you doing Mustang's paperwork?" Winry asked.
"Because otherwise it wouldn't get done." Riza simply stated.
"Oh" Winry let out a little sound almost in disappointment.
"What was that?" Riza asked when she heard the word and its tone.
"What?"
"You said 'Oh' and you sounded disappointed. What were you thinking?" Riza asked.
Man, Riza can read me like a book. Now I'll have to tell her what I was thinking. Winry looked at Riza in defeat. "I thought that you might have, well, maybe, umm."
"Spit it out Winry." Riza said without letting her face betray her curiosity.
"I thought you might have a crush on Mustang." Winry spit out. For the first time ever Winry saw Riza's cheeks go slightly pink, something that was completely unlike Riza. "Do you like him Riza?"
Riza didn't even justify giving Winry an answer to that question. To be honest Riza didn't know the answer to the question as she had never really thought about it. I'm blushing, could I have fallen for that idiot. Riza shook her head as if she was going to shake those thoughts out of her head.
"Well I'll drop the subject for now, but I do want to know the reasoning behind your blush later." Winry said looking a little smug with herself.
This was the chance Riza had been waiting for. She had noticed Winry's anger with Ed this morning and her thick blush at Roy's lovebird remark. "So what happened between you and Ed?"
Winry started to choke on nothing, giving Riza the reassurance that she had come to the correct conclusion. "What makes you think anything happened between me and that Alchemy nerd?" Winry asked as soon as she had caught her breath.
"You blushed more than normal when Roy called you tow love birds." Riza stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Winry couldn't help but blush slightly remembering Mustang's comment. Then a look of fear set on her face. "Don't worry. None of the others noticed." Accept Al. Riza added in her head, knowing full well what Winry was distressing about. "So what happened?"
Winry sighed and began explaining the morning's events from Ed practically tackling her that morning to calling her scared. She only stopped when they went into the front office and dropped off all of the completed paperwork. Riza listened carefully to everything Winry said picking up at how many times and how bad Winry blushed. She just has no clue.
As they came back up to the student council room they saw Al and Ed standing talking outside of it, probably trying to avoid Hughes and his pictures. Riza then noticed the automatic smile that formed on Winry's face as she saw the Elric brothers.
Just then the first bell of the day rang and Winry jumped up and started rushing to her first period class pulling Ed with her and leaving Riza and Al outside of the student council room.
"So what's the verdict?" Al asked Riza.
"She's falling for him. It's too bad that she has no idea that she is." Riza smiled at Al sympathetically. "Have any plans for them?"
"Not yet, but we'll see." Al said.
Yaaaaaaaaaaa! I finished this chapter. For some reason I had so much trouble with writing it. I figured out this week a lot of stuff I what to do in the next few chapters, but I was having a hard time with this one. I was getting so frustrated.
I must admit that I'm not sure if this turned out as good as I would have wanted it to be. Tell me what you think. Please give me constructive criticism. Also I want to clear up some things down here, just in case they were a little confusing or you didn't notice them.
First of all when I make the comment on Hughes's sister I just wanted him to be proud of someone like he is in the show with his daughter. I don't think that Hughes had a sister in the show.
Second I want to point out something that I did very subtly that I am very proud of. It's probably me just being weird again. Ok after Riza blushes about Winry's comment on Mustang. Riza refers to Mustang as Roy for the rest of the chapter. Lol. She going to go back to calling him Mustang in the next chapters, but I thought this was clever and cute of me. Oh, who am I kidding, it probably isn't really that cool, but I like it so I hope you do too. And by the way this story is definitely going to be RoyxRiza now.
Also to let you know I'm going to try to update every Friday. Unless I have a dance competition which I do have one coming up soon, so I actually might try to update again this weekend or early on next week.
Also (I like to start my sentence's with that word a lot.) the more reviews I get the more likely I am to be excited with my story and the more I am enjoying my story the faster I will write and thus the more likely I am to update more often. Thus you should review if you want me to write more soon.
(I hope that wasn't too confusing.) (Sometimes I ramble a little, sorry.) (I apologize a lot too, sorry, umm whatever (I scrunch my face up trying to not say sorry again))
