Disclaimer: If I owned FMA you wouldn't even be able to recognize it ;) Meaning that I obviously don't.
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Ever since the incident in Ed's room, Roy had been sticking close to him. Not so much that the small blond was uncomfortable, but Envy was beginning to take notice. Whenever he saw Ed as of late, Roy had been either right by him or off to the side somewhere. He hadn't spent any time alone with Ed since the last date they'd been on, and that was three days ago. Needless to say the green haired delinquent wasn't very happy about that. It was like the ebony haired kid was watching them.
'Watching me is more like it.' he found himself thinking, 'Why so clingy all of a sudden?'
This continued for another week or so, and it was the best week and a half of Ed's life. Envy hadn't been able to have any alone time with him, meaning he'd been bruise free for an entire eight days! As a bonus, Roy had been less of a bastard lately. Sure he'd still through Ed a comment about his...height deficiency, but that was normal for them. He'd actually enjoyed having Roy close to him. They'd walk to classes together, Roy started eating lunch with him and his boyfriend, they'd even started walking to and from school at the same time now (they lived in the same neighborhood, but Ed normally walked home with either Al or Envy).
Ever since he'd started dating Envy, even before things got...violent, he noticed that he'd hadn't had a whole lot of time to spend with Roy. Now that he thought about it he'd hadn't hung out with any of his friends, or even his brother in a long time. Not Ling, not Al, not Winry, no one! He'd have to make plans for all of them to go somewhere together soon, and catch up on what he'd missed out on.
'I wonder if Ling and Lan-fan are dating yet...' he thought absently.
Sadly, most good things must, eventually, come to an end. And what an end this time of happiness would crumble to...
It was at precisely two weeks from the day Roy had begun hanging out with Ed, and Envy simply could not take it any more.
At the end of school that day, Envy saw Ed walking with Roy out of the building on their way home.
"Ed," he called catching their attention *was that a glare on Roy's face?*. He, then, jogged up to the both of them.
"Hey, Ed, how about walking home with me today? I actually need to talk to you about something," he said smiling.
Anyone else may have been fooled, but Roy knew better. He wasn't about to let Ed go without at least some resistance.
"Why the need for privacy?" he said with a smirk plastered to his face, " Anything you want Ed to hear I'm sure is good for ears like mine too."
" Any other time I'm sure you'd be right, except for the fact that he's my boyfriend," Envy replied, sounding to anyone but Roy and Ed like a light, playful come back.
Edward then chuckled nervously.
"H-Hey, hey. Let's calm down guys alright," he said with the first fake smile he'd needed for a while (Roy noticed).
The little blond turned to his ebony haired friend.
"It's fine Roy, I am dating him after all right?"
Ed then turned to Envy.
"I'm sorry I haven't been spending a hell of a lot of time with you lately. Just been...busy, yah know?"
"That doesn't answer my question Ed," the other replied suddenly serious.
Shit...he must be getting pissed.
Ed gulped involuntarily.
Damn, looked like being sweet wasn't gonna cut it this time...
However he kept his fake smile intact.
"Well, if you wanna get straight to the point, then 'yes Envy you can walk me home today,'" he said a bit sarcastically for appearance sake. He then (reluctantly mind you) left Roy's side to join his boyfriend. He'd actually meant to talk with Envy alone for a little while anyway, however he'd just...never gotten to it?
Yeah, too busy cowering in fear at what you know has to be said.
God Ed hated that damned voice in his head sometimes...
'Oh well,' he thought to himself, 'now or never right?'
Ed looked over his shoulder at Roy who watched as they walked in the other direction, and gave him what he hoped to be a reassuring smile. He then mouthed "I'll be okay". Roy mouthed "Be careful" in return. Ed sent a subtle nod the older boy's way, and then turned to face the other direction.
Roy watched them until they'd gone out of his line of sight.
'He'll be fine,' he tried reassuring himself, 'he'll be okay'.
Unable to find the will to move any further from Ed than he already was as the short blond and his bastard "boyfriend" walked ever further away, he stayed put. Just stood there, facing the direction the two other boys had gone. And he felt like shit because of it. He should be doing something right? Not just standing still like an idiot.
Yet he still didn't move.
Roy didn't know how long he stood there. He was too occupied trying to convince himself that he'd made the right choice.
'He'll be fine,' he repeated over and over again in his mind, however never really believing it, 'He'll be okay, he'll be just...oh no...shit'
Suddenly, the teen was hit with a horribly foreboding feeling. His chest seemed to burn right over the area of his heart.
Oh dear god what have I done?!
With no further thought, Roy shot in the direction Ed and his green haired boyfriend had gone. Silently praying to the god he didn't believe in that he wasn't too late.
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That seemed a bit short...oh well, sorry the next one will be longer. Sorry that sorry excuse of a chapter took so long to post. Momentary writers block...
Anyway, I've set up a poll on my profile, would you guys please take a look at it? It's about future stories I wanna try writing after this one ( I won't tell you how many more chapters I'm planning on writing for this story, but it's not a whole lot that's for sure). So yeah, take a look at it if you can and place your vote if you want.
Also I wanna just say, again, thank you guys so much for the reviews :) They are read and appreciated all of them. So, um...just thanks so much, if it weren't for the reviews and fallows and favorites I probably would've let the story drop a while ago.
Wow...long A/N...anyway hope you enjoyed I'll get the next chapter up ASAP (don't worry this isn't the end ;).