Urgh, mono sucks V.V it's like flu but twice as bad and when you cough or swallow, it feels like your tonsils are being stabbed and you feel dizzy all the time V.V I've only got a mild case of mono, but it still hurts :(

Sup, you lovely lovely lovely people! I love you all, yes, I do. Everytime I get a review, I tear up a little and I do reply to people's reviews so, feel free to ask me stuff about the fic.
This chapter is filled with love, a bit of shouting, funniness (is that a word? I dunno, it is now) and was written in four hours, it also introduces Orlaith's friends.
Also, since I have a small addiction to vegetable lasagna, I wondered how long it was going to be until I mentioned lasagna, maybe because I haven't had it in a while because it's hard to swallow. CURSE YOU, MONO!

Since Orlaith is based on me, her body is my body. Yes, I am slightly chubby. But not my thighs. THIGHS OF STEAL, BAYBEH!

Anywayyyyyy...

Me no own FMA or Hetalia or YBF or Quality Street or Bailey's (although I still have a bottle of hazelnut Bailey's in the house at the moment, yummy)

Chapter 10: Boyfriend or Girlfriend or Gender-Netural Chibi Thing?

Ed, Al and I spent three hours making two lasagnas, a beef one and a vegetable one. Once we had shoved both in the oven at quarter past two, we washed up (Ed washed, Al dried and I put away) and tidied up the house a bit.

"I didn't know that you were religious." said Ed midway through tying a light blue tie.

We were standing in the living room and I was brushing my hair, Al was on the loo and Ed was battling with a tie. And failing. Miserably.

"I go to church every Sunday, but I swear all the time and I'm not a very good Christian." I put the hairbrush down.

"But you try to be good, right?" called Al from the loo."

"Yeah!" I replied "I don't sin, well, I lie quite a few times."

"Have you lied to us about anything?"

"Well, I've left out some minor details." I replied.

"About what?" Ed's voice turned hard.

"Stuff." I said simply.

"What kind of stuff?" Al appeared behind me.

"Stuff about Ray, you know, stuff that I don't wanna tell Al yet." I said sheepishly.

"You don't trust me?" Al sounded hurt.

"No! I mean, I do trust you, but-"

"You know about all our skellintons and that's not fair!" Ed was now shouting at me. "You're just being silly, Orlaith!"

"You think you've got it so damn hard!" I yelled. "You think that everyone's got it perfect compared to you two! Sure my mother didn't die and I didn't lose my body in an alchemic experiment gone wrong, but I haven't had the most wonderful childhood either!"

I stormed past Ed into my bedroom and slammed the door.

"Smooth, Brother." Al said gently as he walked into the hall and closed the door behind him.

~•~•~

"Orlaith?" asked Al, knocking on my door.

"Go away!" I yelled throwing a book at the door.

"Orlaith, open the door." Al pleaded

"No!" was my angry reply

"Orlaith, I will transmute the door!" Al finally cried.

I stood up. He wouldn't!

But he did. He transmuted my door into a lump of wood and it fell with a loud bang.

I turned away from Al, but he hugged me from behind.

"Orlaith," he whispered in my ear "Orlaith, my golden princess."

"Al, love, cut it out." I moaned.

Al guided me to my bed and he sat down, pulling me onto his lap.

"Stupid Edward." I sniffled into Al's jumper.

"I know." Al kissed my forehead. gently "Brother's over-exaggerating."

"Things about Ray and I, I'm too scared to tell you." I whispered.

"He used to beat you?" asked Al "He raped you? He forced you to do things that you didn't want to? Because if he did"

I shook my head, I knew where Al was going.
"I...Ray cheated a lot. He was so overprotective and if I didn't do what he wanted me to, he would just insult me. And...and..."

I bit my lip, do I tell him now?

"What's wrong, Orl?" Al moved me so that he could look into my eyes.

"I'm not a virgin, I'm sorry." I whispered

Al hugged me against him
"Orlaith, you needn't be scared. I wasn't going to get upset over him, he isn't worth it. You love me, right?"

"Very much." I replied, looking Al in the eyes. "You love me too?" I whispered, afraid.

"Oh, princess, you are silly." Al chuckled as he leaned forwards to kiss me. "I am totally and utterlly in love with you."

I kissed

"Anything else, hon?" asked Al, kissing my nose

"I was bullied a lot, I mean, I'm not the most sexiest girl in the world."

"That's stupid." said Al, "Well, you are a bit wobbly." He lightly patted my stomach, "But your eyes are a beautiful shade of mossy green and brown And they turn orange in the light which is incredible." Al pushed my glasses up my nose, "As for red hair, it is undoubtably the most sexist hair colour that I've ever seen." he tucked my hair behind my ear.

"I love you." I smiled, and touched his face.

"I love you too." Al kissed me deeply. Once again, Alphonse came up trumps in the "taking-Orflaith-Marie-Jude's-breath-away" area of kissing.

We were getting into the spirit of Christmas, I mean, things, when the buzzer rang.

"Oh, monkeytrumpets!" I cried, almost toppling off the bed.

Ed appeared in the hall, looked at the lump of wood that was my door, then me sitting on Al's lap then went to pick up the phone.

"Shall I fix the door?" Al patted my bum to get me to move, cheeky bugger.

Seeing Al transmutate was beautiful. The concentration in his face is just- and the way he grinned after fixing my door. Why was Alphonse so amazing?

"Nice." I smiled as we walked out of my room

"Hey, Orlaith?" Ed stood in hall "I'm sorry for snapping, I'm just-" he fumbled for the words.

"An absolute nutter?" I smiled "Come here, stupid." I said, pulling the blonde into a hug.

Ed hugged me back
"Forgive me, Orl?" he mumbled into my hair.

"Of course!" I let go of Ed and poked him "You are my favourite alchemist of all time."

"Hey!" cried Al, poking my hip

"Favourite STATE alchemist, then." I said. Al poked me again

"Oh stop it!" I mock-pouted "You're just jealous because I'm not hugging you."

The doorbell rang just as Al picked me up and swung me over his shoulder. I squealed in shock.

Ed laughed as he opened the door.

"Hey Ed! Hey Al! Where's- wait, is that Orlaith over your shoulder?" a voice cried. It must have been one of the twins.

"Her bum looks nice at that angle."

"Who said that?" I growled.

"It was Conor!"
"It was Kian!"

"Al, put me down." I sighed.

Al obeyed and both Elric brothers backed away.

I turned around, straightened my hair, and glared at the two dark haired twin boys, who stood on my doorstep, one carrying a tin of Quality Street, the other carrying a bottle of Bailey's.

"So who made that comment about my arse?" I growled

"It was Kian!" cried the shorter one carrying the bottle of Bailey's.

"It was Conor!" cried the paler, taller, Quality Street carrying twin.

I glared at both of them.

"Okay it was me!" cried Kian "Don't kill me, please!" he got down on his hands and knees.

"Alright then, but for crap's sake, give me a hug, you daft things!" I opened my arms and hugged the twins tightly.

"That jumper does make your bum look good-ow!" I smacked Conor over the head.

~•~•~

People arrived in small groups. After Kian and Conor, Ava arrived with Andy, Laura and Emma, Louise came with Ellen and Marie, and Greg came with Ryan and a bottle of Buck's Fizz.

As soon as Greg and Ryan arrived, the oven dinged to say that the lasagna was ready. Al and I brought the lasagna and plates and cutlery stuff out as Ed poured the Buck's Fizz.

We all sat on the floor around the coffee table and Greg gently tapped his glass with the edge of his fork.

"Greg, dafug are you doing?" Ryan raised a blonde eyebrow.

"Trying to be polite." Greg pouted.

"Just say 'Oi'" said Ryan "I'm hungry."

"Oi!" cried Greg and everyone shut up. "I'm going to keep this short 'n' sweet, 'cause Ryan 'if-he-was-an-homonculi-he-would-be-Gluttony' wants his food."
We all laughed, even Ed chuckled.
"We, with the exception of Louise and Conor, are all FMA freaks. Meeting Ed and Al is truely an honour. We hope that even when you return to Amestris, you'll remember us and you're always welcome here in Winchester."

"Thanks Greg." smiled Al, kneeling up "I wanna thank Orlaith for showing me kindness even before we met. She was the first person to call up and seemed nice, from what Louise told us. Even though part of her discription was "Orlaith absolutely adores Alphonse. She even has a portrait of Al in her bathroom." and she does."
Everyone laughed again.
"After that, I was worried to talk to Orlaith. But she was kind, funny and really sweet. She still is. Even though it's only the second day, I can happily say that Orlaith has captured my heart and I'm sure that Brother can say the same. That's why I'm going to say this: Orlaith, from the moment that we met, I've been slowly, but surely, falling in love with you."
My jaw dropped, why was he telling everyone?
"I know it's fast and I know that I don't know as much about you as you know about me, but will you, um, go steady with me?"

"Uh..." I looked round the table. The twins, Ryan and Greg were nodding; Marie, Lou and Ellen were mouthing "SAY YES, YES!"; Ava just smiled; Laura and Emma were looking expectantly and Andy looked so jealous of me.

"Al..." I said, reaching across the table to take his hand "Of course! Of course I'll say yes to a relationship with the boy I have adored since I started reading FMA when I was ten."

Alphonse chuckled and leaned across the table to kiss me. It was a pure and chaste kiss, but I still turned scarlet.

"Orl, swap places with me." said Kian, "That way you can sit next to Alphonse."

Of course, being the nutter that he is, Kian decided to bum-shuffled across the living room to sit where I was sitting between Ed and Greg. I decided to be normal and walked over. Like a normal person.

"Sexy move there." said Louise as Kian settled himself in his new place.

"You love it." was Kian's reply.

"Of course," Louise said sarcastically, "Because I love it when boys bum-hump the floor."

"Urrrrr..." Ed looked a bit worried as we all pratically wet ourselves.

"Let us all say Grace." said Andy putting her hands together and we all copied.

"Grace." replied Laura "Let us all eat lasagna."

~•~•~

After the lasagna, the slightly burnt garlic bread and buttered bagette; we had ice cream and now we were lounging around, watching You've Been Framed reruns with the tin of Quality Streets and a glass of Buck's Fuzz. The twins and Ryan had dozed off and I was sitting on Al and Ed who were sitting on the sofa while everyone sat on the floor.

"That girl looks like a younger version of Winry chasing around a black haired Ed!" cried Greg and we all laughed.

"But she's not waving a wrench." said Ed.

"She's waving a cat around instead!" laughed Marie

"That one looks like me!" Andy pointed at the T.V

"Being pushed off the trampoline by Ling!" said Al. We laughed again.

When the videos of the animals doing silly things came, we laughed so hard that we woke up Conor who spilt his glass all over himself.

"Conor wet his pants!" sang Ava before getting a penny toffee thrown at her.

"Ed, would you let him a pair of trousures?" I asked as Conor yelled at Ava

"Conor, wanna borrow a pair of jeans?" asked Ed, fighting back a grin.

As they walked off, I heard Conor say
"Can I borrow a pair of boxers too?"

~•~•~

The rest of the day went well, dispite the fact the the Bailey's didn't get drunk. Oh well, I'm sure there's a celebration coming up.

As we waved everyone goodbye, Al put his arm around me and smiled.

"T'was fun." I grinned as we tidied up the remains of the Buck's Fizz and the chocolate.

"Yeah." I smiled "The best part was the part where Greg was trying to get everyone's attention and Ryan told him just to shout 'Oi!'."

"I liked it when we were watching You've Been Framed and that horse tripped over one plank and then fell over about five seconds later." laughed Ed.

"I liked it whenever I kissed you." Al whispered in my ear. I turned red again.

"Save it for the bedroom, Al!" cried Ed, throwing a chocolate at his younger brother.

After tidying up, Ed said goodnight and yawned off to bed.

I slipped my arms around Al's neck as he held me close to him
"Hey." I smiled.

"Hi." Alphonse smiled back

"'Love ya." I snuggled up against him

"I love you too." Al hugged me back

"I love you longer." I giggled into his chest.

"I love you more." Al countered.

"What makes you say that?" I asked, looking up at him.

"For once thing, if I didn't love you more, then I would be mad at you for being afraid to tell you all the things that Ray did to you. Sure he's an ass, but as long as you love me more than him, then I won't be mad with you." Al kissed my nose.

"And about me not being-"

"That means you're more experienced then I am," Al said gently, "And when the time eventually comes that we, you know, make love, if you want to with me, at least you have some sort of idea what to do."

I giggled
"You wanna, you know, with me?"

"Yes, but after a while. Give us a few months, give me some more time to watch romantic movies with Winry." Al tipped my chin up to kiss me.

It was a strong passonate kiss, as if all the emotion of today was coming back to be personified in this one kiss. I stumbled back against the hall door with a soft bang. Al placed both his hands by my head and my hands moved to his hips. Al's lips met my neck and he moved down to my predominant collarbone, where he began to lightly suck. It took everthing to stiffle a moan. Al gently nipped the skin on my neck and then kissed my mouth again. Suddenly, Al pressed his lower body to mine, moaning my name gently. In between kissing and gently sucking his neck, I whispered

"My room now."

It's begining to get a little bit steamy~

Maybe it's because I've got mono, or maybe it's because I've still go the Valentine's Day hype (STUFF YOU, VALENTINE'S DAY! *shakes fist*), or maybe it's because I haven't had any loving from my boyfriend since last Friday (I don't normally see him during college holidays as such. His parents don't like me :( ), but I've felt some need to write some fluff and some steamy-ness.

Anywayyyyyy, some of the moments in the fic such as Kian doing bumshuffle and Louise's reaction; "Her bum looks nice from this angle"; "Let us all say Grace." "Grace."; Greg's little dinging the glass with his fork and Ryan's "Da fug?" moment; and a few others, are taken from my life. I constantly bumshuffle around college. If I'm sitting on the floor and I wanna move then I'll just bumshuffle along xD It just confuses everyone.

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