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Trisha looked down at the blond boy pulling at her skirt. "Yes, Edward?"
"Auntie Pinako says you love Daddy even though he's gone. How do you know you love him, not just like him?" the boy asked trying to say it all in one breath. Trisha laughed at her son and picked him up. "What's so funny?" he asked clinging to her.
"Nothing, you're just a little young to be asking questions like that. Most boys don't care about love at your age," she explained tapping him on his scrunched up nose. He was growing up too fast for her liking.
"Are you gonna tell me, or do I have to find out from Winry? She said she's gonna find out first." He crossed his arms.
"Well, I suppose love is when you like a person so much you want to be with them all the time, but you also understand that you can't always be with them, and it might hurt you to be without them, but you have to let them have their own space to do what they have to. Also, it's when you like them even after you know everything they've done wrong, all their faults, odd behavior, strangest wishes, and darkest secrets. You just know when you love someone. Sometimes you like someone for a long time, and then you start to love them."
"Like me and Winry?" he asked.
"So, you and Winry are in love?" She laughed again and held him high in the air.
He nodded vigorously. "I don't ever want her to go home, but I let her even if it makes me sad," he paused for a moment and frowned. "I don't think Winry loves me."
Trisha held back her laugh and pulled him into a tight hug. "Why not?"
"I asked her to marry me, and she said no," he confessed.
She ruffled his hair. "Don't worry about that. Winry is a smart little girl. She just said no because you're too young. I'm sure she loves you."
Ed pulled away and smiled at her. "You're right. She's just making sure we get all the alone time we need so that when we get married we'll never be apart."
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A.N.- I hope Trisha's character was believeable. I just thought part of her explination would be about not always being able to be with the person you love and loving someone through all the negative aspects of their personality, because she loved Hohenhiem until she died. I'm going to try and post one chapter at least every other day now.
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