My mind wants to take this in a weird direction so I let it for awhile but I'm getting back to the plot in Chapter 11... If you haven't noticed I'm trying to follow the manga storyline from chapter 90- or so with changes where I got bored. Aww... Haruhi is so fun to pretend to be sometimes.
I opened the book, The Count of Monte Cristo, and looked at the main character's name. Edmond. As I read I imagined a black-haired Edward in his place. I analyzed the characters and tried to fit people in. Who would I be I this story? Edmond was at his fiancé, Mercédès, house hugging her and talking about their wedding which is supposed to come up soon when there was a knock on my door.
"Come in!" I yelled while reading still. I decided Fernand was an asshole and made him one of the homunculi in my head. I also decided Mercédès was a whore who should stop hanging around Fernand when she's engaged to Edmond.
"How do you like it so far?" Edward asked.
"It's good. I'm imagining people I know in place of the characters." I told him. I continued to read the book. I was loving it so far in all honesty.
"Am I anyone in there?" Edward asked me. He sat next to me on Winry's bed.
"You're the main character, youngest captain of the Pharaon, Edmond Dantès." I told him factually. I blushed slightly. Edward chuckled generally.
"It's fitting. Who are you?" He asked me.
"I haven't found myself yet." I told him. I smiled up at him.
"How do you like your birthday so far?" He asked me. Edward put his arm around my shoulder and pulled me closer to him. I shut the book, placed it aside, and moved myself so my head was on his shoulder.
"It was really awesome. It was nice of you to help all of those people." I told him. I smiled my normal grin and he shot his priceless smile at me.
"Well it is my job, I guess." Edward blushed and shrugged at me.
I sat up straight, "You wanted to help them. Even if you didn't work for the state you would have helped them. Is that true?" I asked him.
"Yeah." He replied. I kissed his cheek.
"See it was nice of you. You did what those people wanted and you made them happy." I told him. Edward's blush was still there.
"Is there anything else you want for your birthday?" He asked. I thought about it for a moment staring at my lap.
"There are a few things I know you cannot give in a box. Currently there is one thing I can ask for from you. I don't want to ruin this moment, but I want to stay like this as long as I can." I put my head on his lap again and stared up at him, grinning.
Edward was looking down at me, smiling slightly. Then his eyes lit up like he remembered something. He pushed me off of him then stood up. He picked me up and walked across the room. Edward walked down the stairs, turned the corner leading to the backyard. The sky was clear outside. Edward set me down on the grass as he sat down besides me.
"In central you can't see the stars this clearly." He pointed. My gaze automatically shot upwards.
They were beautiful. Little lights in the sky shining down upon us next to the full moon. Everything was lit up beautifully. The grass shone by the light of the moon. A star shot across the sky. I moved myself closer to Edward. I placed my head on his lap. He lied himself back as well as we both stargazed.
Neither of us had anything to say. Everything was peaceful but something gripped at my chest. I tried to ignore it. A tear escaped from my eye while trying to hold it inside. "Haruhi what's wrong?" Ed asked. He sat up to look at me. I shook my head to him to tell him it was nothing.
"You're crying! It is NOT nothing!" He told me. My stomach clenched as I sat up and put my lips to his suddenly. I gripped my hands around his neck and pulled myself as close to him as I could. "Ahh…" He figured out how much my body craved being close to him. He kissed me back. Through a great effort I pulled away from him.
"I'm sorry." I told him. I blushed and cried because even though I knew what my body wanted my mind told me not to ruin what we had now. Edward put his forehead in his hand. We were silent for a moment while an argument raged inside of me.
"It's alright." He told me. That made me sob harder than before. "Haruhi, what do you want?" He asked me.
"I don't know." I told him. Edward held me to him. I put my face into my hands and sobbed harder than before. My eyelids were really heavy. "There is something I want to do. I've only done it once before so close your eyes and trust me."
"Okay…" He started. I grabbed his hands and put my head to his. Edward closed his eyes as I exhaled.
"Let's see if I remember how to do this. I only did it on accident that first time and Renton was really confused." I told him. I moved my consciousness to the back of my mind and tried to push the memory into his head.
"Miyu, where are you going?" My brother asked me. Renton was six foot four inches tall and over shadowed me greatly. He playfully picked me up from my waist and carried me inside of our little house. "Dad wants you." Renton's silver hair gleamed in the sunlight and his teal eyes glared at me.
I remembered the last time Dad wanted me. "I'm not a replacement for Mom. He can't just do whatever he wants to me! Renton you saw and still you want me to go back there?" I begged.
"You know what he will do to me if I don't bring you to him!" Renton yelled.
"Melinda, get in here!" My Father called drunkenly my Mom's name. She died 7 years ago and I still paid tribute at her shrine in our house everyday. "Haruhi Melinda Miyuzaki get in here this instant!!!" He called.
"You'd rather watch him… You'd rather have him rape me than have him slap you once!" I yelled to my brother. My dad stumbled out of his room with a beer bottle in his right hand. His silver hair covered his bright blue eyes. He grabbed me by my collar and lifted me upwards.
"When I call for you, you come!" He screamed to me and dropped me suddenly. Renton had punched him in the side. My dad took out his gun and shot my older brother in the forehead. My eyes opened wide and I screamed.
I stumbled to my brother's body and tried to feel a pulse. "This'll teach you to listen to me!" He yelled and he shot at me too. I felt something pierce my thigh and I gripped at it. My Father got down beside me and tried to kiss me. "Come here Melinda, you know you love me." He told me. I tasted the alcohol on his breath. I jumped back as the door busted open. My father was tackled to the ground by a man wearing a teal uniform, the Police were here.
"Haruhi!" My neighbor called. My eyes were wide open as I gasped for breath.
"Renton! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. I looked at my hand; my fingers were sticky and covered in red. It was Renton's blood from the floor by his body. Or was it from my thigh? I passed out by that time anyways. I don't think it mattered. The next day my father was in prison and my brother was dead. One thing I knew was I would never forget that day.
I was in an orphanage from that day until my banishment.
"Wrong memory." I told him gasping for breath. Ed looked at me in shock. MY eyes were glued to the grass. "I meant to show you my last birthday, but that memory snuck into my vision beforehand. I thought about why Renton wasn't there." I told him.
"That was your childhood?" He asked me.
"My brother died just so my Father couldn't touch me. Now he is in a jail cell." I told Edward. Edward hugged me closer than before. My eyes face was covered in tears. "When I was six I transferred the memory of the last time I saw mom to him accidentally, I was sleeping and he saw me hugging mom right before she left for work and was killed by that Serial Killer."
"So that was when you were shot?" He asked me. He looked to the sky.
"My middle name was never actually Melinda. My mom's middle name was Haruhi. My dad always flipped them. I'm actually just Haruhi Miyuzaki by a fluke." I told him trying to change the subject.
"That was an experience. I felt like I was actually you for awhile there. I was scared for you two." He told me.
"Give me a moment and I'll give you the one I meant to." I whispered.
"You don't have to!" He quickly told me.
A cake was on the table covered in purple frosting. There was a single candle on it as I looked around to my family. My mom with her purple hair and green eyes smiled at me. She was so tall. Mom said she was only 5'1" but to me that was huge! Renton was about a foot shorter and dad was taller.
"I wish me, brother, daddy, and mommy could eat cake for dinner everyday!" I yelled and blew out the candle. They all laughed at me. Mom's hair was down to her waist now and I was trying to copy it. I smiled to her the biggest smile I could. My Dad cut us all a piece of cake.
"Congratulations Haruhi!" Renton told me. He handed me a stuffed bear that was shorter than me. I grinned up at him and hugged his leg. "How old are you now?"
"I'm five! Brother is old! He's twelve!" I yelled. Everyone laughed.
"I'm Twenty-Eight, does that make me old Haruhi? Your mom is Twenty-Seven." My dad asked.
"You are ancient dad! Mommy never gets old though!" I screamed. Everyone in the room laughed at me. The puppy that died the next year sprinted in tripping over his feet. "Silly Oz!" I yelled.
"Mom never said much." I told him.
"That was much more cheerful than the other one." Ed told me slowly.
I looked at the stars again and tried to stand up. "Want to go in now?" I asked him holding out my hand and smiling.
"How can you be so cheerful on the time with those kinds of memories inside of you?" He asked me when he grabbed my hand.
"I don't think of them. That's my past and I like to focus on the present. If I am happy enough my brother won't have died in vain. That's how I think of it." I told him. Edward kissed my lips suddenly.
"It's probably getting late so we should head in. We're leaving on Monday." Edward said aloud. I nodded and moved my foot. I suddenly fell down only to be caught by Edward.
"Damn. I forgot how much energy that takes." I told him. Edward picked me up again and carried me back to Winry's room.
"I'm going to go stay and my room. If you need something come get me." He said. I grabbed his arm.
"Don't make me be alone." I told him. "It festers inside of me when I'm like that so please don't make me be alone."
He looked at me shocked again. "Do you want me to stay with you or do you want to stay with me?" He asked.
"I'd rather stay with you." I told him. Ed picked me up again and took me to his room next to Al's. He put me on the floor and stretched himself out. He took off his multiple coats and sweaters until he was just in his white undershirt and shorts. He took out his braid. He lied down and I got down beside him as Ed lifted the sheet to cover us again.
"Goodnight Haruhi." He told me.
"Night Ed." I whispered. He put his arm around me and I pushed my head into his side. I closed my eyes.
"Miyu… when you were home did you have to sleep with someone every night?" He asked me.
"They wouldn't let me. It haunted my thoughts and I couldn't sleep most of the time. It would enter my mind all the time. Once I dreamed about it through my father's eyes which haunted me more than any other. I cried a lot."
"After we tried to bring Mom back I dreamt about the face of that monster we made every night and of Al's body disappearing."
"Wow…" I told him.
"Haruhi you do know about how I dreamt about you a few times right?" He asked.
"Yes. I've also seen your thoughts." I told him. "I see us as even there. I saw something you didn't want me to see and you saw something I don't want you to see."
"I like that, even." He said. Slowly I drifted away into dream land.
Water was everywhere. It splashed on us as we all played tag. Alphonse had his body back and I was it. Haruhi was running away but she was horribly slow. I was jogging to let her have more fun. Alphonse was screaming, "You can't catch me!"
I sped up and grabbed Haruhi around the waist. She blushed and smiled back at me. She kissed me softly. The sun was rising behind us steadily. "I guess you got me." She whispered directly in my ear. I picked her up and carried her again. She smiled at me, used to it by now.
Alphonse pushed my back and we both went crashing into the water. Haruhi laughed as we both began to swim. Alphonse jumped in after us and made a huge splash. I smiled as we all enjoyed the ocean. I swam to Haruhi who hugged me automatically. "Thanks for bringing us here." My heart pounded. The tide pulled us to the beach where we both ended up on the soft sand.
There was a ring on the fourth finger of our left hands. Our eyes met and I kissed her again. "You're Welcome. It's worth it to come here after all." I replied to her. Alphonse jumped off a ledge into the water. The sun had completely risen and I kissed her more. Haruhi was kissing back.
"I love you." She told me breaking through everything.
"Me too." I replied. "That's why I asked." She looked to her hand.
"That's why I said yes." She smiled. I grabbed around her waist again and pulled her to me. I was just in my shorts and she was only wearing a tank top and shorts. I shook out my hair. She began to walk higher up the sand but she fell. I approached her and she blushed. I plopped down next to her and she placed her head on my shoulder. Alphonse swam around in the water laughing. It was all perfect.
We both woke up and looked at each other at the same time. "Did you just have that dream?" Edward asked me.
"I think we should all go to the beach sometime soon." I replied blushing deeply.
"Alphonse would love that." Ed replied.
END OF CHAPTER
Author's Note-
I am SOOO bored!!!! I started using a dream translator on a website to translate Haruhi's dreams. They are weird. I had a dream where I was a pickle among cucumbers once. I have weirder dreams than Haruhi when I'm bored. Like the one where the cat and cow are playing hide and seek and then the cricket wins somehow for some reason. I really don't know. I have a mind theater thing going on like Tamaki from Ouran Host Club and it's a very weird view of what would happen if Ed were real. I don't plan on writing it out though because I'm sleepies right now so I'll add to that later. Aw... Haruhi is trying to be romantic, but she came off as funny to my friend who previewed this. I guess it could be both but anyways... This note is getting long so I'll stop here. =D