Sophomore Year

Edward

Sophomore year baby and everything was looking good. We were coming into the home stretch of school. Finals were coming up in couple weeks and I was feeling pretty damn good. Rose and I were the best couple in school; I'd even made it to second base with her. Our one year anniversary was the best, I got her flowers and chocolates; which she loved.

To say I'm excited about the summer would be like saying frat boys enjoy a good kegger, a huge understatement. Rose and I had plans to go camping and hiking and to all the amusement parks we could find. I had tried to make plans with Alphonse but he always said he was busy, don't know what he could be too busy with to spend time with his brother.

Sure he and Rose didn't along but seriously it's really selfish of him not to even try to hang out with me because of his dislike for her. And Winry was worse, I hardly ever saw her and when I did she was so cold; guess it's hard being olds friends with someone as cool as me. I went from being the low man to the high man in only a year! And it's all thanks to my Rosie.

We were sitting at lunch. My arm was draped over the back of Roses chair. "So I said what's it DO her!" The others all started laughing and Rose leaned over and kissed my cheek with a smirk. "Who knew I had such a funny funny man." She said playfully. I smiled and kissed her cheek back. "I could have told you that." I said looking smug.

As we all got up to go to class I noticed some creaking and stiffness in my prostetic leg. I needed to have it looked at, and the only person I ever let check me was Winry; which meant I hadn't had it looked at in a long while. But I had PE next so I guess I'd have to risk being seen talking to her at school. "You go on ahead I've got some busniness." I said to Rose nodding to the bathroom. She rolled her eyes and left.

I walked over to Winry who was sitting all alone, don't know why guess Pinaya was out today; she was always getting sick. "Hey Win, think you can spare a second out of your busy life to look over my leg?" I asked playfully, she looked at me with this cold expression and then nodded. "Sure Ed, sit down." I sat down and she looked over my leg, twisting pieces and adding oil here and there to loosen it.

I kept a careful eye out incase someone would spot me sitting here, can't be too careful. After a few minuets Winry stood up and wiped her hands on a napkin. "You should take better care of yourself." With that she walked away. I watched her go surprised, she wasn't like the Winry from when we were kids. That didn't matter though, she looked over my leg and went on her way and I needed to go get a little kiss before class.

After school Rose and I hopped over to the mall for a little shopping, she really likes shopping so we do it a lot. I like to see her smile so everyone is happy in the end; everyone except my bank account. But you know that's the price for being this amazing. Everything seemed fine, I mean we had a great time; but then I got a call that changed everything. "Ed…..Ed its Winry" I could hear her crying on the other side of the phone.

"Ed there was an accident and Pinaka…..Pinaka was….killed." She must have dropped the phone because after that all I heard were foot steps and someone trying to calm her down, must have been a woman because she kept calling her sweetie. After that I left in a hurry, not even bothering to tell Rose where I was going, Pinaka was family and I had to get to her.

Alphonse

I was at the bookstore when I got Winry's call. Sheska drove me over to the house and there was Winry sobbing into the small body of Pinaka. I thought life was hard before, but this was a whole new level. I walked over and placed a hand on Winry's shoulder as tears began to fall down my cheek. Ed and I had lost our parents, but we had each other even through that.

Winry had lost her parents before Ed and I lost ours and Pinaka was all she had, and now she'd lost her too. Winry was strong but even she could break under this kind of weight, add in my thick headed brother and she's looking at the ugly side of a meltdown. But I will be right here for her, I'll help her best I can.

Roy

So things with Riza weren't going that well at all, we had her parents completely fooled; but the closer we had to get to fool them the closer I got to forgetting this was all fake. Which was a little bit of a problem since Riza always made sure to tell me that she would never have anything other than friendship with me; way to let a guy down easy.

We were sitting at dinner with her parents and things seemed to be going pretty well; that is till her dad made and decision for us. "Riza, Roy, you've been seeing eachother for almost a year now. I've had my doubts about your relationship but its seems very real. But I still believe you are both lieing to me, so to solve all our problems you two will get married in one month." Riza opened her mouth to speak but her father held up a hand to silence her.

"You will either get married to Roy Riza or you'll marry Bradley." With that her parents left and Riza and I were left staring after them in shock. "Well this just got a little more interesting didn't it." I said looking at her. She looked at me and shook her head. "I'm sorry Roy I won't…." I stopped her by kissing her squarly on the mouth. "Riza if I hadn't wanted this I wouldn't have said yes at the beginning. She looked at me confused and I chuckled.

"Riza is it so hard to believe I'd like you?" I asked her seriously. She looked at me thoughtfully and was about to answer when her phone went off. "Hold that thought." She said and pulled her phone from her bag and answered it. "Winry? Sweetheart calm down….what!? okay okay I'm on my way, don't worry everything will be alright." She hung up and stood up so fast I thought I'd lost time.

"Riza what's wrong?" I asked crabbing our coats and following her as she rushed out the door. "Pinaka, Winry's and the Elric's guardian had an accident and died. I'v got to get over to her." She said and I could see the concern in her eyes. It was the first time I'd ever noticed how much she cared for those kids…"I'll drive come on." I said touching her cheek then grabbing her hand and pulling her to the car. Guess our little conversation will have to wait.