Chapter 13: The Enrolement
Roy awoke to a bright light in his face, pounding on his eyelids telling him 'Get up you lazy bastard, its Monday'.
He groaned and rolled over, staring at large mass of some type of hybrid-cross between Edward and his blankets. Roy poked it, but he was too tired to put any force behind it. He sighed and sat up, staring at the messy-haired blond and wondering if he would be a total ass this morning or not.
Yeah.
Yeah he would.
Roy got up and went down the trapdoor to the bathroom, grabbing a bucket from the closet along the way.
"Ed."
"Menh."
"Ed, if you don't get up and go to school i swear ill dump a bucket of water on your head."
Ed stayed silent for a minute, and just when Roy thought he fell back asleep he said;
"Nuh. You said tha' b'fore. Nuh freekin' out this time..."
"You sure?"
"Meh."
"Okay." He replied nonchalantly, turning the red bucket in his hands upside down and running for his life.
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Compared to most people, mornings in the Mustang house were not what you call 'Typical'. How long it had been like that, none of them knew. But wherever you went, be it grandmother's or cousins or uncles, morning time was just downright scary. And hell, let's throw Edward in the mix too.
"Roy Mustang! I swear when I get my hands on you, y-"
"No death threats boys."
"Ha Ha! Roy's gunna get his ass kicked by the midget!"
(Crash)
"I'm not a midget you freakin' amazons! Get a life!"
"Don't fight in the kitchen!"
(Like anyone payed attention to that.)
(Whoosh)
(Thunk)
"Dammit, Mustang!"
(Whip, Thud)
"HA! Who's taller now!"
(Fwup)
"That was a cheap shot, you Idiot! Stop laughing!"
(Whoop, Whoop, Pat.)
"Come on, you two, Kiss and make up already!"
"DIE!!"
(Flash)
"HA!"
(Clunk)
"Boys, you're going to miss the bus!"
(Zing.)
Silence. (A/N Based on a true story, Sanjo style. Oh, how I miss the family reunions.)
Roy's mother sighed. Edward fit in already.
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Roy and Ed found a double-seat on the bus and sat down quietly. Ed clapped his hands together, but Roy stopped him.
"You can't do that here," He whispered. "Theres too many people...)
"What, so you expect me to stay soaked?" Ed growled in disapproval at being stopped.
"Just until we get to school, please?" He asked.
"Fine..."
Roy turned and looked out the window, noting (not for the first time, either) that there was absolutely nothing to look at. The entire area was just dry dirt and dead trees, flat enough to make a philosopher believe the earth wasn't round.
"So, what are you going to do about school?" Roy asked, still staring at the blank road beside them.
"Ill just say that I moved here, and my parents couldn't find the number for the school. They let you do stuff like that around here, you know."
"No, I didn't." Roy said. "Where I come from, everything is high-tech and always busy. You can't leave anything of yours alone if you don't want it to be stolen. People walk around with knives and things just for protection. Everything has to be proven by papers, or the Internet. And there are so many people, they have to cram them in apartments about as big as the attic."
Ed stared.
"Thats terrible! How do you live in a place like that?"
Roy just shrugged.
"Now that you mention it, I do prefer this place better than back home...you can go for a walk and not get mobbed, you can see the sunset every morning, and the stars actually come out at night. It might be desolate, but its better than vacuum sealed in a 1K apartment."
Ed nodded.
"Did you have any friends where you lived?" He asked after a moment of silence.
Roy looked thoughtful for a minute.
"Not really. Except that one girl- Sakai- I was telling you about, the one that reminded me of you. But we could never really hang out, because everyone always asked if we were going out. It's like that there, too. Everyone lives under that saying that 'A boy and a girl can't just be friends', so whenever I had a friend that was a girl, no one would ever leave us alone. Not that I avoided her, but...I just wouldn't go running toward her every time I saw her." He said.
"Did you like her?" Edward said.
"Do I detect a hint of jealousy?" Roy said with a smirk, turning around and looking at Ed.
"N-No!" He said quickly, turning around and facing the other way.
Roy just laughed and began staring out the window again.
"Nah. She was my friend, how could I like her? I could just never look at her that way. And no, she didn't have any feelings for me. Im positive of that. She was sort of a tomboy, so she preferred to be best friends with guys, rather than date them. She wasn't interested in a love life, but that didn't stop anyone from asking her everyday. But let's not talk about it." He added, seeing the look on Ed's face.
The rest of the bus ride passed in silence, until it stopped at the school and Ed took off running to find the office, and Roy went to homeroom.
He walked into the classroom, making sure to be quiet, sit in his seat and sit up straight. He put his hands on his desk and waited quietly. There was no way Bennett would get him today. Hah.
A few minutes later, the teacher came into the room, with a yellow sheet in his hand, looking it over.
"Silence!" He said loudly, even though the room was completely quiet. (A/N I swear to god a substitute did this to us once XD I just had to put it in the fic. We mocked him for months)
"Theres a new student joining our class today, here he comes now." He said, just as Edward walked into the classroom.
(phhhhht)
Nuuuuuu!
(phhhhht)
Roy couldn't help but hit his head off the desk.
"Sit up straight!" Mr. Bennett barked, then turned back to Ed.
"This is Edward Eric."
"Elric." He said with a sigh.
"Don't correct me."
Ed twitched slightly.
"Take a seat."
He sat down in the empty desk to Roy's right with his goofy smile.
This was definitely going to be a long day.
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Edward whipped right through his work, Algebra, History (Jeese, who would have figured, Considering he lived in the frickin' 19th century), English, and he was even good in Phys. Ed.
Roy sighed as he went into the locker rooms. He felt sorry for all those girls, Mr. Bennett had made them run extra laps, he said they weren't paying enough attention. But Roy knew he just wanted to see them run because of their...well...-you know whats-. He was a complete pervert, and Roy knew it. Just another reason to hate him.
Besides, The girls deserved better treatment than that!
He took a look around the locker room; there was a big wooden bench in the middle of the floor, a row of shelves for their backpacks on the side, a coat-rack, three change rooms and two showers with curtains covering them.
He noticed Edward getting his change of clothes and going to one of the changing stalls. Roy walked over to him, dropping his voice so only Ed could hear him.
"Why don't you just change out here?" He said with a smirk, nudging Ed in the ribs.
"Why can't I just share a room with you?" Ed said, smirking back.
Roy looked around and turned back, kissing Ed quickly.
"Don't worry, we will. Sooner or later." He laughed and took the changing room Ed was about to go into.
"And no peeking!" He kicked the door, receiving a loud 'OW!' From the other side.
They walked out of the boys change rooms together, and as they began to cross the gym, Roy noticed Mr. Bennett walking toward the girls'. No matter what came after this, it couldn't be good.
"Whatcha doing, Mr. Bennett?" He said, jogging over to stand in front of the girls' locker room, soon followed by Ed.
"Im telling them to get out and get back to class."
"Isn't it illegal for a male teacher to look in the girl's change rooms?" He said, not moving from the doorway.
"Don't you tell me what's legal and what's not. Now get out of the way."
"Okay." He growled and got out of the way, but not before Ed knocked on the door , sending all the girls inside into a panic to finish getting changed or run into a corner.
"Dammit, Boy! See me after class today!" He yelled at Ed, echoing through the whole gym.
Roy waited at the door for Ed, and started walking with him.
"What'd you do that for? You're in trouble now." He asked.
Ed just shrugged. "My mom always told me to respect girls, and to look out for them, because they need your help." Roy thought for a minute and started laughing. "If I'd told that to Sakai, she'd probably knock me one upside the head." They laughed together for a minute, and then Roy asked;
"So, How are you getting home this afternoon?"
Ed shrugged.
"Ill find a way."
"Whatever you say..."
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As soon as the bell rang for school to end, the entire student body disappeared so fast, Edward wondered if they'd been transported into thin air. Seriously. He'd never seen such a large amount of people leave an area so fast, and he'd been in the military! He wandered the large building, somewhat lost (though he'd never admit it) and trying to find a place he recognized. Ah, well there was the office so if he went straight and then up the stairs...
Okay...maybe not. Maybe he went the wrong way. He turned back around when he saw a teacher stick his head out of a door frame.
"Hey Kid, You lost?"
(Do the teachers have no respect for their students here or what?)
"Just a little..." He said, realizing something was off. He couldn't figure it out, but it was...familiar...somehow. He just couldn't quite place it.
The teacher motioned for Ed to come, and then disappeared into the classroom. He followed slowly, trying to find the reason for his silently rising panic. He stepped inside the room, and he was getting extremely annoyed at what was wrong.
He walked over to a chart on the side of the wall, staring at it and thinking. There was a click as the door closed behind him, and realization walked up and punched him in the face.
Alcohol...
He couldn't keep himself from gasping slightly. Ed had a nose for everything, he could always smell things before anyone else, why hadn't he noticed?
Alcohol...The same alcohol his father drank.
He turned around but the teacher was already standing in front of him, causing him to jump back into the blackboard, ramming his back onto the small metal chalk shelf.
"W-What are you doing?" He asked, his eyes getting wide. He stared up at the teacher. He was actually quite young, he wore wire-framed glasses, making him scary looking (in Edward's point of view).
"You little bastard..." He said, his voice slurred a considerable amount. He grabbed Edward's wrists and held them above his head against the wall.
"What are you doing at school this late after school, Hm? Kids like you are looking for trouble..."
"No! I-"
"If it's trouble you want, It's trouble you'll get." He said, forcing his knee between Ed's legs, so he couldn't move. His eyes got even wider.
Theres no way this is happening! No WAY!
He struggled, but (much as he didn't look it) the teacher was stronger than him. He lowered his face parallel to Edward's. He could smell the reeking alcohol on his breath. A hundred memories flooded his mind at the same second, and he realized there was no way he could get out of this.
This was not good.
In fact, this couldn't get any worse.
Yes. Yes it could.
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AHAHAHAHAHA Cliff-hanger! omfg what's gunna happen? Review! 5 more reviews and I tell you my biggest fear. (It's actually quite pathetic...O.o And it's deranged. So actually, don't review and I wont have to tell you...eheh.) Sorry it took a while, I was just trying to get some ideas. And I don't know where this came from. I think I was sugar-high at the time...so blame it on that. Flame if you want, it was a bad chapter.