I'M SO SORRY!!! Please forgive me T.T I've been so pre-occupied the past little while (though my friends may think otherwise...) IT'S UP! IT'S DONE! This chapter took several tries before I finally got it. I appoligize... This chapter is short. I have a whole pile of attempts for this chapter but none of them fit. They just weren't right. I'll get the next up sooner! I swear! T.T I hope you guys didn't give up on me. Please just be patient with me right now T.T I'm going through this weird sickness thing and schoolwork is piling up and my birthday is happening in the next couple days... (Saturday! Yahoo!!!) Anyways, here it is. THE LONG AWAITED CHAPTER 14!!!

DISCLAIMER: (bleck I hate these things) Don't own Fma.

ONWARD!!

I wish you would have known; the things you didn't tell me would eventually cause more trouble than the truth.

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Crystal headed down the stairs into the basement. Just the dim light from the door crept into the darkness. She fumbled around for a bit in search of the light switch. "Stupid thing… where is it?" She patted both hands around the wall until one met the light switch. She flicked it on and looked around. She was standing in a small room, the staircase a meter or two away from her. She walked over to the door and opened it to find a large dark room. She flicked on the switch, which was easier to find due to the dim light caused by the open door.

The room she stood in was very spacious. A phone was hooked up on the wall to her right, a small table sat beneath it. A pen and notepad sat neatly on the table. "Freezer room… Freezer room… Uuhh…" she looked around her. She sighed. Might as well just try all the rooms. She walked over to the room closest to her and opened the door. "Um?" A desk sat, across the room from her, with a computer that was quietly running. A bookshelf sat in the corner beside the desk, a couch and coffee table in front of it. "Another study?" Well, duh. It isn't a living room. She shut the door and headed to the largest room. Doubt this is the freezer room… She turned the doorknob, causing the door to open with a creak. She walked into the dark room. The floor changed from carpet to a cold concrete, sending chills up her spine. She brushed her hand along the wall until she found the light switch. Why are basements so dark? Duh… no light. Several bookshelves lined the far wall. She walked up to one of them, passing a table covered in paper and books marked with sticky notes. She pulled a book down from the shelf and read the title. "Alchemy?" I've heard Ed and Al talk about Alchemy before… She flipped through the large book a bit, stopping on a page. A large circle was drawn, several things labeled. What the heck is a transmutation circle? She quickly shut the book and put it away. She looked about. In the center of the room a large area was covered in white powder. She knelt down and put her finger to it. Chalk? She gathered some of the powder on her finger and looked at it. She rubbed it between her finger and thumb. Definitely chalk… She looked over to a single cabinet on the wall. That's probably where their chalk and stuff is… She pushed herself up and looked around once more then froze.

"Crystal?" Edward called from the top of the stairs.

Oh crap. She quickly turned and jolted out of the room, quickly closing the door behind her.

The stairs creaked a bit as Ed descended the stairs.

She made a dash across the area between the room she was just in and the room she hadn't tried yet. Please, God, let this be the freezer room. She grasped the doorknob…

"Crystal?"

She looked over to see Ed standing outside the small room with the staircase. "Y-yeah?" She could swear sweat was pouring off her face.

Ed gave her a questioning glance. "Need help?"

She pressed her hand to her chest, as if trying to muffle her thumping heart. Why am I so scared?! "Uh… just had a bit of trouble finding the Freezer room."

Ed squinted a bit at her. "I see."

"Uuh…" she looked at her right hand, which was still firmly grasping the handle. "This is it… right?"

"…Yeah."

"Right. Okay. Good. I'm just going to go get the-" The sound of her heartbeat filled her ears as she was cut off.

"You saw."

"S-saw?" Thump, thump…

"Crystal. You went in that room," he gestured to the largest of the rooms.

"What are you talking about?!" Thump, thump, thump…

"Don't lie to me." He gave a stern look. "You have chalk dust all over your pants."

Damn it… "I-"

"What do you know?"

"I don't know anything."

"Tell me the truth."

"I am!"

"Crystal."

"Look, I just saw a couple pages of a book."

Edward rubbed his forehead.

"It's not like I know what Alchemy is."

He froze. Slowly he looked up at her.

"Why are you keeping these things from me anyways?"

All she received was a dark look. "I have to go talk to Al."

"Edward!"

He turned his back to her and headed back up the stairs.

"Edward!!"

The door shut with a loud clack.

Crystal sighed and turned back to the door. She grasped the doorknob with both hands but stopped. She rested her forehead against the door and closed her eyes. Why is he keeping things from me? She heard a few shouts from upstairs. Can't he trust me? A loud clatter and a shout that sounded as if it had come from Roy were heard. Ed has been acting strange lately… She heard a few more shouts, one sounded distinctly like 'Bastard'. She looked up as she heard the door open and someone loudly descend the staircase. She quickly opened the door and flicked on the light switch, which was a lot easier to find that the others. She walked around some shelves and found the freezer. She opened it and started rummaging around in search for the icepacks that were supposedly in there.

"What are you doing?" Roy asked.

"What I came down here to do," she replied, not looking up.

"Well Ed and Al wanna talk to you."

"Why are you here to get me? Ed has feet."

"Cause they asked me to get you."

"Yeah right."

"Well, they're still talking. So I took the liberty of getting you."

"That's what I thought." She stopped rummaging and pulled out 4 icepacks. "That's it?!"

"Guess so. Let's go."

"Bleck," she grunted and threw and icepack at him.

"Ouch."

"Would you just go upstairs? I'll be there in a second," she glared at him, irritated.

"Fine," he rolled his eyes. "Don't take a year."

As he turned to leave, she stuck her tongue out.

"I saw that."

She froze.

"Yeah. Be afraid. Be very afraid."

"That was just luck."

"Whatever you say."

The door clicked shut behind him as he left. Crystal turned back to the freezer, brushing off Roy's disturbance, and dug a bit more. Oh come on, they can't have just four… Jackpot. She'd hit the mother load. At the bottom of the freezer, 10 icepacks were clumped together; along with them were 5 bags of ice. She grinned and dug the icepacks out, piling them in her arms. Awkwardly, she closed the freezer. Now for the irritating task of opening the door. She groaned. Struggling, she managed to grasp the handle and turn it, moving backwards to open it. With a good grip on the pile of icepacks the door was easy to close. She stopped and glanced at the door to the large room. 'What do you know?' She shook her head. 'Tell me the truth.' The truth… Ed had had a bit of urgency in his voice… he had sounded like there was something in there that she shouldn't be seeing… that she shouldn't know… 'Tell me the truth.' Ed was so big on her telling the truth… but it seemed he was keeping so many things from her. She shrugged it off. There was no use dwelling on it for the moment, she needed to be prepared for the big conversation she was going to have to have with Ed and Al. She sighed and looked at the stairs. Was it just her or were they mocking her?

Oh, btw. I'm going to start doing sentences on some of the chapters I think they add to the story a bit. That and I got the idea from seeing several other authors do it ; Eheh... Please Review! I want to know who hasn't given up on me.