Hello, again! It's been a while, I know. I'm going to try and make it up to you guys with a couple uploads this week. But for now, this one was a suggestion by rileyonfire. Hope you all enjoy! As usual, I own nothing here.
Fast Cars and Freedom by Rascal Flatts
Edward Elric couldn't really tell you when it started, but it kind of annoyed him that it had. Winry had never been the type to wear make-up before, but now numerous containers of creams, blush, eyeshadow, and God only knew what cluttered their bathroom counter. As he watched her take off the goop she had applied earlier that morning, he wondered why she even bothered to put it on. He didn't know why she felt like she needed the stuff. Sure, they were both in their early forties now with two grown kids, but that didn't make them old.
He'd told her as much when she started buying the serums that were supposed to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, which earned him an eye roll, a smile, and a muttered comment about how he was starting to need glasses like his father. He wasn't going blind, damn it. And she wasn't old and definitely didn't look it, either. Pinako was old. Winry didn't look a day past sneaking out in the middle of the night to meet him by the river when they were eighteen years old, T-shirts hanging off of a nearby tree branch as they played in the water, or driving the car into town with the windows down and Winry's head laying against his shoulder.
They weren't old yet, and Edward had every intention of showing her just how young they still were.
And there it is! Just to clarify, the fact that Ed and Winry have adult children is based off of the assumption that they had their oldest when they were twenty and had the second child a year or two after that. And could Pinako still be hanging around? Possibly. We all know she's pretty darn stubborn. I would like to say thanks to sillybunny and vvavavoom for favoriting this story as well as Zachariah T. Kitchell, sillybunny, and everyone else who has followed this story and stuck with me thus far. I really appreciate every single one of you! As always, please review!