Hehe. Finally. I write. We got 5 INCHES of rain the last three days. FIVE INCHES! Hahaha.

This is another one of those Ed/Al brotherly moments that all people who have a younger brother like alphonse (me ;) have experienced.

Oh yes, it's happened XD.

Enjoy. Review. See if you can sum it up into one word if you're lazy. lol.

Punishment

Edward sighed as he drew his arms closer around himself, grabbing on to the sleeves of his T-shirt to keep them there.

It was cold.

The cold wall against his back didn't help.

Suddenly, he heard the window above his head open. He looked up, seeing his younger brother smiling and waving down at him.

"You know, if you didn't call me so many names, Mom wouldn't punish you so much." His all-too-happy voice chided.

"Whatever." Ed said, staring blankly ahead. There was a moment's pause, then;

"Why have you been acting so mean lately, Brother?"

Edward shifted his position, trying to warm his ankles in the cold night air.

"Im not being mean. Im just...kind of angry. Ever since Winry's parents got killed..." He looked up at the sky, all the stars twinkling down at him.

"We take Mom for granted too much. No one appreciates her enough. Dad's supposed to be here to do that, but he's not. It makes me mad. And no one else seems to notice...or at least, they ignore it. That makes me even more mad.

"Oh..." Alphonse said, looking up at the sky, but not seeing what his brother saw, so he turned his attention back to his Nii-san.

"So why aren't you worried?" He asked him after a moment. "Mom's going to leave you out there all night. I wonder what you did this time..."

Edward sighed.

"Al, Mom's not going to leave me out here all night. She said she would, but she only says it to scare me. That's part of the punishment. She'll come out here in about ten minutes and tell me she forgave me and not to do it again. Then she'll take me inside, and remind me how she could have left me outside, which she never would have done in the first place."

Alphonse gasped.

"What? Really? But...But I thought she always..."

"That's 'cause you're a kid." Ed cut him off.

Al made a face.

"So are you."

"No Im not."

"Yes you are.

"Not."
"But..." Al hung his arms out the window sill. "But last year when you were my age, you said you weren't a kid."
"I wasn't." He assured his younger brother.

"That's not fair!"
"Life isn't fair, Alphonse."

"Hmph. Fine." Alphonse lay his head in his arms for a minute, then finally came up with an idea.
"Hey, Big Brother..."
"Hmm?"

"Ill bet Mom would leave you out there all night if she got distracted."

"Huh? By what?" Edward asked, finally looking away from the sky and up at his brother.

Suddenly, a smile appeared on young Alphonse Elric's face. An evil, Edward-like smile that surely meant nothing good would come from it.

"By me."

"W-what!? Alphonse, you can't do that! Besides, she won't leave me out here! She can't forget about her own son!" He yelled after Al, who had shut the window and run away.

Ed sighed again.

"She'll come for me...Won't she...?"

And it was on that day that Edward learned to never make fun of his younger brother if he expected a warm place to sleep.