AN: Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know, I really have to update faster. Moshi Wake Arimasen! (those who don't know Japanese, that means "I have no excuse for myself") If you ask a question in a review and I don't answer it, that doesn't mean I'm ignoring you! I swear! Its just I have one of the worst memories possible, and I try to look at the reviews right before I update and I never remember so I'll try harder from now on, promise. So Gomen Nasai to any who felt ignored. (another lesson in Japanese, this means "I'm sorry")
Just to clear this up, yes I am friends with Kaiya. We read each other's stories and IM each other. For those who are clueless right now, Kaiya-Chan is another FMA author and her great story is called 'The Way to a Man's Heart Isn't by Crushing His Ego' that story is funny! Maybe funnier than mine! . . maybe…
Mustang24- I don't know what Winry was thinking about, I just thought that sounded good! (that kind of random thinking is what makes this so funny) but it would be really cute to see Ed in a prince outfit.
Saffiremoon21- Thanks!
Heart of Flame- Ha ha ha! I was wondering if anyone would catch that! Lol that's one of the things my weird family says constantly and I couldn't pass that up!
Well I'm glad some people think I'm funny. Everyone around here just says I'm annoying . ,………well maybe I am…..
I usually put the last part of the last chapter here, but if I did that now it wouldn't make sense so I'll just summarize. Riza got a new cat, against her wishes I might add, and the boys got their dog suits, plus an unexpected tutu. On with the muchly anticipated chapter! (I think…)
Chapter 5-
Shoosh!
Roy and Ed stood outside of the chamber of fate. Both "men" looked liked they would never come back from the dark abyss that was known as the files room. Riza, Winry, Al, Havoc, and Hughes all stood near them in the hall watching them.
"Are we clear on this boys?" Riza asked. Roy and Ed nodded and she went on, "As soon as the clock chimes, you two will go in alone; no one from the outside is allowed in, got that Hughes?" She asked as she shot a look over her shoulder at him. Hughes just sweatdropped and pointed at himself with a face that says Who? Me? "You two will search until seven-o'-clock, if the files aren't found by then, we will all come back tomorrow."
Just then, the clock chimed. Ed and Roy gave it a glance, and then walked into the room like two men condemned to death row.
After a while, the five in the hall had grown bored of just standing around, and secretly moved to a table in the library's foyer. Ed and Roy where unaware of this for both of them had their head crammed into a file trying to find It. (that's what they named the file, "It")
Now able to talk without being shouted at by a pyromaniac and a smaller-than-average alchemist, they crowded around and joked about this whole bet thing.
Havoc chucked and said, "I wonder who's gonna lose."
Hughes started laughing out of the blue and said, "I don't care who wins or loses, all I know is who ever loses is never gonna forget about it!"
That made everyone laugh, and it also made the librarian shoosh them for being too loud.
They talked for a while longer, and got shooshed three more times due to Hughes, before they got bored again. They stayed silent for a little while, to the librarian's immense relief. Havoc looked up at the clock with a bored look and said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, which it kind of was, "It's only two-o'-clock."
"Wow, I thought it was later." Al said after another moment of silence.
"Man time crawls when you're bored." Winry said with her chin resting on the table and her arms in her lap.
Hughes was leaning back in his chair before he came down all of a sudden. His glasses where lit up, meaning nothing but mischief.
"I know a way to pass the time." He said. When he knew he had everyone's overly bored attention he continued, "We could always play cards"
Riza looked at him and thought, Hmm, what could he wreck while playing a card game? She mentally made a list in her head and then looked over the dozens of things he could do. I guess we could play, as long as we stay quiet. "What game would we play?"
Come on Riza, do you really think Hughes is gonna stay quiet?
"We'll play BS" Hughes said, his glasses alight again. (ok, ok I know BS probably didn't exist back then but I would love to see them play it. I don't know if that's what you call it but that's what everyone around here calls it, I've heard it called 'cheat' before. Instructions coming up)
Everyone looked at him for the longest time before Winry asked, "What's BS? How do you play it?"
Hughes's mouth dropped open. How could anyone not know of the greatest card game ever? He smirked and said, "BS is a very simple card game. We split the deck evenly between everyone, and the object of the game is to get rid of all of your cards." He was dealing out the cards as he talked. "Whoever has the ace of spades goes first; they put the ace along with any other ace they have face-down in the middle of the table. Then the person to the left of them puts down all the twos they have, then you'd you go to threes then fours, fives, you get it."
"What happens if you don't have any of the card?" Havoc asked while rearranging his cards.
"Then you put one or two down and say it's what you need." Hughes explained, "If you bluff, though, and someone calls BS you have to take the whole pile, but if you tell the truth and they call it they have to take the pile."
"Sounds easy enough," Riza said, looking at her cards, "so we can bluff when ever we want?" Hughes nodded. "Ok, and what does BS stand for?"
"Bull shit" Hughes said beaming up a storm.
Well things got real quiet real quick at that little table,
"Ok."
"No sweat."
"Sure I'll play."
"Count me in."
No one knew how Hughes's smile got bigger, but it did. "Alright let's start!" he said with that ridiculous grin on his face. (if you know this game and the instructions seem off, gomen (sorry) its just that people around here like to make stuff up to make the game more interesting.)
It started out with Winry putting two aces down, Al put down one two, Havoc put one three down, Hughes put two fours down, Riza put one five down, and so on, I don't want to go into great detail on the game because that would take forever.
The game went pretty smoothly, no one had called BS on anyone and there was a very good sized pile there. It was Havoc's turn and he went to lay three fives down, when Hughes cried, loudly I might add, "BULL SHIT!"
The table was quiet for a moment before a loud "SHOOSH!" was heard from somewhere near the back. At that shoosh, the table cracked up, that is everyone except Havoc, he had turned deadly pale.
"How did you know I was bluffing?" He asked Hughes still leaned forward about to place the card down.
"Hah! It was easy, there are only four of each card and you said you had three which is impossible since I'm holding three!" Hughes said in one breath.
Havoc looked back at the pile in dismay. His expression made everyone giggle. Even Riza was giggling, she had her hand over her face to cover it up, it wasn't helping though.
"I have to pick up the entire pile?" Havoc asked looking up at Hughes in dismay.
"Yup!" Hughes said, beaming again. He sure smiles a lot when he's happy.
Havoc groaned and picked the pile up. That's when the game got interesting. Now that Havoc had most of the cards, he called BS a lot. This caused more people to get more cards allowing them to call BS more. Whenever Hughes caught someone he'd always yell it out, causing the table to laugh louder than it was already. Hughes's little custom of yelling caught on and soon everyone was yelling, including Riza. The librarian would come every once and a while to tell them to keep it down, and as soon as she left they would all crack up again.
Back to our two hard working pups.
insert cricket noise
Ok, yeah that's boring so back to our group that mercilessly abandoned our two favorite military dogs. Their much more interesting.
It was Al's turn and he laid down two kings. Hughes was debating on whether or not he should call it. Should I or should I not? To call or not to call, that is the question. (he's a natural born Shakespeare ) I should call it but he doesn't seem like he's lying, he never lies! I won't call it this time. Havoc laid his cards down and Hughes jumped up and turned over Al's two cards, one was a jack and the other one was a two.
"Gahh! I knew I should have called it! Wait a second…" he got quiet all of a sudden, but that was only the calm before the storm. "Al you shouldn't be playing this game!" he shouted.
Al was shocked, "What? Why not!"
"Because I can't tell if your bluffing or not!" Hughes said while doing that upright worm like motion and crying milk-like tears. (you know when the cartoon's bodies wiggle like worms and they cry but it looks like little wiggly streams running down their face? Yeah that's what he's doing right now)
Everyone sweatdropped and laughed at his antics, but someone didn't appreciate his clowning around. The librarian appeared right behind him, her eyes glowing with anger. Hughes just realized everyone stopped laughing and was looking over his shoulder. He turned around and found the librarians face right in front of his. He paused and stared at her for a minute before jumping out of his seat yelling "NO! DON'T! I'M A MARRIED MAN!"
The table erupted in laughter, even people close to them started laughing, and the librarian blushed a deep red.
"I've had enough." She said after the shock, "I want all of you out now!" she pointed towards the door in an aggravated manner.
The whole table looked at her and then everyone asked, "What?"
"You heard me." She said so angry her face was turning an even deeper shade of red. "Get out."
Everyone then just noticed that she was holding a broom in her hand. When she opened her eyes to yell at them some more she found the table empty. She looked towards the door just in time to see a blue coat disappear and the door slam.
"DON'T SLAM THE DOOR!" she yelled after them.
The door opened and she saw glasses through the crack, "SORRY!" Hughes yelled back at her with a huge smirk on his face. He had to close the door fast because of the unidentified flying object. (sorry Kaiya I just had to put that in somewhere )
They all sat on the steps of the library for a while, talking and laughing about the game.
Back to the boring room.
The clock chimed seven-o'-clock and Roy and Ed looked at each other.
"Any luck?" Ed asked after the last chime faded away.
Roy straightened and rubbed his eyes before replying, "Nope, you?"
Ed heaved a huge sigh and said, "Nope."
Both boys got up and left the room rubbing their eyes trying to get them to focus. They paused in the hall looking up and down it.
Roy turned to Ed and asked, "Where is everybody?"
Ed got an angry look on his face and said, "They ditched us!"
They walked into the library and started looking for them, that was until they heard someone calling to them.
"If you two are looking for your friends, their outside." The librarian said while sweeping with a bent broom.
"Why are they outside!" Ed asked no one in particular.
The librarian looked at them and then looked back down to her sweeping. "I kicked them out for disturbing the peace."
Roy and Ed both came to the same conclusion at the same time and both of them said it at the same time, "Hughes." Funny how that's the first person that comes to mind.
"Ha ha ha, Hughes did you have to yell you're a married man?" Havoc was saying on the steps of the library.
"Yes! I thought she was about to kiss me!" Hughes replied.
Everyone started laughing again, that is until…
"We're so happy all of you enjoyed your selves."
Everyone turned to see Roy and Ed standing above them. They all jumped up and started to say excuses.
Roy and Ed couldn't hear one excuse from another so finally Roy yelled, "STOP!" Everyone clamped their mouths closed, "Alright, Lieutenant Hawkeye, why did all of you leave us?"
Riza took a deep breath and closed her eyes before she started to explain, "Sir, with all due respect we were not needed. You told us all personally not to come into the room. You cannot tell me you expected us to just sit and do nothing." She opened her eyes and looked at him awaiting his answer.
"Er…" Roy saw he'd lost, since he did tell them not to come in. And besides, if it were him outside he probably would have done the same thing. "Very well, we did not have any luck finding It. We'll all come back tomorrow."
AN: Yup another sucky ending. Oh yeah! Five pages! Yeah! Well anyway, I notice some of you want me to 'ehem' "update faster dammit!" Gomen nasai! Really! School so sucks at the end of the year! Well at least I update every week! At least I don't wait months before I update. But yeah I need to update fasted. Gomen. Oh by the way, Kaiya you were at Riza's house getting to know Black Hayate. I think you'll pop up in the next chapter, if not you have a big role in the bet. ;) Anyway If you have questions or comments, put them into reviews, e-mails, or IM me. Ok?
Nya