the challenge- Ed x Mei, chopsticks, ribbon, water
"…No. Not like that at all!"
Ed was not generally known as a patient person. Nor a humble one. So really, no one should have been surprised when he got a bit irate at being thwarted by two slender pieces of wood.
Mei stared as the blond man snarled, tossing the chopsticks away with what appeared to be a fascinating amount of sullen anger. He really was so different than she had imagined. It never ceased to amaze… Then a smile broke across her face. "Do you give up?"
Ed twitched, eyeing the long pink ribbon sitting innocently in the center of the table. "No."
"You are a genius alchemist! Using chopsticks should be easy!"
His pride being assaulted, Ed deigned to retrieve the chopsticks. After a few more moments of awkward fumbling his tenuous hold on his temper snapped and he resorted to stabbing at the bits of food on his plate.
"We win, little Mei!" she crowed, hugging the little panda.
Al blinked as Ed stomped past; braid wet and looking newly redone…with a cute pink bow at the bottom. "Brother…?" Ed's response was a bout of inarticulate muttering as he hurried away.
Al's confusion was cleared as Mei trotted past, intent on following his brother, a huge smile on her face, chatting with little Mei. "Mister Elric really is a gentleman, genius alchemist. And he is wearing my ribbon! Oh, little Mei, do you think that means he will marry me? And teach me alchemy?"
As he watched the two of them wander off, Al was suddenly very, very happy Ed was the one who seemed to attract all the obsessive attention…