Chapter 4:

What now?

It's been two hours since and Ed can't get Mirielle to come out fo her room. Everything he's tried has failed. Alchemy is his last resort but that would just be like breaking in. Al was in the hall and decided to take a shot at it. Ed moved aside so Al could take over.

"Mirielle?" "Go away, no matter what you do I'm not oming out." "But Miri-" "YOUR BROTHER LIED TO ME AL! He's a cold hearted bastard who cares about no one but himself." "You're wrong, Ed isn't like that at all." "It's ok Al...If that how she feels about me then let it be."

Ed turned away and started to make his way to the room. Al just watched as his brother walked away in guilt and heart break. He couldn't understand why Mustang decided to tear them apart, it was like he'd been known all along that they were falling for each other. As the night passed Al paced back and forth in the hall trying to figure out a way to bring them together and find out if Mustang had someone reporting in on him,Ed, and Mirielle.

Hmmmm...Maybe if I- no that won't work...Or maybe- no...that won't work either. Wait! I got it! Now all I have to do is put it into action.

Al headed to the library and went to work. At sunset Mirielle woke up and saw a piece of paper at her door, she got up out of the blankets and walked to the end of her bed and stepped down. She went to her door and picked up the paper. Ed had woken up as well and found a piece of paper at his door as well. He walked over to his door and picked it up.

"Meet me at the Grove lake tonight at 6 o'clock tonight."

Ed folded the paper and stuck it in his jacket which was hanging on the chair. Mirielle on the other hand tore up the paper and threw it away.

"Stupid jerk, he probably wants to tell me more lies and try to suck up to me. Well I'm not falling for it, he lied and he's leaving in six days which will pass by quickly as long as I keep myself occupied."

Armstrong had decided to see what Al had been working on since last night so he went to library and found Al surrounded by paper balls. Since he didn't want to take a chance at disturbing him he left. Al just continued writing out his plan over and over keeping one out of every ten or twelve papers he wrote on then looked them over and crumpled those up as well. Ed left his room after getting cleaned up and dressed then headed down to the kitchen. While looking through the fridge to find something he might like Armstrong came up behind him.

"Ahem!" "GYAH!"

Ed quickled turned around then let out a sigh of relief.

"Don't do that!" "Forgive me but I could help but notice you and Ms.Hartwood are having a little conflict."

Ed shut the fridge then started to walk away.

"Let's just leave it at the fact that she despises me." "You're not going anywhere."

Armstrong grabbed Ed by the colar and started dragging him through the hall.

"LEMME GO!" "Edward Elric, you are going to face this like a man." "JUST LEMME GO!"

Ed was dragged all the way to Mirielle's room. Armstrong knocked and spoke then Mirielle answered the door a few moments later.

"What is it Armstrong? Is something the matter?" "I have a visitor here for you." "Visitor?"

Armstrong pulled Ed in front of him. Mirielle wasn't to happy about seeing him and stood there angrily staring at him. Armstrong left them to be alone and went back to his duties.

"What do you want? To lie to my face again?" "Mirielle is not like that." "Oh? Then what is it? Another scheme set up by Colonel Mustang?" "ENOUGH ALREADY!"

Mirielle gasped quietly in shock and new thoughts began popping up in her head.

He's going to do something isn't he?...No he's planning something...But he could also be leaving early...

Ed looked at her with a serious expression. He took a step toward her and she took a step back. Each step he took towards her she stepped back and once she was against the wall he spoke.

"All I wanted to tell you was that I didn't plan any of this. I didn't lie to you, Mustang was the one who lied." "Shut up! You're lieing to me again!" "Mi-"

Mirielle started crying again and threw herself at Ed and kissed him on the lips. Ed's eyes widened and he stood there in shock. Mirielle broke the kiss after a minute or two and looked into ed's eyes.

"That's all I wanted from you...So why couldn't you just tell me the truth? I thought you cared for me Edward... But I was wrong, if you really cared about me you would've told me everything..."

She moved around Ed and walked away once he turned around. He wanted to go after her but he was frozen in his tracks. All he could do was stand there and watch her leave him alone once again.

I want to move but I can't...Mirielle...Come back...Please...

Ed just stood there for the remainder of the night and Mirielle slept in a spare room. After a couple more hours Ed fells to his knees and leaned against the wall.

"So this...Is what it feels like to be left by someone you love..."

He closed his eyes and fell asleep.