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The next morning, I woke to someone shaking me gently. I opened my eyes slowly and saw Ed's smiling face. I grinned.

"Time to wake up," he said.

"Well, good morning to you, too." I sat up and stretched.

Sally came into our room, her long hair in a ponytail. "I see you're finally awake."

"Yeah. I had to wake her up." Ed crossed his arms and looked at me smugly.

I stuck my tongue out at him.

Shadow scampered into the room, past Sally, and jumped onto the bed.

Al walked in after him. "Morning, Jessi."

"Hi, Al." I looked at Ed, still next to my bed. "Are we going to go to the train station?"

He grinned at me. "You better get ready!"

I smiled. "Then get out!"

Sally was already gone, and Al had followed her out. Ed started walking to the door, but then he looked back at me warmly. I stared at him smugly, making Ed continue his way out the door.

Under the long gray coat that I wore yesterday, I had a purple ankle-long skirt, which I had slept in, and a blue long-sleeved shirt, which I had also slept in. My coat had been draped over the headboard of my bed and my boots had been under the bed. It didn't take long to get ready.

I trumped down the stairs, Shadow on my tail. Sally, Ed and Al were gathered around the door.

Sally opened the door and ushered the boys out. She stopped to give me a hug.

"And before you go," she said, "Allison wanted me to give you this." Sally held up a silver pendant and put it in my hands. "She was here a month ago, and she said her mother found it in the ruins of your house."

"Thanks, Sal!" I leaped down the steps and waved at her.

She waved back, and then went inside.

Ed and Al had kindly waited for me.

"Thanks, guys," I said.

"That sounded like you thought we were gonna leave without you," Ed said, chuckling. "Why would we do that?"

I sighed. "Well, how I treated you, Ed, yesterday–"

"Will you give that up?" Ed yelled.

I decided not to say anything, so I nodded.

We started walking in the direction of the train station. I looked at the necklace still in my hand, then held it up. Dangling off it was a charm that had seven people and two dogs on it.

There was a man (my father), a woman (my mother), a boy holding a dog (my fifteen-year-old brother Will and his dog Sugar), a girl holding a dog (myself and Shadow), two baby girls in my mother's arms (twins Annabel and Emmabelle), and a girl not as tall as me, my seven-year-old sister Danielle.

Al peered at the necklace. "Whoa!" he said. "Who are those people?"

I grinned at him, tears in my eyes. "They're my family." That's when I broke down. I fell into Al (he held me, of course) and started crying. He picked me up and held me like I had held Anna and Emma, which made me cry more.

I calmed down after a bit. "I'm sorry, guys," I said, my voice quivering.

"That's all right, Jessi," said Al. "Our mom died when I was nine and Brother was ten."

"How old are you now?" I asked.

"I'm fourteen and Brother is fifteen," Al said. I wondered if Al always explained stuff when him and Ed met new people.

"Hey, Ed? Thanks for letting Shadow and me come with you guys." Al was still holding me, so I was pretty much talking to Ed's back. "Where are we going, anyway?"

"Central City." He turned his head to look at me, and grinned. "Ever heard of it?"

I racked my brain for any mention of Central City, but found nothing. "Nope."

By that time, we had reached the station. Ed joined a line to get tickets.

"Um, Al? You can put me down now," I said, blushing because of the people staring at us.

"Whoops. Sorry." He set me on the ground, but people kept staring at him.

We walked to a bench and sat down. Shadow jumped into Al's hands.

"Al, has their ever been someone you've just met, but you instantly have a crush on them?"

He was silent for a moment. "No," he said, " but you like Brother, don't you?"

I blushed. "How'd you know?"

"If you liked me, you would have talked about it to Brother." Al looked at me and I saw his eyes squint. He was smiling, I could tell.

"Al, you're one of the nicest people I've ever known," I said, hugging him.

"I've go the tick–ah!" Ed must have been surprised to see me hugging his brother like that, so I let go and blushed again.

I grinned sheepishly. "I was just hugging Al because he's so nice!"

"Yeah!" Al agreed.

Ed eyed us suspiciously. "Well, anyway, I've got the tickets."

We boarded a train and sat in a seat that was in an empty car.

I glanced around. "Where is everyone?"

Ed shrugged.

Shadow, who was sitting on Al's lap, jumped off and ran down the car.

"Hey!" Al stood up and chased him.

I was sitting diagonal from Ed, so, at the moment, the seat between me and the window was empty.

Ed was staring out the window, his chin propped up by the palm of his hand. I gazed at him softly.

He looked at me, feeling my gaze. "What?"

"Your hair," I said. "It's so beautiful."

Smiling, he took out the crimson ponytail holder and unbraided his hair.

I moved to the seat next to him. "Ed, can I rebraid your beautiful hair?"

"Sure," Ed said, grinning.

I smiled and took his hair in my hands. I divided it into three sections, then braided each section. I finished by braiding those three braids into one final one.

"It's done."

Al came back, holding Shadow. "Did Jessi rebraid your hair, Brother?"

"Yep." Ed took the braid and looked at it. "Wow! This is awesome!"

I blushed and grinned. "Thank you." It was a simple thing that could be done easily. Where I got it from, I couldn't remember then.

As marveled at his new hair-do, I realized just how cute he was. Yes, I said it. Cute. And after all that squabbling...

Later, I was still sitting next to Ed, so Shadow had taken my spot. He was sleeping.

I also felt my eyes start to droop. Closing my eyes, I leaned on Ed's right shoulder. I moved a bit; his arm felt a little hard.

After a while, Al started giggling. Probably at me and my secret. Yeah, Al was laughing because I liked Ed and I was dozing on him. Finally, I fell asleep.

In the evening of that day, I woke up. I felt something around my body. Touching it, I discovered that Ed's arm was around me. I blushed.

"Hi, Jessi," Al said, a grin in his voice. "Did you have a nice sleep?"

I smiled. "Yeah." Trying to sit up, I realized that Ed's cheek was on top of my head. So, he must be sleeping, too, I thought.

"Brother fell asleep," said Al, petting Shadow. The pup was awake, but he was on his back, getting his belly scratched.

"I see that," I said. I didn't want to wake Ed up, so I didn't move at all.

Al looked out the window. "It's getting late; it's dark."

"What?" I looked outside, not turning my head. "Whoa! I've been asleep for a long time!" I turned my eyes back to Al. "Does he know? My secret?"

"No," Al said. "Brother got pretty suspicious when I laughed at him when you fell asleep, though."

I grinned. "So, are we almost there?"

"I think so." He glanced at Shadow.

I yawned, but stopped mid-yawn when I felt Ed's hand creeping up my body. It stopped when it was touching my breast.

"AAH! YOU PERVERT!" I stood up and kicked him in the stomach, waking him up.

Ed's eyes opened wide. He was sort of struggling to breathe. I figured I had knocked the wind out of him.

"What did I do?" he yelled at me.

"You touched my breast!" What kind of sick. perverted...?

Al sighed. "Here we go again..."

"How was I suppose to know?" Ed shouted. "I was asleep!"

"Just don't tell me you enjoyed it, and I won't hurt you," I said.

He grinned evilly. "I enjoyed it."

I could literally feel the color draining from my face. I stood over Ed, ready to hit him. Which is what I did. In the gut. Again.

"Ow!" he whined.

I smiled triumphantly. "Toldja I'd hurt you!"

"Do I have to separate you two?" Al said. Shadow barked at us.

"Great," I said. "My own dog's turned against me."

I crossed my arms and sat down.

"You actually believed me?" Ed said, putting his arms behind his head and looking at the ceiling. "How gullible can a person get?"

"Well, excuse me: I said. "So I was a spazz for having you touch my breast! What am I suppose to do?"

"You could get your head out of the gutter," he mumbled.

"What about you? Placing your hands where you shouldn't," I growled at him. "Just because I like you doesn't–" I covered my mouth and glanced at Al.

"Uhh...she didn't say what you might think she did, Brother," he said, embarrassment in his voice.

Ed looked stunned, having absolutely no idea what to say.

I put my hands down."Didn't mean to say that, Ed."

"You... you li– you like me?" he asked. "Is that why you fell asleep on me?"

"Yeah." I grinned sheepishly. "That and the fact that I was tired."

Ed smiled shyly, waving me off with his hand. "Yeah, yeah," he said. He turned to the window, staring out of it once more.

I didn't feel all the comfortable sitting next to him anymore. I glanced at Ed. He was still as beautiful as he was before he touched me where he shouldn't.

He had his cheek in his palm again, resting on the armrest. Ed was staring out the window.

I remembered earlier when I had rested on his shoulder, the fact that his shoulder felt hard. I had wondered why it was like that, and I wondered now.

"Hey, Ed, can I ask you something?" I asked.

He turned away from the window, focusing on me. "Yeah?"

I pointed at his right arm. "Your arm. When I was sleeping on you, I felt that it was kinda hard. Is there anything wrong with it?"

Ed looked at Al and grinned. "Should I show her?"

"Show me what?"

"She's traveling with us, isn't she?" Al's eyes squinted again. "I think so , Brother."

"Show me what?"

"This." Ed pulled his cloak up his right arm, showing a black sleeve, probably the sleeve to the long-sleeved black shirt under the cloak. He pulled back the sleeve, revealing a metal arm.

I hadn't seen anything like it before. Staring at it, I reached my hand over to touch it. I pulled back after feeling its slight coolness.

Ed smiled again. "What do you think?"

"It's pretty cool; both ways," I said. "I've never seen something like this."

"It's called 'automail'," Ed said, amused at my ignorance.

I stroked it, running my fingers over the bolts that held it together. "Did you make it?"

"No." He pulled his sleeves back over his automail. "Winry Rockbell did."

"Winry?" I was puzzled. "Okay, one: what the heck kind of name is Winry? And two: who is she?"

"Our lifelong friend," Al answered. "She lives on the outskirts of Resembool, where we use to live. We were coming back from visiting her."

"Oh." I didn't feel like asking any more questions, so I just looked out the window.

"We will be arriving in Central Train Station in nineteen hours," said someone over the PA system.

"Nineteen hours!" I cried. "Didn't you just say we were almost there, Al?"

He was counting on his fingers. "Yeah, but I think I might've miscalculated. It didn't take nearly this long last time," Al said. He shrugged. "Anyone want to play a game? Like 'I Spy'?"

"There's nothing to spy; except darkness and train seats." Ed groaned. "I can't wait to get to Central."

"Is there anything interesting in Central?" I asked.

Ed grinned again. "I just gotta get my next assignment from the Colonel, Roy Mustang."

"Hmm...Roy Mustang, you say?" I asked thoughtfully. "Sounds familiar enough." I shrugged. "Whatever."

"You know the Colonel?" Ed said, his mouth wide open. "How?"

"I just said that his name sounds familiar." I crossed my arms. "I think I knew him when I was little...Hmm."

"How?"

"Would you quit bugging her, Ed?" Al said. "She doesn't remember how, and, quite frankly, I don't care how she knows the Colonel."

Shadow, who was still next to Al, barked at Ed.

"He doesn't care either," I said, pointing at my dog, I sighed. "God, I am so bored!"

"Me too." Al didn't look like he was, though.

I glanced at Ed, who had gone back to his position on the armrest. "Aren't you bored?"

"Yeah."

I stood up. "Let's play a game, Al! 'Hide and Seek'!"

He stood up, too. "Really? Yay!"

"Can I hide first?" I asked.

"Sure."

So we played hide and seek for about forty-five minutes. It wasn't that hard to find Al, since he was around seven feet tall, and it wasn't that hard to find me, because Shadow kept leading Al to my hiding spots. But it was still fun.

We came back to our seats.

"That was fun!" I said, throwing my arms into the air. "You should have joined us, Ed."

Ed turned away from the window. "Nah."

I sat and gave him a small punch in the stomach. "You're so boring. Do you think, just because you're fifteen, you can't play like a kid anymore?" I grinned. "Al's fourteen, and I'm thirteen, yet we were both playing."

He sighed. "It's not that; it's just–"

"Brother could never find me when we were younger!" Al blurted.

"Is that it?" I giggled. "You are pretty–" I yawned– "sad."

Ed grinned. "Tired, Jessi?"

"Yeah," I said. "Mind if I sleep on you again?"

He shook his head. I layed my head on his shoulder, and Ed put his arm around me again.

"You better not touch my breast again!" I yelled at him.

"I won't."

I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

I dreamt of my brother, Will. Before the fire. When my family was still alive.

Ever since the fire, though, I had a feeling that Will was alive.

Out of all my siblings, I got along with Will the best. We never argued. Besides our own friends outside our family, we were best friends, only differing in two years of age. I missed my brother very much.

That's the end of chappie 2. Hope you like it! Oh! And before I forget, I have made an email for Edu-chan: fullmetalEdElric(underscore)notashorty(at)yahoo(dot)com. Please review!