All right. Here it is; chapter 4! Be careful, though; there's a lot of fluff! (You guys aren't mad at me for waiting for, like, forever, are you?)

Ed, Al and I were hardly in our rooms over the next week. We mostly walked around Central, shopping, eating out; stuff like that.

Ed took me to the Central Headquarters building a few times, and introduced me to more military personnel; people like Heymans Breda, Vato Farman, Kain Feury, Jean Havoc, Denny Bloch, and Maria Ross.

On this particular day, though, I met Major Alex Louis Armstrong.

Ed, Al, Shadow and I were walking up the steps to the Central Headquarters when a really tall, bald man in a military outfit ran down the stairs to greet us.

"Edward! Alphonse! The two boys with unmatched brotherly love!" the man said in a very deep and overly-dramatic voice.

"Uhh…" I said. "Ed, who is this guy?"

The man must have heard. "Major Alex Louis Armstrong is my name!" And with that, he threw off his jacket and began flexing his muscles.

"Heh heh… That's the Major," Al said.

I fainted at eh Major's action and well-developed body. Ed caught me before I hit the ground.

"Major!" Ed yelled. "Don't do that around Jessi!"

"Hm?" Armstrong took a look at me. "Who is this girl?"

I stood up. "I'm a friend of Ed and Al, only that." I looked the Major up and down. "How did you get such big muscles?"

"These muscles have been passed down the Armstrong family line," Armstrong, flexing his muscles again.

"Major, if you wouldn't mind," Al said, seeing me faint and Ed catch me again, "would you please stop doing that?"

He nodded and put his jacket back on. "Nice meeting you," he said to me.

"Same here," I said, Ed standing me up.

The Major saluted lazily and left us, heading back up the stairs.

"Why did we come here, Ed?" I asked, rubbing my head.

"Well, I needed to talk to Mustang, but I can do that tomorrow." Ed grabbed my hand and grinned. "Let's go to dinner, now, okay?"

"All righty," I said.

On the way to the nearest restaurant, though, I saw my brother again.

"Will!" I shouted. "Brother! Over here!"

He turned his head to look at me. Once Will saw me, he smiled and waved.

"Ed!" I said, turning my head and pulling on his sleeve. "Look! It's--!" I turned my head back, and saw that Will was gone.

"What?" Ed asked, looking around. "Did you see your brother?"

I shook my head sadly. I didn't want to tell him that I did, but…I wanted to, too.

We ate dinner, and came back to the hotel.

Before we went up to our rooms, Ed said, "Al, why don't you take Shadow outside for a walk?"

"All right!" Shadow followed Al out of the building.

Ed and I went up to my room. I was a little drowsy, but Ed led me inside.

He took hold of my hand. The cloth of his glove felt soft.

"Ed?" I asked. I could feel color coming into my face.

Ed pulled me closer, and I felt hesitant. Oh, God, is he gonna kiss me? The thought slammed into my head as if my head had been hit by a ball.

"Jessi, you are amazing," he said.

I blushed even more. "What's so amazing about me?" I asked, taking my hand out of Ed's and wrapping my arms around his neck. "You're the one who can make one thing into another."

Laying my head on his chest, I realized that Ed was almost my height, yet we were two years apart.

"You care for Al," Ed said, trying to come back at me.

"So do you; you're his brother."

"Yeah, but you're the only one in a long time to care about both of us."

I grinned and looked up at him. "This crush has gone a long way, Edward Elric, and I like it."

Peeking behind him, I saw that we were in front of the bed. I hugged him and pushed off, making us land on the bed.

Ed and I rolled around for a few minutes, poking each other. Funny how things so romantic can turn into things so childish, huh?

After we stopped acting like kids, Ed rolled me onto my back. 'Course, I went along with it.

I closed my eyes, and, once I opened them, saw that Ed was on his hands and knees over me. He lowered himself onto me and he brushed my lips with his own.

Again, I was hesitant, but I kissed him back and I became more relaxed. I didn't want to pull away.

Ed started to pull off the jacket I still wore. I let him, and, after it was off, started to take off his cloak.

I was letting Ed take off my shirt when there was a knock at the door.

I squealed and grabbed for my jacket. "Ed," I whispered, "go see who it is."

Nodding, he hopped off the bed and advanced to the door. Ed opened the door. "Oh. Hi, Al."

Relieved, I followed Ed to the door, still gripping my jacket.

"Were you and Jessi doing something, Brother?" Al asked. "Am I disturbing you…?" Shadow was standing next to him, his tail wagging a little.

"Why? What'd you come up here for?" Ed answered him with another question.

"Well, you two just missed dinner, so I thought I'd come up and see if you were all right."

I grinned and hugged him. "You are just so sweet, Al!"

"Uhh…" was the only response that I got from him.

Pulling back, I said, "Me and Ed were just having a little time together, that's all." That's the truth, right? I asked myself. We were "spending time together", if you can call it that. I hate lying to a guy older than me, especially Al.

"Well, if that's all…" Al turned around and walked to the stairs, Shadow following him.

Ed closed the door and turned to me. "Do you think it was a good idea to lie to him, Jessi?"

"I didn't lie." I shrugged. "We were spending time together; just intimate time."

"You're right." Ed crossed the room back to the bed. He looked back at me. "You want to start where we left off?"

I smiled. "Of course, Edward Elric," I said, trying to imitate Major Armstrong. I threw down my jacket and tried to flex my muscles. "'These muscles have been passed down through the Armstrong family line'."

Ed fell onto the bed laughing. "That's just like the Major! You know how to mimic him without knowing him for a day!"

I walked to the bed and flopped down next to him. "He's a strange dude, isn't he?"

Flipping into our position from before, Ed didn't answer, but started to take off my shirt again.

Once it was off, he looked at me. All that was on my upper body was a bra.

"You know," Ed said, "I'd thought that you would have looked much better." He grinned evilly.

"Well, let's see what you look like under there!" I quickly took off his shirt, only to find that there was a black tank top under it. Frustrated, I tore that off faster that I did the first one.

Ed's body was beautiful and muscular. Even though he had his automail arm in the open, I still thought he looked marvelous.

He sat down next to me.

"Ed," I said, "you look better than what Armstrong says he looks like! Which is really great, once you think about it."

Grinning, he took off his gloves and threw them onto the floor.

I watched them land and turned back to Ed. "Uh, why did you do that?"

He moved his left arm to me, preparing to take off my bra. When Ed started to, though, I slapped his hand lightly.

"What do you think you're doing?" I asked.

"What did it look like I was doing?" he said.

I sighed and gave Ed a hug, throwing my arms around his neck. "I'm only thirteen. I'm not ready for that."

"You're right." Ed hugged me back. "We can still kiss, though, right?"

I broke away, smiling. "Duh! I'm ready for that!"

Al must have been listening, because just then he burst through the door. "Brother!"

"Gah!" Ed fell off the bed. "Why'd you do that, Al?"

"You and Jessi were going to have sex!" Al yelled.

I blushed again. "No, Al! Uh…" I looked to Ed for an excuse.

"Al, you shouldn't have been eavesdropping on us like that," he said, climbing back on the bed.

"But you and Jessi were going to—"

"No, we weren't!" I stood up and picked up my shirt and my jacket. "I am so not ready for that, Al, and your brother knows it. Now, at least." I pulled my shirt over my head. "He did make a move on me, though. Nothing to be afraid of."

Al looked at the ground in embarrassment. "I'm sorry I disturbed you."

I waved my hand and threw my jacket onto the bed. "Whatever, Al. But, still; you shouldn't make assumptions like that! It's icky, what you thought we were gonna do."

"We shouldn't have started then," Ed said to me, picking up his gloves and shirts.

"Oh! But it was kinda fun!" I said, throwing my arms around his neck. "That doesn't mean I want to do it again, though."

He smiled. "Eh, I guess we got a little too close."

"What, to each other or…it?" I asked, my head cocked slightly.

"Forget it!" Ed said, laughing.

I rolled my eyes and grinned. Letting you of him, I said, "You are one of the greatest alive, Ed." I hit him over the head with my boot I had pulled off. "Now, you two go to bed, okay?"

Al nodded and grabbed his dazed brother's arm. "Let's go, Brother."

They left the room, and I shut the door behind them. I turned to Shadow.

"Well, that was weird," I said. "I don't know what came over me. When Ed started taking off my clothes, I just went with it. I didn't have time to think."

Shadow yawned and jumped onto the couch, which was now his bed. He curled up and layed down, still looking at me, basically telling me to go to bed.

"Fine." I changed into my pajamas and flumped onto my bed. "We're going to Headquarters again, tomorrow, so get a good rest."

I wondered again why we had to go to Headquarters. Ed had said that he needed to talk to Roy about something…but what? Could it be about me?

Heh heh...done now...