Disclaimer: I do not own FMA or its original characters, but I do own this story and the characters that I made up
This chapter is really short, so I'll put up the next one right after this one :). I hope you like the shortness.
A month later Ed and Calien had yet another birthday in Roy's office. Calien was 16 and Ed was 18. They were grown up now, in only three years Ed would leave the military. Al would be 17 in a month. Ed watched Calien again as she hugged everyone there. He was reminded again that Central was her home. He made the decision to make his home there, but they would get a place in Resembool too, to spend the summers there. He smiled to think of Calien as his wife. Calien handed Ed a small box.
"This is for you, Ed," she said with a smile. He opened the box and found a framed black and white picture. The picture showed his mother and father together with two people he didn't recognize. The other woman looked very similar to Calien, and the man with her wore a military uniform. He looked at Calien puzzled.
"Those are your parents with my parents...before we were born," she smiled warmly at him.
"Our parents knew each other?" He asked.
"Yes...our fathers met in the military, but only saw each other at headquarters, and then you were born, so my father never saw your father again," Calien explained.
"I thought it would mean a lot to you to see it..." She added with a whisper.
"It's amazing," he smiled at her.
"Where'd you find it?" Al asked peeking over Ed's shoudler.
"Daddy showed it to me, he found it in some file somewhere around here," she grinned at Roy who shrugged.
"Actually, Calien, I have something for you too...I made it," Ed said with a proud smile. He took a small item from his pocket and held it out to her in his hand. It was a small gold ring with a thin band and a red stone in the shape of a heart.
She gasped when she saw it, "Oh, Ed it's beautiful," there were tears in her eyes, she was so happy in that moment with Ed and Roy and the rest of the people that she loved. Ed slipped the ring onto her left ring finger and smiled when he saw that it fit perfectly.
Later that night, Ed told Calien that he and Al were going back to Resembool, but they would only be gone a week. It would be just a short visit because Winry hadn't seen them since they had gotten their bodies back. Calien couldn't go with them because her school year wasn't over yet, and she would stay and finish school.
The boys left a week later, little did they know that when they got back, everything would be different.
Yay! The story is almost over, I don't believe it. Next chapter requires a lot of pretending on your part, my dear readers. I hope you're good at it :). Anyhow I hope you liked this chapter, remember to review. (Thanks again for reading!)