Disclaimers: Not mine! NOT MINE!
Chapter 4: Hear, There and Everywhere
"You know Full Metal you really don't have to know this much now do you?"
"But dear brother, I want to know more about you!" Ed said dramatically making them all laugh a little.
"Oh fine, but Maese don't get out of line with detail alright?"
"Wow your lucky Ed, he's letting you hear the story and then live to tell about it."
"Its ok Maese because I got a story for him about you." Maese's grin fell immediately.
"Ok now look…"
Maese's POV
"Ok, now you guys ate, and played for two hours. Its time for bed! Its 1:00 in the morning." an irritated 12 year old Zolf said through teeth.
"But Kimby we need to play!" Roy said excitedly while jumping up and down.
"But Roy, Zolf needs to get up for work in three hours!"
"But Olf…please?" he asked giving puppy dog eyes. I knew that he always fell for them. Zolf's eyebrow began to twitch 'I will not fall for them…I will NOT fall for them…aww man I hit the ground!'
"Only for ten more minutes but that's all ok? Do you hear me?"
"Yes Kimby!"
"Yes Mr." Alex said…he was truthfully afraid of him I tried so very hard not to laugh.
"Thanks bro."
"Who knows…maybe I'll have enough energy after work to be able to go to the P-a-r-k." he told Alex. I was trying to put the letters together in my head as was Alex but thank goodness for Roy's quick mind.
"We're gonna go to the park!"
"HOW do you know how to spell! Your only five!" Zolf said in pure shock.
"Yeah but he looks like he's two 'cause he's so short!" I said knowing just how to get Roy started.
"Who are you calling so short that if a baby sneezed on him he would drown to death!" Roy said in pure fury. I loved to get him going. He was only four but he had the temper of a snake!
"Roy stop it. And for the record he didn't say that. Maese quit picking on your brother!"
"It's not MY fault that he's so short!" I was grinning now and I knew it. I'm gonna pay for it…three…two…one
I was tackeled to the floor with what felt like a teenager. Note to self, Roy's stronger than what he seems. He began to pull my hair and I his. Just as he was about to bite me smack in my forehead we heard a clap then felt a hand on us.
"Hmm….I don't know, Alex do you think it's a bad idea that I do this?" he asked to a now nervously sweating Alex.
"YES IT'S A BAD IDEA!" both Roy and I yelled. We knew what came from those two hands. We new for a fact that it was anything but good.
"Well then I think you better settle down and enjoy your now 7 minutes of playtime left."
"Um…Kimby…I'm turning gray." I saw a quick flash of a grin cross his face but quickly he turned into his dramatic self that would make most people believe him and for Roy being so young didn't catch onto his tatics yet.
"Oh no…you're a living bomb now Roy."
"What! You can fix it right?" he asked worriedly.
"Um…sure….I think."
"I'm gonna blow up!" Roy said with waterfalls coming out of his eyes. Zolf lost it.
"I'm just kiddin! Of course I know how to fix it…do you honestly think that I would threaten you two if I didn't know how to undo what I've done?" the room went quiet. I myself didn't really know the answer to that question.
"Oh you two are rotten kids." he said.
And with that he headed for the staircase. He looked at us and said
"Bed. Now."
"But you said we could play some more!" Roy whined.
"Play in your bedroom and give the living room a rest. Maese turn out the light since your brother can't reach it. Roy stop climbing the wall to prove me wrong…thank you Alex now head up the steps with him." Zolf said it all on one breath as Alex was now holding Roy and carrying him up the stairs.
We all got up stairs and then we played for more than seven minutes. The clock now said 1:30. Alex began to yawn.
"Roy our guest isn't used to staying up like we are."
"Of course he isn't…he probably goes to bed at like 11..." he shivered then looked at me.
"We should be glad that Kimby don't make us go to bed THAT early." Roy then looked at Alex who was giving him a 'you gotta be kidding me' look that he normally gets.
"I usually go to bed around 8:30..." both Roy and I gasped.
"But…you can still see light around that time!"
"I know but according to my mother we need to sleep in order to grow."
"Heh. You can sure tell Roy don't sleep then." I then got whacked on the head with a pillow.
"You can sure tell you don't get any either…being all skinny and all."
"Shut up Roy." that last comment hurt. It wasn't my fault that Jimmy starved me. I tired to eat. I didn't want to end up like this. I actually wanted to be chubby like Alex.
"Well then don't call me short because I'm not!"
"Where am I going to sleep?"
"On Maese's bed." I almost choked on my spit with this news.
"WHAT! Why do I have to sleep on the floor! He's your guest!"
"But I can't sleep on the floor 'member! I always had to use Kimby!"
"That aint right Roy! I should be able to sleep in MY BED!" I was so mad I could feel my cheeks turning red.
"I'll just sleep on the floor…its not a big deal really!" Alex said wishing to stop the argument.
"NO! YOU'RE THE GUEST YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR!" both of them yelled at the same time.
"IF YOU GUYS DON'T SHUT UP AND GET INTO BED THERE AREN'T GONNA BE ANY BUNKBEDS 'CAUS I'LL BLOW THEM UP AND THEN YOU'LL ALL HAVE TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR!" I heard Zolf bellow. Uh-oh. He was mad. Best we just go to bed now.
Finally we decided that Roy was to sleep with me on the top bunk and Alex was to have Roy's comfortable bed. I jump on my bed a lot so it was a little worn down. Roy's was still firm since he usually ended up falling asleep on the couch and then Zolf let him sleep there since he was such a light sleeper…and if you wake Roy up…or not gonna get him back to sleep for a while.
I was almost asleep. Somehow he talked me into getting the wall side. I then heard him begin to whimper. I tried to shake him awake but it wasn't working.
"No…no…NO!" ok I know for a fact that Zolf heard it. Any minute now…
"You cant…you cant make me!" Roy was now screaming. Alex was up now.
"What's wrong with him!" he asked worriedly, I temporarily forgot about how protective Alex was about everything.
"I..I don't know he's having a nightmare I guess!"
"Well wake him up!" Alex told me as if I were an idot.
"You don't think I tried that already! Look. Roy! Come on man get up!" nothing happened he was now begging to thrash.
"Kimby! Make it stop!" he then began to choke. with that last plea Zolf exploded into the room…literally. Hey he had to fix the door not me.
"What's wrong! Roy!"
"He's having a nightmare…" Zolf pulled him down from the top bunk sat on the floor while cradling him and began to shake him awake while calling him. Maybe I wasn't saying it nice enough.
"Roy…hey Roy." Roy's eyes began to open. He saw who was holding him and immediately began to cry into Zolf's shirt.
"What…what was your dream about?" Zolf said a little bit cautiously. I think we all knew the answer. He must've been having nightmare's about what Jimmy did to him.
"Oh Kimby it was horrible!" he looked up tears were still coming out of his eyes.
"Tell me Roy…please?" he asked him gently.
"It was about…about…the carton of milk…it attacked me and made me drink it!" I fell off the top bunk, Alex fell backwards onto his mattress and Zolf's face went blue around his eyes and his arms went limp. He looked down at Roy and his eye twitched and I could see the vein above his eyebrow begin to twitch.
"Is that all Roy?"
"Yeah…it was awful!"
"Ok…do you think that you could-"
"No! Please don't! Please let me sleep with you!"
"But what about your company." Zolf asked. Just then a bolt of lightning hit right outside of the house causing Alex to jump off of his bed and ran right behind Zolf.
"Can I sleep with you too? I'm afraid of thunderstorms…."
"Aw man, you mean you are too?" he asked knowing full well that I was deathly afraid of them too. For I too was hiding behind them.
"Ok…I guess we can all fit. Let's go…I gotta get up for work in an hour!"
"Can't you call off?"
"Do you wanna live in a box?"
"Nope. Ok well I hope it'll get ya through the day though." I said to him.
We all hoped in bed. Roy like always used Zolf as a bed and ended up calling him "dad" before he fell asleep…and Alex and I were on either side of him digging into his ribs each time thunder struck. It, like always was the safest place to be on a night of a storm
NORMAL POV
Ed was in a fit of laughter. The whole story was just too much for him.
"So, you don't like milk either?" he asked looking at Roy.
"NO I don't. I really didn't appreciate being called short either."
"Wow, maybe we do have some things in common." Ed said with a small smile.
"That is a horrible dream though"
"Thank you! Finally somebody else who understands what I went through."
"I don't blame you. I would've screamed the moment I saw it at your age. So you all ran to Kimbley then huh? Wow whatta story. I honestly think that has got to be the best one I've heard yet!
"Now wait Full Metal…you ready for the one where Maese impersonated Zolf so that our brother could get some sleep? He dragged me with him that day. Heh, we drugged Zolf in order to pull it off..."
"Oh no!" Maese said as he remembered it. He then himself began to giggle.
"Is that the one where I found you guys afterward?" Alex asked.
"Yup."
"Oh god. Elric you should listen closely to this one…it was hysterical whence I heard the WHOLE thing."
Ed looked between the three of them. He just couldn't wait to hear the next one.
A/N: Whew-we! TWO CHAPTERS IN ONE DAY! This has got to be the longest one I've written yet! I was onna role so why stop right? Lol I hope you all liked it. PEOPLE PLEASE REVIEW!