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CHAPTER 7 – Monday Confusion
Riza watched Roy leave. He had looked so lonely walking home alone. She had watched him stroll down the street, which was still wet from the rainstorm last night.
Riza sighed. It was now around 11pm and she was really tired but for some strange reason her body wouldn't let her sleep. Her body felt like running a marathon yet her mind could barely register where she was.
Black Hayate was curled up at the end of her bed, kicking in his sleep. Riza sat up and brushed his fur soothing him. She whispered to him that it was only a dream. He awoke and licked his master's hand. She chuckled drawing her hand away from his slobbering tongue.
When Roy had gotten home that afternoon he was happy. He sauntered into his house not bothering to check the messages on his answering machine. For once he dove into his alchemy books looking for ways to transmute a gift for Riza.
The next thing he knew he had a beautiful rose carved out of rock. He made sure it didn't leave dirt all over the place for he knew that Riza wouldn't appreciate that. He carefully placed the statue into a box and wrapped it up with a dark red ribbon. He set the box with his present inside on the kitchen table so he didn't forget it the next morning.
Roy grew tired and forgot to eat dinner. He wasn't feeling hungry so he stripped of his uniform (which by the way he had been wearing since Friday). His body felt oily but his muscles felt too tired to sleep.
His thoughts kept wandering back to Riza and how she was doing. He tossed and turned the whole night only dozing off around midnight.
The next morning Riza awoke to Black Hayate licking her toes. She rolled over in her bed expecting to see Roy. To greet her was a big space of nothing but bed sheets. A frown crept across her face.
Mentally she kicked herself. Of course he wasn't there. It was Monday. The weekend, Riza decided, went by too fast. She couldn't believe how far she had fallen for Roy. To her it was the miracle of the century. She remembered way back when she was in the Ishbal War. Then she had seen him as a stuck up, know-it-all state alchemist. Back then she had no idea how wrong she was. Riza in present day had no clue how she had come to feel this way about him.
Riza felt like running into his arms having Roy hug her tight, forever. A wave of despair washed over her; Riza felt like she was drowning. She was ripped from the sea of hopelessness by a bark from Hayate. She pat the dog lightly on the head.
"I'm ok boy… I'm ok."
Unwillingly, Riza drug herself out of bed and into the bathroom shutting the white wooden door behind her.
Roy woke up cringing at the sound that blared through the small room. Reaching his arm over to the bedside table, he hit one of the big buttons on top of the clock. Sighing, Roy rolled back onto his back wishing he were somewhere else, somewhere like Riza's house.
He stared around his room. Roy heard nothing but the sound of his own breathing. How he hated mornings. It wasn't the fact that he had to go to work, but don't get him wrong like every other person he didn't like to. It was the fact of waking up to nothing but his breathing and the alarm clock struck him in the heart.
No one here for me. No one to say good bye to, no one to come home to.
Roy could only sigh at the thought. Nothing could prepare him for what he was going to experience at the office that day.
Opening the office door reluctantly Riza walked through the maze of cubicles to her office towards the back. She was receiving odd looks from the people around her. An expression of confusion and annoyance appeared on her face.
"What? If you have something to say, say it." She glared at them all in the eye one after another. Shaking her head she walked into the office.
"Sir, you wanna know something strange? I just got a bunch of o-" Riza stopped. Not only was the Colonel in the room but so was Maes Hughes.
To Riza, it looked as if they had been talking about something unrelated to work. From the look on Roy's face, defiantly not work related. She gave both of them a quizzical look which resulted in Maes breaking the silence that had engulfed the trio.
"Well good day Roy." He nodded to Riza, "You too Lieutenant Hawkeye." He was a foot out the door when he turned abruptly and said,
"Oh and Roy, think about what I said ok?"
"Yes, Maes." Roy replied obviously annoyed. Maes smiled and escaped the room.
Riza didn't bother to ask Roy what they had talked about. She carried her jacket over to the coat rack setting it on one of the hooks.
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A/N: ok sorry for not updating sooner. Anyway I hope u like it. Enjoy! (another cliffhanger sorry). Thanks please review!