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Free Time, Chapter Three

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The sun had risen at six in the morning and everything and everyone started to wake up. The birds were chirping merrily, exchanging their daily bird banter. Even Peter was up, tending to the flowers that Elysse had trampled over yesterday. Al, who couldnt go to sleep because he was armor, began to cook breakfast for everyone in the house. The only two people who were still snoring in bed were our two Elric twins, Edward and Elysse, the stubborn...Ok I'm going way off. Let's start again shall we?

It was afternoon when Edward had woken up. He pounded down stairs after throwing on his black tank top and black hi-rise pants.

"El, why didn't you wake me up?" he asked when he spotted his sister carrying 10 books.

She had a mad look on her face and threw a heavy alchemy dictionary at him. Edward caught it just before it took his head off.

"It's late, pipsqueak! You were supposed to wake up at seven o'clock in the morning to check out the mansion with me! Now, I have to get my stuff ready for a study session, so out of my way, out of my way!" she impatiently said.

Ed suppressed his anger about the pipsqueak comment, and blocked her way.

"You didnt answer my question! Why didn't you wake me up?" he asked.

"Because you need to learn how to wake up yourself, short stuff!" she yelled.

"Who-are-you-calling-short-that-can-be-squashed-by-a-big-foot!" he screamed.

"You know what Ed!" Elysse retorted, dropping her books on the ground and stepping menacingly toward Ed. "Sometimes you can be a pain in the neck!" With that, she stormed off.

Running up the stairs, she saw a black figure pass by in the other end of the hall. She ignored it and ran to her bedroom, slamming the door behind her after stepping in.

"That jerk!" she muttered, gathering more notebooks and pencils for studying.

She then heard foot steps, so she walked over to the door and opened it. It was just Peter.

"Hey Mr. Peter. Umm, was that you I saw pass by at the other end of the hall?" she asked.

"What do you mean young one?" he asked.

Elysse became frightened. What would be stalking her in this house?

"No it was me!" he laughed.

But Peter really had no clue to what Elysse was referring to. Therefore, he just made something up to relieve her of any fear. He continued, "You should've seen your face! Oh, oh, where are your brothers? I haven't seen them in a while"

"Oh, Al's cleaning the backyard for the tenth time today. Either he doesnt know that its fall, and leaves are gonna fall continuously, or that hes just bored and Edward is just walking around. He just woke up...from his long 'idiotic' sleep." she replied.

Peter raised an eye brow. But he got over that and changed the subject, "Oh yes, about your question last night. Free time for me? Let me show you." Peter hopped down the stairs two at a time and walked over to a pair of large ornate doors. The design was extremely intricate, with golden suns and stars decorating the smooth chocolate wood. Peter heaved open the heavy doors. Elysse gasped at the all sorts of books behind.

"Oh my lord..." whispered Elysse, as she began to look around. She slowly walked up to a shelf of books, and fingered them. Although ancient, these books were in quite good condition. Edward was wandering around the mansion, and spotted that Elysse was in the library with Peter. He tip-toed in and sat on a stool. The two didn't seem to notice his prescence, so he just listened to their conversation.

"Where did you get all these wonderful books, Mr. Peter? They're amazing!" The teen ran to the history section and pulled a book out and began to read it.

It was a book on the Ishbal Rebellion, supposedly sparked by the accidental shooting of a child. Elysse was so engrossed in the book, that if bombs fell, she probably could've read through them. It was as if she was actually living history. Elysse finished the book, and closed it. She shoved the book back in its rightful place. Peter was looking extremely amused.

"Sorry, I get carried away with books. I love them so much that I can't seem to stop reading" she said.

"Its quite alright child! I've never known any person like you to continuously read a book for two hours!"

"Wh-What! Its been two hours!" Edward was shocked because he never knew his sister was obsessed with books. He too had been sitting there for two hours, timing his sister, never taking his eyes off of her. Elysse, his stubborn twin, was a bookworm? He should've noticed when he saw her carrying so many books.

"Go ahead child, grab all the books you want to read" urged Peter.

Elysse grabbed five history books on the Ishbal Rebellion, and began to walk toward the library door. Edward tried not to get noticed by Elysse and began attempting to sneak out of the library door, but his twin spotted him.

"Edward? What are you doing here!" she said with a laugh.

Edward turned to Elysse and scratched his head, he walked up to his sister and picked up the book that was on the very top and looked at it. He said, "Wow, that's great! Lots of information..." he said.

"What? Ed, what are you up to?" asked Elysse.

"No, no. Nothing!" he answered scratching his head. "Just wondering how you're also obsessed with books too!"

"Oh really? Well give me back my book!" Elysse said annoyed, as she tried to grab it the book back. She struggled to keep the other books she had balanced.

"Why should I? Maybe if you woke me up earlier I might give it to ya' " Edward said.

"Oh shut up! I got the book first so I get it!" yelled Elysse.

"I'm older so you listen to me!" Edward yelled back.

"Yea, by like three minutes! Were twins, remember! It doesn't matter!" Elysse retorted, starting to grow angry.

"I'm smarter!" he shouted.

"I'm taller" Elysse whispered with a smile.

"Stop with the height! Show some respect for your elder brother, will ya'!" he said.

"Why should I? Were TWINS! It's ob- whoa!" she lost balanced and fell, pinning Edward to the ground. Face to face they blushed, books scattered all over the ground.

"What are you two doing?" asked Peter. The two Elric's quickly stood up and sweat dropped.

"Hmm, since Elysse has an obsession with books I'll give her my library. In fact you're all free to stay as long as you like" Peter said with a grin.

The two eldest turned to each other and smiled, both running out of the library to tell Al the great news. Peter sighed, "Kids..." he finished with a grin. But he soon frowned. If it wasnt him who was in the hallway, who was it?

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Yumizuki finished correcting chapter three! I hope you like it, she spends hours trying to correct these but she also writes her own fanfiction of course! Please review!