Chapter 5: A Forbidden Dance

Two weeks later, Roy was healed from the poisoning and the homunculi were assassinated; now a week after he was healed, Roy went back to Ishbal for another attack…

"Roy, are you ready to see the stack of papers piled on your desk?" Riza asked, giggling.

"Yes Lieutenant" Roy grumbled. Riza guided Roy to his office and it was only a paper folded neatly with the scent of someone other than Riza. He was opening it as Riza stared at it with a blank face then ran away saying she needed to use the restroom. (I hope…) Riza thought.
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"She paid for the tickets!" Roy yelled in a questioned voice. (Grace scheduled this date tonight, on the same day as my date with Riza…I have to cancel with Riza, or Grace will strangle me) Riza walked inside and stared at Roy.

"Lieutenant, about our date…" Roy started, but Riza ran to him quickly and covered his mouth. She whispered in his ear "Don't say it out loud, we might get caught, remember that we aren't even supposed to be dating." and Roy nodded.

"Well, we'll have to cancel…""Shh…okay, I'm fine with that, what about Saturday?"

"Done"
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Up until their lunch break Roy acted oddly. He actually did his work and concentrated. He didn't say anything to Riza either.

"Sir, permission to speak freely…?" Riza asked. Roy arched an eyebrow and looked at her gesturing her to speak.

"You haven't been acting like your usual self. I can understand that you've gotten very hurt…having to attack the ishbalans again last week…but couldn't you at least try to forget about everything?"

"Lieutenant, I try to forget, but it causes me to have horrors. I hate to be like this but I'm nervous and scared. I hate killing so many innocent people, why do we have to keep doing it?"

"Sir…I'm going to go eat now." Riza replied walking towards the door as she looked down at the floor, depressed.

"Sir, we're in the military to serve, I know, I hate killing so many innocent people too, but having to kill innocent people is what we do if we have to…I don't like doing this either, but I have something to do, protect you" Riza continued as she walked out of the door.

(Protect me?) Roy thought. He tried to follow her to eat but couldn't find her. (Maybe she's mad that I cancelled our date tonight…)

He saw her come out of the ladies restroom and called out to her but she just ran away. Roy just went to eat by himself then.
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Roy was leaving for his date with Grace and Riza left before him not saying a word.
(Maybe she's just giving me the silent treatment.)
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Grace was waiting for Roy inside the restaurant. It looked more like a ball room. They sat near the dance floor space and ordered their food. Then Grace looked to where the stairs were and said, "Who is that? She looks so pretty tonight" Roy looked up to the stairs and noticed a pretty blonde with a red lipstick and a pretty red dress on. He couldn't tell who it was because of the mask but he didn't care, he just cared about who she was. Then Roy thought about Riza (Riza told me about a red dress she would wear to our date one day…maybe she was going out by herself!) Roy thought.

While the blonde, was walking down the stairs she spotted Roy and Grace and just walked a little slower. (Roy is there…perfect!)

Poor Roy was jealous. He wanted to be her date tonight. She was probably someone else, Riza never wore makeup.

"Roy, stop it!" Grace interrupted in Roy's thoughts

"Oh, yeah" Roy replied depressed.
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Riza knew that Roy and Grace would be here. She was here on purpose, Roy had a date, but since Roy kept staring at her, she knew that maybe he would ditch Grace and have a dance with her, maybe even have dinner with her, but since other single men were staring too, she probably had no chance for a dance with Roy.

She got down to the floor when all the men, without dates, stood up asking for a dance with her. She denied all of them.

Roy happened to stand up and asked her for a dance. She accepted and he led her to the dance floor, leaving Grace mad like how Edward would when you call him short.
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"Why wear the mask?" Roy asked

"Excuse me, dear sir?" Riza replied as Roy spun her into his arms

"Riza, why must you wear the mask?"

"You're on a date with Grace, I can't give out my identity just like that, she'll chase after me. Plus…we aren't supposed to show love to each other…and I wanted to dance with you, without anyone knowing."

"Riza…" He whispered.
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They danced while the other men who wanted to dance with Riza were waiting for Roy and Riza to stop dancing.

Roy took off Riza's mask and dropped it on the floor making it break, to surprise everyone so that they would all look to their direction. To their surprise he kissed the pretty blonde and left without a word, leaving Riza surprised, but happy.
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Oh! I need a more steamy part in this story, don't worry, it'll come ;).

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x33 Milisa
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