A/N: I'm really sorry I haven't been able to get the next chapter out faster!! I've been really busy with school work, I had to finish basketball season and now softball season has started, so REALLY sorry. But hey, at least I was sick today, so it gave me some time! ;) Take it away, Kat!

Kat: CM does not own FMA, but she owns myself, Mel, Teal, Zach and all the other OC's.

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"Okay, calm. Deep, calming breaths." I tell Melina. And she does just that.

Melina and I have been spending the last, oh I don't know, 5 minutes freaking out. Teal and Zach knew about the FMA series. Teal had watched it but Zach mostly just knew about it. Zach wasn't the greatest at keeping secrets either. He could, but when you did something as little as tickling him, he blurt out the whole truth. Teal, on the other hand, could keep the secret, but only after she finished beating the crap out of Mel and I for not telling her.

"Okay, I'm calm now." She sighs. The doorbell rings and we jump, "Calmness officially gone!!!!! What now!!??"

"Uhhh......closet!!!!"

"Closet?" Everyone stares at me. "Why closet?"

"So they can hide, duh!" I grab Ed and Al's arms, shove them inside and slam the door shut. There was a loud thump inside but other than that, completely quiet.

"OH KAT!!!" Teal exclaims happily, skipping inside. And guess what was in her hand. The freaking camera.

"You'll never take me alive!!!!" I cry, running to the side. Next thing I know, Zach is sitting on my back and I'm lying face down on the floor. "I hate you....."

"Good to know." Zach smirks.

"Once we heard that our little Kat had blushed from Mel we knew we just had to come get a picture." Teal states dramatically. "After all, it's once in a life time to see you, of all people, blush."

"So, what'd you say to her to make her blush?" Zach asks curiously.

"Uhhhhh....." Came Mel's response. "Monkeys?"

We all stare at her.

"Monkeys?" Teal repeats. "Why the heck would she blush about monkeys?"

"Uh....they're cute?"

"You're an idiot."

"Am not!"

"I actually agree with her on that one, Mel."

"Kat, you're so cruel!"

I stick my tongue out at her. "Now, will you please get the she-male off my back?" I say.

"I'm not a she-male!!!!" Zach yells, hitting me over the head. There go five more brain cells.

I scoff, "Well then, I definitely was mistaken. My apologies, fair maiden. Oh, I'm sorry." He hits me again. Five more brain cells, gone. "OW!"

Zach and I glare at each other, well, the best as I could anyway. Our relationship was....difficult. We were usually fighting. And when ever we fought, that usually meant he would tackle me, hit me, kick me, etc. It hurt, a lot. If we ever did have a normal conversation, it was rare. Like, once a week.

"Hey, Kat, what's with all the Alchemy books?" Teal asks, examining the large pile of books and notes.

"Uhhhhh.....no reason...." I reply.

She scoffs, "Yeah, and I'm the tooth fairy."

"It's nothing. Just uh a school report."

"What kind of school report?"

"The Alchemy kind."

She rolls her eyes. She kneels down in front of me, staring me straight in the eye. Okay, now I really have no clue what she's doing. But luckily, she wasn't like Mel and wasn't able to see through my lie's.

"Ed loves you."

Blush. Click.

Zach laughs hysterically. Teal smirks, looking at the recent picture she had took. While I'm trying to get rid of the temporary blindness you get from the flash. Seriously, the flash sucks. No wait, just pictures in general.

"I can not believe you fell for that." Teal says, shaking her head. "After all, they're not real."

"Oh.....right....." I sigh. "Anyways, you got your picture, get Bob offa me."

Bob a.k.a. Zach. It's a nickname he made us start calling him. Don't ask us why though, cause we have no idea. He's just weird that way. I think maybe it was because he didn't want us to call him Susie anymore. We used to because of his used to be shoulder length hair, it made him look like a girl.

"Fine, fine." She sighs, "Come on, Bob, you heard her. Time to get off her."

"But I dun wanna!" He whines.

"How old are you, five?" Mel asks.

"Yes." Was his reply.

Melina rolls her eyes while crossing her arms over her chest. Why she wasn't helping me, I had no idea. Maybe because she enjoys watching me get tortured by Zach. Why is it that these so called friends like watching me in pain? Teal and Mel always hit me with heavy objects and Zach uses me as a punching bag. I have some pretty awesome friends, huh?

A light bulb pops above my head and I smirk. I point in a random direction and yell, "OMG!!! COOKIES!!!"

"WHERE!?" Zach yells, frantically looking from side to side before jumping off of me to go search for the 'cookies'.

I sit up, rubbing my poor back, "Wow, he really is that stupid."

"So are you. If I recall, we told you the tooth fairy was coming to visit you and you tried pulling out all your teeth so you got money." Mel says.

"Hey shut up. That was one time. And p.s. I was SEVEN!"

"You're still stupid."

Teal sighs, hitting her forehead as Mel and I start another fight. She was pretty used to it by now, but still wished we'd give it a break. In the background, she could hear Zach searching through the cupboards of my kitchen, also most likely destroying it in the process. That was Zach and food for you. He would destroy anything just to get food. All of us were a bunch of weirdos that just so happen to be friends. Everyone thought we were insane. But we didn't care as long as we had fun.

Thump

That one sound made us all stop in what we were doing. Mel and I knew what, or more like, who it was while Zach and Teal were clueless.

Teal clears her throat, "That's my cue to say, what the heck was that?"

"Oh my gawd!!!" Zach cries. "We're all gonna die!!!!!!"

"We are not, you dope!" I sigh. "It was probably just my cat or something."

"But we saw your cat outside." Teal objects.

Well, there goes that lie.

"The Degus, it could've been the Degus." I try.

(A/N: It's a type of animal like a hamster.)

"Didn't your sister take those with her since they were hers?" She asks.

"Oh yeah....." Well, I'm out of excuses.

I nervously glance over at Mel and she sighs. All I hope is that she can get rid of Teal and Zach.

"We're working on your guys' Christmas present." She says.

"Really?! What is it!?" Zach asks excitedly.

"We can't tell you. But if you leave we can get it done faster." She smirks.

"OKAY! Come on Teal!!!" And then he ran as fast as he could out the door. The said blonde looks at us suspiciously before turning on her heal and following after the hyper boy.

I sigh in relief, flopping down into a chair in the living room. Mel opens the closet door and the two brothers tumble out, falling into a crumpled heap. I took one look and started snickering.

"Shut up! You try getting shoved into a closet!" Ed snaps at me.

"I have. I got locked in one for an hour." I yawn, acting as if it wasn't anything new.

"Why?" Al asks.

"She was on a sugar high." Mel replies, helping the youngest Elric up. "You do not want to see her on a sugar high."

"You can't blame me, it was Halloween." I defend.

She just rolls her eyes. I ignore the gesture and place my hands behind my head. Another yawn escapes from my mouth. School wears me out, even if we barely do anything. It's just because the lessons are so boring that it makes you tired. The only class I'm able to stay awake in is Socials now because I'm scared the substitute might kill me.

"So did you bring any more books?" The eldest Elric asks.

I crack open one eye to look at him, "My day was fine, how was yours?" He growls a little and I sigh, "I'm joking. Jeez, you need to loosen up a bit. Anyways, I brought home some notes, but no books."

"Why didn't you just sign out the books?" Mel asks.

"You know why. The librarian scares the shit out of me." I reply.

"Oh yeah, because you des-."

"Shut up, it was an accident."

"Can I just see the notes?" Ed sighs. He didn't have time for another fight.

I look to him and nod. After retrieving them from my backpack, I hand them to him and watch as he walks over to the couch and starts his research, once again. Al soon joined him. Mel and I look at each other, shrug and head towards the kitchen. We were hungry. She had to share her lunch, again, with me because I forgot my lunch, again. We had to starve together. It also didn't help that our class after lunch was French. The French room is really close to the Foods room and they usually have the door open. And then there's the ventilation system in our school, so we got a good whiff of whatever they were cooking.

Mel reaches into my pocket and I oddly look over at her. Pulling what she wanted out, she smirks. In her hand was my blue iPod.

"And why do you have my iPod in your small hand?" I ask.

She lets the small comment slide and continues to reply, "Because I wanna listen to music."

"Don't you have an iPod?"

"I forgot it at home this morning."

"Aren't you brilliant."

"I know!"

I roll my eyes, pulling two popcorn packages out from the cupboard. She proceeds to plug my iPod into my speakers and turn it on. She loved music almost as much as me, maybe even as much as me. Who knows? I don't really mind either when she takes my iPod. We have most of the same favorite music genres, too. And then the weird songs we enjoy, like 'ROFLMAO' or 'Waka Laka'.

I click the numbers on the microwave before pressing start just as Mel chooses the song she wants to listen to. It just so happens to be 'Dude Looks Like A Lady', another one of our favorite songs. It's just because it's so random. We look over at Ed and Al in the living room and see their looks that clearly said, 'What the hell?'. After we saw that, we burst out laughing.

After a few minutes of laughing and randomly striking dance moves in my kitchen, the popcorn is finally finished. Mel and I grab the bags and plop down on the floor in the living room. After school, we usually hung out. Either to do homework together or just to fool around. It was usually the second one, though.

"What do ya think of the new substitute?" Mel asks curiously.

"Scary yet really cool. I mean, seriously, she is you know who or whatever." I reply.

"So true." She grins. "It was so funny when Mrs. C. totally attacked Erich and them."

"I know!" I agree, eating some popcorn.

We get off that topic and start talking about other things. For example; anime. It's one of our favorite topics to talk about. It was amazing that the brothers were able to tune us out. We're really loud sometimes.

"Did you hear Ouran High School Host Club in English yet? Tamaki sounds just like Ed!!!" I chuckle.

Ok, that seemed to get Ed's attention.

"Yeah, I heard. It was so funny! I kept getting this picture in my head of Edo in the Ouran uniform." Mel agrees, chuckling as well.

"Then trying to flirt with girls. HA! Could you even imagine that? Our little Edward Elric part of a host club?" I smirk.

"It would be the end of the world." She states and we burst out laughing.

"What are you talking about?" Ed asks, obviously irritated.

We look over at him. I get a mental image of him in the Ouran uniform again and start snickering. The blonde alchemist just seemed to get more irritated. His brother also seemed to hear Mel and I laughing, well it was loud, and was now listening. He was curious as to what we were laughing about. And what was making his brother so irritated.

"What are you talking about?" Ed repeats but more demanding sounding. He didn't seem to like having people laughing at him when he didn't really know why. He just knew it had to do with him, some guy named Tamaki and a host club.

"Forgive me, FullMetal." I joke, bowing down. Mel and I laugh again.

WHAK!

It seemed the short tempered alchemist had had enough. Because I now had a red mark on my forehead from having a freakin' book thrown at me!! Mel and Al stare in shock as Ed and I glare at each other, my right eye twitching. I was so close to killing him right then and there.

He scoffs, "Serves you right."

That's it.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Was my war cry as I leaped forward, tackling the blonde which causes us to fall off the couch.

Mel sighs, hitting her forehead with the palm of her hand. Al stood quickly, obviously in shock from my attack. Ed deserved it though! He shouldn't pick on girls, ones younger than him none-the-less! Okay, that sounded like something a mother would say, but whatever!

I bite Ed's hand, causing a surge of pain to rush through me. I quickly pull away with a yelp. I rub my jaw, "How the hell did I forget that was your auto-mail!?" His response was shoving myself off of him and getting up. I glare at him, crossing my arms over my chest.

"Kat, just don't even try to beat someone up. You tried with Josiah and yet you lost ALL the time." Mel sighs. Wow, she sighs a lot.

Josiah is a friend of ours, but he moved away when we were eleven. He was one of my best friends, practically a brother to me. I missed him a lot, but I visit him almost every summer. Like Mel and I, he was a huge dork. We would all do some of the weirdest stuff. If I recall correctly, I remember we once had a plastic sword fight, claiming that who ever won got the last cookie. And, of course, I lost.

"Whatever! And plus, that dude was way taller than me and way stronger." I defend myself.

"Well, duh. You used to be short, Josiah's just naturally tall and practically everyone's stronger than you." She lifts one of my arms, "There's almost no muscle."

I snatch it away, "Yeah right! I need muscles to be able to play softball, don't I? So," With that, I stick my tongue out at her but she just rolls her eyes. She sighs and rolls her eyes a lot! Jeez, she really needs a new hobby besides sighing and rolling her eyes at my idioticness.... That's probably not a real word so it is now.

"You're so immature." She stands up, stretching her arms above her head.

"Finally, someone agree's with me." Ed says, now sitting back in his spot on the couch.

I huff, "You two are so mean to me. Al's the only one who's nice to me, and I luffles him for it."

"He's just naturally nice." Ed crosses his arms, Al heaving a deep sigh next to him. "And what the hell does 'luffles' mean?"

"It means love. She says it instead of love, for reasons unknown." Mel explains.

"Because it sounds cooler."

"...There's your answer."

"So what? She loves my brother now or something?" Asks Ed, pointing a finger at the flushed boy next to him.

I scoff, "No, like a brother, then yeah."

"She says it to everyone, trust me. She said to a lady who served us ice cream once. I think Kat might've scared her 'cause she dove across the counter to hug the chick." Mel shrugs, "She'll probably say it to you too, Ed, eventually." She turns back to me, a small smile on her face, "And then you'll kiss and her fantasies will finally be coming true." She giggles, quickly dodging my punch.

"Shut up!!" I yell, "What the hell do you know, anyway!?"

"That you're very easy to read." She quickly slings her backpack over her shoulder, dodging another one of my sloppy attacks. "I gotta go now, seeya tomorrow Kat!!" As soon as she finished her sentence, she raced to the door and out of my house, slamming the door on her way out.

"God, I'll kill her!!!" I shout, clenching my fists at my sides. "Why the hell does she always pick on me!? I mean, there's Teal and Bob!! It's obvious they like each other, so why can't she tease them and not me about my so called 'fantasies'!!!!" I storm around the living room, ranting on and on. It seemed the brothers found it amusing and scary at the same time; one of them seeming a little more flustered than the other.

"God dammit!" I throw my hands to my head, clutching hand fulls of hair like I was about to tear them out, out of frustration. "Who cares about guys anyways! I don't want a damn boyfriend, can't she get that freaking message inside her brain! Oh yeah, she doesn't have one!" I groan, letting my hands drop as I turn to look at the brothers, "You know what, I really need to beat the crap out something. Ed, come here."

He glares at me, "No way! I'm not going to be your punching bag."

"Guys, come on, not another fight." Al says. His voice sounded pleading, like he really didn't want us to fight again. I think it might be starting to become a habit. Oh well! It's fun to piss him off anyway.

I nod at Alphonse, smiling apologetically and scratching the back of my head. "Anyways, I should probably get started on my homework. I'll talk to you guys later." I exit the room, shutting my parents bedroom door behind me.

I flop down on the bed. I actually didn't have any homework, surprisingly. Well, the real story is that I 'accidently' forgot it at the school. Don't tell Mel, I think she'll kill me. The real reason I left was because I needed to think. I usually do this, just cut myself off from everyone else and think out my problems. It felt like I really needed to right now, anyways.

I roll onto my side, the bright red letters of the clock displayed before me. It's true, what I said. I don't want a boyfriend- or more like, another boyfriend. The last I had one was a long time ago, like, a REALLY long time. It's because relationships are so...difficult. When I had a boyfriend, I just always felt stressed out with no idea what to do. Maybe it's just because I didn't really like him that way but more as a brother figure. But... Ed's different...

I groan, Don't let your thoughts go there, Kat!! You're just helping Ed, nothing else can happen... would happen.... Besides, he probably doesn't even really like me.... Yippee, the guy I think is awesome doesn't like me. Gee, that makes me feel so special...

I sigh, silence lingering around me. It was actually really relaxing.. Until something slammed against 'my' bedroom window. I look over, seeing Zach's squished face against the glass. I raise an eyebrow before slowly closing the curtains to hide him.

"Wow... he just took weird to a new level." I mumble to myself. Something clicks inside my head and I wonder out loud, "Wait, if Zach's here... isn't Teal?...Oh crap!"

I throw my parents bedroom door open, causing the brothers to look at me curiously. And, like I figured, outside the large living room window was Teal, her eyes wide and mouth hanging open.

She lifts a shaking hand to point at the two brothers, "EEEEEEEAAAAAAAA!!!!!" It sounded like she couldn't decide if she wanted to fan girl squeal or scream.

I sigh, hitting my forehead. My life just got a little bit more complicated.