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I'm sorry if this seems a little rushed or weird, but I just got back from my concert and so I had to rush to post it up. So like I said, I'm not too happy with the second half so sorry if it seems a little off.

Disclaimer: I don't own FMA or anything FMA related. :'(

Chapter 4

"Hey are you ok?" "Ed" (although I guess he's the real one) stood up and started to come closer to me.

"No!" I shrieked. "Ju…just stay away from me!" I backed up, desperate to get away from him, in the dim hope that he would just go away and I could wake up back in reality. However I lost my balance and went flying backwards.

"Here, let me help you." Ed got up and reached his hand out to mine, clearly offering to pull me up. Instead I whimpered and flinched away from him.

I closed my eyes praying that when I opened them again, he wouldn't be there. This isn't real, this isn't real, this isn't real. I cautiously opened my eyes, afraid of what I was going to see. Looking straight back at me was the golden eyes of Edward Elric.

"Hey, please say something? Did I do something wrong?" Hah, did you do something wrong? Of course you did. You're here and that's not possible. Only someone who's insane would be able to say that this is ok. That's when I stopped. It all made sense now.

"No. Of course everything is ok." Ed looked at me, fear starting to come over his face. "I'm hallucinating. That's all. All you are is a bad piece of Dulce de Leche."

"Um, haven't we already addressed the fact that I'm real?" Ed said as I now grabbed his hand. That's funny, if he was a hallucination, I wouldn't be able to touch him. Oh well, who knows? I've never hallucinated before.

"Oh, yes. We've established that fact. But how can I know that you're real. I'm probably just seeing things." Ed just stared at me in shock.

We were both distracted by a ringing noise coming from my pocket. Ed looked at me as I pulled out my cell phone. Across the screen was the name Monique.

"What is that thing?" Ed asked, gesturing to my cell in my hand.

"My cell phone, duh." However, that only seemed to make him more confused as he frowned at the thing. I quickly hit the talk button, and heard Mo's loud voice come out of the speakers.

"Hey, Moll's, where are you?" I suddenly couldn't find the strength to speak. It was all just too weird. Here I was talking to some person who I had thought an hour ago to be a work of fiction, and my friend was calling me to see why I wasn't at the party. The same person in fact, who would probably give anything to be in my position.

"Moll's, Molly, are you there?" She spoke louder, trying to drown out the noise of the party in the background.

"Mo…" It was all I was able to squeak out.

Her voice quickly hardened. "Molly, what's wrong?"

"I…I…" I still couldn't bring myself to say the words out loud.

"Molly, tell me what is wrong." I still couldn't respond. "That's it Molly, I'm coming over right now, ok?"

"Ok…" I said quietly. What if I am really just seeing things? I don't want everybody thinking that I'm crazy. "Hey… Mo?"

"Yeah?"

"Just… just don't tell Jen, or anyone ok? I don't want everybody freaking out." I was surprised at how weak my voice sounded. No wonder Monique is worried.

"Ok Molly, I'll do that. Just stay…" I hung up on her. I just really couldn't stand to listen to it anymore. The more and more that she talked, the more it felt like this was real. I just looked down at my cell phone, terrified that it would ring again.

"What…what was that all about?" Ed's voice snapped me back into the moment.

"My…my friend just called." I slid back down against the wall, disbelief coming over me again. He looked at me, as if deep in thought and then came over to me, putting his arm around my shoulder.

"Hey, everything's gonna be ok." I leaned into him, grateful for any kind of contact, even if the actual thought that Edward Elric was here in my living room was enough to put me over the edge. I felt his head rest on my shoulder. Confused, I turned around to look at him, but then realized how tired he must be. I leaned back into him and we simply sat in silence.

That's how we were five minutes later when the doorbell rang. I stood up, and walked away from Ed, doing my best not to disturb him. Huh, he's kind of cute looking when he sleeps. I shook that thought out of my head as I ran down the stairs.

"Molly!" I heard the knocking on my door quickly escalate to what could be considered frantic. "Molly, open this door now!"

I wrenched the door open. There was Monique, standing on the other side. She took one quick look at me. "Molly, what's wrong?"

Huh, I guess I look more freaked out then I thought. "Shhh. Come in."

"What is it?" She said, thankfully in a lower voice. Even if he wasn't real, I didn't want to wake Ed up. After all, he did look really tired.

"I…I need you to tell me if you can see something." I felt sheepish just saying it, but what else was I going to say? Oh, Edward Elric just showed up out of the middle of nowhere, and I want to know if you can see him, or am I just crazy?

Mo just stood there and stared at me. "You made me drive all the away across town to see if I could see something?"

"Yes." I admitted. She started to turn to go. I quickly grabbed her. "Please Mo, you know that I wouldn't ask you to come all the way over here if it wasn't important." I paused, waiting. Silence. "Please."

"Ok." She finally broke. "What is it?"

"I can't really explain it. Just promise me that you won't freak out." I said as I pulled her up the stairs. Uh huh, sure she won't freak out. Just like you didn't. I held my breath as we rounded the corner.

She froze. "Who is that?" She pointed directly at Ed, who lifted his head up from the couch. Apparently he had moved back while I had gone to answer the door.

"So you can see him then, right?" I asked. Suddenly, despite all odds, the possibility that Ed was actually here was getting higher and higher.

"Of course I can see him, Molly! Who is he? He looks just like Ed!"

"Your name's Molly?" Ed asked.

"Uh huh, didn't you know that?" I said, looking back at him.

"No, I guess through all the excitement, you never really had the chance to properly introduce yourself."

"Molly!" Monique whispered to me. "He sounds just like Ed! How is that possible?" Now both Mo and Ed where staring straight at me, waiting for an answer. (Although Ed seemed to be bracing himself, not surprising after my reaction.)

"Um… that's because…" I paused, unsure of how to state it. "That's because he is Ed."

Mo simply looked at Ed and then back at me. "You're joking, right?" She let out a nervous laugh. "You're kidding." I shook my head. "Molly, that's impossible."

"No, it's not." I whispered. Then I looked up at Ed. "Ed, show her."

"What?! No! I'm not going to have her freak out on me like you did."

"Just do it, Ed!" I snapped back.

He sighed and clapped his hands. He then grabbed a glass that was on the table next to him. It glowed bright blue and then twisted until it was the shape of a dog.

"Did…did you see that?" Mo asked me.

"Uh huh."

"Then why didn't you tell me before?!"

Ed's POV

I sighed as I laid back down on the couch. I was pretty surprised. I could've sworn that the girl with the white-blonde hair, Monique or something like that, would've freaked out more. But I was glad that she didn't. I was so tired that I could hardly tell what was going on. And using alchemy hadn't helped me at all.

I closed my eyes and tried to ignore both Molly and Monique as they started fighting over something. All I really wanted to do was sleep. But I knew that it wasn't really Molly and Mo (as Molly was calling her) who were keeping me up. It was the urgent sense that I was forgetting something really important. I kept searching my mind, but everything was fuzzy. I could barely remember how I got to Molly's house, much less anything before that.

I felt something jump onto the couch and I opened my eyes. Standing in front of me was a black and grey stripped cat. It simply stared into my eyes. Suddenly everything clicked.

"AL!"

AN: See, I didn't forget about Al!! Well, I hope that you liked it. Please review for me. It totally makes my day!