Sorry this took awhile longer than usually. I've had a quite haste with my school. However the new chapter is here. This is for Arden Anam asked for Al. Now he's here :3

The younger one of Elric brothers was sitting on sofa in their small apartment, alone as his older brother had went to buy some cough medicine for him. Al himself couldn't do much more than just sit and read or listen to the radio at home, since he was a little feverish.

Al had just finished a second book of that day and was thinking if he should read a third one or go to get some sleep when he hear the doorbell ring. He got up to get the door, guessing that it was his brother coming back from his shopping trip, and was quite surprised when there was a dark haired young girl standing on the doorstep.

"Oh hi, Rachel." Al greeted her, smiling his usual kind smile while Rachel smiled back and swept a lock of her black her behind her ear.

"Hello Alphonse. Is Ed home? We were supposed to meet…" she took a look at her wrist watch which seemed to be five past six. "…five minutes ago, actually."

Alphonse shook his head. "No, he went to drag store about 10 minutes ago." he said, being a little ashamed, since he didn't want to stuff between his brother and his girlfriend. "But you can come in to wait him if you want." Al continued and stepped away from the way so Rachel could come in.

"Thank you. I'm pretty sure he'll come back soon, anyway."

They sat down in the living room, Rachel on the couch and Al took sit on the huge armchair opposite of it. The room reminded silent for a good five minutes, which during Alphonse just couldn't help staring at Rachel. He still had that weird feeling which was caused by the fact that his big brother really had a girl friend and no one other than his superior's little sister. And all the features of the girl kept reminding Al just about that thing. Rachel's black hair was just as dark and shiny as the colonel's, skin was so white it looked that she wasn't eating enough or she was cold. And the eyes – oh, those eyes – Al was almost afraid of the black orbs that seemed to be able to burn a hole on everything they looked at.

But the personality. That was something Alphonse hadn't quite caught yet. What did he actually know about the young girl? Other than she was crazy enough to date his brother…

"Hey, Rachel…" Al cleared his throat as he spoke up. Rachel lifted her head and looked at the younger Elric.

"Yes?"

Alphonse shifted on his seat and thought about the right way to start conversation.

"See, you and brother have been dating over a year now and… you know…" Al struggled. "…I would like to get known you better."

Rachel listened and shrugged, a bit surprised about the sudden interest of the young boy.

"Sure. What would you like to know?"

Again Al was thinking what he should start with.

"Let's start with your hobbies. Is there anything you like to do or you are interested in?"

Rachel thought awhile, scratching the bridge of her nose.

"Umm, I like reading." she finally said. Alphonse nodded. Okay, they had at least one thing common with his brother.

"And writing." Rachel continued.

"Oh. What do you write?" Al asked. Rachel shrugged again, shaking her head.

"Lots of stuff. Novels, sometimes poetry. And articles. My dream is to write a column for a real paper when I grow up." she told him.

Wow, that sounds great." Alphonse exclaimed.

"You think so? My brother just thinks I'm taking a hobby too far…"

"Talking about Colonel, how is he with this thing between you and Brother? He seemed to take it quite hard at the beginning."

Rachel rolled her eyes. "Yeah, he always kept telling me that Edward was just a brat and he was going to break my heart since he was away a lot and didn't have time for me and blab bla bla…"

Alphonse chuckled a bit and smiled. "Well, I have to say that you really did tame him, Rachel."

Now Rachel gave him a wicked grin and her thoughts seemed to wander. "Oh, if you just knew…"

"What was that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing. Do you think he'll come home soon..?"

Hope you liked this one too. I try to update sooner this time :P