Better Days to Come
[[Chapter 4: Pleading Never Pleases
Eds gazing out of the train window and thinking about the letter KiKi had left. Al is passed out on the seat in front of him. "Can I offer you some Ramen or a soda?" The stewardess asks Ed politely. "No, no thank you." Ed had shocked himself that he turned down food, but she was more important. Before he knew it, Ed was asleep on the seat and didn't wake up until the train had stopped. "Brother, brother wake up this is our stop." Al shakes his brother awake. "I'm up quick shaking me!" Ed shouts and sits straight up. They depart from the train in Little West Grove, and Ed is automatically sad. "Hey Al, check this out." Ed picks up a flower, one of the same ones he had bought for KiKi. "Maybe she dropped it Brother…" Ed shrugs and heads to the closest place to eat.
After a bite to eat and a no longer empty stomach Ed trudges along hopelessly. "Hey Al, you think she'll come back with us?" Al shrugs and keeps following his brother aimlessly. They wonder down some random street to the next and they still haven't spotted her anywhere. "Brother, do you even know where she lives here?" Al questions stopping to take a break. Ed stops and turns around, "It's been so long since I've been here, I'm not quite sure anymore. I think I remember the street but I'm still not sure on that either." Ed is just about in pieces because he wants to find KiKi so badly. "But we're not stopping until we find her Al, so get up." Ed grabs his brother and pulls him up off of the ground. They continued to walk, until they couldn't walk anymore. So, they found a place to stay for the night and they slept for a while.
Morning came fast and Ed was up and ready to search another day. "Al, wake up." Ed yells across their beat down motel room. "Oh, but brother, it's only seven o'clock in the morning." Al whined wanting to sleep just a few more minutes like always. Ed left him there to sleep and went into town to search again. He still had her letter running through his mind. Every corner he turned he wished, just wished she would be there, just standing there. "Excuse me, have you seen a girl about five four, she has green eyes and shoulder length hair, her names KiKi?" Ed seemed to ask about one hundred people the same question; until finally he found someone who did know her. "Oh yes, she lives on…" Ed was thrilled to have found someone.
After he had gotten all of the information he ran back to the motel to grab Al. "What, you found out where she lives?" Al was so happy for his brother he almost screamed. "Pack up Al, so we can get goin'." As soon as Al packed they were out the door and headed to KiKi. Ed was hoping she would be home and not at work or something like that. They walked down a paved road, and then made a left onto a dirt road. "Brother, are you sure you remember what that lady said?" Al questions praying their not lost. "Al I know where I'm going, trust me."
Ed spots a house in the distance and starts to run, leaving his brother behind. "Hey. Hey brother, wait up, please." Al runs after him. This was it, Ed has come all this way, now he hopes she won't turn him down. "Ok Al, here goes." Ed knocks… No answer. So, Ed knocks twice more. Finally she comes to the door and answers sleepily. "Huh? Ed? What are you and Al doing here?" Ed smiled, he was just so happy to have found her. "We came to get you." "Get me? What? Ed, Al, come in." KiKi opens the door more and they follow her inside, so does her outdoor cat. While Alphonse is pre-occupied with the little cat named Momo, Ed sits and has some tea with KiKi, since it was only nine o'clock in the morning. "So Ed, explain to me why you're here again?" KiKi sips her tea and closes up her robe a little more to get warm. "I'm here to ask if you'll come back to Central with Al and me." Ed looks at his tea and stirs it around. "Ed I can't, you know that." Ed looks up sternly. "No I don't know, you seemed so happy and then you left; without even waiting to say goodbye."
KiKi frowned a little, "I told you in the letter why, you would beg me to stay… and I couldn't of." They stop talking for a minute or two and Ed stands up and moves to the seat next to her. He turns and looks in her vibrant green eyes, "But, I love you… and I want you to come home with me KiKi." She looks at Ed, intensely, and then begins to tear up a little. "I just can't Ed. I'm sorry, I have too many responsibilities here, and I just can't leave." Ed lays his head in his hands, and starts to cry. "Edward, I think you should know… Come with me." He looks up at her and takes her hand. KiKi leads Ed to a back room of the house. Ed was in shock when she opened the door. All he saw was pink, and a crib, with a baby asleep inside.