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Summary: its summer, Riza and Roy are spending their time in the Ishvalan camp. This chapter you'll see their relationship grow stronger into a romantic one.

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Summer

Roy was lying in bed soundly asleep when he suddenly heard the irritable noise of neighbour's children's in the next tent. Roy still hadn't got used to the noise even if he had been staying with Riza for a week. As he lay there he realised he couldn't feel his right arm and opened his eyes to see Riza clutching on to his arm sleeping on it, this was every morning where he would wake up with a dead arm.

Roy slowly slid out of the bed with one arm creepily hanging from his shoulder like it was dead. He looked down at her as she slept soundly unbothered by the cacophony of noise coming from the kids next door. He walked over to the bathroom as he shook his right arm trying to revive it, Roy didn't find anything wrong with sleeping in the same bed as Riza they used to do it all the time as kids and for both of them nothing had changed.

Roy got dressed, went to the kitchen and started making breakfast with a huge waft of crackling eggs and filling the tent, he put the eggs, beans and toast onto the table. This was Roy's favourite part of the morning as he could annoy the crap out of Riza.

He quietly crept into the bedroom, stood at the edge of the bed and leant down towards her.

"AAAAAAAAA WE'RE CRASHING!" screamed Roy

Riza flapped around in the bed like a started seal whilst screaming and rolling off the bed. There was silence as she opened her eyes to realise Roy standing there with an almighty grin on his face laughing at her.

"Roy you knob! I was friggin' sleeping you asshole" shouted Riza her face red with anger.

Roy laughed even harder at her reaction and started laughing so hard he had to crawl out of the room because he was finding it hard to breathe.

"Oh my god! I can't stop laughing, holy shit my ribs are hurting ahahaha" laughed Roy as he held ribs whilst wiping a tear away from his eye.

Riza stomped to the bathroom to have a shower, when she finished she didn't even bother to look at Roy as she went into her bedroom to change. Roy sat seating his breakfast knowing he might've taken things a bit too far and he was about to get an earful as she came out of her room and sat down at the table all while give Roy a cold-ass death stare.

"You err alright Riza?" he asked nervously

"Hmm I wonder! How do I feel about getting scared shit-less while I sleep waiting to get up to go to work, I don't know Roy maybe you could show me!" she snapped back angrily.

"Err…" he didn't have anything to say because at the moment Roy was laughing in his head because he was giving serious thought to her request.

"Oh Roy, I wanted to give you something" said Riza as she smiled.

"What is it?" he asked whilst rubbing his hands in anticipation.

Roy suddenly felt his vision go blurry as his eyes went teary, a searing pain shot through him like a bullet from his lower half and he fell onto the floor curled into foetal position holding his crown jewels.

"And that, is called Strike back!" she said scornfully.

"Shit, I think I'm dying, this is worse than being in a war AAAAAAA" screamed Roy.

"That's enough of the theatrics Roy" she demanded.

Roy slowly got to his feet still holding his crotch. Riza smirked and grabbed her bag to make her way to work when Roy interrupted her.

"Hey Riza, can I come with you? I get seriously bored on my own here" asked Roy.

She gave it thought for a seconds then decided saying "sure why not, it's not even really a proper school I'm sure they'll let you sit in. However, if you try anything shady I swear I will come down on you like hellfire"

Roy nodded affirmatively as he jumped to his feet grabbing a sandwich and making his way out of the tent, down towards the school tent. They both entered Riza's classroom where they greeted with the faces of several Ishvalan children, Riza stood behind her desk and pointed to a Roy to a chair next to her.

"Good morning class" said Riza as her class responded the same. "Kids we have a special guest today who's going to sit in the class with us, this is Roy Mustang he's a friend of mine" she introduced.

Roy waved at the kids and sat back down as the class began as Riza started talking to the class about the days lesson, Roy couldn't stop his grin as he watched Riza teaching the kids and giving them instructions.

Riza sat back down after she had explained the work to the class and started going through some homework that she had to grade.

Roy leant in towards her saying "Oh, Ms Hawkeye, I've been a naughty boy" whilst trying to hold back a fit of laughter.

She rolled her eyes and sighed "Roy, that was the most predictable thing you could've said I'm not impressed"

"Hey give me a break Riza, I mean when were in bed we never have any pillow-talk so I gotta get some lines in once in a while" said Roy.

She replied "yeah but how can we have pillow-talk when we're just friends you idiot, incoherent as usual".

"We'll see who uses my arm as a warm blanket again, Riza Hawkeye" he retorted grinning.

"Would you keep it quiet the children are starting to look" she whispered

A girl was squarely staring at the both of them and they both stared back as the girl spoke "Ms Hawkeye is this your Husband?"

Riza spluttered as her and Roy's went red in the cheeks laughing uncomfortably when they heard a voice come from the door.

"Your husband, Riza?" asked the beautiful long-haired Ishvalan woman as she strutted towards the two.

"He's not my husband, Sarah" she replied finally adding "he's my friend from when I used to live in Amestris"

Roy knew this conversation was going to get uncomfortable and did the clever thing by walking away pretending to be fascinated by badly drawn children's art.

Sarah leant in towards Riza and whispered "so is he single? Because, I won't lie your friend is hot".

Riza sighed to herself thinking "another girl fawning over Roy, this isn't a surprise".

She replied reluctantly to Sarah "yes he's single but he's a bit dense so I wouldn't even try"

Sarah grinned saying "who said anything about his personality, have you seen his body"

Riza didn't like this one bit but Roy wasn't her man and she just watched as the red-eyed beauty walked over to Roy putting one hand on his arm whilst she talked to him. Riza could feel the hatred and jealousy boiling up inside her as the two was clearly hitting it off, she watched them out of the corner of her eye as Sarah giggled at every one of his lame anecdotes and musings.

Riza sat their despondent when Sarah came over to her saying "why didn't you tell me he was such a flirt".

"Must've slipped my mind" said Riza as she kept her head down pretending to be engrossed in a children's book.

"He's so cute and he even asked me out, I couldn't believe how bold he was" Sarah cooed gleefully.

"Yeah…good" she replied trying to hold back the disappointment in her voice.

"Oh well, I'll see ya later girlfriend" smiled Sarah as she walked out of the room.

Once Sarah left, Roy made his way back to Riza and sat down next to her. He looked over at her nervously as Riza didn't utter a word to him or even acknowledge his presence. Right at that moment he did what he only knew what he could do best and that was goof around, Roy started poking her ribs in a weak-sauce attempt to make her laugh and gain her attention.

Riza gave him a sharp stare as he did this and said forcefully "stop touching me!"

Roy moved his hand away immediately and grinned by putting his head on the table so she could see him make a puppy dog face.

"What's wrong Riza?" he asked.

"I'm busy Roy, I've got homework to grade and the essays of the teenage students to grade too so stop annoying me" she demanded.

Roy looked at her and felt hurt as he was just concerned for her. He stood up without saying a word and left the classroom.

Riza pretended to ignore the fact that he was leaving but she was hurting inside because it wasn't Roy's fault, he's not even her boyfriend so she has no right to get mad. She sighed and regretted acting this way knowing that she was being unfair and that she had to grow up than rather act like a teenager.

The rest of Riza's day was uneventful and depressing as the shadow of her angst moment hung over her all day. She did the usual of waving the children goodbye and making her way back to her house where she entered to no warm welcome or lame musings instead she went to her room crawled into bed knowing another woman was having a good time with Roy. She pulled the sheets over her head as she felt her heart drop, tears fall down to her pillow and quiet sobs. She knew she loved him but they were just friends and that's what they'll probably remain in his eyes.

To be continued

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