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The Gift
14
Tired
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November 30th - Thursday
Ed glanced up from his book and looked longingly at the telephone. It was already 9:00pm and still it remained silent. He'd passed Roy in the hall today and when he'd tried to stop the man so they could talk, the colonel had quickly said that he had to be somewhere but that he'd call Ed later.
That had been around 11:00am.
The teen tapped his fingers on the arm of the chair trying to decide what to do. Would it be pushy for him to call? They hadn't really talked much since they'd gotten back from Rizembool. Even when Ed visited Roy's office, the man was hardly there.
A feeling or resignation washed over him, and Ed closed the book and dropped it on the floor before getting up and walking to the phone. For a moment, he just stared at it. What if he called and a girl answered? Or what if...
He shook his head.
No, he was being stupid. The colonel wouldn't have asked him to stay with him over Christmas if he was seeing someone else.
Feeling a little more confident, Ed picked up the phone and dialed the phone number. The seconds seemed like days as each ring went unanswered.
Just as Ed was about to hang up the phone, a groggy voice answered, "Hello...?"
That threw the teen off for a moment. Usually, Roy answered the phone with a confident, 'Mustang', but not this time.
"It's me," he said, then added, "Are you alright?"
"Ed?" came the confused response.
"Yeah."
"Oh...what can I do for you?" he asked slowly, the sleepiness still evident in his voice.
"Well...you were going to call me today, but you didn't so..." he trailed off, not knowing exactly how he wanted to finish that sentence.
There was a moment of silence on the phone then, "Shit! Ed... I'm so sorry... I completely forgot... I've been so busy, and... I've been working on this...um, well, and I fell asleep..."
"It's okay..." Ed murmured, not exactly happy about being forgotten.
A heavy sigh sounded and Mustang said, "No... No, it's not alright. I feel really bad. Let's... why don't we have dinner... Saturday night? Would that be alright?"
"Yeah, that would be nice," Ed said, feeling much better than he had moments before.
He heard the colonel yawn over the phone, then, "Okay, Saturday. 6:00 alright?"
"Yep."
"Alright, see you then."
"Okay, bye," Ed said and hung up the phone. He let his eyes rest on the phone for a moment before going back to his chair and picking up his book. A small smile touched his lips and he opened it to the marked page. He needed to be less suspicious. Roy was just busy, that's all.
Okay these are the rest of the planned updates. It's possible that one or two could change, or that I could add one in (adding one in is more likely than changing), but these dates are pretty set, and I don't see them changing.
December: 2nd, 7th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 22nd,23rd, 24th, 25th.
Also, if anyone wants to send me their email address, just incase ff.n has problems again, so they can get updates from me, please feel free to do that. The addresses are just put on a group mailing list incase ff.n stops sending out email notifications again.
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