Once again, I am being sneaky. :P Sneaking the net at work. I'll try to do this once a week, maybe, if it's not too busy between calls.

But I do want to take this time to say that I have a new boyfriend. :) His name is Jordan and he's really good to me. I love him to death. XD He's a little younger than me, but I really don't care, he's a good guy.

Anyway, enjoy the chapter. I know you guys'll like this one. It really shows Clause's evil side.

Chapter 14 - Rumors and Lies

Al stood at his front door waiting, patiently, for his brother to return. "He's dead." Alphonse had made a point of letting Ed know that he was really intrested in Winry, so he had no right butting in. He was sure she was starting to warm up to him too. He could hear the hum of the van pull into the yard. He clenched is fist tightly.

"I'm bac-" Ed's greeting was quickly cut off by Al taking a swing at him. Of course, Al was terrible at fighting, so Ed managed to dodge the punch, grab his arm and twist it behind him, bringing him to his knees in pain. "What the hell is your problem?!" Ed bellowed at his sibling.

"My problem is you and your lies!" Al reached into his pocket and pulled out Ed's phone which he climed fromt he counter a short while ago. It revealed the text message that Winry had sent him.

"I was helping her with her bio project you R-tard! Her mom destroyed ehr computer and she had to start from scratch."

"Oh...then why did you lie to Dad?" Al was released and promptly returned Ed phone to him.

"Because I know how reasonable you are. If you found out, I knew you would overreact...and here we are." He helped his twin to his feet. "You knob."

"I'm not a knob...So you know to stay away from her at all other costs, I'm really sure she's starting to come around." Al beamed.

"You really think so? Well, I don't think she's all too intrested in you after what happened last night...between you and Clause."

Al's face went completly white. "Wha-...oh shit...I forgot about that...she saw us?" He panicked slightly.

"Yeah, she did. And she knew you two went upstaris together...what happened Al?" Ed grilled his brother.

Al glanced down the hall to the kitchen door. "I hope dad didn't hear that...come here." He ventured off into the living room and sat in the arm chair. "Something I leard the hard way I guess. Being high fucks with your judgment." Al nodded to himself as he thought hard about what he and Clause actually did.

"Ya think? ...well, obviously not." He scoffed.

"Shut up, I don't see you getting any...we didn't have sex, that I'm sure of...we just-"

Ed cut him off. "I don't want to hear what you did. That's your business. But regardless, Winry thinks you and Clause are an item, so you either have to take what you have and run with it, or you tell Clause that you and her were just a 'one night' thing. Because Winry thinks you and her are serious."

An eye twitch fournd it's way to the right side of Al's face as he was presented with the harsh truth of reality. "But..." He began. "I don't like Black hair, I like fair hair...looks nicer."

SIghing at his brother's shallowness, he flopped back on the coach and laid down. "It's not always about looks you know."

Al agreed with him. "I know, but she's also really mean. I mean, look what she did to your friend Aria."

Ed raised an eyebrow. "To Aria? I didn't know you cared about her."

Al blushed. "I don't." He hesitated. "She's a freak, I dislike freaks."

A look of disgust spread across Ed's face. "She's not a freak!" He defended his friend.

"She wears all black, had black streaks in her hair and hands a 'devil star' around her neck; she's a freak."

Ed rolled his eyes. "It's a pentacle, it has nothing to do with the devil you knob."

"What did I tell you?" Al raised his voice. "I'm not a knob!"

"Well stop acting like one!" Ed retorted.

As usual, the weekend came and went and school was once again on the agenda. "Hey Al." One of the other boys on the basketball team accosted him. "I heard you and Clause hooked up at her party. Or were you dating before hand?"

"Breda...where did you hear that?" Al hung his head.

The red head shrugged. "No one inpiticular. It's going around the whole school that you two are a 'thing'." He made quotation marks in the air with his fingers.

"Oh really..." He sighed and shut his locker. "Interesting. Come on, let's get to English."

"Come on. You didn't answer my question." Breda caught up to him.

"We're not anything. I don't even like her. She's way too mean. Even for my liking."

"Mean? Of, what she did to Aria? Do you like Aria or something?" He questioned him yet again.

Al sighed. "You know, my brother asked me the same thing. No. I don't. She's a freak."

"Nice little bod though." Breda snickered.

Al sighed. "Didn't take the time to notice. The black clothing makes everything blur all together."

He shook his head as the two of the weaved through the crowded. "Check her out next time. It wouldn't be a good idea to date her, it would ruin your reputation, but still, nice to look at."

Al though about it for a moment as he passed by a sting of lockers with a series of stickers on them. "Maybe. I'll look, but I'm not getting my hopes up."

"So is it true? Are you and Clause getting married?" Riza questioned Al from behind him in English class.

"What?!" He blurted out loudly causing the entire class to turn around. "Sorry-sorry." He lowered the volume of his voice. "What? We're not even dating...who told you that?"

She shrugged. "No one really, the girls were talking about it at the cheer meet on Sunday."

Al huffed. "No, we're not getting married, not even close." He turned around and went back to his work.

"Hey Al, congrats!" Another boy from the team came up to him and gave him a firm pat on the back.

"Someone help me." He muttered to himself.

"I didn't ask before, but, when's she due?" The boy inquired.

"Due?" Al looked horrified. It would seem that even eating his lunch in peace was out of the question today.

"Yeah, due...the baby. You two are having a kid, right?" The boy seemed confused at Al's lack of an answer.

"Thats it!' He slammed his fists down on the table and stood straight up. "Where is she?!" He glanced around the cafeteria for the familiar face. Spotting her off in the corner of the room, he rapidly approched her. "Oh, Clause." He spoke in the most polite tone he could muster.

"Yeees Al." She sounded all too pleased with herself.

"Could I talk to you...just for a minute." He could mask his voice, but the anger in his eyes was too dominant to mask. "Come on." He cocked his head in such a way that it beckoned her to follow him.

"Sure." She smiled at the rest of the group and she passed them by. She felt her arm be snatched up and her being drug allong behind Al.

Another random student took a look at what was happening and waved. "You guys got your tickets to Hawaii already? Have a good trip!"

Al paused and stared at the student, murder in his gaze. "We're not going anywhere!" He barked at the igornant student who in turn quickly faced the other direction and walked off.

Al made them both leave the lunch room and let her directly to the stairs where it was nearly desolate during the lunch hour. "What the fuck Clause?!"

"What the fuck? What do you mean?" She planted her fists firmly on her hips.

"People seem to think stuff about us when there is NO stuff. Why did you spread those rumors?!" Al was on to what she was doing, playing dumb.

She huffed. "I was just having a little fun, it keeps things interesting."

"For you!" He yelled at her. "I don't even like you like that, not even close. And after this little incident, I don't think I like you at all!"

"Al! I was jus--" She tried to speak her peace, but Al had no part of it.

"Shut up! You had no right saying those things about me! Sure we hooked up at your party briefly, but that wasn't anything serious, I told you that before we even went upstairs. Mabye somewhere down the road, there might have been something, but now I know for sure that there won't." Al fibbed a little, but it got his point across. He wanted Winry, there was no maybe."You giving me head does NOT constitute us dating. Espically when I state prior to the act, that it means nothing." He paused briefly after sounding a whole lot like Ed. "Regardless, as of right now, I consider you an apuantince, you're not even a friedn anymore." With that said, before Clause could get one tear out, she exited the stair well, slaming the heavy door behind him.

Clause stood there, devastated. She really had a crush on him and hearing him say that tore right into her. She began bawling. "This isn't what I wanted to happen!!" She screamed and had it echo in the seemingly empty stairwell. In a fit of rage and tears, she took a step to go downstairs to the bacement to calm herself down, but missed the step and tumbled down the 20 hard concreat stairs to the laning below.

She laid on the floor, stunned momentairly, from the shock of the fall. She brought a hand to her lip, the tast of blood was in her mouth. Looking at her fingers, she saw that she had smashed her lip on the way down. "How can I make this better." She rubbed the red on her fingers together. "...or...how can I make it go away." She smiled deviously. "I'll ruin you Al!" She quickly reached and tore the side of her shirt and then reached down and removed one of her shoes. "I'll make you regret ever crossing me!" She smiled deviously.

No point in asking you to guess, you know what she's plotting. DX
I haven't gotten lots of reviews in a while because I haven't been updating, so let's have some reviews to see if I've gotten rusty or not. (Thanks Oki, good to see you stuck with me!)