Here for all of you again is another chapter. I hit a rythym and can't stop now. I love EdxWin, so not it's time to get it on the go!

Here you all have it, some EdxWin fluff for you all.

Episode 26 - Upsidedown

The halls of the school were crowded and Ed managed to weave his way through. He finally got to a clearing in an unused section of the hall and composed himself. He hated being crowded. Swinging his bookbag around to the front, he placed a binder that he'd been carrying under his arm into the front pouch. It was stuffed to the zipper, so he wanted to carry it, but the halls were just that busy that morning. Monday's were always troublesome.

Winry hadn't called him at all over the weekend. There were occasions where she didn't call, but now, after what happened on her step, that 'almost kiss', might have made her feel somewhat awkward around him.

Edward was really down the whole morning, all his classes seemed to drone on till lunch. Winry was off, possibly sick, so that didn't help the uneasy feeling he had.

"Eh." Ed fussed while sitting on the bacement stairs, leading down to the drama room's stage as he finished off his lunch.

"What's wrong with you?" Aria said before biting into her sandwich, peanutbutter and banana from the looks of it.

"Nothing...just worried." He said, peering out one of the small windows near the ceiling. They were underground when they were on the lowest level, so all the windows were up high.

"It's because Winry's out today I bet." Russell every so un-elequoently pointed out.

"No it's not." Ed snapped at him.

Taken quite aback, Russell backed down. "Sorry dude...I was kidding...but really, what's wrong?"

Paninya interveaned. "Yeah, you seem in a really foul mood today. What's wrong?"

His friends were all quite concerned about him, but he couldn't tell them what was wrong, he didn't know how they'd react to him and Winry and that situation that went down. "Sorry...I guess I just had a bad weekend. Al went out and I was stuck with all his chores." He equivicated. Sure, that made the weekend annoying, but the incedent with Winry was what was bothering him. He neglected to mention that to them. What was worse, he was actually starting to think that maybe they'd have a chance.

Wanting a few minutes to himself after school, he headed up to the library and sat at the middle most table. The renevations that were being done had finally been completed and the library looked very sophisticated. He laid out his books to finish up the project that had been given to him in English when he realized it. He was sitting at the same table he had helped Winry at on the first day. He sulked to himself and sunk down in the chair.

Briefly looking out the windows that led into the hallway, something caught his eye; it was Winry, talking to one of her teachers. Figuring she was getting work that she missed, he did his best to not make eye contact, he figured it would just be too awkward for her.

He ridgidly stared at his book, not wanting to talk to her. Not that he didn't want to talk to her, he just didn't feel like he could at the moment. It was complicated.

Shortly there after. "Hey Ed." A female voice sounded from behind him.

His back stiffened. "Uh, hi Winry." He said shyly. He wasn't mad with her for what happened on Friday, just uneasy.

"Mind if I talk to you?" She said, drawn back, from what Ed could tell.

"Not at all. How come you were out today, not feeling well?" He did his best to make small conversation.

She shook her head. "I had an eye appointment, and they put these drops in my eyes that make my pupis dialate."

Ed was shocked. "Do you have an eye illness, or was just a routine check-up." The small talk was picking up, Ed was becoming more relaxed.

"Oh, it was just a check-up. I just don't like coming to school afterwards because it takes a while for the drops to wear off. They make my pupils huge and I look like a demon." She laughed at herself.

He snickered as well and then nodded. "I've done that before...so, do you wear glasses? Huh?" he looked at her eyes, one was green and the other was blue. "Hey Winry, I think you only put one color contact in."

"What?" Winry pulled a small mirror from her pocket and examined her eyes. "Oh." She said with an unsure tone. "Seems so." She put the mirror away. "Um, Ed...what I really wanted to say...I'm sorry. I was drunk and I made you feel really uncomfortable, I imagine, and I just wanted to appoligize." Tears weren't welling up in her eyes, but they started looking more moist than normal.

A slight panic rung through his body. "Don't worry about it." Ed did his best to calm her down. "Drinking makes people do crazy things...and I really didn't mind." He said that last part rather sheepishly.

Winry took a step back. "Oh." She cracked a small smile. "That's good to hear...so...are you busy tomorrow? We just have one more lab...so I was wondering if you could help me out. I want to make this last one really count." She sounded more hopeful.

Edward smiled at her. "Alright. I'll see if I can get the van so we can drive to your place."

"Great. Thanks for being cool with me Ed." She leaned down and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "See you tomorrow." With that out of the way, she waved and exited the library.

Getting his bad mood trampled, Ed closed the book he was reading and stretched. "Maybe, afterall...heh."

Exams were going to be starting in only four days, so Winry was cramming as much Bio into her head as possible. "I only need a couple sicences...right?" She said, scribbling down another note.

"Yeah, I think you need two...I'd suggest just taking science rahter than Bio next year just to get it out of the way. English seems to be more your fortay anyway." Ed said, looking over a few test scores; no failures, one came close, but the rest were around sixty to seventy precent, although the lab's were all high scores. English scores didn't see anything below an eighty-five, so it seemed as though that was where she excelled.

"I know, but my parents keep pusing me into science." She sat against the head board of her bed while Ed sat on the end.

"They're doctors right? I guess that's to be expected. But I find parents tend to think their profession if the be all, end all, to carreer choices." Ed repositioned his legs, the right one was starting to fall asleep.

"I know, but they push me with everything. School, after school activities, jobs, populairity, beauty. I don't get a break."

"Beauty?" Ed was confused.

Winry blushed. "Well...can I trust you with something?"

He nodded.

"...the summer in between grade nine and ten, the girl next door got accepted into a private school that my parents wanted me to go to. I refused, because I wanted to keep my friends here. She's pretty, smart, talented and my parents wanted the same for me, which I thought I had already. I don't know why, but they've been in competition with the people nextdoor for years. So, their response is to pull some strings, get me private lessons for cheerleading, make me the captain on the cheerleading team, and make me look more womaly than everyone around me." She referenced to her own chest. "Thus, they got me these."

Ed really couldn't help the color of red that his entire body turned. "Well...uh...I-uh...um..." Words weren't something that was about to happen for him.

"I didn't develop as quickly as the girl nextdoor, so they fitted me with double D's to tide me over." She said, her voice laden with shame.

"Well I..." Ed fought with his brain for some words, finally, he manged to get a couple out. "Really, who cares what you look like. I like you for you."

Winry was caught off guard by the comment. "Ed--" She hesitated.

"Listen." Finally, Ed got things in order in his head. "My mom is pushing me into art and my dad into sports. So I have two immovable forces pushing me in two different directions. As rough as it seems now, just do what makes you feel happy, and if the rents don't like it, that's their problem. I know it's hard to stand up to your own parents, but you're not trying to do anything to ruin your life, you just want to follow your own dreams and aspirations, and despite what they have to say, there's nothing wrong with that."

Winry took Ed's kind words to heart, now it was she who was lost for words. "Edward..."

He smiled. "Just out of curiosity, what is it that you want to do?"

She smiled and leaned over the edge of her bed and grabbed a book from underneath. It was a hard cover book, dark burgundy in color. "Cars." She held out the book to him. "I love working on them, looking at them, driving them. SO much power behind a machine makes me dreamy."

It then made mose sence as to why Winry was so extatic about the race with him and Clause that one morning. "That's great." He smiled as he skimmed through the book. "A bit too compliicated for me, but if that's your calling, I suggest you go for it. People are always going to need cars, so they're always going to need someone to either build em' or fix em'."

"Thanks Ed." Winry stuffed the book back under her bed. "My parents wouldn't understand, besides, liking enginenearing isn't feminine." She waved her hands beside her face as she spoke.

"Heh. Being feminine also doesn't get you a job." He thought about it. "Well...I guess it could. Modeling and such."

Winry scoffed. "Me? A modle? No thanks. I like eating, and I'm not that tall."

"I think you're pretty enough. But stick to engines, much more useful. Memorizing engine skymatics rather than memorizing the weight watchers chart is much more useful." He laid down and allowed his legs to hang over the side of the bed, hoping to encourage blood flow. "For me, I like science."

She laughed. "If that's the case, I bet you memorized the periodic table."

"Actually...I did." He smiled.

Winry allowed her mouth to hang open. "I call bullshit. Prove it." She glanced at her wall. "Oh! Close your eyes." They young blond girl pointed to the periodic table of elements on her wall for study purposes.

"What? You don't trust me not to look. Fine." He shut his eyes. "Hydrogen, Helium, lithium, berylillum, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminium, Silicon, Phosph-" Edward like to exell at science, so he had memorized the periodic table of elements by eighth grade.

At the midway point, his words shut themselves off and allowed the strange new sensation pass by his lips. It seemed Wirny harbored more feeling for Ed that he originally thought, she had taken advantage of Ed's closed eyes and planted a kiss on him.

Needless to say, Ed was once again at a loss for words, but he enjoyed the kiss just the same, regardless if it was upsidedown. Finally, a brief break in the embrace, Winry had lifted ferself up a little, just to see the look on Ed's face. He smiled. "I lost my spot."

"You dork." She sat him up and repeated her previous action, this time, right side up.

Moving right along, time to add in a little romantic comedy action between Ed and Winry. This is just the tip of the iceburg.

I actually got the idea from that when Winry made Ed feel awkward in the manga, and to calm himself down, he rattled off the table of elements. So I thought I'd incorporated it in my fic some. :)