Lexan: Wow... I've made it even this far... Thank you all who finds time to read my fic... ... ... /Finds no wise words to describe this chapter/ ... ... ... Enjoy...xD
Oh... I still don't own FMA or the characters.. Never will... And the songs and the game in this chapter are not mine either... ( the songs are "In joy and sorrow" is made by HIM... A finnish band, and "Growing wings" from the game Drakengard by Sqare Enix.)
Warnings: Bad language... Bad grammar... And bevare of soft toy wars!! xD
Unbelievers
Chapter 5. Drums
"Are you sure? This might hurt..." Envy looked at Ed with worried eyes.
"Now you ask? Come on, just get over with it..." Ed scowled and looked away. Envy nodded.
"Okay here I go." Ed closed his eyes tight and sqeezed the sheets in his fists.
"Owwww!"
"Hold still! Now look what you've done! Don't move damn it! You'll hurt yourself even more!"
"That hurts, damn it! And look! There's blood too!"
"Don't be a baby! And... Gah! Just shut up!" Ed bit his lip and closed his eyes again. 'How ever did he manage to talk me in to doing this?" He scolded himself and tried not to move.
"There. It's done. See?" Envy said and holded out a mirror for Ed. Ed took a look at his left ear.
"What!? You said just one!" He yelled.
"But you were so nicely in the end that I added a bonus. Is that a bad thing? Besides, it looked so very lonely without a buddy there so I thought ..."
"DON'T think. It always makes things worse..." Ed growled and looked at Envy with murderous eyes making Envy just laught. It had been a month since Ed got beaten up and Envy had kept his promise. Those guys hadn't attacked Ed since that day. Still, Envy seemed a bit more tense than usually. Or so Ed thought. Ed, Walley, Neil and Envy had become close friends but still Ed hadn't said wether or not he'd join their band.
Someone knocked at the door.
"Come in!" Envy yelled and at the very moment inside stepped a boy who was a bit taller than Envy. He had sad, deep green eyes and brown hair. It was odd at Ed's point of view. He would never had thought that someone with so darkbrown hair could have so brightly coloured eyes. But like he was one to talk. He hinself had unnaturally gold hair and eyes.
"Oh. Neil. What brings you here?" Envy asked and stood up from the bed. (Lexan: Yeah... They were sitting on a bed as you propably noticed allready... xD) He walked over to Neil and lifted up on his toes a little. Ed smirked as he watched them. It looked like Envy was trying to be taller than Neil.
"Nothing... Really... I just came to see how are you. You haven't been in school for three days. Are you sure you're fine?" Neil's voice was conserned and a bit angst. Ed lifted his head.
"Yeah... That's why I came here too in the first place. Have you been sick or something?" He asked and stood up too. Envy scratched his occiput and made some wierd whining sound.
"Nnnaahhh... I just.. Well.. I, umm... Eheh... That's.. None of your business, okay?" He said and walked over his drawer. Neil shook his head and sighed in symbiosis with Ed, who had sat back on the bed. Envy was humming something what Ed didn't recognise. He tilted his head a little.
"What's that song?" He asked and Envy turned around holding a little pile of papers.
"Hm? Oh, the one I was humming just now? It's a song." Envy said with a teasing smirk. Ed narrowed his eyes.
"I could hear THAT. The question was 'what's that SONG' not what's that?" he said and recived only a snicker.
"Yeah,yeah. It's a song called "growing wings". It's from a game named Drakengard. Best game ever. Oh and here's something I came up with during those three days I was "sick"..." Envy waved the pile of papers a while before handing them to Neil. Neil narrowed his eyes a bit.
"...Envy... Your handwriting is getting worse and worse. Care to do something about it?" Envy snorted and took the papers. He handed them to Ed and draw a box from under the bed. Soon there was a keyboard ready to be played in the middle of the room. Envy took the papers from Ed, who was exmining them, and placed them on the stand (Don't know if that's the word..).
"I hope your ears are not as bad as your eyes." Envy shot a glare at Neil and started to play. The music was good. And when Envy started singing Ed and Neil couldn't do anything but listen. The lyrics were simple but well written.
Oh girl we are the same
we are young and lost and so afraid
there's no cure for the pain
no shelter from the rain
All our prayers seem to fail
In joy and sorrow my home's in your arms
in world so hollow
it is breaking my heart
in joy and sorrow my home's in your arms
in world so hollow
it is breaking my heart
Oh girl we are the same
we are strong and blessed and so brave
with souls to be saved
and faith regained
all our tears wipe away
In joy and sorrow my home's in your arms
in world so hollow
it is breaking my heart
in joy and sorrow my home's in your arms
in world so hollow
it is breaking my heart
In joy and sorrow my home's in your arms
in world so hollow
it is breaking my heart
in joy and sorrow my home's in your arms
in world so hollow
it is breaking my heart
and my home's in your arms
and it is breaking my heart
my home's in your arms
and it is breaking my heart
Envy put the piano back under the bed and the papers on the drawer. Then he turned at Neil and Ed who were both sitting on the bed. Speechless.
"So. How'd you like it?" He asked and Ed could swear he heard some of Envy's pride slip through his mouth. Ed and Neil were both silent for a while but then Neil started talking.
"Well. It was good. Better than any of our songs till this day..." Envy smirked. "...But your voice almost cracked. Have you been smoking again?" Neil raised a questining eyebrow and made Envy lower his head. Neil glared at him and stood up. He walked over to the basket full of soft toys.
"You always start smoking when you're in searious trouble." He muutered and before Envy had chance to reply he got a teddy bear thrown straight to his face. Ed watched with amusment as Envy curled his fist in a ball and closed his eyes. He took a deep breath, took the bear, glared at Neil who was now smirking. Envy put the bear on the bed and peacefully took a pillow. And, well, after all Envy had spent a whole lot of time with Ed lately and, as they say, (in finland at least...) the company makes alike. And soon the whole room was filled with feathers, two boys' yells and flying pillows and soft toys. Ed laughed from a distance 'till he got a bunny thrown to his face. So, soon there was one more yelling teen in the room.
After an hour of yelling and throwing all that was throwable the trio was laying on the floor catching their breath. After a while of just breathing Envy laughed.
"God look at my room guys! It haven't looked like this since I turned twelve!" He said still laughing a bit. Both Ed and Neil smirked.
"I didn't know you're older than that. I've always thought that you were six or less." Neil snickered and got a pillow hit right on his face.
"Shuddap. You're the one of us in the infant school." Envy replied and made a noise alot like a laugh but something more like a snort. Ed gave a little laugh and looked at the ceiling. It was plain yellow. Maybe it was supposed to be white but really, it had a slight shade of yellow. Or maybe it was only the setting sun that coloured it like that. Whatever. Ed turned on his side and his eyes met Envy's. He hadn't noticed it earlier but Envy's eyes were an interesting shade of violet. Slight blush crept on his face and he had to turn his gaze back at the ceiling. on side-eye he could tell that Envy grinned. Ed pouted and turned to say something but Neil got to open his mouth first.
"I guess I gotta go now. Hope you're ready to practise tomorrow. And by the way. Me and Walley, we've got a football mach the day after tomorrow. I hope you don't miss it. Because if you do, you can be sure that I and Walley are going to eat Envy-pasta and Edward-sallad for breakfast the day after the match." He said and stood up.
"Got it. See you tomorrow then." Envy waved at Neil as the boy walked out the door. A moments silence filled the room before Envy talked again.
"Wanna play the Tekken 4?" He asked and looked Ed in the eye. Ed made a noise and shook his head. Envy smirked.
"Oh well. If you're afraid to be beaten up by me, then I do understand. I am, after all, taller, better looking AND better fighter than you..." At this challenge Ed couldn't help but snap.
"Oh yeah!? You smarter than me!? We'll see about that!" Envy snickered.
"Does that mean you accept my challenge?"
"You bet!"
-Later in that evening-
Ed sat at the small kitchen table with a cup of tea stearing out the window lost in his thoughts. On the table was three candel's burning gently. Ed had won nine matches out of ten and when Envy finally had beated him the power's went off. Envy sat across the table and was exmining Ed's face. When Ed bit his lower lip and wrinkled a bit his forehead looking thoughtful, Envy smiled. For a first time in a long while Envy felt easy in a presence of another person. He had always to keep his guard up. Especially at school, every since he had joined one gang two years ago. The gang had no name. The guys were just called "vandals" or "dogs" or "trash". Envy was snapped out of his trance-like state when he realized that Ed was watching him back. His head was tilted a bit to the right and on his face lingered a question "what". Envy smiled and shook his head. This made Ed rise his eyebrows and turn his face on you-think-I'm-stupid-mode. Envy laughted a bit and looked out of the window. Silence once again.
Envy sighed. It had only been six months he had said he didn't want to stay with "the dogs" or whatever you wanted to call it. It was good for him that he was a good fighter. If he wasn't, he'd propably be in hell right now. Or in heaven if he had a chance to choose.
"You're sad..."Envy was snapped out by a small voice. If Envy didn't know better that he and Ed were alone in the house right now, he'd might think it was Wrath talking, but that, that the small and somewhat tender voice belonged this time to Ed, caught him by surprise. He blinked few times at the teen's direction. The other boy was looking out the window reasting his chin on his palm.
"What?" Envy asked and looked at his friend with puzzeled expression. Ed turned to look at Envy.
"You're sad. Or depressed. I can see it. I'm not blind like someone I know." He said the last part with a bit teasing voice. Envy blinked and shook his head.
"No I'm not! I couldn't be sad. I have no reason! Oh, c'mon. Don't give me that face." Ed looked at Envy with piersing eyes and made him look away.
"Does it somehow have connetction with those guys I "met" somewhat a month ago?" He asked and Envy's reaction made it clear that's the reason for everything. His eyes widen and Ed could swear that Envy was about to cry. The teen mumbled something Ed didn't quite catch so he stood up and walked to Envy.
"Hey, you okay?" As he was about to put his hand on Envy's shoulder to comfort him, but then the taller teen stood up and stared to walk away.
"It's late. You should go home so Al wouldn't worry." He said as he walked out the kitchen to the hall and opened the front door.
"..." Ed did not say a thing as he walked through the door. He just looked Envy in the eye. As Ed was gone Envy shut the door and slid down the wall next to the door to sit on the floor. Empty eyes staring at the mirror that was hangin on the wall across the hallway.
"I'm sorry..." The teen whispered in the darkening night and without really realizing the little tears that crept down his pale cheeks and glittered in the moon light as they fell on the cold floor.
Lexan: There.. The fifth chapter's now ready. Hope you at least tried to enjoy it... Blegh... I guess it really is turning to be EnvyxEd... T.T I'm sorry this chapter was so short... I guess this is the shortest chapter in the whole fic... And one of the most boring chappies ever... I promise to fix that... T.T Or at least I'll try...