Chapter 3: Curious Wants

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There was a knock on door and my eyes automatically moved to it.

The knob turned and a girl my age came in. She was wearing a black mini-skirt and a white tank top. She had blue eyes and blonde hair.

Of course the first thing she noticed was another girl in the room.

"Uh. Who is this?" she asked.

I moved over to her and gave her a smile. I held out my hand. "Hi. You must be Ed's girlfriend. I knew that he had one given the way he barely ever glanced at me."

This girl's reaction was almost as hilarious as Ed's when I scared him. She couldn't decide if she hated me or was embarrassed by me.

She was spazzy as she talked, going from me to Ed. "What are you talking about? We're just friends. And why are you in their room? Why is she here, guys? What's going on here?"

I sighed. "To answer your question I'm here because some guy dumped tricked me. I fell from the sky, broke a table, and then crashed on their couch." I pointed at the armored guy. "I just met Alphy a while ago. He was going to teach me alchemy and Ed was going to explain something to me."

She made a question mark face. "Alphy?"

"Yeah. That's what I've decided to call him because Alphonse is a mouthful." I turned to him. "Sorry. No offense but it is kind of long."

"Wait," she said, raising an eyebrow. "Did you just say that you fell out of the sky?"

I paused to think. "Yeah. I fell on that coffee table. Smashed it to pieces and got stabbed in the side. Hurts like hell." Instead of pulling up my shirt, I showed her the massive hole in my shirt. "Do you have a sewing needle and thread?" I pulled my hoodie around me and zipped up part way. (A/N: Fun fact- the zipper was invented in 1913, but wasn't used for clothes until the 1930s.)

She was still trying to figure me out when she answered. "Sorry, I don't."

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One of the first things Winry noticed about this girl was that once she started talking, she would keep talking.

"Aw," she said. "Hate to be a bother, but do you have a shirt I could borrow?"

Winry hesitated, wondering if this girl was insane or not. "Yeah, sure. I'll get it to you later."

The girl smiled. "Thanks. I'm Toni. What's your name?"

Winry was still wondering as she answered. "I'm Winry Rockbell."

Toni nodded, and then turned to Ed. "So. You were about to say?"

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Ed looked at her. 'Why am I doing this?' he thought.

"You asked us why we don't go to school. The answer is because we don't have to go to school."

Toni stared straight ahead as she thought about something. "Oh yeah!" she exclaimed, startling everyone. "I remember reading about how kids didn't go to school for very long! You guys only had to go until you were twelve, right? Or is your world different?"

Winry was confused again. "Our world?"

Toni turned to her. "Yeah." She turned back towards Ed and Al. "Anyway, after you left school you had to get a job. So what are your jobs?"

"Winry is an auto mail mechanic and I work for the military," Ed said.

Toni's eyes lit up at the word auto mail. She jumped around to Winry.

"Does that mean you made those? It's incredible! I'd never heard of or seen auto mail before today! Can I please take it apart!"

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I jumped up and down like a kid in a candy shop. "Please, please, please, please, please, please!"

Winry smiled at my reaction to her auto mail and Ed began screaming. "I will not let you take my leg apart!"

I turned around and got on my knees. I put my hands together and pleaded. "Oh please! I swear it'll look exactly the same when I put it together. I've ripped apart my old boyfriend's car and put it back together! Come on. Please?"

"No," he said firmly.

I felt a dark cloud hang over me as my spirits were crushed. "It doesn't have to be the leg," I mumbled. "Arms work too you know."

"Arm or leg I'm not letting you take either of them apart!" I could tell he was annoyed by now.

Something hit me. "Wait. If you're in the military and I'm an illegal alien..." I looked up at him with puppy dog eyes. "Please don't send me away!" I grabbed his auto mail leg and begged.

"Get off of me and we're all good," he said.

I released and jumped up off of the ground. "Thank you so much."

I turned back to Winry. "So since you're the mechanic, could I take it apart if you help me put it together again?"

"Sorry but no," she said simply.

My spirits were crushed again.

"But if you really want to take something apart, I could bring a model to you. It would have all the mechanics inside, but no one would need it."

My eyes lit up at the offer. "Yes! I would love that! Thank you so much!" I wrapped my arms around her in a hug then let go.

My stomach growled again. "Ugh. I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten for about two days now."

"Why?" Alphy asked.

I sighed. "I didn't do the chores my caretaker ordered me to do, so she wouldn't let me eat."

"Caretaker? So you don't have parents?" he asked.

I shook my head. "Never had them. As far as I know I've lived in that home my whole life. DNA tests don't help. They've done it, but there are no records of anybody I could be related to."

"Aw," he said.

"Don't pity me. I'd always had Jonah, but now I'm in some weird dimension that's like mine, but nearly a hundred years in the past. I'm fine because now I have a new adventure. I've already decided I'm going to find out how to get back. Once I get food." I'd said this because my stomach growled again.