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Chocolate Cupcakes
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"Hey, colonial, you don't look too good."
Roy sighed as he finished signing a piece of paper. He was tired as heck. Knowing that your secret crush hates and that you have nine stacks of paperwork to do you can really bring you down.
"Ugh, please...no more photos, Hughes. I'm not in the mood," Roy said truthfully as he gathered the remaining three stacks of papers. He had a big headache to resist for the rest of the worst day of his life.
Hughes smiled smugly and carefully hid his envelope of photos in his pocket. "What gave you that idea?" he asked, his giant camera dangling as he knelt down beside his best friend.
"So Roy," he asked after a few minutes, "What's with the gloomy look? It's a beautiful day outside, perfect for taking pictures!"
Roy sighed of disgust as he pictured he and Maes taking pictures of absolute strangers. And then as they ran off after snapping a couple making out, they snickered and headed for the park. He could just picture Hughes telling him how to hold the camera and capture things when they seem right and...
"No seriously, Roy. What's bothering you?" Apparently, none of Roy's group saw or heard Ed and Roy's fight earlier.
He was about to say 'nothing', but then his conscience told him that Hughes would find out one way or another. And he was sure that one of those said ways would be blackmail.
"It's um about my c-crush," he answered slowly, deciding whether or not to mention Ed's name.
Hughes literally choked on air.
Roy took a few steps back, "Calm down, just calm down, please…"
"SINCE WHEN DID YOU EVER HAVE A CRUSH!? YOU NEVER HAVE ONE BECAUSE THEY ALL FALL FOR YOU THE MINUTE YOU ENTER INTO THE ROOM!"
"SHH! SHUSH!! Do you want the whole world to explode?!" Roy yelled, face turning crimson and clutching his fist.
After a few minutes, Hughes finally understood that his 'womanizer' friend actually had a crush on someone. Unbelievable---if he was crushing on her, then she must have the ability to protect herself from being hypnotized into being in love with Roy's good looks. But there was something nagging Hughes on his hypothesis. The question is, who is it?
Roy instantly knew what Hughes was about to ask him. Thing is he doesn't know how to answer him or risk anyone overhearing what he would say, so he whispered into his ear "Meet me at the bar downtown and we will discuss about this. Nine o'clock," and walked---sprinted out of the room before Hughes had a chance to protest.
"What was that about? It's almost like Roy doesn't want anyone to know…"
Hughes debated with himself. "Wait, unless...it can't be that it's---"
Roy looked out of the window as the car slowly moved forward. After a few minutes, he sighed, because he was hoping to spot Ed lurking around somewhere on the military grounds, but no such luck.
"Is there something wrong, sir?" Riza perched her head up to the mirror.
"Huh?" Roy seemed to be in a trance, "No I'm fine. Just fine..."
Everything remained slow for the time-being until Roy spotted someone particularly blond and…short. The car stopped as if on cue. Roy's brain concluded that either they were stopping because of traffic, or Hawkeye's on his side. Anyways, either one will do because he kept his eyes locked to the two figures walking slowly. Then he heard Ed yell to Al,
"NO! I am not apologizing to Roy! It's worse than drinking milk!"
Stubborn as ever, I see…
"But brother! He must feel pretty frustrated after what you said!" Ed's face grew sad and guilty.
Roy was relieved. So he feels guilty after all!
"I just…I just don't know how, Al…" Ed looked at the ground, both hands stuffed deep in his pockets.
Al was getting frustrated by the way his brother was acting in this situation.
"Look at me, Ed."
"What, but you never call me E---"
"I SAID LOOK AT ME!"
"Y-yes sir, trashcan, SIR!" He stammered, saluting Al like he was the Furer.
Al's vein popped out anime style, "Trashcan…?" he said darkly.
"Eep! I meant YES SIR, KITTEN OTAKU, SIR!"
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND!"
"YES, SIR, BROTHER, SIR!"
"…"
"What? Are you going to say that you're not my brother?"
"No, it's just that I'm the one that calls you brother, brother."
After a few more minutes or pointless arguing, Roy got bored of watching and closed his eyes. His car moved slowly and stopped and moved forward again and stopped. Mangos, traffic can be annoying. But in Roy's case, it was pretty lucky. He needed some information on how to get him and Ed back together.
Roy's ears lit up when he heard,
"Admit it, brother! You like him!"
"I DO NOT!"
"Then why are you blushing?"
Ed froze for a moment; he didn't even know that he was!
"I-I have a rash!"
"You're SO STUBBORN!"
"No, it's true!"
"Fine, if you are so sure that you don't like him, you wouldn't mind if I get him to date another girl, right?"
"NO, DON'T DO IT!"
"Why?"
"Arrgh!" Ed yelled, clutching his head, "Fine, you win alright?! I LOVE HIM! SOTHERE, HAPPY?! But I---"
"But what?"
Ed sighed and looked into space, gazing at the sky, dreamily for a few seconds. He seemed to be thinking seriously hard.
"I-I don't know, Al. Maybe it's because I don't know if he likes me back. I don't know if my heart can take it if, if he doesn't accept me..."
Roy's heart was overflowing with joy. But sadly, the god of mangos wasn't on his side today. As soon as Ed finished his sentence, Roy could feel the pressure of the air increasing inside the car that could only mean…the traffic cleared.
Damn…and at the best time too…
As he unlocked the door to his house, he thought of a plan and called Hughes for advice. After Roy finally convinced Hughes to leave his camera and photos at home that night, Hughes concluded the plan.
"It's risky, but worth it." He said over the phone.
After Hughes hung up, he grabbed the mug of coffee, took a sip, and dialed the phone at top speed it could have been considered the same speed as speed dial.
RIIIING…
RIIIIIIIING…
The Elric's house was full off phones and each of them was ringing so loud that two cats jumped out of Al's armor and ran away.
"Nooooo! Fluffy, come back!" Al cried as he tried to grab one of their tails.
Ed seemed uninterested. "Get over it. And please pick up the phone, Al."
"But brother, don't you even care that I'll never get to see Fluffy or Mouse again?" Al pouted as much as could in a body of armor.
Ed didn't lift his expression even by one percent. He scratched his head and lied down on the couch. Instead, he totally changed the topic. "Let me ask you something. Why did you name a cat Mouse?"
"Ugh, I'll just go get the freakin' phone."
"That's more like it."
Al rushed over to the nearest phone possible because he was sure that it ran at least eight times already. He saw that it was from Hughes and put it on speaker. Then, he went inside the bathroom and shut the door.
"Hey Hughes, so what did you come up with?" he whispered, making sure that Ed doesn't hear.
Hughes smirked in the other end. "Actually, I didn't. Roy did."
"Wow, for real? What is it?"
"It's -dramatic pause- to make Edward drunk."
Al's head fell off.
After a few seconds of silence, "Hey, Al? You there? Hello, A---"
"THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IN A MILLION YEARS!" Al screamed into the phone so loud that it awoke Ed from the living room.
"Al!" Ed called, "What's not going to happen?"
Al panicked, but thought quickly enough to fool him. "Um, we will not accept donating money to the, internet company policy…uh commercial."
Al listened for a response.
"Well, gosh, you don't have to be so dramatic. Just tell them you don't want to next time."
"Okay, Brother!"
But in his mind he thought, I'm being dramatic for your sake, idiot!
He went back to his chat with Hughes.
"You know what? Make him drunk for all I care."
"What's with the sudden change of heart?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?"
"Never mind."
"So, when?"
"Tonight at 9."
"Alright, and…what's the excuse?"
"Alchemist Party."
"Roy's pretty smart."
"Actually, no. Only when it comes to Edward…"
"I-I see." Al said twitching. What's that suppose to mean?
"Oh, and another thing, Alphonse."
"What?" Oh no, Did brother get in trouble?
"You won't believe what my little daughter did today! Okay, first I gave her this piece of cake right? And then she accidentally slipped and---"
That's when Al hung up. Geez, And I actually thought that it was important…
Al ran back to the living room while glancing at the clock, which read 7:26pm.
"Brother, brother! Wake Up!"
Ed was sleeping lightly until then. He moaned. "Al, please don't tell me it's another letter…"
"No, it's an invitation to an Alchemist Party! Tonight at nine!"
Ed's face was clueless. "Alchemist Party? What for?"
"Erm…" he had to think fast, yet again, "For all the hard work that the Alchemists put in for the military this year!"
Since Ed was very gullible, he excitedly agreed. "So is Roy going to be there?"
"Yeah! Definitely! Maybe you can make out---I mean make up with him there." Al replied.
"I just hope he's not too mad…"
Just you wait, Nissan, he's gonna be very happy…-insert mentally evil grin-
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Tic-toc…
Tic-toc…
Tic-toc…
Tic---
"Man, this is taking too long! And I'm getting very impatient, Al" Ed whined after…five minutes.
Al looked up from his e-mail and replied sarcastically, "What do you think I should do about it? Ask the time wizard to fast forward time?" Ed sighed.
"Well it's better than nothing."
Especially this week, since they had zero leads on finding the philosopher's stone. Yup, nothin'/nada/zip/ absolutely nothing. So this week, Ed was getting real stubborn and impatient and discouraged. Reading alchemy books and doing research was Ed's time-killer while Al's was taking kittens home, buying groceries, and testing out new recipes. Now that Ed had maybe a little too much free time, he was getting bored all the time, because Al kept hogging the computer. Reading romance books was one of Ed's favorite things to do when he was bored. It seemed to work until the library was closed for construction, even desperate state Alchemists. Just two days ago, Ed had begged Winry to send him some romance books she had bought and kept into her room. She only had about four, but it'll do.
Ed sat up from the couch and started flipping through some pages in the novel, "Love's Secret". He had read ten chapters and gosh he just couldn't force himself to stop reading it. It was pretty addictive, alright.
It was about a girl named Eve, who lost her parents in a car accident and went into the city to find a job for a living. In the city, she got fired but met a boy working in a higher rank. She always hated him for teasing her about her English since she never went to school. Her best-friend Rei thought it was romantic and bittersweet love. As time passes, Eve learned to soft around the boy and eventually they became lovers. Until her lover advises her to go to college and get a degree for better jobs and more importantly, improve her English. So she packed her bags and went to the college that Rei went to currently. She's so nervous on the first day that she didn't get more than five hours of sleep the night before.
And that was where Ed last left off. Every time he started to read the words off a page, he would picture himself as Eve because in his opinion they seem alike. Secretly, he also pictured Eve's lover as Roy. Though he never told anyone about it. Sometimes he would cry silently when he came to the really sad and angst parts. But Al never knew because he locked himself in his room and told him that he was sick. Another reason that he loved the story was it was also very funny. Ed would snicker sometimes or laugh so hard until his chest hurt.
While Ed started chapter eleven, Al was busy checking his email, when his IM alerted that Hughes was online. He turned the volume down so that Ed wouldn't hear, but it really didn't matter since Ed was in his own little world.
He double clicked on the button and an IM window popped up. He did admit in his mind that it was pretty hard using the mouse when he had chubby, metal fingers. So they had to get the extra extra extra extra extra extra extra extra large mouse when they bought it. Ed bought a separate one, because it was too heavy for him to move. It was bigger than the size of his fist!
~ Here's what the IM screen showed:
IAmNotATrashCan: Hey Hughes, any news?
AnnoyingCameraMan: Yeah, Thank god u r on! It's urgent!
IAmNotATrashCan: This better not be about your family…
AnnoyingCameraMan: It's not!
IAmNotATrashCan: -totally not buying it-
AnnoyingCameraMan: Ok…maybe it is but…
IAmNotATrashCan: I'm logging off.
AnnoyingCameraMan: Wait! My wife suggested that u make Edward dress up like a different person. There is a theme night at the bar tonight and it's a costume party.
IAmNotATrashCan: Hm…So wat r u and Roy dressing as?
AnnoyingCameraMan: I'm a wolf and he's a cat
IAmNotATrashCan: Hm, well since I'm also going, I'll be a…
AnnoyingCameraMan: A trashcan?
IAmNotATrashCan: I AM NOT A TRASHCAN! JUST LOOK AT MY USERNAME!!
AnnoyingCameraMan: How about a robot?
-IAmNotATrashCan has logged off-
AnnoyingCameraMan:…point taken.
Al hopped out of the chair and headed for the kitchen to make something simple for dinner.
Oh, I almost forgot…
"Brother! It's all yours!" he shouted from the kitchen. But he didn't get an answer.
"Brother? Hello?"
This time however he got a reply, "Yeah, whatever, just quiet down Al, I'm reading a very good part."
Al obeyed and opened the refrigerator and took out three small eggs. He beat them in a bowl and mixed it. While Al was halfway done, and was frying the eggs, he heard coming from the living room---
"OH MY MANGOS!"
He dropped his pan, turned off the fire, and rushed to his brother.
"What's wrong, what's wrong!?" he yelled while running.
When he got there, Ed's face was looking at the ground, his expression was dark. Both of his hands were clenched tightly and placed on his knees. He was shaky visibly from anger.
"Brother, w---"
Before he could finish,
"I DON'T BELIEVE HIM!" Two angry golden eyes shot up from the ground.
"Who---"
"ARGG! HE CHEATED ON REI FOR EVE!?"
"Huh---"
"HOW DARE HE? DOESN'T HE EVEN KNOW THAT SHE HAS A BOYFRIEND ALREADY! THAT AIRHEAD!"
"Brother…"
He grabbed the book and started reading again, flipping though the pages furiously.
"AHRG! STUPID STUPID STUUUPID! Don't you cry, Rei! He's gonna taste my FIST IN HIS MOUTH!"
Al sighed and gave up. Obviously, he wasn't going to get anywhere.
"EVE TO DA RESCUE! WOOOOOOT!"
Al walked slowly back to the kitchen and went back to his eggs.
"Sometimes you scare me, brother…"
END CHAPTER
~ 4 Fun ~
Me: oh, hold on, before Ed kills me, I'm going to need to ban him out of this 4 Fun section.
Ed: What but I---
Me: Sowey…I just had to, cuz I know what you were going to say…
-Ed is out of the 4 Fun section-
Roy: -sniff-…that was mean…
Al: So does that mean this gets turned into a '3 Fun' Section?
Me: …I don't know.
A/N: Onward, to revising the next chapter! :D