A little longer than what I usually write, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't at least bother anyone...

Trisha-Melissa Elric: 5
Jonathan Mustang: 2
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"Five… four… three… two… one, ready or not, here I come!" Trisha shouted as she took her hands of from covering her eyes. She was exited and ready to go find her best friend from his hiding place. A little longer than what I usually write, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't at least bother anyone...

But it was not too long before Trisha's face turned down, because all she had to do was look in front of her and she already found Jonathan sitting there, on the floor in front of her. The small boy was also covering his eyes, and when he heard the counting stopping, Jon too lifted his hands and looked at Trisha, a wide smile on his lips.

"Jon," Trisha whined and stood up. "I'm the one who counts. Your job is to hide from me. Got it?"

Jonathan looked at his cousin, his brown eyes looking confused at first, but then he stood wobbling up and wrapped his tiny hands around Trisha's waist, burying his face into girl's stomach. Trisha sighed.

"Not like that, Jon. You're supposed to go away somewhere else so I can't see you right away." she tried to explain. "Did you understand now?"

Jonathan parted from Trisha and nodded like he had understood. Not that meant anything, since he hadn't gotten it at the first place.

"Good. Now I start counting again, and before I'm done you go somewhere to hide and wait for me to find you, okay?"

Jonathan nodded eagerly and watched as Trisha sat down and started to count.

"Ten… nine…"

As she got into end with her counting, Trisha opened her eyes again and this time she was happy to notice that Jonathan had really gone somewhere to hide. Eagerly Trisha stood up and started to wander around the house and look for him.

At first Trisha went to the bedroom. She was old enough to know that always everytime someone hided under the bedcovers or the bed itself. Only this time Trisha had to say that no one could be under such flat covers and after looking under the huge double bed Trisha had to admit that Jonathan was pretty clever for a first timer playing hide and seek.

Very clever, as Trisha became aware of that Jonathan wasn't hiding in any of the house's many closets, or neither was he in the kitchen or in a laundry basket (Trisha's personal favourite). So after she had practically turned the house upside down and Jonathan was nowhere to be found, Trisha started to get a bit worried. Of course the boy couldn't just have completely disappeared.

Right?

Trisha hurried to the door of her uncle's study, the only place she hadn't yet searched Jonathan from and the only place in the whole house where she wasn't allowed to go by herself without asking. Taking a deep breath Trisha knocked the door first before opening it. Her uncle Roy was there sitting at his desk and doing some random paper work he had brought home. As Roy heard the knock and the door opening, he turned around in his office chair and a small smile rose on his lips when he saw Trisha.

"Hello, Trisha. Is everything okay?" he asked and the girl took a shaky step in the study.

"Roy, have you seen Jon lately?" Trisha asked, wary for the possible answer. Roy seemed thoughtful and rubbed his jaw.

"Not that I remembered." he said and watched how Trisha's expression shattered into fearful look. "Why, has something happened?"

Trisha's eyes got teary, she sobbed few times and then ran to Roy and plunged her head into the man's lap, starting to cry comfortlessly.

"I'm sorry Roy, I'm so sorry! I lost Jon! I said him to go somewhere so I wouldn't see him and now I can't find him. I lost him!" the girl explained. Roy, shocked from what Trisha had said stroked her hair, trying to hush her.

"There, there. Now what did exactly happen?" Roy asked. Trisha swallowed her sobs, since she noticed that Roy wasn't at least yet angry for her. Slowly she told Roy how they had been playing hide and seek and when it was time for her to start looking for Jonathan, the boy had seemed to totally disappear from the house. Roy listened carefully, all the time caressing Trisha's head to keep her calm.

Roy got off him chair and kneeled to Trisha's level so that he was looking the girl straight to eyes. "I see. Hey, what if we look for him once more, this time I'll be with you, so maybe we find him together, neh?" he said while whipping the tears away from Trisha's reddened cheeks. Trisha nodded and taking Roy's hand in her own they left the study and started to go through the house for Jonathan.

They hadn't checked more that the kitchen when they went back to the living room and a large smile appeared to Roy's face. He pointed the windows with his finger and looked down at Trisha.

"Look over there," he said. "Behind the curtains."

Trisha did as asked and glanced the long curtains which were open and agglomerated to both sides of the window. On the bottom of the other curtain there was a pair of tiny feet…

Trisha's face brightened, she ran to the curtain and pulled it away from her view.

And there Jonathan was, all the same covering his eyes as if it was that when he didn't see anything, then none else could see him. The boy lifted his hands and as he saw Trisha, he seemed happy and went to hug her, since they were apart for such a long period.

Trisha was on the top of happiness when she had found his long lost best friend. How could she be so stupid that she hadn't checked behind the curtains, since that was the…

"Lamest hideout ever!" Trisha accounted and patted Jonathan's black hair. "Yet so much you have to learn about this game, Jon."

Had fun while writing this. The next time we have a (more or less) happy family event.

P.S. Thank you for the reviews, still not getting any answer out :(