They waited until it was later in the morning, a more reasonable time to be knocking on a door. They sat on the benches to the side of the field. And just waited. Until Charlotte heard footsteps inside. She knocked on the door and waited for one of her parents to answer.

Her opened the door after unlocking it, "Charlotte, what are you doing out here? And why are you up so early?" She asked, very confused about what her daughter had been doing. Especially with two boys.

"Mom, I've been gone for weeks. Of course I'm outside."

Her mother chuckled, still confused, "Uh … you've been gone from school for almost two months, but, uh, that really doesn't have anything to do with you being outside with two boys."

Now Charlotte was getting confused, "What's the date today?"

"It's August twenty ninth, sweetie, why?"

Charlotte realized that was the day following her completion of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, "Oh … uh … no reason, just wondering. Um …." She tried to think up a story, "These are a couple of my friends. They wanted to meet me outside and I forgot my key. They were wondering if they could stay here for a while." Charlotte already knew it would be okay. Her parents were wealthy, not millionaires, but they had plenty of extra cash and room to spare.

"Sure, I guess it's okay. We can get a room ready for them when I get home from work."

Charlotte smiled, thankful for her parents generosity, "Thanks, mom." She nodded and Charlotte turned to beckon the brothers inside.

…...…...…...

While her parents were at work, Charlotte ended up having to teach the boys about almost every little thing they saw.
"What's that?" Alphonse kept asking. And Charlotte kept answering.

"It's called a television."

"What's it do?"

"It's like a radio but with moving pictures."

"Woow!" Charlotte walked to the t.v. And pressed a button, the screen was dark for a second but then Alphonse's old armour flashed across the screen. "Is that me?" Alphonse asked, unsure what to think.

"Yeah … like I said in Amestris, you guys are famous in this world."

"Wow." Charlotte pressed a button on the dvd player and the animated, metallic Alphonse started moving. She didn't bother turning on the sound, Al was fascinated by it without the sound. Ed was on her laptop, she showed him a few basics on how to maneuver the internet, he seemed to get it now, it looked like he had known about this stuff all his life. Charlotte looked over his shoulder and saw he was looking up alchemy and himself and Al.

"It's even called Fullmetal Alchemist, here? Are you sure they don't just have a spy that follows us around in Amestris?"

"Nah, the series is finished already, there's no way they could know how it finishes if they just followed you around."

"Well, it can't be coincidence! Everything is exactly the same up until we meet you."

"I guess that must be the difference. I someone had been following you around, they would have episodes with me in them and you coming back home with me on accident. But it doesn't really fit in with the storyline."

Charlotte heard the front door open. She knew right away her mother was home for lunch and then to go shopping for school, the new school year was approaching quickly, so she ran up the stairs to greet her.

"Hi mom!"

"Hi, honey. Are you ready to go shopping this afternoon?"

"Of course."

"Well, I was wondering if your friends are coming to school with you. Have they ever been to school?"

"Not one around here. And I was wondering if you could enroll them. They'll be able to keep up with our classes, they're pretty smart. And we can just say they were home schooled and then they can ask for whatever help they need."

"I guess I can do that."

"And can you ask to get us put in the same classes? I'm the only person they know here and then I can help them, too."

"Alright, I'll try my best." Her mother smiled. They made lunch together and called the boys up to eat. Al practically shoved every bit in his mouth, then Ed teased him because he probably didn't taste it. Then all four of them piled into the car to start their shopping. During the entire ride, each of the boys took turns pointing at things inside and outside of the car, asking what they were.

Charlotte's mother parked the car in front of the mall. She handed Charlotte some money for clothes and school supplies for her and the boys, then told them she had some errands to do. Charlotte felt a little disappointed in her mother, but she had known her mom wouldn't stick around the entire time, if at all, but she was doing Charlotte and the boys a favour with their classes and everything, anyway. So Charlotte led the brothers into the mall as her mother drove away.

They decided to get their supplies first, then buy new clothes for the boys. They went to a dollar store inside the mall to things like pencils and erasers, then went to one of the bigger stores for backpacks and binders.

After that, Charlotte brought them to clothing store and helped them pick out new clothes. She gave them a bunch of jeans to try on, then let them pick out a few shirts to try. The brothers tried their first outfit on and came out, trying to shift the jeans around to make the more comfortable.

"These pants feel weird!" Al said.

"Alright … then try these out." Charlotte sighed and ripped a couple of cargo pants off the racks and handed them to Ed and Al. They changed in the stalls and came back out, looking a bit more comfortable.

"These are better." Al said.

"Yeah, but they still feel weird." Ed agreed.

"Well, I don't think many stores will have what you guys wear in Amestris. Nineteen-ten was a hundred years ago here."

"Why are we doing this, anyway?" Ed asked.

"You're coming to school with me." Charlotte told him.

"But that'll just waste our time. We need to figure out how to get back!"

"I figured this way you could learn things about this world that might help you. Plus, if you don't go to school, my mom will get suspicious."

Ed groaned and mumbled "Fine." then went to try on some more clothes.

…...

It was finally the first day of school, the few days before seemed to drag on. Charlotte was having loads of fun with Ed and Al, and it was pretty interesting to teach them new things about her world, but she wanted to get back to school, too.

The trio walked to the school, a bit nervous about the day ahead. Ed and Al had stopped asking so many questions because they knew what almost everything was by then. Charlotte opened the front door and shuffled the boys inside. A lot of people were giving them weird looks, probably only because Ed had insisted on wearing his red coat. They went to the table in the front foyer, near the office to pick up their time tables.

Like Charlotte had asked her mother, they all had the same classes together. Her mother had enrolled the boys as twins, so they were also in the same grade, they pulled it off well enough. Charlotte helped the boys find their lockers, they shoved everything in and practiced opening the locks one more time, then they headed to their first class.

"Why is it called English class? Are we just learning English?" Edward asked and Alphonse nodded, saying he wanted to know as well.

"Well, yeah, I guess we learn English in this class." Charlotte replied.

"Are there people here that don't know English?"

"No, it's a pretty small town."

"Then why do we need to learn English? I already know it! So do you and Alphonse!" They took three seats at the front of the classroom, it was empty so far, everyone was still catching up in the halls.

"We do more than that! Besides, you have NO idea how illiterate these people are."

"What else do you do?"

"I don't know, Ed! Whatever the teacher has planned, just do your work, hand stuff in on time, you'll be fine."

"I still don't think it should it should be called 'English.'" Ed said stubbornly and crossed his arms.

"In elementary school they call it language arts. Is that better?" Charlotte told him then folded her arms across her chest, like Ed. She looked over at him, he was still turned away from her and Al, "I know you don't want to be here. But the only way to go to the science classes is to be enrolled. Plus, now we also have the library books to search through."

"We're just wasting time in here!" Ed said as the teacher walked in. She ignored what he said and continued to her desk, "We could be finding a way home instead of being here!"

"We'll go to the library during lunch, okay?"

"Fine." Ed turned away again, so Charlotte turned to Al and started talking to him.

…...

In the library after two of their classes were over, Charlotte, Ed and Al had pulled out every book that sounded useful to them and were sitting around one book filled table, skimming through the words to find bits of useful information. At one point, one of the libraries went over to them and asked what they could be researching on the first day of school. Charlotte made up the excuse that they were trying to decide what they could study in college, since they had no idea.

The librarian smiled happily and returned to her desk as the front door to the library swung open. Charlotte spotted him first and hid behind the books.

"What's wrong?" Alphonse asked her, with no clue that she could be hiding from someone.

"Pretend I'm not here!" She whispered desperately.

"But you are here!"

"Well, then pretend I'm not!" She told him, Al nodded and went back to reading his book. Charlotte looked over the tops of the books, but she could not seen the boy anywhere. She cursed, angry she had lost him, he was probably somewhere else in the library, about to find her. . .

"Hey, Charlotte!" A hand reached out and grabbed her wrist, it pulled her up close to his body.

"Devon! Leave me alone."

"You know, I didn't expect to find you in here."

"Well, I do like to read. You would have known that if you actually tried to get to know me."

"I did try! But you kept pushing me away."

"Like I am now?" Charlotte said, literally trying to get away from him, but it wasn't working, he was much stronger than her.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Alphonse finally yelled at Devon, Charlotte wished he had stepped in a bit sooner, maybe before he grabbed her wrist. Ed poked his head around the stack of books to see what was going on. He stood up and joined all of them.

"Stay out of this, nerds."

"Hey, those nerds are my friends, and they're a lot better friends than you! Now let go of me!"

Devon would not loosen his grip, as much as Charlotte tried to wiggle around. "Hey! She told you to let go of her!" Ed and Al yelled at him. The librarian came back over and told them to be quiet, she was completely oblivious to the fact that a fight might break out in her library at any minute.

"Kid, she's MY girlfriend! I'll do whatever the hell I want!"

"I am NOT your girlfriend!"

"Oh, yeah?" He grabbed her shoulders suddenly and forced her into a kiss. Ed finally lost it and shoved Devon to the ground, knocking over a few chairs as he did.

"Get off of me, shrimp!" Devon shouted at Ed before he had even hit him.

"DON'T EVER CALL ME SHRIMP!" Ed yelled angrily and raised his fist to hit Devon.

"Big brother! Stop!" Al and Charlotte did their best to pull Ed off Devon before he hit him and they were all sent to the principal's office.

"Ed, just leave him alone. You're better than him." Charlotte said as they watched Devon get back onto his feet.

"Whatever, Char. Next time I see you, pipsqueak, I'm going to kill you for that." Devon told him and stomped out of the library.

"Charlotte are you okay?" Al asked her.

"I'm fine. Ed, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Who was that guy anyway?"

"He's my ex-boyfriend. He's a complete jerk. I don't know why even dated him. I don't know why anyone ever would. And don't worry about the whole I'm going to kill you thing. He couldn't take down a six year old girl if he tried. Imagine how screwed he be against either of you."