Chapter 5
Ed Pov.
"Hey Al, wanna go to the garden?" I asked, waving my metal arm.
" Sure!" He said, his big armoured body running after me. We stopped when we reached the fountain outside." Maby there's some people we can meet out here." Alphonse said. We looked around the garden.
" Interesting clothing on some of these people, some look rich!" I said.
" Wait, brother, I think I found mustang again." He pointed. Sure enough, I saw the colonial, talking with a few rich looking people.
" Bah, 'c'mon Al... Hey look there." I pointed to a girl with a choir uniform on.
"let's go meet her!" Al said. We walked over to the girl, she had a small and a large case and was sitting on the edge of the fountain, admiring the scenery it looked like.
" Um, excuse me?" I said. She turned to look at us, slightly startled.
" H-hello." She bowed her head, sounding nervous. Her eyes were so big and blue.
" We're the Elric brothers. I'm Edward, and this is my younger brother Alphonse. What's your name?" I said.
" Oh, um, Mabel Jackson. Nice to meet you." She said shyly.
"you too! If you don't mind me asking, why are you dressed like that?" Al asked. She looked down at her attire, then back to us.
" I just finished a concert. This is my choir uniform." She said.
" And what's in there?" I pointed at the two cases.
" Oh, these?" She patted the two cases. We nodded." The small one is a soprano clarinet, and the big one is a bass clarinet."
"Really? Cool! Can we see them?" I asked.
" Yea hold on." She opened the small one on her lap, showing the instrument in pieces. Then she closed it and put it down. She then positioned the large case on the ground and opened it, revealing a much larger version of the other instrument.
" Wow, it must be hard to play such a large instrument." I commented.
" Actually, it's not much different than the other one." She said, closing the case.
" What?" My brother and I said together.
" I understand why you would think that. Typically someone would look at an instrument and think that the bigger it is, the more air you need, right?" We both nodded."But its not exactly the instrument as a 'whole'.."She put together the mouth pieces for the two clarinets.".. Than it is the 'hole' the air goes in though." Al and I both tilted our heads in confusion." Well, lets look at the soprano mouth piece." She held it up." When I blow into it, the air only goes through this tiiiny little slit." She held the other one beside it." The same goes for this one. Sure, it's bigger, but not that much. It's just a little wider." We compared the two for a minute before she put them away again." So, there is only a small difference, therefore, I find that they are both around the same difficulty. But of coarse, they both have their own little problems." She stopped and blushed."I-I'm sorry.." She said softly.
" Hm? For what?" Al asked.
" I kinda rambled. I probably bored you, right?" She said slightly sad.
" What? No way! That was actually kinda interesting!" I said.
" Yea, I never woulda thought of it that way!" Al said. She looked up at us with her shiny blue eyes.
" Really?" She said, then she turned to me.'something about..those...eyes.' I thought. I found myself blushing.
"y-yea." I said, rubbing the back of my head.
"Ed, haha, you're blushing." Al laughed.
"SHADAP!" I screamed. Mabel giggled, making me blush even more.' How embarrassing.'