Hello readers!!! Thank you for all of the reviews last chapter!! Yay 13! New record!

Hehe, but anywho, instead of me working on a History paper, here's the next chapter and I hope all of you guys enjoy it!

His heart was pumping faster and faster as he stared at the little green bar that sat at the bottom of the web page. Why did it feel like this was taking forever? Every second he had to wait felt like another hour as he waited for that stupid little green bar to finish and go to the next page.

And then it did.

Ed's eyes scanned the page. His name was highlighted a few times over the page and every time Ed read those two words, his stomach tightened more and more. Winry was completely silent next to him. Finally deciding on one link, Ed clicked.

It was a part of a news article from some school called James Rickards High School. Ed scanned the page and read over every last word. After a minute or two, Ed realized that the news article on who had made Honor Roll and Merit Roll in that school for a certain quarter.

Alphonse Elric

He made Honor Roll every single quarter…Ed thought, a bit of pride for his unknown younger brother rose in his chest.

After Ed had finished reading over the page, he glanced over to look at Winry, who had just finished the page too.

"How do you think we could find him from this?" Ed asked as he took another bite from his sandwich, even though he wasn't remotely hungry anymore.

"Well…look at the URL. If we cut it and enter it, maybe it will take us to like, the school website and find out where exactly this school is."(1)

"But then how are we supposed to find out where he lives? We can't just stand in front of his school and ask people if they've seen him! They'd think we were crazy!"

"And what makes you think that I'd even go with you if you found him?" Winry asked while giving Ed a small joking smile. "Besides, I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself here. We can figure that out afterwards. First we have to at least get an idea as to where he lives."

"Right."

Ed did as Winry suggested and cut and paced the URL and hit enter. Again, Ed felt the horrible rising of anticipation and nerves in the pit of his stomach as he waited for the page to load again.

"James Rickards High School." Ed read aloud as the page popped up.

The web page was colored in its school colors of blue and gold along with its school emblem. (A shield with two swords crossing in front of a large gold 'R' with the words, 'The Raiders' beneath it.)

"Do you see an address anywhere?" Winry asked as her eyes searched the page.

"Yeah!" Ed exclaimed as he pointed up into the corner of the web page, excitement quickly flooding into his chest. "It's up in the corner here. Look it says…it says…"

The excitement in his chest then escaped as quickly as it had come once he had read the street address of the school.

Tallahassee…Tallahassee, FLORIDA. Florida!

"Oh." Winry said quietly before sitting back on the floor once she too had read it.

Florida. He lived in freaking Florida! Ed let out a loud breath of air as he ran his hands through his hair while he tried to grasp the situation. Florida was what…twenty hours away by car? Maybe eighteen if you all out floored it and didn't stop at all…which was insane.

"How the hell am I supposed to get down to Florida?" Ed asked aloud as he let his head tip back, something he did when ever he got frustrated or was annoyed.

Winry kept quiet, knowing that it was a rhetorical question. The two sat there for some time. Both not sure as to what they should say or even do to help one another. Finally, Ed spoke.

"Well he could be farther. Like in Hawaii or something."

"And look at the bright side, Roy's always been whining about going on a road trip somewhere nicer. Now we could kill two birds with one stone."

"Heh, right."

"Oh, Ed." Winry said while pointing towards the clock. "We have to be back to school in fifteen minutes!"

"Crap." Ed exclaimed as he quickly scribbled down the school address onto a piece of scrap paper before exiting out of the window, logged of the computer, and got up from his chair.

Winry got up from the floor and walked out of the room, Ed following in her foot steps.

"Bye Granny!" Winry yelled a she ran down the steps.

Edward couldn't focus at all during his last exam of the day. He was too busy thinking about what would happen if he actually did go down to Florida and try and find him.

Would he even know who I was? Or would he not have a clue.

What would he do I if I just went up to him after school and said 'hey, I'm your brother'? Would I even able to do that? Or would I be too nervous to even speak to him?

What if I managed to find him, but then he doesn't want anything to do with me? What if he wouldn't believe me? What if he thought I was lying, just like I thought Kimblee was to me?

What if he believes me, but we don't get along at all? What if we hate each other?

But what if…what if he does know me? What if he does believe me? What if he actually wants to get to know me? What if we actually wants to come back with us and hang out with me for the rest of the summer?

What if he decides to move here and live with me?

Ed bit the inside of his mouth so that the smile that was starting to form on his face wouldn't be shown to any of his fellow classmates. After shaking his head so he could rid his head of all the jumbled thoughts, Ed picked up his pencil again and attempted to finish his exam.

"When are you going to tell them?" Winry asked at she stretched and laid down on the cool grass.

Their last exam had ended almost an hour ago, after which, they were released early(2). Instead of going home to his empty home, Ed agreed to join Winry for an ice cream and another study session for the next day's exam. They were now lying in an open field at the local park under the shade of a large oak tree.

"When am I going to tell who what?" Ed asked as he licked his chocolate ice cream cone.

"You know who I'm talking about. When are you going to tell the guys about you having a brother? I know you didn't tell Roy or Havoc even when they still agreed to take you to that place."

Ed remained silent as he pretended to be reading his text book.

"Come on. They have to know."

"And I'm not saying that they don't. In fact, I'm not saying anything. Right now, I'm focused on World War II" Ed said as he lifted up his text book and shook it before Winry took it and set it down far out of his reach.

"Like you really need to study for that test Mister Genius. Now quit avoiding the subject."

"Winry, do really have to talk about his right now? I mean, can't we wait until finals are over and I can think freely?" Ed snapped as he pulled back his book by its stretchy cover.

"Sorry. I just…" Winry trailed off as he twisted her fingers around a long blade of grass.

"It's alright Win." Ed said with a small smile. "I understand. Now it's not like I'm trying to forget all about this or pretend I don't care at all, because I do care and I really want to find him. Just not right now. I need a break from all of this so that I can take it all in."

"Of course." Winry said before she picked up her own book and began to re-read the section she had left off on. "You know Ed, I'm really surprise."

"'Bout what?"

"About how well you're taking this. I though for sure that the second you had any clue as to where he was, you would go running off to try and find him."

"Well if he wasn't so damn far away from here, trust me, I probably would." Ed said with a large grin on his face.

Winry dropped him off at his house a few hours later. Ed noticed, to his extreme relief, that Kimblee's car was not in the drive way. Ed went inside and up to his room. He heard the other three's voices coming from Sammy and Kyle's room but didn't go and say hi. He was tired and his head was spinning once again from an overload of knowledge.

Ed sat down on his bed and pulled out the piece of paper from its hiding place under his bed sheet. He then pulled out a pen and scribbled down the newest information he had learned today:

James Rickards High School

3013, Jim Lee Rd. Tallahassee, Florida

Ed then re-stashed the paper in its hiding place before getting up and walking across the hallway to the other bedroom.

"Hey guys!" Ed exclaimed as he poked his head into the room.

Ed rolled over again as he tried to get back to sleep but found it impossible. He had been slipping in and out of sleep the entire night and as it was nearing three-thirty in the morning, it was really starting to piss Ed off.

He was sitting in an open field-

No, he was in bed. Still awake.

Warm air drifted over him as he laid back down into the extremely soft grass. Someone was calling his name from behind him. He turned to see who it was-

Ed let out a small groan as one of Terry's loud snores forced him a bit more awake.

It was that boy. The same one from the other dream. He was saying something but he couldn't quite hear it, even though Ed could tell that he was talking in a very loud and excited voice.

Ed let out a loud yawn before rolling over on to his other side and let his eye lids fall shut once more before he finally dosed off to sleep…

"Ed! Ed, Dad sent us another letter!" he exclaimed as he waved about a piece of paper that was half out of its envelope.

Ed quickly jumped up from the ground and stood next to the boy.

"What does it say? Did you read it yet? Where did he say that he was?" Ed asked quickly as excitement grew in his stomach.

"He's in Florida!"

"Florida?! All the way down there? I wonder how warm it is down there. I heard it was over 100 degrees the other day."

"Uh huh. He says it's really, really hot out everyday!"

"Yeah but I bet it's fun! There's a huge beach right there and an ocean! An ocean Al!" Ed yelled in excitement before he tugged the letter from Al's tiny hand and began to read it.

"What's it say? What's it say?" Al asked as he stood on his tiptoes so he could read over his brother's shoulder.

"Geez, if you wanted to read this so badly, you should have read it before you gave it to me!"

"But Mom told me we should read it together since it's addressed just to the two of is!" Al said indignantly as he tugged the paper out of Ed's hand.

"OW! Al you idiot you gave me a paper cut!" Ed yelled before aiming a kick at his brother's shins.

"Hey! Mom says not to kick!"

Ed rolled over onto his back and continued to dream about a summer day that took place years and years ago but when he would wake hours later, he would find that he couldn't remember any of it.

(1) Um, I got that idea from me being bored and typing in my own name into google. I know that there are probably tons and tons of flaws in that plan but hey, let's see you come up with a better, reasonable idea. (And yes, that is an actual school in Tallahassee, I did all of my research and everything.)

(2) That' how exams work at my school. You have two or three a day and once you're done with your last exam, you get to go home at like, 1:30.

I liked writing this chapter, probably because it took me about an hour and a half to write it.

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-FSK