This is not what I had in mind.

"WINRY OW! WINRY STOP! WIN-GAHHHH!"

This is totally unexpected really.

"QUIT WHINING EDWARD! THIS IS YOUR FAULT! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO GET SO ANGRY WITH YOU!? HOW RECKLESS CAN YOU GET WITH MY BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ART!?"

I sit there, staring blankly into the mess of hot pancakes, butter and maple syrup with chopped bananas scattered onto it. I don't know if I should eat it, but Granny Pinako seems to gesture me to do this and ignore the bickering love birds from behind me.

"Go on now, dear. It looks like Ed and Al aren't even feeding you properly." Criticized Granny Pinako. Al was about to protest when she gave him a glare. "You should know how to treat a young girl, especially girls who are in your care. No bad jokes or touching her, not using her and most importantly, no hurting her feelings. Always make sure she's safe above everyone else and…"

I stopped paying attention. Now Granny Pinako's giving Al a lecture. I'm with the dog. I hope we don't fight.

I finish the pancakes and walk out onto the front porch. Damn, it's beautiful here. Seriously. I breathe in the fresh air and just soak up the warm sun. There's nothing interesting in Central but look at Resembool.

I jump down to the dirty trail road. Maybe if I can go around a bit I'd learn more about this place? It's starting to become my favorite that's for sure! "Al I'll just take a look at the place, alright?" I yell inside the house. Before Al could protest I ran for the green field.

I came across two men telling me stories of how Ed and Al were kids and how Winry always cried. Some gave me souvenirs and I even ate with some of them. It was nice. Everyone was nice. No wonder the military never came here. There was nobody around to hurt them. It was all just painfully good.

That's when it hit me. "By the way, how are the Elric brothers?"

"Oh they're fine. Casualties here and there but they've always managed to get out in one piece so it's no big deal. Come to think of it, I don't know why they even bothered to leave Resembool! It's such a nice and peaceful place! All for the life of a state alchemist how insane!"

The moment those words escaped my lips I felt something different. I look at the faces of the people around me and it hit me TWICE. The first time it hit me, it was a question, now it's another question. Why would they leave this place? What was the reason they left?

Before I could open my mouth, Ed's heavy automail hand grabbed my arm and pulled me away from everyone. I gulped in fear, did he hear what I just said? Oh I hope not. Please don't. Pretty please? Don't hit me or something or leave me here to die! Actually…dying here wouldn't be so bad. In fact, maybe I'd like to live here. Seriously.

"You're not a very good explorer if you haven't seen what you should have seen over three hours ago." Ed tells me without looking at me. I barely keep up, slightly tripping as his auto mail hand grasps my thin arm. He doesn't tighten it, or make it painful. He's just walking quickly. Really quickly.

"A-ah.." I couldn't speak. Where was he taking me? We just passed the path to the Rockbell's home so there's..

there's..

…

A perfect spot to build a house lay in front of me. A single tree beside it. It was a lot. However…the lot… "It's all burned." I whisper.

"Every bit of it." He heard me?

"Every bit of our old house was burned to the ground because Al and I wanted to make sure, we would never go back. Going back would be impossible, as you can see. There's no home to go back to the moment I burned it all to the ground."

I couldn't speak. My mouth got dry again. I crouched down instead, closer to the home he called home. The home he grew up in. The ruins he created. It sort of hurt. I touch a piece of the wood and feel myself twitch. It felt hot, like the pain was still there. Like the reason was still burning inside the very house.

I turned to look at Ed, and all he does is stare into the view, not looking at the ruined pieces of furniture and wood around us. He's right. He isn't looking back at all. I felt myself shake a bit. I can't be that strong. I don't think anybody can be as strong as him.

"E-ed…" He looks down at me, all I could feel was the fire, and I could see them in my mind, staring into the fire, staring at it for the last chance to see everything. It hurt. Wouldn't their parents be mad? That's right..I never asked where they are. I never bothered. They're…could they be dead?

"My mother died and my father left us when Al and I were young so nobody was home when we burnt it don't worry." He gives me this wide smile and a thumbs up and I could feel myself want to cry out loud knowing how easy it is for me to cry.

I stood up and stomped on the ground. "Y-YOU'RE AN IDIOT ED! AN IDIOT!" I screamed before running away. Why did I say that? I don't know.

I just had to escape the burning heat inside of me that's about to kill me.