Edward stared at Winry, breathless. She stood wearing (okay, please don't kill me with my description, I'm really bad at describing dresses…considering I don't even own one…) an ocean blue dress, matching her eyes perfectly.

"What? Is something wrong?"

"n-no, I uh just…nothing."

Winry shrugged nonchalantly.

"Whatever."

She looks amazing….

"Winry?"

"Yeah?"

"A-after homecoming and all, uh, y-you think you wanna go out?"

"Sure. Sounds fun. But why wait till after homecoming?"

Great. She reduces me to a stuttering idiot, how? Aw hell, what do I care? She said yeah.

"Yeah, Roy and Riza were on a strictly platonic relationship."

"So what happened?"

"Late night study session." Edward laughed.

"Isn't she living with him?"

"Yeah. They've known each other since sixth grade."

"Riza's parents don't care?"

"Her mom died when she was young. Not much her dad can do; she's 18. So, what about you? I know

you've got a life story."

"Not really. I was born in Resembool, lived there until a couple of weeks ago. My parents died when I was little. Since then, I was raised by my Grandma. She trained me as an automail engineer, and there you go." She said, somewhat bitterly.

"What's up? Don't pass it off as nothing, because it clearly is. You're never in a bad mood."

"Ed, she may seem happy on the outside, but she could be dying in the inside, you remember that."

"But Teacher, how the hell am I supposed to be able to tell?"

"Believe me, Ed. You'll know."

"Come on, Win. You can tell me, you should know that."

Tears rolled down Winry's face as she shook her head. Ed pulled her into a hug, rubbing her back in attempt to soothe her.

"Never keep secrets Ed, they eat away at you."

So now she can't keep secrets from me? I guess that's a good thing…

Edward patiently waited for Winry to continue. (That's a first.)

"When I was five, my parents went out with one of their friends. She had a 10 year old son, his dad walked out or she adopted him. Something like that. Anyway, he was supposed to babysit me, but," Winry hesitated. "That's not all he did."

"Oh God, Winry,"

"I didn't know what he was doing; what I was doing! You think I wanted that to happen? To be haunted by this?"

"I didn't mean it like that. What happened to him? Did you tell your parents?"

"No. I wanted to, when I was 18… and as you can well see, that isn't happening."

"Did you tell Granny?"

Winry shook her head.

"Granny's old. She couldn't take it, Ed."

"13 years… this secret's been killing me. So, still want to date me?"

"Yeah. More than ever. What that bastard of a kid did, he took away a little girl's innocence. I'm here for you."

Winry mumbled something Ed couldn't understand.

"What?"

"I don't know if he got to me, if that's what you're wondering."

"Winry, I wasn't thinking that. And in that sense, I wouldn't care. Sure, I wanna go find him with an AK-47, but for the first time in my life, I'm going to keep my cool. I used to have nothing to lose, now I have everything to lose, you know?"

"Yeah. I know what you mean."

So there you go, chapter 6. Yeah, Winry's incident IS real, sadly. *shakes head* All of it, minus the death of parents. And Ed (cry, cry). Well, I updated sooner than expected, my mom isn't home. She has NO idea I write, much less post the stories here. So basically, whenever I'm home alone, I'll update or work on the story. I always write a hard copy before typing, and when I type, I edit. So yeah… review please!