5. A Day of Boredom
Back at the room Ed was laying on the couch waiting for me to come back so we could go get some lunch, Al came too but he couldn't eat. I had some salad and a pop while
Ed had a big bowl of stew, bread, and orange juice. He kept complaining that it wasn't as good as Winry and Pinako's stew, I told him to tough it out food is food. "Fine, but
I'm only eating it because I'm hungry" He finally gave in.
"HAH! You gave in!"
"So?"
"I've accomplished what few others can do!"
"Hey Winry only can because she has a wrench, and you can because you wont leave me alone otherwise"
"Still!"
Al sat there in silence other then the ocasional laugh at our arguement.
"Brother, I think you found somebody who competes with your stubborness" Al said.
"Shut up, Al, she is just annoying"
"No Im not!" I said as I punched him in his right arm with my right arm.
"Ow, don't use that arm!" Ed complained.
"Why not? It teaches you something!"
Almost everyone was watching us argue. I finished first. "I'm going back to the dorms"
"Okay meet you there" Al said.
Ed was still complaining to himself about how crappy the stew was and that the bread was stale and that kind of stuff when I left. First thing I did was check on the kitten she
was sleeping in her bed she had eaten most of her food so I gave her more. and picked her up on to my lap and pet her, she started purring the second she was on my lap. I
pet her for maybe ten minutes And Ed knocked on my door once to tell me they were back. I got up and headed out the door to talk to them, "Hey, guys, how are we going to
get to Liore?" "I think we can catch a train to Ompihezba and then we have to walk through the desert because theres no roads around, Desert would probably wouldn't take
that long"
"Okay thats what we'll do then" I said.
"Okay I'm fine with it" Al said.
Few minutes of boredom later. "What can we do in a Military building?" I asked.
"We could go find Jean or Hughes or maybe even Riza if they know something we can do" Ed suggested.
"Who's Jean?" I asked.
"Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc he's one of Roy's team, theres Jean Havoc, Riza Hawkeye, Cain Fuery, Heymans Breda, and Vato Falman"
"Oh, but running around makes us sound like little kids, But oh well lets go" I said while standing up.
First we ran into Jean he was bored too and he was a bit taller then me and had a un-lit cigarate in his mouth, Light grey eyes and also had blonde hair. "Hey Ed, who's your
friend?"
"McKenna" Ed replied.
"Oh yeah, the Colonel said something about a girl named McKenna"
"Oh?" I said.
"Yeah he told me Ed had a friend around"
"Yeah, do you know anything we can do? We are all bored" I asked.
"No not really I'm on break then I have to fill in some forms"
"Kay, we'll go see if we can find Lieutenant Hawkeye or Hughes" Ed said.
"Okay, see you around"
So we walked around a bit before we saw Riza, "Hey guys what are you going?" Riza asked.
"We're bored" I replied.
"And I'm just following Brother around so they don't kill eachother" Al said.
"Well I don't have anything for you guys to do, I have to make sure the Colonel does his paperwork. Sorry maybe Hughes has something or maybe Kain he never has
anything to do"
"Okay, we'll go find one of them" Ed said.
Riza walked away toward Mustangs office. Next person we ran into was a younger man that was Private Kain Fuery, slightly shorter then me and had short spiked black hair
Dark brown almost black eyes and glasses, "Hey, Kain" Ed called out.
"Oh, hi Ed, Al" Kain said looking up from a book.
"Do you know McKenna?" Ed asked. "Yeah, Colonel Mustang mentioned her, Is this her?" He asked looking at me.
"Yeah, I'm McKenna" I said while waving slightly.
"Oh, well nice to meet you. What are you guys doing anyway?"
"Were trying to find something to do" Al said.
"Oh well wish I could help but I'm busy, Theres a few broken radios that need fixing. The Colonel wants it done as soon as possible"
"Oh okay, well do you know where Hughes is?" Ed asked.
"Probably sorting out files"
"Okay we'll go find him" Ed said.
We walked down a hallway and stopped at a door. "Hey, Hughes you in here?" Ed said as he was opening the door.
"Yeah Ed I'm in the back" a man replied.
The room was full of shelves with files on them. In the back of the room a man poked his head out of a row of shelves. He had short black hair and green eyes and glasses
"Oh,you have McKenna with you"
"Yeah, been bored all day and been wandering around trying to find something to do but so far we haven't found anything to do" Ed explained.
"Do you have anything we could do?" Al asked.
"No not really but you could go get some dinner" Hughes said.
"Is it really that time? Hah, guess wandering around kept us occupied all day" I said.
"Yeah I guess" Ed replied.
"But before you go you wanna see pictures of Gracia and Elicia?" Hughes said as pictures appeared in his hand.
"Uh, no thanks Maes, We're okay" Ed and Al said at the same time.
"Sure, we have time" I said.
Ed looked like I was the weirdest person he's ever seen. "What?" I asked.
"See this is Elicia when she was born" Maes said.
After seeing maybe 5 pictures of each Elicia and Gracia I understood why looked at me that way, Maes was totally obsessed with his family. "You should drop by and let them
one day" Maes finished about 15 minutes later. "Sure, but we gotta go eat" I said quickly while turning to the door. Once we closed the door and walked for a few seconds I
said "Why didn't you tell me he was completely insane!"
Ed laughed "You needed to learn the hardway"
"Fine but lets go. Al hurry up" I said.
Al hurried as we ran down the hallway to the cafeteria.
We sat at a empty table in the far corner, I got some noodles to eat and Edward got some chicken. He got 2 plates of chicken in the time I ate my noodles, "Wow, you were
hungry"
"Yeah" He said with a full mouth.
"Well, I'm going back to the rooms, Al, you wanna come?" I said "Sure!" Al said while standing up.
We walked out of the cafeteria. "Wanna see the kitten? Its so fluffy now, and I got it a bunch of food when I last went for a walk to its gained weight"
"Okay" Al replied.
We hurried back to our rooms. "Come on!" I said when I reached my door.
He ran up to me and we went in. As soon as I opened the door the small fluffy kitten ran over to me, "See she's even grown a bit" "She's so cute" Al said while starting to pet
her.
'Yeah, I just wonder how we'll take her on the train without Ed noticing"
"Oh, yeah brother wont be happy we brought the kitten"
"Like I said before he has no say about the cat"
"But that wont stop him from trying"
"I know but oh well"
We just pet the cat for a couple minutes and Al looked around my room after a few minutes he asked "Who are those people in that picture?" while looking at the last picture
of my family.
"It's my family before the fire, a firefighter found it and a nurse gave it to be while I was in the hospital" I grabbed the picture from the bedside table.
He looked over my shoulder. "Is that your brother?" He asked while looking at the boy no older then 9 with dark brown hair and one blue steak in his hair.
"Yeah, thats Jhosph"
"You look like your mom and your brother looks like your guys dad"
My mother had Long black hair with pink streaks in her hair and pale skin and very dark green eyes she was about 26, and my father had short light brown hair no streaks a
bit tanned skin and light blue eyes he was 27 older by a few months. "Yeah. I dont really remember them I just always wanted by big brother back after they were killed. I
never understood entirely why though"
"Yeah, he was your sibling its the same thing brother did for me"
"Yeah, I guess, but your brother should be done soon we sho-" I was interupted by a knock at the door.
"Hey, Al, you in here?" Ed asked while slowly opening the door.
I grabbed the kitten and hid her in the box under the bedside table. "Yes brother?" Al asked.
"Just wondered where you are when you weren't in the room"
"I was just talking to McKenna"
"Okay" Edward said.
He saw my picture, then looked the other way. "Its my family.. Thats what we talked about most of the time"
"Yeah? Well come on Al lets go to our room" Ed said walking out the door.
"Okay, bye McKenna"
"Bye"
When they left I put on my pajamas and layed on my bed and pulled out my drawing book it was almost full of random sketches, animals, trees, people, and some
transmutation circles. I think I'm pretty good to drawing, no ones ever seen my pictures but still. I drew for maybe a hour it was already almost 7pm, I went to hang out with
Ed and Al. I knocked on the door, "Hey can I come in?" I heard Al tell Ed something, "Yeah, Come in" Ed said.
I opened the door it looked like Ed just woke up from a nap, "Sorry if I woke you"
"Nah its okay I needed to get up either way"
"Okay"
"What were you doing?" Ed asked.
"Drawing"
"For the last hour and a half?"
"Yeah, whats surprising about that?"
"Not many people can focus that long" "We can study for days on end if we want to" Al explained.
"So others with your attention span surprise you"
"Yeah, anyway can we see your pictures?" Al asked.
"Uhh I dont know I guess.."
"You don't have to" Ed said.
"Its okay" I said turning back to my room.
I grabbed my book and went back. "Sorry if they're kinda depressing" I said handing Al the book.
"I don't mind but why were you depressed?" "My family I guess and being alone for what eight years."
"Oh"
He flipped the page to a black weeping willow that looked like it was dripping away. "Yeah.. I drew that when I was in the south when I traveled alone,"
"Its pretty" Al said.
Ed rolled over to look. "It does look pretty cool"
"Thanks" I said smiling a bit.
We hung out and talked for a bit when I looked at the clock it was 10:34. "You guys its 10:30 you think we should go to bed?"
"Yeah probly Colonel got us the train that leaves at 9am tomorrow"
"Okay, Night guys"
"Night"
"Good night McKenna"
I went back to my room layed in bed and last I looked at the clock it was 11:57.
In the morning I was woken up by Ed knocking on my door, "Hey, McKenna, come get some breakfast we have a hour before we have to leave"
"I'll be there In a minute" I said dragging myself out of bed.
I got up dressed in my usual black coat, pants, t-shirt, and gloves. I brushed my hair and put it in a high pony tail, and left. I walked into the caferteria and grabbed a plate of
waffles and sat with Ed and Al who were talking to Maes who was waving a picture in their faces. "Hi" I said while sitting down.
"Hi, McKenna" Al said.
I started cutting my waffles, "When do we leave?"
"About 45 minutes it will only take a few minutes to get to the train station" Edward said.
"Where are you guys going?" Maes asked.
"The Colonel is sending us to Liore he said there might be a clue for the stone" Ed replied.
"Yeah hope you guys can find it but I better get going" Maes said standing up.
"Okay, bye Mr. Hughes" I said before he left.
Me and Ed finished eating and we grabbed our stuff, I bought another suitcase for the kitten and put lots of airholes in it, and headed toward Colonel Mustangs office. "Hey
there, Fullmetal, ready to go? Second Lieutenant Havoc will drive you" The Colonel said when we came in.
"Yeah we're ready"
"Okay Havoc is waiting in the front"
And we went outside to Jean. "Ready?" Jean asked.
"Yeah"
We drove for about a minute and we were at the train station. "Here we are you better go the train leaves in a few minutes"
"Okay bye" I said as we left to get on the train.
Authors note
I know this is a very boring chapter I just didn't know what to do T_T sorry.