A confrontation and truth
"I can't believe it pouring now…"
The woman pulled out her blue umbrella and continued down the street feeling extremely irate at the weather.
A boy and a girl passed by laughing and smiling, they had forgotten their own umbrellas but it does not really matter to them even if they were soaked to the skin…
"Don't be silly, it is okay, I will be with you forever…"
A middle aged mummy carried her child walking quickly across the street, sheltering the little one with her jacket.
"Don't worry, mummy is here. Hush Hush my dear."
Riza walked silently along the street, she had been roaming aimlessly in the town for an hour now. She had thought about going home since it had began to rain heavily, however there was something in her that refused to let her rest.
She moved along slowly, her eye focused on the grey road in front of her while the rest of her shivered. She had forgotten to bring an umbrella with her today, it was cold and wet but she did not mind, it really did not matter. Humans were waterproof in the first place. She was used to the weather beating down on her, just like Ishval; it did not matter what the heat did to her, she had died in those blood stained sand. And…Riza thoughts had landed on the person who… she sighed mentally once again; please don't let yourself think about him.
It was a few streets ahead where she realized where she had ended up, she peered into the large glass window and there it was, sitting in a red square box. A simple silver ring with a single diamond embedded at the front. They had been here before, looking at that particular ring. It was a simple outing with the team a few years back, they were roaming the town when the colonel and she came across this shop that sold novelty rings. For some strange reason, Riza had her eyes set on the simplest and cheapest one on the store.
"Do you like the ring?" The colonel asked her. Riza shook her head without looking at the colonel "I don't need a ring." She tilted her head slightly and looked at her superior gently "We are soldiers remember?"
Riza took a long look at the ring before allowing herself to smile a little even though what she had thought about was impossible. "It is not…going to ever happen…" She whispered to herself sadly, the rain pattered heavily around her and dark clouds swirled above in the skies.
"Hey, lieutenant…" She heard his voice first, a new feeling rose within her as she turned around, and there he was standing in the rain just like what she was doing. He was drenched to the skin, just like she was and the look on his face told her that he was thinking about the same thing as she was too.
Riza approached the colonel slowly and when they were just a feet from each other, she placed her hand against his cheeks. "Just for this one time…" she told him.
"You know we can never…Roy…"
Roy tightened his jaw, beads of nervousness began to form down his neck. "Don't you tell me you had never…"
"I do, I do love you…" Riza was beginning her own fits of nervousness, she did not wish to tell him the truth this way.
"Then what is the problem? Why can't we be together?" His heart nearly broke upon his desperateness, he had only loved one woman and that was her; he was so sure she was one so why…
"I am not ready to be in any relationship now." Riza looked away to the wall behind him, "I just can't"
They stood there quietly, letting her words sink in. "I will see you again after I graduate from military service…" Roy said before walking away leaving Riza alone in the café they were having coffee in.
"I'm sorry for behaving like an asshole for the past few days…" Roy finally said, Riza peered up at him quietly "I was hoping you would finally respond and tell me that you are ready to accept me into your life…but all I did was hurt you…"
Riza raised an eyebrow and to the colonel astonishment, she gave a small smile. "You mean trying to make me feel jealous and guilt me into being with you?" Roy gulped, so she already knew?
"I was jealous…and I was definitely guilty… but Roy, no…We just can't be together…"
Roy put a hand on his chin, "So you are ready but we just can't be together?"
"I did not say that I am ready…" Riza injected quickly
"Yes you did, you said you were jealous and guilty…which also meant there is something else stopping us being together but it was not you, right?" Roy finished his sentence with triumph.
Riza glared at her superior with a horrible look as though she was about to shoot him, but it softened in fact it became kind of mischievous; it was a look which the colonel never knew she was able to show him.
The military
Their duties to the people
Their promise to the Ishvalans
If everything was like a fairy tale, this would be a happy ending but sadly life do not always have a happily ever after.
