Chapter three

His New Game

Opening the door to his apartment, Edward went inside. Taking his shoes off he went to the couch and dropped his bag next to it.

Sighing and running a hand through his hair he looked around. It was awfully quiet in here…

"Hey there shrimpy!" Roy greeted the blond emerging from the bathroom and smirking pleasantly. Ed rolled his eyes. It had already been two weeks, he was starting to get used to it…kinda.

"Hey there bastard." Ed said in return, flopping on the couch. Then he smelled something in the air. Leaning his head back the blonde took in a deep breath through his nose. Daisies? What the Hell? "Did you clean the apartment again?" Ed asked, inspecting his surroundings.

"Yeah." Roy answered, sitting next to the blond and taking the remote from him.

"You cleaned it just yesterday." Ed said, giving Roy a look. "And the day before that."

"That I did." The brunette answered, stopping on the Disney Channel. Ed arched his brow.

"Are you really that bored or is your life just that empty?" Ed asked and Roy wondered for a moment.

"Both actually." He said with a sigh.

"Well, why won't you do something then?" Ed asked again, lying on the couch. "You know where the keys are."

"Honestly kid, I've no idea what to do." Roy said, briefly noticing that Ed laid his legs across his knees. "The left one is heavy you know."

"Oops, sorry." Ed said, putting his left leg on the floor. It's not like he felt anything anyway.

Not more than an half an hour later Al entered the apartment. Glancing first at his brother's and Roy's absent minded face and then at the TV he shook his head in resignation.

"Are you watching Zack and Cody again?" He asked grabbing the remote and switching to news channel.

"Hey!" Ed scoffed, waking up as soon as Al changed the channel. "I was watching that!"

Al rolled his eyes. "For the tenth time…" Then he looked in the kitchen direction. "Have you ordered dinner again?"

"Yeah… "Roy said glancing sideways at a bored Ed.

"You're spoiling us you know that?" Al said and went to take his portion.

"What can I say?" Roy said. "You have such a cute little brother, I just can't help myself!"

"Oi!" Ed fumed, glaring at the smirking brunette. "Who's little huh? …and stop tugging on my toe!" He yelled and Roy laughed.

"You're not denying the cute part?" He asked, staring into blonds' eyes. He seemed to be doing that more often lately.

"Ha! 'Cute as a button' has been thrown in my direction more than once!" Ed exclaimed proudly. Roy smiled a little.

"I can see why…" Roy said quietly.

Quietly enough for Al not to hear of course.

Ed blinked at Roy processing his words. Was this guy hitting on him? Or just screwing around? It wouldn't be the first time.

"Ed, your phone is ringing!" Al yelled from the kitchen. "How come you never hear it anyway…?"

Breaking eye contact, Ed looked around for his cell phone. Before he could spot it, Roy reached to Ed's bag and handed him the phone.

"Thanks." Ed muttered without looking at the brunette. "Yeah?"

Roy observed the blond as he chatted on the phone. He just couldn't stop himself. All those remarks and looks. All those small touches. He wasn't sure why he was doing it. Was he really interested? Or just trying to amuse himself? If so, was he really that bored? …Probably. Roy knew he could do something like that out of boredom but… what was it really about this time?

He sure liked the pipsqueak, that much he could admit.

But how could he grow so fond of the boy in just two weeks?

"Yeah I'm sure Envy." Ed said, rolling his eyes. "No I don't want to come…I will if I change my mind…Okay, bye."

"Come where?" Al asked, looking up at his brother.

"Some crazy party Envy is having." Ed said, blowing his fringe away from his eyes; in a very cute manner, as Roy noted.

"Why not? You haven't been out since…" Al thought for a moment. "Well since you were born."

Ed shot him a glare. Al made shrugged his shoulders as if saying 'what?'

"Very funny. Besides, Al, you know I'm not the most social person." Ed said, glancing at his foot that was still lying across Roy's legs. Did Roy keep his hand on it all this time…?

"Still you should try to get out sometimes." Al said, as if he was scolding his brother. "I'd go with you but I'm meeting with Winry in an hour."

"Is that your girlfriend?" Roy asked. They mentioned that name an awful lot.

"Yes." Al said. "She has long blond hair, big blue eyes—"

"A n d he's gone for ten minutes." Edward said, looking at his brother with an amused smile. Then he shook his head. "We've all known each other since we were kids. We all lived in a country side back then. "Ed started and Roy observed the boy get lost in his memories.

"Those were good times… Anyway we all moved to the city, went to school. I once actually thought I might have thing for her. But seeing as I'm gay, it didn't last long." Ed chuckled. "We remained friends though."

"So how long have they been together?" Roy asked.

"Since the beginning of the high school." Ed said and looked at his brother who still went on and on how wonderful his girlfriend was. "They're happy." He said and Roy couldn't help but wonder if Ed was at least half as happy as his brother.

"…so yes, she's a wonderful woman." Al finished, looking dreamily at the ceiling.

"R i g h t…" Roy said, wondering just how the hell was that even possible. Then he thought of something.

"You know what Edward…" He said, turning his head slowly to look at the blond. Ed looked at him questioningly. "If Al can't go with you… maybe I will?"

Sitting in Roy's car Ed glared at whatever the hell was in front of him. His arms crossed, brows furrowed.

"I can't believe I've actually agreed to this." Ed said with a pout.

"Don't be a killjoy Edward. You're the one who told me to do something in the first place." Roy scolded the blond. "Plus we can always leave and I'm sure it's not going to be that bad anyway."

"Right." Ed rolled his eyes. "But you have obviously never met Envy before."

"Seriously, what's the worst that can happen anyway?" Roy asked. Ed shot him a funny look.

"What?"

"Nothing…" Ed said, a sneaky smile present on his lips.

Roy observed the boy from the corner of his eyes. Turning right on the crossing and speeding up a little he wondered about that Envy person.

"So how did you meet him anyway?" Roy asked.

"Envy?" Ed asked absent mindedly, looking outside the window at the blurred town. "He was one of those bastards in junior high. You know, thinking he's so better than everyone else he can do whatever the hell he wants…god I hated his guts."

Roy raised his eyebrow. Sometimes Ed acted more similar to him than he could have imagined.

"So he's different now?" Roy asked, assuming it was a safe conclusion to make. Ed stared out of the window a minute more before turning to the brunet.

"Pfft, are you freakin' kidding me? He's even worse!"

"Edo! You made it after all! And you brought a friend how nice of you!" Envy said, greeting the two at the door and shooting Roy a sly smile. "So come in and do whatever the hell you want!" The brunette added speaking way too quickly for Roy's tastes.

Stepping inside Ed and Roy saw obviously nothing more nothing less than a…

"CRAZY SEXY PARTY!" Someone screamed running in front of them completely nude.

"I think I went blind…" Ed said, his eyes wide. Roy scratched his cheek.

"Tell me about it…"

"So!" Envy said, his voice unnaturally high pitched. "As you can see it's pretty crazy out here and if you want to spend time with us we are on the terrace."

"Who's us?" Roy asked. Ed silently wished he hadn't.

"Edo! You didn't tell him about us… How could you…" Envy said, looking as he was about to cry. He sure did change his moods fast, Roy noted.

As in response for Roy's thoughts Ed moved closer to the older man and whispered.

"He has Bipolar Disorder…" Ed said and Roy blinked.

"You could have mentioned it before…" Roy whispered back, his brow twitching.

"I did, didn't I? No? Oh well." Ed grinned at him and walked over to Envy. "You can introduce him now…"

Envy was silent for a minute before the crazy look came back on his face.

"Follow me then!" He said and turned around, heading up the stairs with Roy and Ed following closely behind.

Opening the door to the balcony Envy stepped inside revealing four other people sitting there.

"Guys, you remember Ed?" Envy asked and Ed rolled his eyes.

"Of course they remember me, you all decided to pick me up from my classes yesterday…" Ed said waving briefly at the gathering.

"Oh right…" Envy said, thinking for a second. "Anyway, you don't know Roy though!" Envy added and Roy wondered just how he knew his name anyway.

"Talking about me, aren't you Edward?" Roy asked quietly, small smirk lingering on his lips.

"Remember I have leg of steel Roy…" Ed murmured, still looking and smiling at Envy's friends.

'Damn it', Roy scolded himself. 'You have to remember that! '

"Roy, meet Lust." Envy said, pointing at the only woman present. She smiled at him suggestively. "Then the big guy over there is Sloth." Roy looked at him. He sure was huge. And not huge like fat, huge like where exactly did those muscles come from? "The one eating is Gluttony…oi, that was my sausage!" Envy said, now pissed off. "Anyway, the last one is Greed." He said. Greed lifted his beer bottle in a welcoming gesture, before going back to his own business.

Ed looked at Roy. He wondered how he was doing so far…

"Too strange?" He asked the writer, once again quietly so only Roy could hear him and received a nod in return.

"A l i t t l e…" Roy answered, trying to process the names. Whoever came up with them and considered themselves creative was wrong.

"Okay, nice seeing you guys." Ed started. "We will go…watch the house….have some fun… and then come back." Ed finished, pushing Roy towards the door.

"Bye bitches!" Envy said, going back to his friends.

Closing the door behind them, Ed looked at Roy.

"So what are we going to do now?" Ed asked.

"Why, drink of course." Roy said then looked like he was thinking about something. "Are you old enough to drink? …Anyway you have some serious storytelling to do." He added and Ed let out something between a growl and a snicker. He sure did.

Six beers later Roy and Ed were sitting in the living room, spread on the couches comfortably. There were about hundred other people in the room, the music was ridiculously loud and everyone around were screaming and acting like lunatics…

Needless to say Roy and Ed were having the time of their lives.

"And then Envy enters the classroom" Ed continued his story laughing every second or two. "In nothing but his boxers and some torn up shirt from who knows how many days before." Ed giggled at the memory. "And seeing that everyone was staring at him he said: what? Laundry day is tomorrow!" Ed finished, laughing his ass off and rolling on the couch.

Roy laughed as well, although more concentrated on the blond boy than what was actually being said. He did, however, learn that Envy and his strangely named friends knew each other since they were kids. He also learned that they met Ed in junior high and hated each other with a passion. That is, until they started to become the best friends and more. Because indeed, as Ed announced nonchalantly, he and Envy were a couple for some time.

"Hand me another beer Roy Boy!" Ed said, regaining his composure for long enough to notice that his bottle was empty.

Without another word Roy gave the blond what he wanted. It was quite funny actually, how Ed was completely out of it before even finishing the first beer.

"Thanks man." Ed said, immediately drinking half of it. "So Roy—ROY!" Ed screamed, throwing a pillow at the brunette.

"What?" Roy asked, turning away from the woman he was checking out. For such a party there were disturbingly many people in Roy's age. Which meant they were in their thirties.

"Stop that you slutty womanizer!" Ed yelled, scowling at the man next to him.

"I can't help it, she's hot!" Roy answered and turned his head once again, smiling at the woman. She smiled back suggestively at Roy, taking her drink and walking towards the brunette. When she was in front of them and about to speak, Ed stood up abruptly, one hand holding another pillow, the other one pointing at the woman accusingly.

"YOU, woman, better keep walking or I'll make sure you never walk again!" Ed screamed and watched as she run away. "And you!" Ed yelled, now looking at Roy. "I'm going to teach you some manners!" He said and threw himself at his maniacally laughing housemate with the pillow he was holding.

"Ed, you threw me off my game!" Roy said, trying to breathe between pillow hits. "You don't have to be jealous; you know you're my number one!" He said, grabbing the blond around his waist and pushing him on the floor.

"That hurt you bastard!" Ed yelled but couldn't get up seeing as Roy was sitting on top of him. "Get off me!"

"Not until you promise to bring that girl back here!" Roy said, sitting on the blond comfortably, despite the others constant attempts to get free.

"No way in hell!" Ed said and tried to push Roy off again, but it was in vain.

"Hey guys wanna –oh hi Edo – play?" Envy asked, getting down the stairs and approaching the two.

"Play what?" Roy asked, looking at Envy and completely ignoring squirming Edward.

"Darts." Envy said. "For money." He added and Roy nodded his head. Turning around Envy went back to get the rest of his friends.

"Are you crazy? Envy's like, the best player out there! He never misses!" Ed yelled. "I can't afford that!"

"Easy, Edward." Roy said, smirking slightly. "Who says we're gonna lose? And besides…I'm rich." He said, looking down at the boy. Ed crossed his arms and scowled at the brunette.

"Well, I'm not!" Roy looked up again.

"You never told me what he does for living…" Roy asked, observing Envy moving around the room. Ed titled his head back to look at his friend as well.

"He's a model." Ed answered and they both turned their heads sideways to see Envy better.

"He has an awesome butt…" Roy said, inspecting it closely.

"I know right…" Ed answered, doing exactly the same. Then he looked at Roy again. "Get off you jerk!"

Ed could swear this whole game started out weird but he never, even in his most unrealistic dreams, saw that coming.

Envy sat on the floor thoroughly pissed, his friends bored, Roy smug and Ed…well Ed kept gaping at, what must have been by now, around fifteen thousand dollars lying just in front of him.

"Another round, gentlemen?" Roy asked, trying his hardest not to laugh.

"Damn you!" Envy yelled, throwing his hands in the air. Then he settled down with a grumpy face. "I have nothing more on me now."

Ed gaped at his friend.

"You seriously keep so much money in your back pocket?" Ed asked, gathering the money closer to him.

"Living is expensive!" Envy exclaimed, like it explained everything.

"Seriously Envy?" Ed asked, looking at his friend like he was only slightly insane. "That expensive?"

"Dude." Envy blinked, looking at Ed oddly. "That's like…what I spend in one day…"

Ed made a strange face at his friend and Envy got up.

"Guys I'm wasted…." He said scratching back of his head. "Let's go nap or something…." And with that he and his friends left the room, leaving Ed and Roy almost alone.

Getting up from the floor Roy went to the couch and half lay half sat on it, with his legs stretched out on the soft sofa.

"I can't remember the last time I stayed up so long…" Roy said, his voice sleepy and eyes closing every now and then.

"It isn't surprising considering your age…" Ed said, somehow managing to sit on the couch with Roy. "What are you gonna do with the money?"

"You can have it." Roy's eyes now giving up the battle to stay open.

"Don't be an idiot…." Ed said, slowly falling asleep as well. Placing his back against Roy's chest, he made himself comfortable. "I can't take all that money…"

"Yes you can…" Roy said, pulling his arm from between their bodies and dropping it loosely around blond's waist. "I'm rich anyway…"

"Doesn't matter…" Ed said. Crossing his arms to keep himself warm, one last thought crossed his mind. "How come you're so good at aiming anyway….?"

"I was…" Roy started, putting his cheek against top of Ed's head. "In the army…"

"You were in the army?" Ed asked, as soon as he remembered what he heard a few hours ago.

He and Roy were currently sitting on the ground terrace, barely conscious.

"Nope." Roy said taking a sip of water, his eyes closed. It was dawn and he was neither rested nor completely awake. Hangovers sucked.

"Bastard, I heard what you said yesterday….or was it today…." Ed said and started to ponder at the thought.

"Said? I haven't said anything. Anything at all." Roy denied once again.

Ed shot him a dull glare, placing his cold glass against his forehead. He couldn't believe he got so wasted, he never did before.

"Come on, cut me some slack!" Ed said, his voice whiny. "Why won't you tell me anything anyway?"

Roy opened his onyx eyes, looking at the blond closely. That was a damn good question. Exactly the one he was going to ask Hughes next time he called.

"Why should I?" Roy said, asking himself more than Ed.

"That was cruel even for you!" Ed said. He couldn't deny that he did feel a little hurt that the older man never opened up to him about himself.

"What? I wasn't talking to—"Roy started but gave up and sighed heavily. The blond was fuming anyway. "Are we going home?"

"I suppose…" Ed said looking at the car. "Are you sober and awake enough to drive?"

"Edward, in the army—"

"AHA!" Ed exclaimed loudly, getting up and pointing his finger at Roy. "I knew it!"

"Damn it." Roy cursed. There went the answer on how awake he actually was…

"So?" Ed asked, standing in front the brunet. "We going?"

"Yeah yeah…" Roy said, getting up slowly. Stretching his back he yawned widely.

"Which home anyway?" Ed asked, looking around Envy's giant garden. Roy blinked.

"What do you mean by which home?" Roy asked.

"Well I don't know. I just realized you've been crashing on my couch for the last two weeks and I haven't seen your place even once." Ed said shrugging his shoulders. "Nah, I don't actually expect you to take me there, just saying." He added, grinning at the brunette.

"Well…do you want me to take you there or not?" Roy asked. It never occurred to him that he indeed never showed Ed his place.

"I don't know, do you want me to be there?" Ed asked. They both raised their eyebrows.

"This conversation is going nowhere…" Roy said, furrowing his brows.

"I noticed…" Ed said, before chuckling and shaking his head. "Let's go then!"

"Yeah, let's…" Roy said, wondering briefly just how in the world Ed could be so energetic after drinking half of the beer supply they had.

Jumping into the car a lot more awake then he should be, Ed grinned. He really didn't know what possibly could be so exciting about seeing someone's apartment but what the hell. He actually was excited. Maybe because he completely had no idea what to expect?

"Drive Pablo, drive!"

End Chapter 3

To Cutberry: I always write a few chapters ahead before uploading =D Not the whole story though! I don't have patience to do that before knowing how people feel about the story XD