Draped in Wires
by. Poisoned Scarlet

Theme 016: Egoism

Winry tapped her foot impatiently as she stood outside the door of the bathroom, waiting for Edward to come out so she could take her shower as she had missed yesterday due to staying up all night to construct a foot for a young girl and an arm for a fellow farmer.

It had been an hour already, however, and Winry was more than a little grouchy.

"ED!" She pounded on the door with her fist. "What the heck are you doing in there? Hurry it up!"

"Give me a moment!" she heard him snap back faintly.

Winry sighed frustratedly and waited a few more minutes. But after the initial five, she became fed up and threw the door open to check just what the hell he was doing in there! A burst of steam made her flinch back a bit but she had gotten an eyeful of just what he had been doing inside for the past half hour...

"Winry! Get the hell out!" Ed shouted, cheeks rather flushed due to the steam, and slammed the door in her face. "Haven't you ever heard of knocking? I could be naked, you know!"

Winry growled, not awake enough to properly react to his suggestive comment: "GRANNY!" Winry shouted as loud as she could. "ED IS POSING IN THE MIRROR AGAIN!"

"I AM NOT, YOU LIAR!" came Ed's angry shout from within the bathroom.

"I SAW YOU!"

"YOU SAW WRONG!"

Winry banged on the door again. "Then do us all a favour and get out so that I could take my shower in peace! You can stare at yourself all you want in your room, Ed!"

"I told you!" The door opened to reveal a seething Ed. "That I was not posing in the mirror, damn it!"

Winry mocked one of his infamous poses, tilting her head to the side and standing straight as she pasted on her own sweet smile. "Uh huh, sure!"

"You're so nosy!" Ed complained, not taking the bait as he knew it would only end in failure.

Winry rose her hand blew a kiss at him.

"I DO NOT do that!"

Winry snorted derisively. "Just what the hell do you find so damn fascinating about yourself!" Winry shouted at him, up to her head with his conceitedness although she might've been more amused had she gotten her eight hours of sleep. "I swear, we could build monuments with the size of your ego!" she sneered at him, earning a nasty look in reply.

"Piss off," he sneered right back, bringing up his trump card: "You wouldn't know a straight guy from a gay guy, so I wouldn't be talking if I were you!"

Winry's jaw fell open and she turned, glaring holes at his retreating backside. "Just because I thought Mr. Garfiel was heterosexual once doesn't make me blind, you idiot!"

"Of course it doesn't! It just makes you gullible!" he shouted back, smugly.

"SHUT UP! IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE HOT ENOUGH TO STARE AT, YOU FREAK!"

"TAKE THAT BACK!"

"MAKE ME!" she screeched, cheeks red of anger. "You've got nothing I haven't seen on other guys!"

"Tch, it obviously looks better on me, of course!" he scoffed at her, standing by the threshold of his door.

"Does not!"

"Does to!"

"You're unbelievable!" Winry yelled. "How can you have such a huge ego? Whoever's been saying you're something special has obviously seen better days!"

Ed huffed, tying his hair back into a ponytail. "You're just jealous because you can't look nearly half as good at I can!"

"Me? Jealous of you?" Winry scoffed. She gestured to her generous chest, her thin waist, and, finally, her filled out bottom with a disbelieving face. Edward only flushed red. "I've had my fair share of flattering comments but you don't see me staring at myself in the mirror!"

Ed smirked. "You do so, you do it everyday after you shower!"

"...How do you even know that?" Winry sighed in exasperation, fed up with him.

"It's not my fault you leave your door open," he replied innocently before shutting his door and leaving her outside to steam.

"UGH!" She slammed the bathroom door closed.

Downstairs, Al sighed into his cup of coffee.

"Are they always like this?" Mei asked, sipping her own drink.

"In the mornings they usually keep it down but since Winry hasn't had any sleep, it's only bound to get worse," Al predicted, knowing that his brother's constant antagonism will only land him in an even deeper hole than he was now.

"Does Edward honestly pose in the mirror?" Mei asked after a few seconds of silence, curiously.

"Sometimes," Al shrugged. "He only does it once and that's after he's fixed his antennae." He flicked his own limp bangs for emphasis. "I bet he only took longer today to make Winry angry."

"Sometimes I do think Edward-kun does it because he likes to see Winry upset," Mei shook her head in disapproval.

Al smirked into his cup, knowing her statement to be true. "He probably does, Mei, but that's really not our business."

Because both he and Pinako knew Edward got a thrill from watching Winry huff and puff like a beast, for some unfathomable reason.

Al personally blamed it on the fact that their adolescence was full of danger and mortal fights.

Ed still hadn't gotten rid of his need for the adrenaline rush.

A/N: This was written a few minutes before posting so that's why I will double-update. It was just something I randomly shoved into this collection at the last minute so it doesn't count lol

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