A/N: I think I said it all in the last note. I also think I have a slight headache, either from sleeping in way too long, or from having lunch at a brewery, or board game overload. Either way, have a drabble. Brotherhood land again, Rush Valley this time.
32. Precious things: treasures
"Come on, Winry, we'll be late!" called Paninya from the front of the shop.
"Coming!" Winry replied. She flew down the stairs in record time and grabbed her coat off the workbench. "Ok, I'm rea-"
"You have got to be kidding me," said Paninya as she surveyed Winry.
"What's wrong, I don't clean up well enough for you?" asked Winry, smile still on her face. She knew she looked good; she'd put on dress she (well, Ed, technically) had bought in a fashionable shop in Central, new sandals with a small heel, and she'd taken her long hair out of the ever-present ponytail.
Paninya sighed. "You go to all that trouble, but you won't wear any of the other earrings you have?"
Winry gently touched the four earrings on her right ear. "It's not that I don't like the other ones, it's just that these are really precious to me. Sentimental value and all- like how you hang onto that first launcher from your leg even though you busted it."
"True, but I don't wear it all the time." Paninya leaned against the counter with her legs and arms crossed. "You've always got those same blasé hoops in. Why bother with piercings if you're just going to wear the same thing all the time?"
Winry shook her head. "The earrings stay. Can we go now? I've got customers coming tomorrow morning so I don't want to be out too-"
"No you don't, I saw your book at lunch, you're free until 2pm!"
"Last minute appointment came up." Winry pulled her jacket on and couldn't help smiling. "Took long enough, but I think Edward finally learned how to use a phone."
"Ah HA!" exclaimed Paninya.
"What?" asked Winry as she paused in the doorframe.
"Ed! He gave you the earrings didn't he!"
Winry realized both hands were on her ears. Busted. "Come on, let's just go," she said.
"Ed and Winry, sitting in a tree-"
"Finish that line and I'll take the weapons out of your legs while you sleep."
"Nooooo!"