Hershey hummed and tapped her fingers as she waited for the kid to come back with his brother. Maybe she'd get to find out that guy's name after all. Oh, she could just see it now... they'd be walking along the beach, holding hands and smiling... going to a movie and touching hands in the popcorn... having a romantic picnic where he insisted on feeding her every single bite...
"Whoa there," she stopped herself. "You just slow down there, big girl. I can't rush into this. I have no idea what he's like. Maybe he has a girlfriend. And if he doesn't, I mean... friendship comes first, right?" She shook her head, sighing. "Kumquat was right. I'm terrible with romance."
"Kiss-chan!" The little kid had come back, and he was dragging his brother, the blonde, by the hand. "I brought my big brother!"
"Great." Hershey blinked, then leaned out of her stand and looked around the fairground. "Wowee. Looks like a lot of people left early." She laughed, pushing her bangs back. "If people keep leaving at this rate, we might be the last ones here in a matter of minutes!"
"Exactly what I was hoping for." The blonde leaned over the counter and dipped his finger in the ice cream, then slowly licked it. "Mmm. More of that good food."
"Hey, that's mine!" the kid protested, using his little fists to beat up on the guy's back.
"Yeah yeah, not now." The blonde waved a hand, using his hip to bump his brother aside. "Anyway..." He looked back at Hershey, giving her an admittedly sexy smirk. "You know, I'm not quite sure what I want. Maybe you could help me decide?"
"Oh sure." She nodded, stepping to the side a little. "Sorry, I'm probably in the way. Now, most of this stuff was made a while ago, but just point out what you want and I can whip it up fresh right here."
"Using alchemy? That's an... interesting ability."
She shrugged. "I think it's weird. I mean seriously, what am I going to do with it? Open a lemonade stand? Throw a banana cream pie in some bad guy's face? Really. Sometimes I don't even believe I'm stuck with such a sucky power. It's not an element, is it? So why the he-" She glanced down at the little kid and decided she shouldn't swear around him. "Uh... Heluva Good (1) do I have it?" She grinned, then looked back at the blonde. "So, do you see anything you like?"
"Hmm... yes." He leaned in, and for a moment Hershey was worried he would kiss her - she wouldn't be able to stop him, after all. She was too scared to scoot away or move, so she just stood there, staring at him. But he didn't kiss her though. He pressed his nose to hers and gave her that ridiculously sexy smirk once again. "I do see something I like."
Unable to pull away, she swallowed hard and clutched the counter so hard she thought she'd splinter the wood. "Uh... o-okay, so... what do you want?"
His eyes closed halfway as he looked at her, meeting the gaze her brown eyes cast on him. "I think I'll take... you. To go."
It took her a full ten seconds to comprehend what he'd just said. And by that time, he had already yanked her out from behind the stand, slamming her into the moist, cold ground. "Wrath! You take her back to the hideout, I'll take care of these idiots!"
The little dark-haired boy suddenly grabbed onto Hershey's arm, dragging her along faster than should be humanly possible - especially for a little kid like him. "Hurry up, Big Brother Envy, or your food's gonna get cold!"
"Just get outta here!"
Hershey's protests and screaming did nothing to make the boy slow down at all. He pulled her along, saying nothing but going faster than anybody she'd ever known. She could do nothing except allow herself to be dragged off, and even then it was hard to keep up with him.
Finally they stopped, and the boy held one of Hershey's hands on his, pinning her wrist to the ground in between where they were both sitting. "Is this too tight, Kiss-chan?" he asked, looking up at her like he hadn't just dragged her through the forest against her will.
Hershey brushed loose leaves and twigs from her hair and swept her bangs back with her free hand. "What the hell is your problem, you pint-sized little demon fruit?"
He blinked up at her. "What're you callin' me names for? Big Brother Envy's the one who wanted to bring you home with us."
"I'm callin' you names 'cause you're the one who just schlepped me through, like, fifty miles of Amestrian wilderness, that's what for, you little son of a crock pot! And you're lucky I'm a food person, else you'd be gettin' called son of a crack pot!" Hershey took a few breaths, trying to calm herself down. "Okay, now... what the hell is going on? Why do all the freaks come out at night?"
The boy was busy drawing circles in the dirt. "Huh? Whatcha mean, what's goin' on? You're gonna live with us now - and maybe now I'll have someone besides Mommy to play with me! You'll play with me, right?"
Hershey blinked at him a few times, then tried to free her hand. "Come on, let me go! I don't even understand anything you're saying!"
The little boy sighed dramatically, hanging his head. He looked up again and rolled his eyes at her - like she was stupid or something. "Well, Envy and I went to the festival, you know? The one you were working at. We just wanted to get out for a while - well, he wanted to, and Mommy and Lust said if he didn't wanna get skewered, whatever that means, he had to take me 'cause I thought it sounded like fun. So Envy took me, and we played a few games. We didn't win anything though, on account of I'm not strong enough to get above the first rank on that strength test, and Envy throws like a girl so he couldn't knock down those milk bottles-"
"Excuse me." Hershey held up her other hand, like she was a student in a classroom. "Where do I come into all of this, hon?"
"OH! Yeah, sorry. Envy says I gotta work on not rambling... whatever that means."
"It means you go on and on and on about every detail of something. Please just tell me why the hell I was thrown on the ground by a blonde stalker and hauled through half of Amestris's tree population by... well, you."
"Oh, okay. Gotcha." He began to kick his heels into the dirt, lifting his legs and then bringing them down on the ground. "Well, Envy got hungry, so he went over and got that parfait from you. While he was getting it I stole a bite from his cotton candy he got from some other stand - 'cause he wouldn't have let me eat any otherwise - and when he got back he wouldn't share with me and told me to go get my own. So I went over and got my juice, you remember that right?"
"I thought you came over 'cause your 'brother' wanted to know my name."
"Yeah, that too. He laughed when I told him people called you Hershey's Kiss and I was calling you Kiss-chan. I dunno what he's gonna call you though - he'll probably call you 'girl' or something."
"Anyway...? C'mon kid, how did I end up being your prisoner?"
"Umm... yeah. About that. When Envy finished eating, he said he wished you could make every meal for him, but there was no way he could take that much food home. We live forever, you know, so... yeah. Anyway, I asked him why we couldn't ask you to become our chef. He said that was a good idea, but forget about asking and told me to go over and ask for something to go. And that's when we came over, remember?"
"So it was all your fault that I'm here right now? You're the one who put the idea in his head!" Hershey glared at him. "I am going to give you such a lashing with a wet spaghetti noodle when we get outta here-!"
"Owie! Wet spaghetti noodles hurt!"
"Keep going, you'll make it a wet lasagna noodle."
"Sorry..." He glanced up, his one visible eye blinking up at her. "Do you forgive me?"
"Aww..." Hershey reached over and rubbed his head, giving him a smile. "I guess I can't stay mad at that face."
"Great! So you'll stay and be our cook? 'Cause your food's yummy."
She sighed. "Well... I'm not sure how long I'll be able to stay. I mean, Colonel Mustard might wonder where I am."
The kid looked down at his lap. "But if you go I'll miss you."
She leaned over and gave him a one-armed hug, rubbing his back. "I'll stay as long as I can, honey. You're too sweet for me to leave alone."
He smiled up at her, and she decided that his smile was the cutest thing she'd ever seen. "How sweet am I, Kiss-chan?"
She giggled. "Hey, if I stay with you too long, you're gonna give me a cavity."
OMG FINALLY AN UPDATE.
Sorry, school is catching up with me. I seriously JUST finished this chapter. Not sure how the next one's going to go, but I'll do mah best... so babies, don't you panic! *starts randomly doing the Sweet Transvestite dance*
Envy: ...
Me: WHAT? It's a story about YOU, isn't it, Envy? Dr. Frank may be A sweet transvestite, but you are THE sweet transvestite! ^^
Envy: ... I'm leaving. *walks off*
Thanks for putting up with meh! :D