Chapter 16

"Anna! Are you alright? Let me in before I break the door open." Ed yelled.

"No Ed, there's a key in the box inside my room. Nikkie would know which one." I yelled trying to kick Carson away.

When I looked into Carson's eyes I see the kid he was 5 years ago. The kid who went to warn his dad, and get me and Nikkie, half dead, out of our basement. I slapped him each time he tried to kiss me. When I heard the key in the door I punched him because he tried to bite my lip to force me to kiss him. He jumped back and held his bleeding jaw, then tried to kiss me again. When the door burst open I smacked Carson in the face, kicked him away, and ran to Nikkie, who had opened the door. After I calmed down a bit I walked over to my mother's jewelry box and took out the necklace. After I put it on I walked over to Carson and kicked him in the leg with my left leg and walked right past Ed, Al and Nikkie and went straight to the train station without going to say goodbye to Carson's parents, because I hadn't brought anything with me.

I sat on the bench looking at the necklace and thought back to when my mother last wore it. I was about 4 years old and thought that it looked so pretty on her. There was an emerald in the center of the key charm. The key charm unlocked a small box that I had in my suitcase back at the hotel room in central. My mother had promised the necklace to me when I was 4, and now 11 years later I'm sitting alone on a bench in the middle of a small snowstorm.

Then I think of what today is, my birthday is in a few weeks and its going to be a sad birthday again this year, or maybe not I think looking up to find Ed, Al, Nikkie, and Winry walking up to me.

"Are you alright? What happened back there?" Ed asked sitting next to me on the bench.

"I'm alright, I'm just thinking about something from my past" I said looking at him.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nikkie's Pov ~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Anna have you gone up to the tree house recently?" I asked Anna.

"No Nikkie I haven't gone up to the tree house recently, but you can go if you want, I just want to go get something, so Ed why don't you go with Nikkie and Al, I'll be right there." Anna said walking into the house. When we got to the foot of the tree house I started up the ladder, and when we got inside, Ed and Al had looks of surprise, while I smiled and walked to the shelf and picked up my old baby doll.

"This is your tree house? It's huge! What is that?" Ed asked open mouthed pointing at my baby doll.

"Yup this is the tree house. It was built by my dad when I was 2. Anna and I always played in here when we were little. The shelves over there are all Anna's stuff. This is the baby doll I had since I was 2ish, I was holding it when Anna and I walked into the living room and saw our murdered parents. I was 4, so I really didn't understand that they couldn't come back. Anna was determined that wasn't true. It's kind of sad when you think about it, I saw my parents die while holding this baby doll, but I did get it from my mom right after this tree house was built. Anna got a similar baby doll it's in her room somewhere. But I haven't been in this tree house since I was 8 or 9, right before Anna and I left Silent Field 5 years ago." I explained.

When I was just about to put it down we heard someone inside the house scream. I dropped it and we got out of the tree house to see what was going on.

When we got to my parents room door, it was locked from the inside.

"Anna are you alright? Let me in before I break the door open." Ed yelled banging on the door.

"No Ed, there's a key in the box inside my room. Nikkie would know which one." Anna yelled to us.

We went into her room and found the box she meant, the one with the purple rose on the lid; I opened the box and grabbed the key.

When I got the door open Anna slapped Carson, kicked him away and ran to me. After she had calmed down a little, she walked over to the jewelry box, grabbed and put on the necklace she had gotten from mom, kicked Carson in the leg with her left leg, I flinched, and walked away, all the way to the train station.

When we found her, she was sitting on a bench at the train station looking blankly at the necklace. Winry was with us.

"Are you alright? What happened back there?" Ed asked sitting next to Anna on the bench.

"I'm alright, I'm just thinking about something from my past" she said looking at him.