Edward knew he was pretty popular at school, the whole gang was. There always were many girls who liked him, most of them were from the cheerleader team and hell- those girls were really self-confident. They often tried to talk to him, even though he didn't want to talk. They tried to get his number and sent him tons of messages. And when all that didn't work, some of them tried to get his attention at parties. Some boys would really enjoy such attention from girls, but Ed didn't. He actually found it really annoying. He has never really been interested in any girls, since there never was one that he found... special. He knew that all of these girls didn't like him for his personality. How could they, they didn't know him. The only reason why they would be so interested in him, he believed, was because of his friends, his gang. Everyone knew that they were really popular and when something happend to anyone of the gang, everyone knew about it. People were always talking about them. Sometimes, it could be really annoying. But this hype about Edward had stopped a while ago. Most girls had understood that Edward wasn't interested and some people even believed he will never want a girlfriend. So they stopped trying.

Ed looked around the corner, making sure there wasn't any teacher that could see them. He then brushed his hand lightly against Winrys, who was standing behind him and staring at his back, giving her the signal that they could go on. They went outside to the schoolyard, making sure to stay close to the walls of the school. Winry was following Edward, staying behind him. When a window appeared on the wall Edward grabed Winrys hand behind him and pulled her down. They crawled underneath the window, which Winry found a little silly and made her chuckle a little. Edward turned around and grinned at her, putting his finger over his mouth saying she had to be quiet. Then Edward led her to a little forest next to the schoolyard. It was really close to the school, it took maybe two minutes to get there. Winry was wondering how she got here, skipping class and following Edward into some forest. How come he offered her to come with her, he didn't know her. But, she accepted- that was just as crazy as asking her to come with him. When they got to a large bush Edward started to move some banches away. He turned to Winry, still holding the branches and moving his head to show her she should go ahead, following the little path that showed up. So she did without any questions or protest and Edward followed her. She couldn't believe what she saw. A little paradise. It looked like a little dome which was made out of branches and leaves above her. There was a little pond and tons of beautiful flowers in every color she could think of. She turned around, looking at the incredible cupola above her where the sun shone through. Edward stood there and enjoyed seeing her so impressed. Winry then looked at him, seeing the grin on his face.

"Wow" she said. "This is.." she couldn't find any words. Edward sat down in the grass.

"My secret little hideaway." he said looking at the cupola above them again. Winry smiled at sat down too.

"I'm not sure why you showed it to me, but I'm really glad you did." she said. Edward was laying on the ground now and looking up. He started to smile.

"I'm not so sure myself why I showed it to you, I've never shown it to anybody. I guess I just wanted to share it with someone someday. After all, it can be a little boring to sit here all alone." he said and then looked at her. She just stared at him for a while. Then he looked up again. It was quiet for while, till Edward decided to start the conversation.

"So. You're new." he said. He sounded like he was really tired or even half asleep..

"Yeah.."

"Where from?"

"Resembool."

"Wow." he then said a little impressed.

"Yeah, I know. Pretty far."

"Why did you move?" he asked. She didn't respond for a while, which made him look at her again.

"I.. just wanted to." she said.

"You just wanted to?" he repeated in confusion.

"Yeah.." he still looked at her. She knew he wanted to hear the real reason. She sighed.

"I didn't really have a reason to stay in Resembool." she then said.

"Why not?" he didn't want to sound too curious, he just somehow tried to keep a conversation going. He's never really been good at that.

"Well, I lived alone with my grandma but she passed away a couple of months ago." she said quietly. And then Edward hit himself on the forehead.

"God, I'm such an idiot." he said. Winry laughed a little which made Edward look at her.

"It's okay." she said smiling. Her smile made Edward freeze. He could see that she was still hurt, her smile wasn't one of those happy smiles. It was kind of.. like a comforting smile. To make sure he didn't worry about saying something stupid.

"I'm not completely alone." she then said. "I actually have a dog. I took him with me to Central."

"Wait, so you're living alone with your dog?" he said sounding impressed.

"Yeah." she said.

"How do you pay your rent?"

"I sometimes work as mechanic to make a little money, but mostly I pay with the hereditary I got from my grandma. She actually was prepared for the case that she would be gone and I'd be on my own." Ed was listening to her, looking really interested.

"Why were you living alone with your grandma? What about your parents?" he asked, already prepared to hear a bad answer.

"They died in a car accident when I was really young.." she said.

"Oh.." he said. "I'm really sorry for you.." he said. Winry looked up to the ceiling of the cupola. Then she smiled this comforting smile again. It made Edward feel really bad for her. How come she was the only one talking?

"You know, I think you've told enough already. It's my turn. You can ask me anything." he said, trying to cheer her up a little.

Winry sat up again. She immidietly knew what she wanted to know, but she didn't know if she could really ask him. Edward noticed. He was already anticipating that she was wondering about that and that she just couldn't ask him about it.

"Anything." he repeated. She looked at him.

"What.. did Envy mean back then? What happend?" she asked. Edward smiled a little and laid down again and put his hands under his head.

"Well.." he said. "Me and the gang often had a lot of action in the past. Every weekend we did something together, crushed some parties or went to the mall or something. You could actually find me anywhere with them. I don't know if you noticed, but Envy and his friends are like rivals to us. We've always been enemies. They've always hated us. Man, we've gotten in so many fights with them.." he said and smiled at the memories.

"So what happend? Did you get into a fight with the others?"

"No, we still get along great. I'm just.. I just changed." he said.

"Why?" she asked carefully. "What happend, Ed?" he looked to her, noticing that she called him "Ed". He smiled at her. Somehow he felt like he knew her for a long time.

"My Mom died 5 months ago." he said, still looking at her. She stared into his eyes. They looked like they lost this golden sparkle they always had. She just couldn't look at them any longer, he looked so hurt. She looked down.

"I stopped to go to classes. I stopped to go to parties. I stopped to meet my friends. They wanted to comfort me, but I wanted to be alone, so they left me alone." he said. "It's also really hard for Al. But he can hide it better then I can.." Without saying anything, Winry crawled up to him and layed beside him. He looked at her surprised.

"I think you shouldn't be alone all the time." she said and looked at him. "I won't pretend like I know how you feel. I can tell that you're not like others. It sucks to pretend like everything's fine and smile all the time or party and dance even though you feel terrible. It will be like that for a pretty long time, maybe it will never go away, that feeling.. But to be alone all the time won't make you feel better. It can only make things worse." she sounded really serious. Ed was still looking at her. All he felt was impression. Noone ever spoke to him like that about what happend. All he heard was "I'm so sorry, Ed." or "It will get better." or " You can't be depressed about it forever!". Winry turned her gaze up to the dome they were laying under.

"So let's be alone together." she said, still looking up.

That's when he knew she was special.

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