Chapter Three

Drunken Kisses

Edward's heart lept to his throat and he pulled away from Roy.

"Roy I-" Edward's throat was hoarse and his head was spinning, he tried to speak again "I-I have to go."

Edward leaped up from the chair and bounded out of the room. He ran down the staircase, sending people almost catapulting down it but he didn't care. His head was in a mess. Roy kissed him...

Roy kissed him...

Edward burst through the door of his and Al's small upstairs flat. They had needed somewhere to live, and the flat was quite cheap.

"Brother," Alphonse said, closing the door behind him "Back so soon?"

"Yeah," Edward replied dryly "It-it really wasn't that urgent. Roy makes up alot of things."

Edward threw himself down on the sofa and ran a hand through his hair.

"Brother...?"

"Just leave me alone Al!" Edward shouted, throwing dagger looks at his brother "Stop bleating that like a sheep! Leave me be, for once in your life!"

The whole room was silent. Alphonse sighed and left Edward alone. Only Edward wasn't alone, he was surrounded by thoughts and feelings, by dread and...

Desire?

Roy spun around in his chair, hands behind his head. What in the world had given him the motivation to just do that? Maybe Edward would have thought that it was just 'drunken kisses'? Or maybe the two of them would have felt a bit more than just 'friends' at that time. Roy sighed and flicked through the file that he had on his desk had given him. He had nothing to do whatsoever except from try and analyze Scar's whereabouts. But Roy couldn't be bothered to do that, he just wanted to think, to mull things over in his mind. Roy wasn't drunk at the time of the kiss, he was completely sober, or maybe that's what he'd got into his head.

Minutes turned into hours. Roy gazed out of the window, a solem expression on his face. The sky was darkening, it had reached about five O'clock midday. He turned from the window and took the file in his arms. Reading the same line over, reading the same line over, reading the same line over...

The door opened and Roy looked up from the file. It was Maes.

"Go away Maes," Roy said "I'm not in the mood to look at endless pictures of your daughter."

"That's not why I've come in," Maes replied, closing the door behind him.

Roy lay the file down on his desk and looked up at his friend.

"Maes," he said "I've been a fool."

Maes entered the room further and stood at the other side of the desk opposite to Roy "What could you possibly mean?"

Roy ran a hand through his black hair, his breath was shaking as were his fingers.

"What would you do if...if a friend decided to," Roy looked over to Maes "If a friend decided to kiss you?"

"And I had a wife?" Maes said.

"No," Roy replied "If you were single. And that friend were...were a boy."

"Ummm..." Maes went red "What are you getting at here?"

"It means I've done something wrong Maes," Roy told him "Very wrong."

"If there's anything wrong, Roy, you can tell me," Maes said, looking up from the desk to Roy.

"You know best Maes," Roy smiled.

"Alphonse," Edward knocked on the door of Alphonse's room.

There was only one bedroom in the flat and Edward had let Alphonse have it. Edward slept on the sofa.

"Alphonse," Edward said, Alphonse looked up "I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I wasn't thinking straight."

Edwars sat on the end of his brother's bed.

"I didn't mean to say those things," Edward continued "I was...fustrated."

"It's okay brother," Alphonse replied cheerfully "What were you fustrated about?"

Edward went bright red and looked away from Alphonse.

"Nothing brother, you wouldn't understand," Edward replied, running a hand through his blonde hair which he had taken out of the plait.

"I can help you with anything," Alphonse said.

Edward sighed and turned to face his armoured brother. He sighed again and looked down at his own hands clasped tightly on his lap.

"Something happened when I met Roy today," Edward told him.

"What happened?" Maes asked Roy who was running his hand aimlessly through his hair again.

Roy was very pale and he was biting his lip to shreds.

"Roy...?" Maes tried again.

"I asked Edward to meet me at central because I had more information on Scar's whereabouts," Roy finally replied "Edward came to my office and we were looking through a file and..."

Roy stopped in mid-sentence.

"You're going to find it creepy if I tell you," Roy said, this time directly to Maes.

"As I said, you can tell me anything," Maes replied "And I wan't be weirded out."

Roy sighed and looked down to the ground.

"I kissed him," he mumbled.

"What happened brother," Alphonse asked Edward.

"I don't really think I...want to tell you," Edward replied.

There was silence for a few uneasy moments. Edward leaned back onto the wall.

"But you are my brother," he said eventually, hands behind his head.

"It can't have been that bad brother," Alphonse replied.

Edward cleared his throat.

"Well, what happened is that Roy called me and said that he needed me down at Central," Edward replied "So I went and he had more information on Scar's whereabouts. We were looking through the file," Edward ran a hand through his blonde hair again "Then...then he kissed me."

The whole room was silent. Alphonse couldn't find anything to say. Edward looked across to his brother, got off the bed and left the room.

"What was it that you came into the room to tell me before?" Roy asked, breaking the awkward silence.

"Oh," Maes cleared his throat uneasily "Well, I was just gonna tell you that I'll be away in about," he checked his watch "An hours time to go to that other military base. I'll probably only be there for about two days."

"Well, see you after then," Roy said dryly.

"Yeah bye. I hope you sort things out."

Maes left for the door.

"Bye," he said.

"Bye Roy replied.

"See y-"

"Just go Maes!" and Roy slammed the door behind him.

And he would regret ever saying that.

Then again, he had no idea what would happen that night...

Thanks for reading and reviewing everyone :). I'll see you, hopefully soon, on the next chapter which will be...Words Of Farewell. -blows nose- I think you can see what's coming.

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