I'm Okay Now //Edward Elric x Reader\\ {Slow Updates}

Episode One - Part Two

(A few months later- Your birthday)

I woke up on Winery's couch, my dad went off to work a few days ago. He and I had a little birthday party for just me and him, after that he asked if I could stay here. Winery's grandma had insist that she host an actually party for me. She was very sweet of doing so, last night she had worked on a cake and Winery said it looked great.

I took a shower and changed into a (FC) shirt and jeans. Strapping my (HL)(HC) hair into I ponytail. I walked out the door to the sunrise and the smell of dew on the grass. You could see the lake shimmer in pink and purple as the sun came up to colour the sky. It was still pretty dark out but none-the-less, I had walked onto the path. looking down the road I saw my house.

It wasn't much compared to our house in the other side of the country, we were closer to Central. Sitting myself down on a rock I pulled lilies from the water. Wishfully plucking every petal, does he like me or not, type of fashion. Only my words were good day, bad day. Every day I have done this, around this time too. Always in the morning, always with lilies, always alone.

Good day. Lets hope the lilies don't fail me.

"Morning, (YN)" I heard Al from behind, I glanced back to see he was alone. I smiled at him. He sat beside me, shorter than me as always. I enjoyed being the tallest out of the three of us. Edward, him and myself that is.

"Good morning, at least that's what the lilies said." I say, smoothing the word good out. He laughed at me, Alphonse is the only one who knows about me and the water lilies. He always seems to show up right after I'm done with one. Then asks for the daily forecast of luck. So far the lilies have been right, even with the bad days.

Al and I talked for a bit before I heard Edward shouting at us for getting an early shot at the day. Well, he mostly yelled at Al.

"Ed, calm down!" I snap after having enough of his mindless shouting.

"Oh and I am not even close to being done with you yet! Come with me!" He grabbed my arm, what actually happens a lot. I sighed but smiled anyway, he started to ware his hair in a braid. It must be because of the day I had combed his hair into one when he was asleep under a tree. Guess he must have liked the look.

Edward had pulled me to a tree, same tree where he fell asleep at. (Not many good trees around here.) He had a transmutation circle ready at the go for alchemy. In it were a few water lilies and twigs. He went on his hand and knees as I leaned on the tree. Blue lights came and went.

"Close your eyes" He said, so I did. I felt something fall upon the crown of my head. "Okay now don't open them until I say." As he explained, he had his hands at my shoulders and was slowly pushing me. Ed guided me to a stop, I was so tempted to open my eyes but I waited until he said so. When he did, Al was holding a mirror and Ed was standing beside him. Both of them had matching smiles.

I looked in the mirror, Ed must have put my hair down and it was being kept that way with a flower crown. I made a goofy closed eyed smile. "You two need to stop making me things. I still have the bracelet." I said holding my wrist up for them to see.

I hear Ed mumble something, "What?" I ask but just shakes his head.

That afternoon, after eating the cake, Ed and Al went home. They came back yelling at us that his mom had fallen and wasn't getting up. I stayed behind with Edward to calm Al down as Winery and her grandmother went to get their mom up. In honesty, she was looking pale the last couple if weeks, she must have been pushing through. It was scary seeing Alphonse and Edward so worried. The two of them were so put together most of the time.

That night I walked the boys to there house and asked Winery's grandma if I could stay to make sure the two would hold up for the night. She agreed to it as long as Winery came along. So that night as Edward and Alphonse watched as their mom was sleeping, us two girls were watching over the boys to make sure they didn't fall apart.

Weeks went on with Miss Elric in her bed, a doctor came to check up on her health every so often. Edward and Al kept keeping her happy by making her little trinkets for her to admire. Winery and her grandma would bring over food for the Elric's as I would walk into Miss Elric's room to have some conversation to keep her mind awake.

I had a grandfather once who was in a state like this once, he was old and made many mistakes in the past. Lost both his legs to the war, and his heart to a woman who left him my dad because she never wanted to have a child with him and his health to time. Daddy would talk to him for hours, doctors told us that if you keep the mind going than you make it easy for the mind to remind itself to heal its body. I told Alphonse and Ed to keep doing this. After many bad days where she didn't really wake up for more than a few hours a day, the doctor proclaimed her dead.

My dad came home the day after, he joined us for the funereal. Gave the two boys his best, he let me stay to keep an eye on them. Edward just sat there, looking down at the stone, the stone under the tree he napped under and I braided his hair. Not many good trees, not many stones, but a lot of sadness. It had got really dark and I went home.

The next night it stormed, it poured, it was loud. Lightning was the only thing that made it less gloomy but more frightening. I sat at my bedroom window, I hadn't talked to Ed or Al for the day and I was worried. It was killing me that Ed hasn't tried to talk to anyone, I know he is not that type of person but it's not easy being without a mom. I should know, it's been around six months since my mom ran out on me and my dad. Though, he doesn't have a father to lean on.

Suddenly a loud, cry of pain cracked through the air that was even louder than the thunder and lightning combined. I ran out, bare foot, no jacket and in a night gown through the freezing rain. Slugging through mud over to the Elric's house I heard Edward crying for Al but I didn't hear the other brother. I found myself at the top of the stairs to the attic. The door was open a bit but it was just enough for me to see Edward.

His golden hair was matted and stained with blood and an arm and a leg were missing from his body. I opened it a little more to see a monster in the corner. Deformed and gushing with a red pus. Searching the room for Alphonse I just notice one of the body's of armour move its head.

"(YN)?" Al?

"Al? Where are you?!" I shout then the armour moved again and looked at me dead in the eye. Realization flooded over me and I fell to my knees. The last thing I saw was Ed crack an eye open then close it up and my dad running in.

((Oh my, I'm crying. Help!!!! Help!!! Oh my god you guys know I'm writing this for myself as much as you and like Ed is my husband so.... just... imagining.. his in that state. IT'S LIKE SO MUCH WORST IN MY MIND THEN IT IS IN THE MANGA OR ANIME!!))