An Unexpected Love

The Day

Dedicated to AJ_333.

Edward's POV

My long day began with the always flirty co-worker, Winry Rockbell. I'll admit. I'm slightly attracted to her, but it will never be.

Why?

Why you ask that our love can never be? Well. Try to figure THAT out on your own, and let me tell my tale of love. Okay? Now... SHUSH!!!!

My day begins on a sunny, hot August morning, and I'm driving in my car on the way to work. Now, mind you, there's people from EVERYWHERE. Ranging from Amestris, to Kanto, to Shiganshina, to Death City, to Beacon Academy, from... a death game...? As well as Magnolia. That's where most of my co-workers tend to be from. Like Lucy Harpoon, Wendy Marcus, Erza Scarred, Gajeel Bluedeer, Gray Fatbuster, or that... handsome assistant of mine... Oh crap I'm drooling!

I'm thinking of a certain guy that makes me feel... warm and fuzzy... just warm and fuzzy everywhere in my body.

This guy's name you ask? Well it's none other than Natsu Dragneel.
What? I can have a man crush!! I mean... come ON! Have you NOT seen his beautiful salmon hair?? And that handsome smile of his that turns me on. I even have him as my background for my phone...

Ummm... maybe that's a little TOO obvious that... Nevermind.

What hurts is that he's straight... but... I'm not... And... something else... but I'm not up for discussion on that...

Anywho. My day at work. The long day at work began with people coming at me with what felt like ten million questions for me, instead of asking the freaking manager Eren Meager. Like really guys?

So I'm at my desk, typing away my report on the... "alchemy gone wrong"? What's with this world these days? We have mages going crazy, alchemists abusing their power to manipulate matter, and... titans eating citizens??

What even IS this madness??!! I mean, I'm an alchemist myself so I'm basically hated by everybody, but there are a few select people who ACTUALLY respect me for who I am. Most of my co-workers are mages, but they don't go bat shit crazy! And the manager can transform into a titan, but YOU don't see HIM eating citizens!!

... Forget you heard that...

But my life is MUCH less interesting than the ones that are told in the news...

My life is... in a word... underwhelming. My brother will welcome me home after a terribly long day at the office, he makes me my meals, and will calm me down when I'm sad because of something that happened... eat work sleep repeat.

I get a fairly good paycheck- $12.68 an hour... And Al works from home to take care of the house and mortgage. He doesn't get paid as much as I do at $5.64 an hour, but... it's still a good life... Al still doesn't know about my crush on my co-worker Natsu Dragneel, but it's only cuz I don't know how to tell him that I'm gay, and about my man crush...

Winry, despite the constant flirt in the ANIME OFFICE, I feel that I can trust with everything I do and all that I think. INCLUDING my crush on Natsu... that's the thing about Winry, is that I can trust her with everything that I've been through and every single thought that I've had my entire life. She's revealed done things about her to me as well. For example, she's a huge ass gamer and a sucker for anything related to Undertale. She's also told me about her also being gay; she has a crush on an old time friend named Petra Zeal. They apparently go so far back as to before kindergarten, and have been best friends ever since. (A/N this is a childhood story with me and one of my friends, except for the gay part. Straight as the edges of a pixel.) They've been through hell and back together, and when people would ignore Winry, Petra would be there by her side.

I'm not as fortunate with those kinds of friends.

So I'm typing, and I'm called down to Roy Mustache's office for what reason I don't know, but I head down there, trying and failing miserably to keep my breathing steady. These are the things that I've feared ever since Al and I left home and came to the city of Ishval. (Idk i think that's how it's spelt...) The governor of Ishval is none other than Ruby Rock, though I don't want to screw up to bad, considering that she has a freaking SCYTHE GUN!!!

So I walk past the other desks and few select friends, and try to keep telling myself that I'd be totally fine, and that I won't leave Ishval.

But as per the usual, I don't believe myself with these lies... I'm not depressed, it's more the stress and the worry... That's what can affect my mood and how I sound or act...

So Roy Mustache tells me to come into the office, and have a seat. At this point I'm way way WAY past the point of being able to contain the worry that scatters EVERYWHERE in my mind, and prevents me to keep my cool in front of Mr. Mustache.

This'll be interesting.

"You can calm down. You know that right? This isn't bad. In fact, it's the exact opposite of that." He smiles at me that makes me feel more... at home. Almost as if I'm talking to Alphonse... My heart rate decreases, and I feel that this WON'T end horribly.

"I wanted to talk to you about giving you an assistant. Do you have any ideas of who it should be?"

"Natsu Dragneel." I say without a doubt. This could improve our friendship and I'd be able to see him each and every day.

"Alrighty then. It's settled. From now on, Natsu Dragneel will be your assistant, until either of you quit."

Well that just made today better.

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1000 words!!!!
WOOOOH that took forever!!! I finally did it and it'll take me longer to write the next one XD now if you'll excuse me, I have undertale characters to draw, outline, and then color... YAY!!

-SoulEvans5