"Winry, Winry, wake up" I wake up to a hand, Edward's hand, shaking me. Looking outside, still dark. It must've been at least 4 or 5:00 am.
"Edward? What the hell are you doing up? It's like 5 in the morning. Go back to bed" I say as I start to twist back around and head to sleep. His hand bothers me once again.
"Winry, please wake up you have to see this" he whispers. I turn back around.
"What is so important to have to wake me up at 5?"
"Just get up and i'll show you" I sigh heavily.
"Fine" He walks away from my bed and to the door and stops.
"Are you getting up?" I was still laying down in the warm ,comfy blankets, avoiding the house that would await me if i got up.
"Yes, don't rush me"
"Okay, but if you don't I will come back here and pick you up" he says as he leaves the room. What the hell? Well I got up , put on a t-shirt that had "GEARS OR TEARS" from a automail shop when I went to Central City the longest time ago, some tan cargo pants, some black boots , put my hair into a high ponytail , and walk outside my door were I am immediately grabbed and pulled down the stairs.
"Come on! We might miss it!"
"SHHH you might wake Alphonse! Wait, what am I about to miss?" He does'nt reply to me and continues pulling me out of our house into the cold blizzard. Snowflakes attack my face as if icicles bit me in the nose. It was still snowing. The sky turns from black-blue to an almost grey color signaling that there is light coming soon. This only made Edward run faster. "EDWARD! WHAT THE HELL ARE WE RUNNING FOR?" Still no answer. At this point we passed the hill so The house was a small spot in the distance. Trees pass by like blurred lines of dark squiggles, and I feel like my nose is about to fall off and shatter into a million pieces. Then we stop."Edward?"
"Were here. Made it just in time.." Gasping for air,we stop in front of a frozen over lake with a clear view of the rising sun. The sky was various colors of oranges, reds, blues and purples. The sun was a huge ball of glowing golden light. It reminded me of his eyes. Edward's warm, golden eyes. Its was beautiful...
"I wanted... To show you... The spot... That I usually run to...When I need to think. Thought that you would like it" Edward says between breaths.
"It-It's beautiful" I see Ed topple over in exhaustion and I catch him just as he's about to fall over. There is a tree with branches hanging over the lake so I decide to walk over to sit and rest. The snow melts under my butt so now my butt is a cold hard lump like everything else.
"Here, sit on this" he pulls a blanket from under his arm that I did not realize he had and spread it out. I move in close to him so I can sit myself on the blanket and he grabs my arm.
"Hey-AHHHH". Yup, being the clumsy person I am, I fall backwards with Edward... Hahaha.
"Hahaha" He starts laughing which makes me smile. While we were just laying there, a question passes my mind.
"Edward?"
"Yea?" He turns his head from looking at the sky to face me.
"...How are you able to deal with all that's happened?" he stares silently at me for a little then looks back up at the sky which was now a shade of lilac purple and blue."I mean it has to be hard waking up everyday, it's been the same with me" I look back up at the sky. "...I've been having nightmares...Ever since you left Nightmares about you leaving my side forever... about the golden fire in your eyes dieing out, and I was scared. Scared of the idea of you and Alphonse never coming back again..." silent, warm, tears slowly crept there way out of my eyes and landed in the snow. Edward turned to me and lightly kissed my cheek and wiped my tears away with his hand.
" You wanna know what has kept me going this whole time? The reason that I get up in the morning and go to bed at night? You" the last word resonated in my head like sound off of walls bouncing back and forth... Me? Why me?
"Me?"
"Yes you. You've been my shoulder to lean on through all of this. You've helped me through thick and thin and you've always been there for me. Even though your wrenches hurt like a bitch." haha. "I would never leave you" he sits up and looks down at me " I love you Winry". I sit up and look him dead in his golden eyes, shining just like the sun which is now high in the sky.
"I love you too Ed" His lips touch mine, so softly that a whisper would be too loud. the only warmth that came from anywhere, was from our lips. He parts from my lips and I lay my head on his shoulder.
"Forever and always..."
