Part 8

                                    

                                          


                          
His heart was pounding what seemed like two-hundred beats per minutes, and he was sure that his entire face gad gone completely scarlet. He could feel the heat spreading from his face down into his toes. It was maddeningly uncomfortable, but he was doing it. Finally this words he had been carrying for two years were going to come out into the open. Though when he did speak them, they weren't what he had planned at all.
                          
With all of his might, he pointed his finger to her and yelled his words, "Equivalent Exchange!!! I'll give half of my life to you, if you give me half of yours to me!!!!"
                          
SHIIIIT!!! Why did equivalent exchange come up?! That was wrong!! I didn't mean that part! Damn it, can I get a redo?! Shit, what is she going to say?! She always hates it when I bring up alchemy into affairs where they didn't belong! Crap, crap, crap, she's gonna hate me!
                          
"Ahhh, come on. Do you have to treat everything like alchemy?! The whole equivalent exchange thing is just nonsense!!"
                          
"What'd you say?!" Oh, great response Ed!! I'm such a dumbass! I knew that she wouldn-
                          
"I said its nonsense!" She moved her hand to her chest and said the words the she too had been waiting to speak, "How about I just give you my whole life?!"
                          
Damn it I knew what she would..... he stared at her now reddening face, letting his brain compute with what she just said, wait whaaaaat?
                          
Did she really just say that?
                          
"Ah, ummm, er, I mean, maybe not all of it!!" she whipped out her fingers and started throwing out percentages, "Ninety, maybe eighty percent? Seventy? No, that's not enough, but eighty-five, yeah that's a good number!!"
                          
He couldn't help but burst out into laughter at her words, she truly was something else.
                          
"Wh-what?!" She yelled in embarrassment, "SHUT UP!!"
                          
"Ahahahahaah! I-I'm sorry really!" the laughter just kept rolling out of him.
                          
"Edward!!!"
                          
"You are just so incredible! You knocked equivalent exchange flat on its butt in just a few words!"
                          
"S-so what? Are you making fun of me?" insecurity began replacing her embarrassment.
                          
"Not at all." He stood up from his crouched over position and went in to hug her, allowing himself to actually let down all of his barriers and be right next to her. His hand went to the top of her head, and slid its way down to the middle of it, gently pushing her head into his shoulder, pulling her into a goodbye hug.
                          
"Thanks for cheering me up. I'll miss you. Goodbye, for now." He breathed into her apple pie scented hair.
                          
"Hmm, come home soon." Her hands snaked their way around his back, and he felt her mouth form into a smile against his shoulder.
                          
For a few seconds he had actually considered staying with her, but he knew he couldn't. There were still some things he needed to do, and he would be back soon enough. Reluctantly, but happy nonetheless, the two separated and Ed boarded the train.
                          
Slowly, he made his way down the hall of the moving train and into his private room, planning to calm himself down. But he had no such luck.
                          
"I know I said I was cheered up but...h-holy shit!!! Did that really just happen?!" His face had begun to turn red again, and his breathing was becoming choppy.
                          
I need to call Al!! He ran over to the conveniently placed telephone inside his room, and dialed the number to the hotel Al was staying at in Central.