Dorm Roof, Tuesday Night

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Edward is sitting out on the roof, a cup of coffee close at hand and a notebook on his lap. The notebook is closed, and the pen is still tucked in the spiral. The sky's far more interesting than his notebook anyway.

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Edward scrunched up his face at Sakura. "I'm not sulking," he protested. "Is that what those glyphs are called? I couldn't remember and I - wait, chocolate?" His head swiveled towards Alphonse. "Did you say chocolate?"

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Sakura shook her head. "Antisocial, then." She reached around to the side of her bag and unhooked the other giftbag. "Yes, chocolates." She offered the bag to him. "It's not huge and squishy, but it's something. Happy Valentine's Day." Her pronounciation of 'Valentine's' was still a little off, but oh well.

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It didn't take long before Alphonse began to munch on his chocolates. "What're you doing out here all by yourself, Brother? It's a bit chilly."

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Edward took the bag in surprise. "Uhh, thanks!" He opened the bag and nosed around in it, before pulling out the chocolate.

He began to munch on his chocolate too. "I'm ..." Stall, stall, think brain ... "I'm looking at the stars." The truth, actually. Even if it isn't all of it.

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Sakura frowned a little. 'Looking at the stars'. Typical boys, they never said anything about what was really wrong. She wandered over to the door where she'd left her bear -- why had she left it over there? -- and came back to sit, squeezing the oversized plush and resting her head atop it.

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Alphonse set down his chocolates before he devoured them all, glancing pointedly at the notebook set down beside Edward. "Huh. You keep a journal?"

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"A journal?" Edward repeated, then looked down at the notebook. "I ... no." He shook his head. "It's my notes for class, actually." And a couple of false starts to a letter he can't figure out how to write.

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Sakura raised her eyebrows a moment, her mouth forming a little 'o'. She grinned slyly. "Notes? For what, Chemistry?" She sets her bear down and reaches to the side, picking up the notebook and holding it away from herself slightly. "You're always taking notes, what could possibly be so important?" She knew that the contents of this notebook were more than just Chemistry notes, if Chemistry notes at all. So perhaps a little chase to retrieve them would get Ed's reasons for sulking out of him.

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Edward blinked in surprise when Sakura plucked the notebook pretty much off of his lap. Then he realized that she HAD HIS NOTEBOOK with the LETTERS in it and promptly turned a funny shade of red.

"Give me that back!" He made a futile grab for the notebook.

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Bingo.

Sakura scooted to the side just out of reach, then stood up quickly. She had this sort of mischevious grin on her face that wasn't quite normal for her behavior. "Ah-hah!" She said, holding the notebook above her head to ensure that he would have a hard time retrieving it. "If it's just notes, then why's it a problem?"

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"Because there, are um SENSITIVE notes in there!" Edward was already on his feet. "And... " he glared at her when she held it out of his reach. "Important military documents! CLASSIFIED, even!" He nods at that, trying to look important while eyeing how she was holding the notebook and looking for an oppurtunity.

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Sakura laughed. If he actually thought she believed that, he wasn't as smart as she thought he was. "What do you care about classified?" she asked. "And if it's Chemistry, how is it sensitive?" She hopped backward a few steps.

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Edward looked slightly insulted. "Alchemist's notes are sensitive," he insisted. "We don't share them with just anybody! What if someone tried to steal one of my theories and profit off of it? Now gimme my notebook back!" He hops forward and starts flailing for it.

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"I wouldn't understand it anyway," Sakura argues. "So what's the harm? I'm just curious." She moves backward again, turning around and pretending to open the notebook whilst still watching him over her shoulder.

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Edward flails further, almost dancing in place when he thinks she's opening it. "AUGH! Be careful, don't let anything blow away!"

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Sakura claps the notebook closed again and turns to face him, putting her arms behind her back -- which thus made the notebook follow.

"Really, though." She said, suddenly a little less silly. "...what's in this that you don't want anyone seeing?"

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Pretending to ignore Alphonse's question toward Ed, Sakura looked up. She was 'looking at the stars', as Edward claimed to have been doing. For a moment, she wasn't really looking, but zoning and pretending to as she listened. Then she noticed that == hey wow -- the stars were actually pretty interesting.

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Alphonse watched the two banter among eachother from where he sat in amusement; he grinned at them, continuing to eat his sweets.

The mood fell as quickly as it started when Sakura finally returned Edward's notebook. Their whispers were barely audible, but not enough to hear exactly what they were saying. "Hey," he called softly. "Are you two okay?"

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"Yeah," Edward said, glancing over his shoulder and trying not to look guilty. "I just...augh." He shot an apologetic glance at Sakura and came back to sit beside Alphonse.

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Alphonse turned his gaze down from the sky and to the ground, fidgeting with the small box in his hands. "Brother..." he started slowly, avoiding looking back up. "Something's bothering you again."

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"Yeah," Edward said with another deep sigh. He glanced up at the sky, then back down to his notebook. Then over to Al, then back down at the notebook. This wasn't going to be easy.

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"You can show me, you know," Alphonse ventured into the silence, noticing his brother taking constant glances at the notebook. "It's about the stone, isn't it? You would do that-- Find something you didn't like and try to hide it from me." He finally looked back up at Edward with a slightly cross face. "I said I was gonna help you; there's no need to worry about me so much."

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Edward actually laughed at that, dryly. "I wish it was about the Stone." He sighed again, then pulled a letter out of his notebook. "I got a letter the other day," he said slowly. "From you."

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"From me?" Alphonse took ahold of the letter, carefully reading then rereading over the words. He made an ironic slight grin at it after he finished. "It is a bit awkward seeing this," he finally said. "It sometimes slips my mind that you've got someone back home when I don't."

After a moment's pause, he lifted the letter back up to Edward. "He doesn't know, huh?"

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Edward shook his head mutely. "I don't know how to tell him," he said. "He's never been here, how can I explain this to him? 'Oh, one of my new classmates is you, but you've been fixed.'"