Prompt 200, Glisten, "Say Yes"
Title: Say Yes
Author: Sofipitch
Series: Brotherhood
Word Count: 497
Rating: G
Characters: Trisha Elric, Van Hoenhiem
Summary: She was a simple girl.
Warning: none
Trisha Elric had grown up in Risenbool, and so had both her parents, as well as their grandparents. It was a small, slow town with late technological advances and greenery for as far as the eye could see. She herself loved Risenbool and rarely ever left the town. Busy cities with big, fancy, new cars gleaming in the sunlight couldn’t compare with the glisten of the dew that seemed to cover everything and anything in the early mornings of spring, summer, and the beginnings of fall. With a girl like her, who preferred the relaxed backcountry life, it was hard to believe she could fall in love with someone as innovative and interesting as Van.
nbsp; But he wasn’t as modern and contemporary as many would have thought. He was a gentleman, and he seemed to enjoy the slow ways of Risenbool as much as she did. And as old-fashioned as he was, he still managed to fumble and trip over himself whenever he was around her. It was adorable.
nbsp; There was only one curiosity that came with Van Hoenhiem; she had known him since she was a little girl. He hadn’t always been there, but she’d see him out in town or sometimes even at festivals. And in all of her memories of him, he always looked the same. In all her memories of him, he still had the same wrinkles next to his eyes. He never changed; never got older.
nbsp; She decided it was just a trick of the mind, maybe she couldn’t remember him well enough so her mind replaced the blank space with what she could currently remember. His current appearance. It had to be so.
nbsp; There had been a dance at the barn closest to Miss Stubblefield’s sunflower grove. They had both met there and after Pinako Rockbell, a friend of his, pushed him around a few times, he asked her to dance. She didn’t say anything, but he stepped on her foot twice.
After that they began meeting up for what she could supposed were dates. They could talk for hours on end. He’d been everywhere in the world. He promised her that one day he would take her to see the world too. He enchanted her.
It’d been an entire six months of meeting each other when she moved to kiss him. Van stopped her before she could.
“Trisha, if we are to continue any farther, there is something you must know about me.”
Trisha had never been very good when it came to science. And although she knew next to nothing when it came to alchemy, she was pretty sure everything Van told her that day was anything out of the extraordinary.
But even so, when he asked if she could accept him despite his past and body, she didn’t hesitate to say yes.
Trisha was a simple girl, and her answer had been a very simple one to make. She decided she loved him, so she would say yes.