THE BATTLEFIELD OF LOVE
Part 172's. The Go Home 4
I'm glad to see it's healthy enough. Now I go and report to the Chief painter showing my letter of recommendation, but at the same time explaining I have a special reason here.
All tests and screenings for the transplant should be completed in two to three months by the doctor.
I might be able to wait for James to come back, while taking care of Mom. Transplant surgery is quite heavy, the discomfort and pain caused is quite significant in the first week. Someone has to help us, maybe in the next three months he can come back here. Or accept a new assignment once Florida is fully completed.
I'll be waiting.
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It's been three weeks since I returned to El Paso, the training I've been heading up and done for the selected staff. I miss James but I'm also happy that I look healthy and can do well.
This time I went to a pub. Looking at the pub was a flash of events like those pictured again in my head.
Two years ago, Fred and I met back there and it was the beginning of our relationship back. And it cannot be forgotten, how the meeting evoked so many memories and pain, and then such sweet acceptance. Maybe he'll always have a part of my life, memories of him are scattered in this city, I couldn't just erase it until now.
Mom said there was still no news of his whereabouts, two years had passed and I had wished him all the best. His last words, his last voice, I can still remember. Surely he tried to reach me, but fate did not want to unite us.
Remembering it always elicits a sweet memory, as if the pain of loss were still there. But stay there, all that is left behind is the sweet de javu encounter taste that can be remembered. May he be at peace in his place, the world is too cruel sometimes.
But now, there's James, a childhood friend who also has a lot of memories with me.
"You and James, are you together?" Mom asked me a few days after my return.
"Yes Mom, we're together, maybe he can come back soon, he's helped me a lot during these two years. It was like having Ken by my side."
"He was kind to you a long time ago, wasn't he."
"Yes .. too good to think about."
"Mom was actually calm thinking she was with you too. He defended you like your brother took care of you. Our family and the James family could be said to be very close before."
"Yes Mom. If there's no James I'm somehow going through this."
"Jeeeniffers!" A scream I thought my ears were wrong.
"Susan?!" How is he here? He and his unit were pulled from Hot Spring?
"How are you here?!" I don't believe my eyes, but this is really him.
"You miss me, baby." I grimaced wide.
"You're my best gossip mates how I don't miss you." He smiled broadly.
"We were given the option of settling in Hot Spring or a new assignment. The central area has already declared a whole Green Zone. Me and D'Angelo chose a new assignment. So we can go home first to El Paso and we'll be given an assignment option later because D'Angelo and I are married."
"It turns out so."
"Andrew chose to stay, of course, he's already mayor, if he wants a promotion he has to stay there." Susan gave me more information I didn't need.
"I don't care at all." I grimaced wide.
"My question is, why are you here. Isn't Florida still unfinished?"
"It's a long story..." I told you everything, why I can come back here.
"So your mother was sick. So you and James now..."
"Yes, we're together, I'm also waiting for his real return."
"Finally." He laughed gladly at me. "He'll definitely come back here for you. Just relax."
"I hope so soon. It feels like after two years so much we remember here."
Susan's back, I'd at least have a close friend again if James was on duty as I think.