THE BATTLEFIELD OF LOVE
Part 178's. It's Me 1
We returned to El Paso after that brief assignment. Gilbert also returned to his unit in Florida.
The days are busy but it feels normal, but everything has gone well in the last few months.
"They've started cleaning the interstate road. He said that now it is 70% completed, the transfer of interstate goods has been done
an again, we can get the goods that are in another Interstate. We'll be able to get a salary I don't think big soon. The government is already running another trade between countries now." Noah said that at lunch.
"It seems that everything will be good." Susan answered. "When can we go to the beach again."
"It's a long time ago we didn't see the beach, yesterday we thought in Florida we could see the beach, but then it turned out we were just there for a while."
It would be nice to be able to ride in a car and go to another part of the US in this dry central part you just find land and mountains. But whatever it is, I'm happy with the way things are getting better now.
This time James was with me to the house to see Mom. She becomes a good daughter-in-law who often sees Mom and invites her to chat.
"It looks like there are guests, who are these nights."
"Somethey might be Mom's friend." I heard Mom talking to a woman. I went inside the house.
The first thing I saw was Mom and the two people who turned their backs to the door.
"Mom has guests ... " The two turned around.
In my dreams I've never imagined this. That man was Fred and his mother. I thought I was dreaming, this is impossible.
"Jen..." Two years I thought he was dead and suddenly he appeared in front of me. Two and a half years he disappeared, and now he suddenly appears. I still think I'm dreaming. I can't move just looking at it for long.
"I'm sorry I just got back now." But he's talking. So this is reality.
"Fred?"
"It's me..." I grabbed him and knew he was real. My tears just drip. He just hugged me. This hug. This is really him.
"Why... Why don't you give me the slightest news? Why?"
"I just got my memory. I'm sorryforgive me..." Just got his memory! I struggled to accept that phrase.
Fred saw James, he never saw him.
"It's your lover..." I looked at James. "Brother, thank you for taking care of Jen." He told James. They shook hands, it was very awkward.
"You're back. He used to cry you day and night for losing you." Fred saw. Somehow I face this reality now, when James is by my side. "I guess, now he's relieved..." And James just backed off.
"James..." Like without a burden James smiled at me.
"No. It's not that. I'm here maybe not for long. I want to take Mom to Dallas. I have a wife and a baby ..."
And I was faced with new words again. Wife and baby...
"That's.good." I said slowly.
Come to think of it he always wanted to have a baby long ago, asking me to be his wife when I wasn't ready to give up my life.
"Can we sit down." Mom saw us all so tense.
He sat with his mother in front of me, while I sat with James. Everyone was silent, not knowing how to start this conversation.
"Can you tell us where you've been for years." Mom finally started the conversation.
"I was in an accident in the interior of Dallas, according to my wife's father who found me, maybe 8 days after Dallas closed, I was found in an overturned car near their ranch, until now I didn't know why I got there, I remember I was robbed before that but why I was in that car I really didn't know, at that time I was just carrying clothes on my body, they did not find my identity, my head was badly injured and in the care of the local doctor who took shelter in the remote ranch, there was a plantation and farm, there was a farm, the world added chaos, they put up a strong guardrail so we can last for years, we just found out dallas was safe last month, I never remembered who I was until a few weeks ago... Then I heard the Interstate was already usable. and I came back."
I'm silent, I can't talk about this fact. Maybe it's fate that Fred and I can't be together at any time. We were separated and were not fools.
"How are you..." He's asking me now. I tried to smile.
"I'm fine, these two years I've been with the military going to various places in the US, yesterday we just returned from Canada, I'm so glad you're okay..." What can I say again. He's survived, I'm happy, but we're not the old ones anymore. Everything is different. Things are no longer the same.
"Good you're gonna have a baby." I smiled at him. At least that's what he's always hoped for in the past, having a family, a wife and children. Fred had the same dream.
"I'm glad you look healthy, have someone to look after you. Doctor James, he's stubborn sometimes, isn't he."
"Very troublesome,... It goes without saying and in doubt. But maybe I've been used to it for a long time. Congratulations on the baby-to-be, hopefully he'll be born healthy." James smiled at Fred. It seems he was relieved that Fred already had his own family. And maybe you could say James knew me first from Fred