The Next Morning
"Welcome soldiers report to the comms room after class" Sargent Axel demanded. "Good morning class today you will be transferred, yes that does mean I'm no longer your teacher I know you guys miss me already. Anyway, one last test" An hour later we were saying goodbye to Mr. Law as he was being deployed himself. Later on we were walking into comms where Sargent Axel stood with the commander "Hello everyone I'm commander Florb Solar, the Earthlings are set to land here on Xeorxia. You all will be relocated to a facility closer to the landing."
On the truck ride home all we could think about was how to tell our parents that we deploy tomorrow. They had already been on edge from yesterday and we have even more bad news for them. This could even break them knowing their kid might not come back. I was scared of what they would do and what laws they'd try to break. Energy noticed how quiet I was. "What are you thinking about?" "My moms." "Same...hey I have an idea how about we don't go home yet?" I looked at Energy smirking and then the truck stopped and they held out their hand. I grabbed their hand as we climbed out the truck. "So now what do we do, walk?" "No of course not" She said dangling their keys over my head "Vroom vroom" I looked at them and smirked. I texted my parent's first. "Ok let's go then"
It was calming to know that I wasn't going home yet, but Energy was driving like a damn maniac. We almost went off-road 3 times but eventually, we got on the low way so there were no crazy turns Energy could try to take. Despite that I was still stressed about going home "You still seem stressed" " Yeah I wonder what it could be, definitely not your driving skills." Energy rolled their eyes. "Do you want to walk? I could always leave you." I scuffed "Yeah right, you could never" "I don't want to go back home" "Me neither but we have to eventually" "That's the stressful part." since it was getting late we decided to get dinner at our favorite diner. We wanted to try something different this time because it might have been our last chance to. While we were eating one of the waitresses came up to us and said we were a cute couple. We both fumbled over our words trying to explain that we were just friends but we realized we were only telling ourselves since the waitress made a swift exit ages ago. Once we were done eating we told Quinn (QQ) we'd see him around. Then we went back out to the car. We sat there making no effort to leave. "Isn't it weird that she thought we were a couple?" I said turning to Energy "No I think she was right we would be cute together." Energy said looking back at me, their face turned a deep purple realizing that they said that out loud. She quickly corrected herself "I-If we liked each other I mean" It was very quiet for several minutes "Sorry I didn't mean to sound weird" "It's fine let's go see some stars" I said looking at them as they started the car. We headed towards a very big field of grass where we got onto the top of the car to stargaze. "Were you being serious earlier?" "Which part?" I turned to look at her with a 'you know' expession, "yeah..I was" I saw Energy glance at my lips then my eyes. "I think so too" I said a we landed closer, then my phone rung and we both jumped at the sudden noise "It's my mom we should start heading home."
We got back in the car and started on our way home. When I got home I hesitated before opening the door. In the house I sat my moms down and just said it "My unit is getting deployed tomorrow." "Very funny but there isn't even a war to be deployed for" "They wanted us to keep it secret but we are being deployed tomorrow" Medo: "No you're not." "We were told earlier today I really wanted to tell the both of you but I didn't know how to." " You can not go and get yourself killed I won't allow it!" "But I already signed the contract there's no stopping now." Rona: " Geia enough! I don't care about a piece of paper if we say you're not going that means you're not going" "It's not just a piece of paper I'm 16 years old now I can decide on my own and I'm going that's it." Medo: "Just let us process this, ok?" The next morning I put on my uniform and snuck out from my window, after packing a few things. I got into the truck knowing this would likely be the last time I see my parents. The ride was long and quiet and soon I drifted off to sleep. I woke up as the truck arrived at the base seeing more people arrive in separate trucks I climbed out and threw my bag on my back. I found everyone lined up. Commander Florb already speaking. "-at the ass crack of dawn and train their asses off so you can go back home to your family. Unfortunately its not clear when we'll go back. We will complete our mission, Sargent Axel will put you into groups at the sleeping quarters, dismissed!" As I walked up to Sargent Axel I frantically looked for Energy after awhile I realized they weren't here "That's good she shouldn't sacrifice her life just to be around me." I said to myself. Sargent Axel spoke "You're in camp 7 here's your badge, next!" I found my way to camp 7 and walked in. "Geia!" I looked up to see Energy. I ran over to them and they hugged me. "You came!?" I said in a bit of a panic. "Of course I came." Energy helped me find my bunk which luckily was close to theirs. We got all of our stuff together which took some time, then we got called outside again for roll call. The commander called us in alphabetical order by last name. Once that was over it was time for bed. We were supposed to go to sleep but the stench of someone's fart kept us up for another 10 minutes, but we eventually went to sleep.
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