Our Story

Chapter One

I'm just going to let you know now, before you read too far or get too attached. This story is a little sad. So if you don't like sad stories I'd stop reading now.

But this story is also about love. Not the middle school “I like you, you like me" kind of love but the real, genuine, true love. This story is about bravery, it's about healing, and lastly, our story is about courage.

I don't know where to begin, so I guess I'll start from the very beginning. I'm Jess. He's Luke. We started going to school together in middle school. We we're always friends but at the beginning of junior year in high school we started dating.

There's some background, but the real story begins the summer after we graduated high school. We we're inseparable, we we're truly in love. So it was a big shock to me when we we're out to dinner and he said, “Hey, Jess, there's something I need to talk to you about."

No. He can't do this. He can't break up with me. I don't know why. We're doing so great... I love him. All these thoughts we're flying through my mind as he figdited with the napkin in his lap.

“Yeah? What is it?" I asked in a voice just above a whisper.

“Well... I... As you know my father and his father we're both in the army."

Where is he going with this?

“Yeah?" I answered more confused than ever.

“And... Um... Well..." He stopped and took a deep breath, “Okay, I enlisted and I'm leaving next month."

I stared at him, relieved he's not breaking up with me, but crushed that he's leaving me.

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