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IT WAS FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE WAR , AND THE MEN OF ENGLAND WERE GETTING READY WHILE THE WOMEN WENT INTO HIDING , REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE SOME OF THE ENEMIES WHICH ARE FROM RUSSIA, CAME INTO THE COUNTRY TO CREATE CHAOS ."DO YOU PROMISE THAT AFTER THE WAR IS OVER YOU'LL COME BACK HOME" APRIL ASKED JOHN WHILE HOLDING HIS HANDS TIGHTLY. "PROMISE AND I ALSO PROMISE TO TRAIN OUR SON INTO GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT WAR "JOHN TRIED TO SWEET TALK HIS WIFE IN TERMS OF CALMING HER, WHILE HUGGING AND SOFTLY KISSING HER ON THE NECK.


MAX STOOD AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS WITH SWOLLEN EYES BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN CRYING FROM THE DAY HE FOUND OUT THAT HIS FATHER WAS LIVING FOR THE WAR . "HEY MAXY BUDDY , WHY DON'T YOU COME DOWN HERE AND GIVE YOUR OLD MAN A HUG , WHAT DO YOU SAY " SHOUTED JOHN WITH THE BIGGEST SMILE A MAN COULD EVER HAVE WITH OUT STRETCHED ARMS .MAX WATCHED HIS FATHER FOR THE NEXT TWO MINUTES WANTING TO GO HOLD HIM, BUT INSTEAD HE RAPIDLY RAN TO HIS ROOM . JOHN WHO WAS PUZZLED ,LOOKED AT HIS SADDEN FACE WIFE . JOHN EXPECTED AN EXPLANATION BUT THERE WASN'T ANY . HE MADE HIS WAY UP STAIRS TO FIND HIS SON CURLED UP IN THE CORNER OF HIS BED COMPRESSING THE STUFF BEAR HIS FATHER GAVE HIM FOR HIS SEVENTH BIRTHDAY TOWARDS HIS CHEST.


JOHN SAT ON THE EDGE OF THE BED AND PATTED THE SIDE TO SHOW THE BOY THAT HE WANTED HIM TO COME SIT NEXT TO HIM , BUT HIS SON REMAINED WHERE HE WAS STILL HOLDING HIS STUFFED ANIMAL . "THAT IS THE ONLY GIFT THAT U HAVE EVER KEPT OR WHAT I PREFER TO SAY HELD SO CLOSE"JOHN SPOKE WITH A GENTLE VOICE . MAX REMAINED SILENT AND DROPPED HIS HEADING TO HIS HANDS STILL HOLDING HIS STUFFED BEAR .JOHNS SMILE TURNED INTO A FROWN, HE CRAWLED NEXT TO HIS SON TO EMBRACED HIM FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES . JOHN HELD HIS SON'S FACE IN HIS HAND AND KISSED HIM ON THE FOREHEAD , "YOU KNOW WHEN MY DAD WAS LIVING FOR THE WAR I RAN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY YOU RAN ,BUT I WASN'T HOLDING A STUFFED ANIMAL , I WAS HIDDEN UNDERNEATH THE SHEETS ,CRYING LIKE THE WORLDS BIGGEST BABY "JOHN TOLD HIS SON WHO LOOKED UP AND HAD A SMILE ON HIS RED AND SWOLLEN FACE .

" REALLY" MAX REPLIED WHILE WIPING THE TEARS FROM HIS EYES , "I'LL MISS YOU PAPA , PROMISE WHEN WE GET BACK YOU WILL TAKE ME TO SEE THE ANIMALS IN THE ZOO." "I PROMISE AND I ALSO PROMISE THAT WE WILL HAVE THE BEST TIME EVER , OK ." "OK " MAX REPLIED WITH A SMILE AND TIGHTLY HUGGED HIS PAPA ."NOW WHEN I GET BACK I WANT TO SEE YOU , YOUR MAMA AND YOUR STUFFED ANIMAL STANDING IN THE DOOR WAY WAITING FOR ME , OH AND A BIG BOWL OF MAMA'S PEA SOUP , OK" HE TOLD MAX WHILE THEY WALKED DOWN THE STAIRS. "NOW COME ON YOU TWO LETS GO GET SOMETHING TO EAT , OK ." MAMA SAID WHILE LEADING THE TWO MEN INTO THE KITCHEN .

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