Desert Rose

Chapter 1

Two years ago:

SilverFoxNavy: So how did the date turn out?

VoluptuousKitten: Once again he was wanting to change me into one of those toothpick rail thin models. 

SilverFoxNavy:Well that won't do gorgeous. You need someone who will love every curve. 

  VoluptuousKitten: Well I wish men who were as understanding as you. Where are you now? 

 SilverFoxNavy: Well right now if I were to tell you I would have to kill you ;) 

   VoluptuousKitten:  Aren't you just the romantic. I really wish you were here so we could finally meet. I am tired of even going on these dates. I want them to be you. 

  SilverFoxNavy: I will be back soon  gorgeous, but I need you to keep trying. We don't know how things will turn out and I can't have you waiting forever on me. 

  VoluptuousKitten: I want to wait though. No one here wants me for me. You are the only one who knows me and accepts me is you. 

  SilverFoxNavy: I still have a year before I can come back and even then I will only be back for a little while love. 

  VoluptuousKitten: I'm going to wait for you, I can't keep trying to live my life that someone like you is out there and I just have to wait. Please don't ask me to keep doing this. 

SilverFoxNavy: If I don't return in a year's time. Please don't hold back on living. Live your life for me. 

Present:

I still can't stop thinking about my SilverFoxNavy, two years ago he drew me in, we had never met only chatted online. He didn't have a picture, only a bio and from his tag I knew he was in the military. He couldn't talk about anything he did or where he was located, but all the times that we chatted were the highlights of my days. Our last conversation he had mentioned to not wait for him. He was supposed to return a year ago. Once he asked me not to wait for him, I never heard from him again. 

"Are thinking of Mr. SilverFox again?" Mel questions while we relax after that disastrous date. It was only the third date I have been on since I grieved over not hearing from SIlverFoxNavy. I was crushed with worry as well as lost. I felt that I lost a part of me. We had talked for over a year, he knew a lot of things about me that I couldn't even tell Mel. 

"Yes...... I just wish there were more of him, or that he was still alive. He gave me hope Mel." A tear leaks out as I think over all the times he asked me to try and live my life and not wait for him. He encouraged me to date, said life was too short, that if I waited for him I could miss out on opportunities. I did though, I missed out on my one opportunity for happiness. 

"Grace, he asked you to live your life, only last month did you finally stop grieving him after two years of radio silence. You never even knew what he looked like." 

"That's the thing though he was more than just looks. We bonded over words. He knew the darkest parts of me that even you don't know."