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December 18, 2012
Dear Corey,
I miss you so much! Things here have quieted down and I am leaving soon to come see you guys. I cannot wait to hold you in my arms and get to kiss you. Of course it will be great to see Em and my mom but I don’t know when you have a girl waiting for you it is a totally different feeling.
I am glad you told Emma. I hope it went well. And Alfredo is still my favorite. They sure don’t make it like your mom does here in Iraq. I miss Sunday dinners. Anyways I will get home on the 23rd pick me up at 1:00pm.
Love you,
Tim
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Tim will be home tomorrow. I am so so excited. His letters are definitely not enough for me. I get to pick him up and be the only one there. It is now 9:00 at night. I need to find something to do to keep my mind off of him for awhile. I finally decide on a bowl of my favorite mint chocolate chip ice cream and a rerun of some reality series. I couldn’t focus on it though my mind just kept going to Tim. Seeing him. What would it be like? Would he still want me?
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I must have drifted off to sleep because I woke up with a crick in my neck and it being 2:00am. I got up off of the couch and my entire body was stiff from the couch. I walked to the bathroom and washed my face and finally got into bed.
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I woke up at 10:00 in the morning realizing I only had an hour and a half to be ready to make the long drive to the airport. I got up quickly and went into the bathroom to get into the shower.
After the fastest shower I think I have ever taken I wrapped myself and my hair in a towel and walked to my closed. I couldn’t decide what to wear. I finally decided on a pale blue strapless sundress and my favorite pair of white sandals.
I went to the bathroom and had to decide what to do with my long brown hair. I looked at the clock and it was 10:45. I only had 45 minutes until I had to leave. I finally decided on french-braiding my bangs and straightening the rest. I out a little mascara and eyeliner on and my favorite pale pink lip gloss. I went and put my shoes on. I grabbed my purse, phone, keys and headed for my car. I was thanking the lord that my mom and dad had to work today so neither of them would question where I was going.
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I finally arrived at the airport after what seemed like an eternity and found a parking place. I checked my makeup and applied a little more lip gloss. Once I was satisfied with my look I got out of the car and realized that I still had 15 minutes. Perfect timing I thought to myself.
I walk into the waiting terminal. I see on the arrival board that his plane has just touched down. I am so anxious. I feel like I am going to puke. All of these questions just keep running through my mind just like last night.
Finally after what seems like an eternity I see people exiting the plane. All soldiers. All dressed in their camo. All coming home to their families. He is the second to last one off of the plane. I can’t help but stare at him. He is just so gorgeous with those blue eyes and blonde buzz cut. He looks so much more grown up. He looks like a man and not the boy that left a year ago for bootcamp and to think he has actually been in Iraq for 6 months.
I see him scanning the people looking for me. I run to him. Tears of joy streaming down my face and I can’t help but wonder what he is thinking at this very minute. I go to him. He looks at me and gets this huge smile on his face that you can tell that he is happy.
I hug him. Everything feels right with me in his arms.
“Hi Corey.” He says and it makes my whole body melt.
“Hi Tim.” I say between my silent tears,
“Why are you crying? Don’t cry baby. I’m here now.” He says comforting me.
“I just missed you so much. I couldn’t wait to see you and now it seems unreal to me.” I admit shyly to him.
“ I missed you too.” He says softly. He grabs the back of my head and slowly leans in to kiss me. Butterflies go crazy throughout my body. I kiss him back and I know that this is right. Tim and I were meant to be together. “You do not know how long I have wanted to do that for.” He exclaimed.
“You do not know how long I have been waiting for this. You to be here.”
“I am so happy right now.” He said as his smile never left his face. “Let’s go get my stuff and head home.”
“Okay.”
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“Can I have the keys?” Tim asked
“I can drive you know.”
“I want to please.” He pleaded.
“Okay.”
We started walking towards my car hand in hand. Smiles never leaving our faces. I never knew I could feel so many emotions at once. Happiness because he is here. Excitement. Love. Sadness because I know he has to leave in a few weeks.
“What are you thinking about Corey?”
“That I am so happy being with you. How I never want this to change.” I admit.
“Me too.” He agrees. We get in the car and he kisses me again but this time more passionately. I give him full range of my mouth. We kiss for what seems like an eternity. We finally come up for air and he decides that we should probably get going.
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We pull into the driveway a little after 3:00. None of our parents were home yet so we decided to go surprise Emma.
“I cannot wait to see the look on her face when she sees me.” He exclaims excitedly.
“Me either. She is going to be so excited. She has no idea that you are here.”
We park my car in my driveway. We get out of the car and instantly its hand in hand walking next door to his house. He opens the door quietly and we walk in. We check the kitchen first and no Emma, then the family room no Emma there either. We finally go check her room and hear music. We walk towards her bedroom door. It was open but we hear talking as we get closer. Watson is here.
I walk in Emma’s room and see her and Watson having a pretty heavy makeout session. “Emma.” she says rather loudly. “You scared the shit out of me.”
“Well I have a surprise for you and it really couldn’t wait.” I tell her excitedly.
“What is it?”
“Hold on let me get it. It’s in the hallway.”
“Okay.”
I walk to the hallway and pretend to bend over and pick something up. I grab Tim’s hand and we slowly walk in together.
Emma looks and jumps up faster than I have ever seen her get up before. “Tim! What are you doing here? I thought you didn’t get leave until this summer?” she said confused and excited at the same time.
“Well I got a Christmas break. I thought I could come spend it with my girls. I didn’t realize I would be interrupting something.” He said referring to her makeout session with Watson. “We will talk about that later.” He tells her taking on his big brother role.“Tim I am so happy that you are here. Why didn’t you tell anybody? I could've picked you up.”
“I already had that figured out. Corey came and picked me up. I asked her too.”
“Well in that case, why didn’t you tell me Corey?”
“Well Emma you can’t keep a secret to save your life.” I say jokingly towards her. Watson is just standing there witnessing all of this.
“Well I am going to go Emma.” Watson says quickly.
“Okay I love you.”
“Love you too.” He tells her and they exchange a quick peck on the lips. He walks out with Tim giving him the evil eye. He is a lot smaller than Tim. Although Watson is at least 6 foot, TIm has a few inches on him. Watson is pretty built but the army did nothing but good for Tim’s figure.
I stand admiring the sibling relationship that Emma and Tim have. I never got to have that. I am an only child but growing up with Emma was like having a sister. I look at Emma and wish I could be as well put together as she is all the time. Even in the worst times she looks the greatest. She is wearing her short dark blue jean shorts with a white cami and a pale purple button up tank top that ties at the bottom over that. Her long strawberry blonde hair looks amazing with her hair loosely curled and her bangs twisted back.
While Emma looked like a supermodel with her height of 5’8 I was like the opposite standing at only 5’3. Although people told me I was pretty Emma just got more attention than I did, She stands out more than I do. Although Emma and I were like opposites we got along so well. Hey they say opposites attract right?
Finally tuning back into the conversation Tim asks me, “Do you want to go to dinner and surprise your parents and my mom?”
“Yeah that would be great. We all go out on Saturday nights anyways.”
“Okay that sounds good. I am going to get my stuff and come unpack.” He says and gives me a small kiss that leaves me wanting more.