Chapter 17: Change of Plans
I wake slowly to tiny kisses across the breadth of my shoulder blades. I have no real memory of coming back inside after talking with my sister, or crawling into bed beside Dan, or even falling asleep, but suddenly it’s Monday and the weekend is gone. Luckily I took off a few days to catch up with my lover after spending so much time apart…a full year without him was torture, and as hard as it’ll be for both of us if he really does decide to leave the army, adjusting to civilian life together is a small price to pay for a lifetime with him by my side. We can begin today, and pretend the army doesn’t want him back in another week.
Only I hear the clatter of plates in the kitchen, and voices in the living room through the closed bedroom door, and I remember we a
