Against the Tragic Fate
He gazed into the distant men in front of us, “Look man… we are about to head into the war. You don’t wanna die alone right? I mean at least if something happened to you there is someone you can trust to send your message to your family, right? But I really do hope we can all come home alive and hug our families ourselves again.”
I stared at him for a minute, “You have someone waiting for you?”
“Of course, I have my little brother waiting for me to return home,” he held the pendant on his necklace as he said this.
“Little brother only?” I asked.
“Well, we don’t have our parents so we only got each other.” He gave a smile but, I knew behind it is sadness, maybe he is recalling memories of his