Military’s Girl
He looked really stressed out now that his dad said something, and I had a feeling why.
"Um, yeah. I guess I did say that," he cleared his throat.
"Well then, let's hear it, son." His dad smiled brightly at him.
"Well, um." He looked around, scanning over everyone's faces till his eye's landed back on me, a nervous glint still in them. "I enlisted in the military a while ago, the Marine corps to be exact... and um, I leave... tomorrow." He said while not looking away from me, his eye's held sorrow as he looked over my face, waiting on my reaction.