HAWKINS, olivia reese
Mar 11, 2015 0:19:05 GMT -5
Post by OLIVIA REESE HAWKINS on Mar 11, 2015 0:19:05 GMT -5
I cried Never gonna hold the hand of another guy Too young for him they told her Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier Our love will never end
25 | HETEROSEXUAL | mARRIED THINKS WIDOWED | BAKER/BAKERY OWNER | LOCAL | KATHERINE MCNAMARA
Olivia R. Hawkins,
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Reality dropped out from under her. Those two men. She hated them, first they came to her that her husband was missing. She was too young for this. She was only twenty, almost twenty-one. He was MIA, she could handle that. There was hope right? Xris was the strongest person she knew, he was her rock. He was brave. He was strong. Determined. If anyone could survive this, then it was him. That didn’t mean she wasn’t scared though. She cried, for a very long time… longer than she lets people know. She knew that he was still out there, she could feel it. There were streams of people coming in and out of their little apartment they had just bought, telling her to be brave. Why did she have to be brave?! She was safe. It was her husband, the love of her life, who was in danger. It was a flash in time when those two men, she didn’t know if they were the same men form the first time, but they were there again, knocking on her door. She hated them even more. There was a flicker of hope when she saw them. They found him? He was safe. She wanted to ask when she could see him, when he would be home. She knew he wasn’t gone. But, that’s when they told him, his MIA status had been moved to KIA. She crumpled to the floor, in the doorway of the apartment. Luckily for those two men, another military wife was there having tea with her. She cried and cried, and cried. Then she just went into a stupor for a few weeks. At his “funeral” she was presented with the folded flag. She had her mother and mother-in-law on each hand. Her older brother and younger sister were both there to support her. She was stone faced, emotionless, she was numb. These people who surrounded her, who loved her and loved Xris, tried everything they could. It amused her later down the road, her mother had hated Xris, he was two year older than her, they had met when he was in ninth grade he was the same age as her brother, they all openly disliked her relationship with Xris, she knew it was because they loved her and they didn’t want her to get hurt. The longer they stayed together, the longer people had faith they would work. She knew they doubted she would be able to handle being a military girlfriend and they thought she would drop him. Oh the horror when she agreed to marry him. But, clearly they were perfect for each other. Life was supposed to move on, she was in culinary school at the time, now she’s been out and has experience in bakeries, she has saved enough to buy a bakery of her own. She still looks at the old albums of them, their wedding album. It makes her happy to see him. She still sleeps in his shirts, with his pillow, and she refuses to sleep on his side of the bed, even his clothes are still in his closet, untouched (except the ones she sleeps in). After she turned twenty-four, her family and friends refused to let her sit there and waste her life in her bakery or just sitting in that apartment with the dog she had gotten. The made her go out, with men… She hated it.. they were all so boring. There was nothing there. Nothing. It only made her miss Xris more. She loved him, how did you move on from someone who was perfect for you? You didn’t. No Jim, Tom, or Larry would suffice for what she needed or wanted. She wanted Xris back. But, going out made her family and friends get off her back. She only went out when they absolutely forced her too, luckily they only did it every once and a while. No, no more dating. She couldn’t handle it anymore. They were all a little shocked when she showed up with blonde hair. The normally and naturally red head had never wanted to dye her hair. Her reasoning, was they wanted her to change, so she changed something. Not that it made her any happier. But, it made them back off. |
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