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Ch. 1: Leaving
"Mom, " I said, throwing my hand down on the table. " I'm leaving. tonight. You can't stop me."
My mom looked up at me, her beautiful green eyes widening in surprise.
"Edward, please, don't do this. Why now? You're so young and have so much ahead of you." She said, looking at me pleadingly.
"Mom, I don't want to go to college. I want to be a solider, a hero, " I told her, my voice firm.
"But Edward, you're only 17, you don't understand." She said, her eyes filling with tears.
"What don't I understand, " I demanded, unable to comprehend what I didn't understand.
"They make it out to be fun and games. To be an adventure, to make you a hero. But it's not that way, people die, people get hurt, by getting stabbed or shot. You don't want to see that, and to hear that. War doesn't make you a hero, I promise," she said, her voice rising.
I kneeled down by her side. " Mother, I promise I won't be one of those people. I have no intention of getting shot. I'm going to live through this, and be a hero."
She looked me straight in the eyes. " Your cousin didn't have any intention of getting shot either."
That hit me hard. No one ever mentioned my cousin anymore, who had died just months ago.
" My country needs me, " I said, growing cold at her words. " I'm leaving, " I finished, throwing the worn bag of my few belongings over my shoulder. " Goodbye, mother, " I said, and walked out that door, for forever.
I didn't even look back see her dissolve into tears, stumbling out the door after me, her only son. I didn't hear her screams and cries to come back. I was too far away to hear her, or see her crumple onto the snowy ground.
I couldn't hear or see that. I couldn't turn back after her. After all, I had to have a heart of stone.
I wasn't a boy anymore. I was a solider now.
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