Disclaimer: I don't own Halo, it's characters or Bungie.
A/N: This story is inspired by a true story, about my relationship with my girlfriend. But the becoming of a marine is pure fiction.
Chapter 1: Why?
Me and girlfriend were on a date. We played video games together, had lunch, went on a walk at the park, had some ice cream, had dinner and cuddled. She looked at her watch, it was past 9:00.
"I have to go, Jaypee's expecting me." She said
Apparently, she had another boyfriend. She couldn't break up with him.
"Go then, if you'd rather stay the night with him." I said.
"Sorry…" she said.
She had made me become jealous. Most of the time we were together, but she slept with him. Don't call her a slut, because she's not. She's surprisingly still a virgin. Jaypee and she loved each other, but not intimately. I then said something I shouldn't have.
"Who do you love more? Him or me?" I asked .
"I…don't know." She said.
She then ran out of my apartment.
"Leighe!" I said, running after her.
But she didn't hear me, or pretended not to. She ran into the elevator. I ran after her, entering the other elevator. I pushed the down button.
"Come on, come on!" I said.
I went to the parking grounds of my apartment. I saw her car was still there. She went up and took the bullet train.
"Damnit!" I said. I called her cellphone, she wouldn't answer. "Grr…"
Next morning I woke up. I saw a message on my cellphone. I put my face in my hands, sobbing. She had broke up with me. I stayed in my apartment that day, burning every picture I had of her. When I saw my favorite picture of her, I couldn't burn it. I went out of the apartment and into a jewelry shop. I had put her picture in a locket when I suddenly saw Jaypee and Leighe walking together, each holding an ice cream cone. I was filled with jealousy again. When they were gone, I ran. I ran around the city. When I saw a poster…
'Join the UNSC and help save Earth' the poster said.
After a few hours of running and being yelled at(I was almost run over by a car, two times) I was turned from civilian into marine.
"Are you sure, kid? You're awfully young." The recruiter asked. (I was just 19)
"Yeah" I said.
"OK, just put your fingerprints here and go the the nurse so she can take a blood sample of you." He said, with a grin.
I did what I was told.
Two days later I was called up by the recruiter. The newly recruited were going to be brought to Reach. I was told to go to the base camp to go onboard a ship that would take me to Reach. The recruiter told me just to pack my important belongings and leave the rest to my relatives. I brought my PS-XXI, a book, a picture of my family, and the locket with Leighe's picture on it. The rest of my stuff, I gave to the owner of the apartment. I have lived there for four years so we had learned to trust each other. All my relatives were dead, they lived in a space colony that was invaded by the Covenant. The whole family was supposed to go to that colony, but I stayed behind, because of Leighe. I said my farewells and went to the base camp, by foot. I walked for two miles. When I got to the base camp, going towards the entrance of the ship, I saw something I never expected. Leighe… She pleaded me not to go. But I didn't listen, I didn't even look at her. She started crying. My heart felt like it was shattered glass and was being ground into fine sand. The sergeant named Johnson yelled at me: "Faster marine!" I ran into the ship. As the ship hovered up, I heard Leighe cry…
"Why?"