Disclaimer: I don't own Stand by Me…if I did then Chris Chambers probably wouldn't have been killed off…but technically Steven King killed him off in his novella…whatever.
Summary: Halle Hogan is the younger sister of Charlie Hogan and she constantly observes her brother's actions and her brother's friends, but when one boy catches her eye at the same time her brother is enlisted in the army to be sent to Vietnam Halle's emotions go haywire and she's stuck in a limbo between love and loss. Chris/OC.
Rated M because of strong language and some sexually explicit "scenes" in chapters to come.
Introduction: The War
The year was 1963 and more than just what Kennedy's wife was wearing had come into play. The world was on its edge as woman and children across the nation felt the loss of their fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins in the most wounding parts of their hearts. The wars in Korea and Vietnam had ripped apart the souls of many Americans and very few families had been overlooked by the dreaded call of the military draft.
The draft had no mercy on any single person or soul. It didn't watch the pain in a mother's eyes as her son or husband's birth date was posted on the black and white television sets and it couldn't see the light leave the eyes of those very same men as a bullet tore through them taking with it their lives. The draft was every young woman's fear and every penniless boy's destiny.
Author's Note: All right, I hope you'll enjoy the rest of the story once I post it and I REALLY hope you enjoyed the intro. I really had to research a lot. So...reviews? Please and thank you.