Author's note: Hello to all! Up with my new sequel. :P I hope you will enjoy this story. Do review! I didn't base this story on any actual events, so I am not sure about the historical accuracy. Danny is taken from the movie, and the other characters mentioned in the chapter from the movie are Rafe, Evelyn, Gooz and Red, but the other characters here are mine:P Sorry for the long wait, but I have a whole load of revision to do for the upcoming examinations. I wouldn't be able to upload frequently after this...until after the examinations, which is about two weeks later. Keep the reviews coming though! I need more ideas for the story.

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Chapter 1

Jeslyn Hills stretched luxuriously and yawned. It was the start of yet another day in Ohio. She was relatively new here, and could not afford to buy her own house yet. Her room was rented from Mrs. Johann, an amiable landlady whom the tenants fondly addressed as Mother J. A motherly figure to all her tenants, it was through Mrs. Johann that Jeslyn got her new job at the local bar. The locals were friendly, and she settled down quickly with the help of her colleagues at the bar, many of whom she had become fast friends with. Her friends were so vibrant and full of life that it was hard not to like them. Dania Parker, a fellow waitress at the bar and also a tenant at Mother J's, had become her best friend, and played a huge part in Jeslyn's new found life. Jeslyn could not imagine how life would be like without Dania there to add cheer to everything.

Getting out of bed, Jeslyn moved over to her small dressing table to comb her hair. Her emerald eyes darkened somewhat as they fell on a small photo that she had carefully framed up and placed on her table. It filled her with a longing for the life she used to have, reminding her of the reason for her sudden move to Ohio. If only things hadn't happened the way they did…in her mind, Jeslyn could still see the sunlight shining in through the blue curtains at the window in her old room every morning. It seemed as if it were only yesterday that she bade goodbye to her parents on her way to work. Jeslyn reached out to touch the picture lovingly. "I love you, Mum and Dad." Despite knowing that putting the picture that she took with her parents in front of their house would remind her of what she had lost, Jeslyn couldn't bring herself to put it anywhere else. It was the only thing she had from the life she had left behind. It was the only way she could see her parents again. Holding the picture up, Jeslyn gave her parents a small kiss, and hurried off to the bathroom to wash up. Her parents would not want her to dwell on unhappy events in the past.

Danny Walker didn't feel like getting out of bed. It was a lovely Sunday morning, and he had the whole day to himself. The previous mission had gone more smoothly than he had expected, but what happened afterwards was definitely unexpected. He thought he would be sent back to Pearl Harbor after the mission was completed, but it appeared that the general had other plans for him. The air base in Ohio was currently his new address. He had gotten along well with the pilots at the Ohio air base, but that did not prevent him from missing his friends back at Pearl Harbor. Gooz, Red, Rafe…all of them must be cursing him to his bones for not keeping contact with them ever since he left for training in Long Island a year before.

Sighing, Danny fell back on his bed and stared blankly at the ceiling. He missed them so much. Of course he wanted to keep in contact. They were the best friends he ever had, and Danny was sure he could never find any others who knew him as well. But he didn't. He didn't write so much as a letter to any of them in the year that he left Pearl Harbor, because he couldn't bring himself to. All of them need time to adjust to the changes that had happened since America got involved in the war. He had lied to his friends when he told them that he was assigned on the mission, when it had just been his excuse to get away from Pearl Harbor, to retreat from the awkward relationship that had developed between Rafe, Evelyn and him. How was he going to continue writing letters to them, and pretend that nothing had happened?

Well, he did write a letter to Rafe immediately after he returned from the mission, but the letter had not reached him. Apparently, shortly after he left, Rafe and his friends were sent on another mission and Evelyn had quitted her job as a nurse. He didn't leave any address for them to contact him when he left, so there was no way they could contact him when they left.

That was how they had fallen out of contact with each other, and he had been unable to contact them since.

Sitting up suddenly, Danny pushed down all his unhappy thoughts. He had started on a new life, and this was the life he had chosen for himself. No way was he going to lament on the past, and waste time indoors when he could be outside enjoying a well-deserved break. He believed that he would meet his friends again someday, and that was all that mattered. If he kept living in the past, he was going to end up pathetically lonely in this new environment. New friends needed to be found, and much other stuff needed to be done.

Talking about stuff that had to be done…Danny stretched and glanced at his private schedule on his bedside table. He stared at what was written there for the day for a moment, until the words finally registered in his brain. Danny yelped and rushed off to the bathroom to wash up, after which he pulled on a simple white T-shirt and a pair of brown pants, and escaped through his room door. The hallway leading to the front door had never seemed so long.

A gust of wind blew through the open window, and the slip of paper tacked onto Danny's bedside table fluttered onto the floor. On it, written clearly in his own handwriting, was the event of the day:

Morning breakfast with Delt and the rest at 8.30am. A surprise planned. Have to attend. Location: Haluna Pub. P.S. Do not be late.

The grandfather clock in the hallway chimed nine times in a cheerful tone on Danny Walker's 27th birthday.

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