Hey guys! I was watchin the Pacific on my laptop, and in the first episode where Sid is reading the letter from Eugene, and mentions Eugene taking Sids sister to the bay. Well, I thought about the fact of the two of them maybe having a relationship. I'm basing this off of the HBO mini-series and the actors portraying the roles, I mean no disrespect to the real men. Reviews are always welcome, my muse Cecilia lives on em ;) and without anymore disruption READ ON!
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"Betcha can't catch me!" yelled a little bonde haired blue eyed girl, beginning to run away from two boys.
"Betcha we can!" shouted a red haired boy, chasing after her, a blonde haired boy just behind him.
The girl ran across a dirt road into an open field, running as fast as she could, looking back every once in a while and giggling. The two boys continued the chase until the red headed boy began to slow down, he slowed to a walk, the blonde boy sticking by his side.
"What's wrong Eugene?" the blonde boy asked.
"Nothing Sid, I just, I can't breathe." the red head responded.
"Hey! Katharine!" Sid yelled, but the little girl didn't even glance back.
"Let her run."
"Maybe she'll get lost." Sid laughed at the thought, "So you're okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Now let's go get your sister." The boys started running again, in hot pursuit.
"Mr. Sledge?" Eugene glaced towards Mr. Hammond, "Nice to know your still with us Mr. Sledge, now, as I was saying, this essay is to be five pages long."
The whole class came together in a collective groan.
"Now, now its to be five pages long, with at least six sources listed. And is due next monday!" Mr. Hammond yelled over the final bell of the day.
Eugene made his way to his locker, grabbing the necessary books and shoving them in his pack.
"Eugene!" Eugene looked over his shoulder to see his childhood friend Sidney Phillips walking towards him.
"Hey." He nodded as Sid fell in step with him, making their way out of the school.
The two boys walked out the back door of the school, and began making their way towards the dirt road just up the hill.
"Sid! Eugene! Wait up!" The two boys stopped, mid-hill, to see Sid's sister Katharine running towards them, pack in hand.
"Thanks for waiting for me in the school." Katharine breathed, catchign up with the two.
"Not a problem." Sid laughed.
"So, what are your boys' plans for the evening?"
"Well, me and Sid were gonna go fishin down at the river."
"Yeah, then Eugene's stayin the night."
"Sounds like fun."
"Should be, what are your plans?" Eugene looked towards her.
"Nothing actually, I might come fishing with you guys if you don't mind." Katharine glanced at Sid.
"Nah, we don't mind." Sid shrugged.
"Okay, well, there's my plans for ya Gene." Katharine smiled.
"Sounds like some pretty good plans."
The three teenagers continued to walk down the dirt road in silence, passing by Eugenes house, then through a trail that lead through some woods. The path was familiar to all three of them, winding through some trees, then over the bridge, past the clearing, through a few more trees, then just down a little ways your could see the back of the Phillips' house.
"Hey mom! We're home!"
"How was school?" Sid and Katharine's mom called from the den.
"It was school ma, not much to say. You're alright with Eugene staying the night, right?" Sid stepped into the den.
"Hey, Eugene, want a snack?" Katharine asked, walking towards the kitchen.
"Uhm, sure." Eugene followed her, leaving Sid.
"So what do you want?" Katharine looked over her shoulder, opening up their fairly large pantry.
"Uhm, I don't know.. I'm fine with whatever." Eugene shrugged, he was more interested in watching Katharine dig for food.
Eugene had liked Katharine for some time now. They'd been friends for as long as he could remember, and he was convinced he loved her. But he'd never say it, being his best friend in the whole world was her younger brother Sidney. Eugene was closer in age to Katharine than he was to Sid though. Katharine and Eugen were seperated by four months and a week and Sid was nearly ten months younger than him. But Eugene knew he was never going to let his feelings be known.
"Eugene? Hello?" Katharine was waving in Eugene's face.
"What? Oh, sorry, I kind of blanked out there." Eugene shook his head.
"Yeah, kind of. I've got chips, or we can each have a brownie."
"Uhm, lets just grab the bag of chips, we can take em' down to the river when we go fishin'."
"Good idea." Katharine flashed him a smile with her straight, gleaming white teeth.
Katharine grabbed the bag of chips, shut the pantry and started walking back towards the den, Eugene in tow. She peeked around the wall to see her mother working on mending a pair of Sidney's trousers.
"Hey mom, where's Sid?"
"He went to the garage, he said you few were going fishing?"
"Okay, thanks mom, see ya later."
"Goodbye, have fun!"
Katharine walked out the front of the house, and to the back garage where Sid was trying to grab all of the fishing gear.
"Here, let me get that, Eugene can ya hold this?" Katharine handed Eugene a tackle box, then took the bait can, and the chips, leaving Sid with the three fishing rods.
The three kids walked through a shortcut in the woods, walking quite a ways before reaching the tiny river they all knew.
"Gosh, it's so warm out." Katharine sighed, setting everything down and taking a seat with her feet in the water
"You said it." Sid handed Eugene a fishing pole, and set Katharines beside her.
"At least that paper in Mr. Hammonds class isn't due until Monday." Eugene shrugged, taking a seat next to Katharine.
"Which paper? The one on the revolutionary war?" Katharine asked.
"Yeah. I wrote most of it over the week though, I just need a bibliography."
"You could write that Monday morning." Katharine laughed.
"That's what I was thinking. How far are you with the paper Sid?"
"I just need a bibliography too." Sid sat down, tossing his bobber in the water, waiting for the fish to bite.
Eugene put his line in the water and Katharine just basked in the sunlight. It was almost the end of November, but the weather was still nice usually between 50 and 70 degrees and little rain.
"So Katharine, are you happy this is your last year of school?" Eugene asked.
"I am indeed. I mean, I'll miss everybody for sure, but I'm happy to be almost finished."
"I wish we were almost finished." Sid mumbled, staring out at the water.
"Yeah, tell me bout' it." Eugene smirked.
Truth was, Eugene was going to miss seeing Katharine everyday, saying hi in the hallways, and eating lunch with her and Sid. Little did he know, Katharine was thinking the same thing, she was going to miss school, seeing her brother and Eugene.
At this time, the term war meant nothing to the three teens but little did they know, it'd become a well known term in less than a month. And it'd tear one of them from other two.
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