Name: The real P.H Story
Author: Bex (cutepinkbird88@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: I own nothing besides the people you have never heard off.
Not from the Author: I hope you like! And also the age to join the army for
me is 18 not 21 cause it just suits my story so as they say 'screw history'
Every one here thinks they know the true Pearl Harbour story. Well your wrong, the true one has a lot more than just love, hate, anger, death, and war. It was lust. That's right lust. Did any one ever think Danny might have had a sweet heart? Or better yet did any one think that he would fall for the lest likely person? Well your all wrong. Did anyone ever think that Rafe might have had a tag along tomboy sister? Well he did and her name was Jamie. I saw the movie about Danny and Rafe but they missed the best parts out. So I'm going to start from the very beginning I promise I will try not to leave any parts out.
Jamie was two years younger then Rafe and a year younger then Danny. But I'm going to take you back to before Rafe new Danny. Well to the day they meet for the first time.
------SUMMER 1922------
'Daddy I don't wanna live here!' yelled a 5-year-old boy. The five year old was big for his age. But they didn't mean he was out going he was anything but. He was shy and smart for his age. The women loved his gorgeous blue eyes and brown hair. They new when he grew up he would break all the girls hearts.
'Daniel Walker! You'll live here and you won't complain,' said his father loudly.
'Yes papa,' he said grabbing a small box and taking it inside. It's too big, and there is no one to play with. Thought Daniel as he went upstairs. He's father had shown him to were he was to sleep. In a room with peeling wallpaper, can you imagine being only 5 and faced with that? Daniel walked outside to grab another of his boxes to take to his room, when he heard a loud noise. It was a plane. Danny stood and stared at it in awe. He had never seen a REAL plane. He had seen them in some books his mother had given him but he had never seen a real plane. He ran over and followed the plane and it landed in the next-door neighbours cornfield. Daniel watched as a man lifted out two small kids. Daniel walked a little bit further hopping to get a better glance at the field, but at the same time trying to avoid being seen by the three strangers.
'Hi there,' said a boy coming up to him.
Oh no they noticed me. Pa's gonna get mad at me! Thought Danny shocked.
'I'm Rafe McCawley,' he said putting out his hand for the other boy to shake it. Rafe had just been taught by his mother how to introduce him self to others and thought this would be a great chance to show that he had some manners to some one.
'I- I. I'm Daniel Walker,' he said shaking the hand. Daniel looked down at the ground after releasing Rafe's hand.
'Can I call you Danny?' he asked as the other child came up and hide behind Rafe.
Danny I like Danny. No one has ever called me that besides mama. 'You can. My mama use to call me that.'
'This is ma sister. Jamie. Jamie this is Danny our new neighbour,' said Rafe pulling his sister out from behind him.
'Hi,' she said quietly. There was a silence between the three of them now.
'Daniel!' yelled a voice from afar.
'That's ma pa I better go,' he said as his father came out into view.
Daniel ran off fast towards his father.
'I'll see you in school,' yelled Rafe hopping that he would be his friend. 'Jamie you shouldn't be so shy. Your starting school this year! He wont hurt ya, ya know.'
Jamie ran quickly towards her father and Rafe quickly followed her and the three walked into the house.
Rafe talked non-stop about the new kid next door. So much that well just read what happened.
'Well I just have to meet this boy then,' exclaimed Rafe's and Jamie's mother.
Rafe's faced widened and he jumped up from the dinner table. 'I'll go to his house tomorrow.'
Little did Rafe know Danny was telling his father all about Rafe.
'He's no good boy. No boy is good,' spat Danny's father.
Danny cleaned up the kitchen and went up to bed. Danny feel asleep that night thinking of Rafe and how he wished they could be friends. Or at least play with each other.
I guess your finding this kind of boring so I'll catch you up to were it all got interesting.
Ever since the day in the cornfield Rafe and Danny were basically inseparable. Danny Rafe and Jamie all started grade 1 together. Even though Rafe was a year older than Danny he wasn't that smart, while Jamie was a year younger she was quiet smarter then the average 41/2 year olds. The boys soon accepted Jamie and the three had a quiet a special bond. They played with their toy planes together, they did their homework and when they got older they played and fixed the McCawley's plane.
----- SUMMER 1931 -----
9 years later the three children were as close as ever. Danny's father had passed recently so he was living with the McCawley family.
Rafe was a handsome boy who loved to play outside he was 14 now and he was liked by many of the girls in his grade; and all the boys wanted to be his friend. But nothing could come between his and Danny's friendship, even Jamie.
Danny was still a shy boy, so naturally all the girls wanted to be his friend. He had a charm that all the girls loved. He was 13 and he loved to play on the planes as much as Rafe.
Jamie.. There isn't much you can say about Jamie; she was a tomboy. So you can either see her as a scrawny skinny thing or you could see her as a fat short girl with many boyish features. But if you were to say you would think of her as the first one you would be wrong. Jamie was fat she enjoyed her food, you would think with all the running around that she did she would be skinny. Sorry I'm rabbling now. I'll get on with the story.
Everything changed one night when Mrs McCawley came home from shopping in the city.
'Jamie we have a surprise for you,' said Mrs McCawley that night at dinner.
'God I hope you get me a dress,' said Jamie grabbing for the last bread roll. That would be her third.
'Yes I did get you a dress but that isn't the surprise. You really should be wearing dresses not overalls at your age,' said her mother taking her plate before she could finish her dinner. 'I have enrolled you in the Ladies Finishing College in the city. You will start at the beginning of the new school year.'
Jamie dropped the plate she was washing with a loud thud.
'You did what?' asked all three children.
'Well the school year starts next week so I suggest you get ready to leave. You will be boarding there,' said her mother with a big smile. Jamie walked quickly out of the room. No matter what Jamie said or did her mother and father wouldn't change their minds and were set on her going to the Ladies Finishing College. So when the time came to board the train Jamie left without kissing her parents a kiss goodbye.
----- Spring 1935 ----
Jamie hadn't seen her family for 4 years and she was nervous at what they would say about her. She was different now. She wasn't fat and didn't eat as much but she was still as tomboyish as the day she left. She was just a lady now. She had nice curves and she had nice skin. She was 16 now and she was unrecognisable from her former shape. Jamie had finished school one year before everyone else her age and was ready to take on the world. Jamie was taking the train home and meeting her family at the train station.
~!~ The McCawley house ~!~
'Rafe don't forget to pick up you sister from the train station at 11,' yelled his father as him and Mrs McCawley went out the door. They had to go to community meeting.
'Jamie? I thought she was coming home next weekend,' said Rafe as he pulled on his skivvy.
'Obviously not,' said Danny yelling from the kitchen.
'I can't pick her up! I have a date with Daisy,' Rafe said as he walked into the kitchen.
'I can't pick her up I have chores,' said Danny.
'I will do your chores for a whole week if you pick Jamie up,' said Rafe pulling his puppy dogface.
'I will pick her up on two conditions. One you never, ever pull that face again. And you do my chores for a week,' said Danny.
'Done,' said the boys pulling a face.
'It'll be just like the old times,' said Rafe drifting off to the old times. 'Remember when she said she wanted to be a bird and jumped from the branch near the creek and broke her arm?'
'The good old times,' said Danny remembering another memory, 'remember when she landed the plane for the first time and broke the tip of the wing?'
'How could I? That's were her nickname comes from,' said Rafe smiling.
The boys spent an hour or so reminiscing on the old times until it was 10.45.
'Your gonna be late,' said Rafe when he saw the time.
'No I'm not,' he said grabbing the keys to the car he and Rafe shared. The boys spent all summer saving up for the car and they fixed it up just like the summer before when they saved up for their third plane. Danny raced towards the train station, but he still arrived 5 minutes late. He looked around for a whole 10 minutes and still couldn't find her. I wonder what she looks like. It has been 4 years. She would have changed. Red hair! That's it she should still have red hair. Look for red hair Danny boy.
I wonder were he is? Thought Jamie as she waited at the station for him to arrive. Hey what about him? He is quiet good looking. Don't think that you have a guy back in the city. I wonder how Rafe will like that? God they haven't seen me for 4 years and they aren't rushing to pick me up? I know that I'm loved. Hey is that Danny Boy? 'Danny Boy?' asked Jamie walking up to a young man of about 17.
No one has called me that in ages. Thought Danny turning around and seeing an auburn girl of about 5 ft 3. 'Jamie is that you?'
'The one and only,' said Jamie embracing him in a hug.
'Wow you look different,' Danny manage to get out.
'I hope that is a compliment,' said Jamie as she grabbed her two bags. In four years all I have gathered is 2 bags of my possessions. Never will I send my child to a 'Finishing' School.
'A penny for your thoughts?' asked Danny. (I love that saying.)
'Your tall now Danny Boy,' said Jamie trying to avoid the subject.
'Not as tall as Rafe,' said Danny laughing.
'You two still as good as brothers?' asked Jamie smiling and remembering when Rafe wanted the two to make him some wings so he could fly.
'Yeah but we have missed our sister,' said Danny looking at Jamie.
'Heck I'm glad I was missed,' said Jamie looking out the window.
'Why didn't you ever come back over the break?' asked Danny a little upset.
'It was hard at school. Don't ever let me send my girl to a school like that,' said Jamie turning and looking at Danny. Danny noticed for the first time the rings around her eyes.
'You don't look to good are you ok?' asked Danny, 'you aren't ill are you?'
'I hope I'm not ill. The rings are from not sleeping in the last 4 years. But I finished top in my class so it all paid off.'
Danny laughed. That was Jamie for you. She would do anything to reach her goal.
The two caught up on what had changed in the last 4 years. 'I hope you got a plane for me!'
'Rafe and I have three planes. We saved up and bought and fixed each one,' said Danny proud.
'Three? Wow. I hope I get to use one,' said Jamie as they pulled into the driveway.
'Offcourse you can. I just hope you wont reck it,' said Danny as he grabbed her bag.
'I wouldn't dare,' said Jamie as Danny led her to her room. 'Wow mum mustn't have touched it.'
'Only cleaned it. Rafe came in her a lot after you left. He really missed you,' said Danny.
'Rafe miss me? Wow that's. I missed him and I missed you as well Danny,' said Jamie giving him another hug.
'I'll leave you be. You might want to-' Jamie had moved to her bed and was already asleep before he could finish what he was saying.
Two hours later Rafe was home and so were Mr and Mrs McCawley, why don't we refer to them as mum and dad. Ok good.
'Where is she?' asked mum.
'She feel asleep as soon as her head hit her pillow,' said Danny as he sat eating his sandwich.
'Really? I wanted to take her out for a ride on my plane,' said Rafe disappointed.
'I wouldn't trust you with my life Rafe McCawley,' said Jamie as she entered the room.
Everyone's head turned as they saw an unfamiliar girl standing in their living room.
'Hey Tips,' said Rafe hugging her.
'Rafe I've missed you,' said Jamie kissing his check.
'Jamie. Jamie. Jamie I need air,' said Rafe.
'I guess I over did that a bit,' said Jamie as she let go of Rafe and hugged mum and dad.
'Are you still up for a ride?' asked Rafe.
'Chicken?' asked Jamie. She might have been away for 4 years but she was always up for a challenge.
'You got it,' said Rafe as the three headed out the door.
This chicken was a bit different to the other one. The chicken that this three had made. It was were two would fly straight at each other and they other one would fly from an angle and they would all fly the same way.
3 hours later the three walked into the house sweaty and laughing as they recalled childhood memories.
----- SUMMER 1935 -----
'Danny Rafe? Are you here?' said Jamie walking into the barn.
'Rafe ain't here,' said Danny walking out from out of the hood of the plane.
'Ok then Danny. So Danny boy what are you doing to the plane?' asked Jamie jumping up to some cardboard boxes.
'Well Tips I'm fixing up your plane,' said Danny smiling.
'My plane? Since when?' asked Jamie shocked.
'It's your birthday present. It's a few days early but don't tell him,' said Danny smiling.
'A plane of my own!' yelled Jamie jumping up and hugging Danny. The two let go of each other and looked into each other eyes. Danny was slowly bending down to kiss Jamie. Jamie didn't realise what was happening because before she new it she was being kissed by Danny. She didn't react which shocked Danny.
'I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that,' said Danny letting go.
'Danny it isn't that. I want this it's just I don't think it would be right because you being Rafe's best friend and you being my best friend I just don't think we can do this,' said Jamie running off.
----- AUTUMN 1937 -----
It was two years later and those two years had only made the three's friendship even stronger. No men had ever dared to try and go near Jamie as fear of losing a body part.
Rafe was 20 and Danny was 19 and Jamie was 18 and the three wanted to see the world. None had been past Tennessee before. And though they regularly visited the town they to were not enough to fulfil their wishes.
'What do you want to be Rafe?' asked Jamie one day as the three were lying on the ground in front of the barn.
'I wanna do something with flying in it,' said Rafe.
'Me to,' answered Danny and Jamie at the same time.
'Girls can't fly,' said Danny.
'Danny what do you think I just did Daniel Walker?' asked Jamie.
'You flew a crop duster,' said Rafe.
'Yes and is that not flying?' asked Jamie.
'Yes.'
'She got you their Danny,' said Rafe laughing.
'Danny Boy when will you learn?' Jamie asked. A silence crept over the three.
'I want to be a pilot in the air force,' said Rafe all of a sudden.
'You've always wanted to be a pilot but when will you join?' asked Jamie.
'Tomorrow,' said Rafe and Danny.
'Tomorrow? There is no time like the present!' said Jamie smiling.
'Why are you smiling Tips?' asked Rafe.
'I don't know I just feel like it,' said Jamie still smiling.
'You've got a plan haven't you?' asked Danny.
'Well you guys get to be pilots and I don't. And I don't want to stay here all alone so why don't I just join up with you?' asked Jamie.
'They don't let girls join the air force,' said Rafe.
'Well I will be the first one to join then,' said Jamie.
Later that night in Rafe and Danny's room. 'Do you think they will let her in?' asked Danny.
'Well if we know Jamie as well as we think then I'm sure she will!' said Rafe laughing.
The boys fell asleep that night and dreamed of being a pilot.
The next day Rafe, Danny and Jamie drove into town to sign up. They walked around gathering up enough confidence to walk into the room. At 12.33 the three walked up to a table with a sign saying 'Be Brave and Sign up to FLY in the war'
'Name?'
'Rafe McCawley,' said Rafe taking a sheet.
'Fill out these forms,' said the man not looking up. 'NEXT! Name?'
'Daniel Walker,' said Danny shyly.
'Fill these forms out,' said the man still not looking up. 'Next! Name?
Maybe if I use my deepest voice he wont notice that I'm a female. Thought Jamie.
'Jamie McCawley,' said Jamie in her deepest voice.
But the man looked up and started to laugh. 'You want to join the Air Force?' he struggles out.
'You got a problem with that?' asked Jamie pulling him up by the shirt. Rafe and Danny walked over to the table and calmed her down.
'Sorry ma'am I didn't mean to offend,' he said handing her the sheets. 'But they don't let women join the Air Force.'
'Well maybe I will be the first,' said Jamie as the man tried not to laugh.
'I. I Will just get my commanding officer,' said the man as he noticed she wasn't joking. 10 minutes later the Rafe and Danny had filled out their forms and the sign up man was coming back with another officer.
'I'm Col. Banks follow me,' he said and Jamie followed him into a small room. He motioned for Jamie to sit down on a chair. 'Why don't you join up as a Navy Nurse?'
'Oh I don't like blood sir,' said Jamie thinking of the time her friend fell over and all Jamie could do was add to the screams.
'Why do you want to be a pilot when you can stay at home and cook?' asked the Col.
'Cooking doesn't really make me as happy like flying does.'
'You know how to fly?' asked the Col.
'Offcourse or else I wouldn't have tried to join up.'
'The Air Force doesn't accept females,' said the Col.
'Well I will be the first one,' said Jamie, 'Sir I don't understand what does it matter if I'm a female, all that matters is that I can shot down planes and that when I get into a plane it's only about what you feel.'
'All right ma'am I'll talk to the President about this. If you could wait out side,' said the Col as Jamie went out side to find Danny and Rafe with their ears against the door.
'So nice speech,' said Rafe and Danny said something along the lines of that to.
'Thanks. I don't think they will let me fly though,' said Jamie leaning against Rafe.
After 15 minutes of silence the Col said Jamie could come in.
'Ma'am-' started the Col.
'Call me Jamie.'
'Ma'am the President wishes to congratulate you one being the first female in the Air Force,' said the Col. smiling.
Jamie smiled as she heard the boys outside yell 'Yes'.
The Col went outside and opened the door and Danny and Rafe walked in. 'These are my brothers Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker,' said Jamie.
'You're a McCawley?' asked the Col.
'What ever you heard we can explain,' said Rafe and Jamie looking at each other.
'We have been watching you three progress as pilots since we saw little Jamie land her plane.'
'How?' asked Rafe and Jamie.
'How many girls are interested in flying also how many 8 year olds can land a crop duster?'
'A lot I expect sir,' said the three in unison.
'Not a lot. I guess we can expect a lot from the three of you,' he said shoving them out the door.
Every one here thinks they know the true Pearl Harbour story. Well your wrong, the true one has a lot more than just love, hate, anger, death, and war. It was lust. That's right lust. Did any one ever think Danny might have had a sweet heart? Or better yet did any one think that he would fall for the lest likely person? Well your all wrong. Did anyone ever think that Rafe might have had a tag along tomboy sister? Well he did and her name was Jamie. I saw the movie about Danny and Rafe but they missed the best parts out. So I'm going to start from the very beginning I promise I will try not to leave any parts out.
Jamie was two years younger then Rafe and a year younger then Danny. But I'm going to take you back to before Rafe new Danny. Well to the day they meet for the first time.
------SUMMER 1922------
'Daddy I don't wanna live here!' yelled a 5-year-old boy. The five year old was big for his age. But they didn't mean he was out going he was anything but. He was shy and smart for his age. The women loved his gorgeous blue eyes and brown hair. They new when he grew up he would break all the girls hearts.
'Daniel Walker! You'll live here and you won't complain,' said his father loudly.
'Yes papa,' he said grabbing a small box and taking it inside. It's too big, and there is no one to play with. Thought Daniel as he went upstairs. He's father had shown him to were he was to sleep. In a room with peeling wallpaper, can you imagine being only 5 and faced with that? Daniel walked outside to grab another of his boxes to take to his room, when he heard a loud noise. It was a plane. Danny stood and stared at it in awe. He had never seen a REAL plane. He had seen them in some books his mother had given him but he had never seen a real plane. He ran over and followed the plane and it landed in the next-door neighbours cornfield. Daniel watched as a man lifted out two small kids. Daniel walked a little bit further hopping to get a better glance at the field, but at the same time trying to avoid being seen by the three strangers.
'Hi there,' said a boy coming up to him.
Oh no they noticed me. Pa's gonna get mad at me! Thought Danny shocked.
'I'm Rafe McCawley,' he said putting out his hand for the other boy to shake it. Rafe had just been taught by his mother how to introduce him self to others and thought this would be a great chance to show that he had some manners to some one.
'I- I. I'm Daniel Walker,' he said shaking the hand. Daniel looked down at the ground after releasing Rafe's hand.
'Can I call you Danny?' he asked as the other child came up and hide behind Rafe.
Danny I like Danny. No one has ever called me that besides mama. 'You can. My mama use to call me that.'
'This is ma sister. Jamie. Jamie this is Danny our new neighbour,' said Rafe pulling his sister out from behind him.
'Hi,' she said quietly. There was a silence between the three of them now.
'Daniel!' yelled a voice from afar.
'That's ma pa I better go,' he said as his father came out into view.
Daniel ran off fast towards his father.
'I'll see you in school,' yelled Rafe hopping that he would be his friend. 'Jamie you shouldn't be so shy. Your starting school this year! He wont hurt ya, ya know.'
Jamie ran quickly towards her father and Rafe quickly followed her and the three walked into the house.
Rafe talked non-stop about the new kid next door. So much that well just read what happened.
'Well I just have to meet this boy then,' exclaimed Rafe's and Jamie's mother.
Rafe's faced widened and he jumped up from the dinner table. 'I'll go to his house tomorrow.'
Little did Rafe know Danny was telling his father all about Rafe.
'He's no good boy. No boy is good,' spat Danny's father.
Danny cleaned up the kitchen and went up to bed. Danny feel asleep that night thinking of Rafe and how he wished they could be friends. Or at least play with each other.
I guess your finding this kind of boring so I'll catch you up to were it all got interesting.
Ever since the day in the cornfield Rafe and Danny were basically inseparable. Danny Rafe and Jamie all started grade 1 together. Even though Rafe was a year older than Danny he wasn't that smart, while Jamie was a year younger she was quiet smarter then the average 41/2 year olds. The boys soon accepted Jamie and the three had a quiet a special bond. They played with their toy planes together, they did their homework and when they got older they played and fixed the McCawley's plane.
----- SUMMER 1931 -----
9 years later the three children were as close as ever. Danny's father had passed recently so he was living with the McCawley family.
Rafe was a handsome boy who loved to play outside he was 14 now and he was liked by many of the girls in his grade; and all the boys wanted to be his friend. But nothing could come between his and Danny's friendship, even Jamie.
Danny was still a shy boy, so naturally all the girls wanted to be his friend. He had a charm that all the girls loved. He was 13 and he loved to play on the planes as much as Rafe.
Jamie.. There isn't much you can say about Jamie; she was a tomboy. So you can either see her as a scrawny skinny thing or you could see her as a fat short girl with many boyish features. But if you were to say you would think of her as the first one you would be wrong. Jamie was fat she enjoyed her food, you would think with all the running around that she did she would be skinny. Sorry I'm rabbling now. I'll get on with the story.
Everything changed one night when Mrs McCawley came home from shopping in the city.
'Jamie we have a surprise for you,' said Mrs McCawley that night at dinner.
'God I hope you get me a dress,' said Jamie grabbing for the last bread roll. That would be her third.
'Yes I did get you a dress but that isn't the surprise. You really should be wearing dresses not overalls at your age,' said her mother taking her plate before she could finish her dinner. 'I have enrolled you in the Ladies Finishing College in the city. You will start at the beginning of the new school year.'
Jamie dropped the plate she was washing with a loud thud.
'You did what?' asked all three children.
'Well the school year starts next week so I suggest you get ready to leave. You will be boarding there,' said her mother with a big smile. Jamie walked quickly out of the room. No matter what Jamie said or did her mother and father wouldn't change their minds and were set on her going to the Ladies Finishing College. So when the time came to board the train Jamie left without kissing her parents a kiss goodbye.
----- Spring 1935 ----
Jamie hadn't seen her family for 4 years and she was nervous at what they would say about her. She was different now. She wasn't fat and didn't eat as much but she was still as tomboyish as the day she left. She was just a lady now. She had nice curves and she had nice skin. She was 16 now and she was unrecognisable from her former shape. Jamie had finished school one year before everyone else her age and was ready to take on the world. Jamie was taking the train home and meeting her family at the train station.
~!~ The McCawley house ~!~
'Rafe don't forget to pick up you sister from the train station at 11,' yelled his father as him and Mrs McCawley went out the door. They had to go to community meeting.
'Jamie? I thought she was coming home next weekend,' said Rafe as he pulled on his skivvy.
'Obviously not,' said Danny yelling from the kitchen.
'I can't pick her up! I have a date with Daisy,' Rafe said as he walked into the kitchen.
'I can't pick her up I have chores,' said Danny.
'I will do your chores for a whole week if you pick Jamie up,' said Rafe pulling his puppy dogface.
'I will pick her up on two conditions. One you never, ever pull that face again. And you do my chores for a week,' said Danny.
'Done,' said the boys pulling a face.
'It'll be just like the old times,' said Rafe drifting off to the old times. 'Remember when she said she wanted to be a bird and jumped from the branch near the creek and broke her arm?'
'The good old times,' said Danny remembering another memory, 'remember when she landed the plane for the first time and broke the tip of the wing?'
'How could I? That's were her nickname comes from,' said Rafe smiling.
The boys spent an hour or so reminiscing on the old times until it was 10.45.
'Your gonna be late,' said Rafe when he saw the time.
'No I'm not,' he said grabbing the keys to the car he and Rafe shared. The boys spent all summer saving up for the car and they fixed it up just like the summer before when they saved up for their third plane. Danny raced towards the train station, but he still arrived 5 minutes late. He looked around for a whole 10 minutes and still couldn't find her. I wonder what she looks like. It has been 4 years. She would have changed. Red hair! That's it she should still have red hair. Look for red hair Danny boy.
I wonder were he is? Thought Jamie as she waited at the station for him to arrive. Hey what about him? He is quiet good looking. Don't think that you have a guy back in the city. I wonder how Rafe will like that? God they haven't seen me for 4 years and they aren't rushing to pick me up? I know that I'm loved. Hey is that Danny Boy? 'Danny Boy?' asked Jamie walking up to a young man of about 17.
No one has called me that in ages. Thought Danny turning around and seeing an auburn girl of about 5 ft 3. 'Jamie is that you?'
'The one and only,' said Jamie embracing him in a hug.
'Wow you look different,' Danny manage to get out.
'I hope that is a compliment,' said Jamie as she grabbed her two bags. In four years all I have gathered is 2 bags of my possessions. Never will I send my child to a 'Finishing' School.
'A penny for your thoughts?' asked Danny. (I love that saying.)
'Your tall now Danny Boy,' said Jamie trying to avoid the subject.
'Not as tall as Rafe,' said Danny laughing.
'You two still as good as brothers?' asked Jamie smiling and remembering when Rafe wanted the two to make him some wings so he could fly.
'Yeah but we have missed our sister,' said Danny looking at Jamie.
'Heck I'm glad I was missed,' said Jamie looking out the window.
'Why didn't you ever come back over the break?' asked Danny a little upset.
'It was hard at school. Don't ever let me send my girl to a school like that,' said Jamie turning and looking at Danny. Danny noticed for the first time the rings around her eyes.
'You don't look to good are you ok?' asked Danny, 'you aren't ill are you?'
'I hope I'm not ill. The rings are from not sleeping in the last 4 years. But I finished top in my class so it all paid off.'
Danny laughed. That was Jamie for you. She would do anything to reach her goal.
The two caught up on what had changed in the last 4 years. 'I hope you got a plane for me!'
'Rafe and I have three planes. We saved up and bought and fixed each one,' said Danny proud.
'Three? Wow. I hope I get to use one,' said Jamie as they pulled into the driveway.
'Offcourse you can. I just hope you wont reck it,' said Danny as he grabbed her bag.
'I wouldn't dare,' said Jamie as Danny led her to her room. 'Wow mum mustn't have touched it.'
'Only cleaned it. Rafe came in her a lot after you left. He really missed you,' said Danny.
'Rafe miss me? Wow that's. I missed him and I missed you as well Danny,' said Jamie giving him another hug.
'I'll leave you be. You might want to-' Jamie had moved to her bed and was already asleep before he could finish what he was saying.
Two hours later Rafe was home and so were Mr and Mrs McCawley, why don't we refer to them as mum and dad. Ok good.
'Where is she?' asked mum.
'She feel asleep as soon as her head hit her pillow,' said Danny as he sat eating his sandwich.
'Really? I wanted to take her out for a ride on my plane,' said Rafe disappointed.
'I wouldn't trust you with my life Rafe McCawley,' said Jamie as she entered the room.
Everyone's head turned as they saw an unfamiliar girl standing in their living room.
'Hey Tips,' said Rafe hugging her.
'Rafe I've missed you,' said Jamie kissing his check.
'Jamie. Jamie. Jamie I need air,' said Rafe.
'I guess I over did that a bit,' said Jamie as she let go of Rafe and hugged mum and dad.
'Are you still up for a ride?' asked Rafe.
'Chicken?' asked Jamie. She might have been away for 4 years but she was always up for a challenge.
'You got it,' said Rafe as the three headed out the door.
This chicken was a bit different to the other one. The chicken that this three had made. It was were two would fly straight at each other and they other one would fly from an angle and they would all fly the same way.
3 hours later the three walked into the house sweaty and laughing as they recalled childhood memories.
----- SUMMER 1935 -----
'Danny Rafe? Are you here?' said Jamie walking into the barn.
'Rafe ain't here,' said Danny walking out from out of the hood of the plane.
'Ok then Danny. So Danny boy what are you doing to the plane?' asked Jamie jumping up to some cardboard boxes.
'Well Tips I'm fixing up your plane,' said Danny smiling.
'My plane? Since when?' asked Jamie shocked.
'It's your birthday present. It's a few days early but don't tell him,' said Danny smiling.
'A plane of my own!' yelled Jamie jumping up and hugging Danny. The two let go of each other and looked into each other eyes. Danny was slowly bending down to kiss Jamie. Jamie didn't realise what was happening because before she new it she was being kissed by Danny. She didn't react which shocked Danny.
'I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that,' said Danny letting go.
'Danny it isn't that. I want this it's just I don't think it would be right because you being Rafe's best friend and you being my best friend I just don't think we can do this,' said Jamie running off.
----- AUTUMN 1937 -----
It was two years later and those two years had only made the three's friendship even stronger. No men had ever dared to try and go near Jamie as fear of losing a body part.
Rafe was 20 and Danny was 19 and Jamie was 18 and the three wanted to see the world. None had been past Tennessee before. And though they regularly visited the town they to were not enough to fulfil their wishes.
'What do you want to be Rafe?' asked Jamie one day as the three were lying on the ground in front of the barn.
'I wanna do something with flying in it,' said Rafe.
'Me to,' answered Danny and Jamie at the same time.
'Girls can't fly,' said Danny.
'Danny what do you think I just did Daniel Walker?' asked Jamie.
'You flew a crop duster,' said Rafe.
'Yes and is that not flying?' asked Jamie.
'Yes.'
'She got you their Danny,' said Rafe laughing.
'Danny Boy when will you learn?' Jamie asked. A silence crept over the three.
'I want to be a pilot in the air force,' said Rafe all of a sudden.
'You've always wanted to be a pilot but when will you join?' asked Jamie.
'Tomorrow,' said Rafe and Danny.
'Tomorrow? There is no time like the present!' said Jamie smiling.
'Why are you smiling Tips?' asked Rafe.
'I don't know I just feel like it,' said Jamie still smiling.
'You've got a plan haven't you?' asked Danny.
'Well you guys get to be pilots and I don't. And I don't want to stay here all alone so why don't I just join up with you?' asked Jamie.
'They don't let girls join the air force,' said Rafe.
'Well I will be the first one to join then,' said Jamie.
Later that night in Rafe and Danny's room. 'Do you think they will let her in?' asked Danny.
'Well if we know Jamie as well as we think then I'm sure she will!' said Rafe laughing.
The boys fell asleep that night and dreamed of being a pilot.
The next day Rafe, Danny and Jamie drove into town to sign up. They walked around gathering up enough confidence to walk into the room. At 12.33 the three walked up to a table with a sign saying 'Be Brave and Sign up to FLY in the war'
'Name?'
'Rafe McCawley,' said Rafe taking a sheet.
'Fill out these forms,' said the man not looking up. 'NEXT! Name?'
'Daniel Walker,' said Danny shyly.
'Fill these forms out,' said the man still not looking up. 'Next! Name?
Maybe if I use my deepest voice he wont notice that I'm a female. Thought Jamie.
'Jamie McCawley,' said Jamie in her deepest voice.
But the man looked up and started to laugh. 'You want to join the Air Force?' he struggles out.
'You got a problem with that?' asked Jamie pulling him up by the shirt. Rafe and Danny walked over to the table and calmed her down.
'Sorry ma'am I didn't mean to offend,' he said handing her the sheets. 'But they don't let women join the Air Force.'
'Well maybe I will be the first,' said Jamie as the man tried not to laugh.
'I. I Will just get my commanding officer,' said the man as he noticed she wasn't joking. 10 minutes later the Rafe and Danny had filled out their forms and the sign up man was coming back with another officer.
'I'm Col. Banks follow me,' he said and Jamie followed him into a small room. He motioned for Jamie to sit down on a chair. 'Why don't you join up as a Navy Nurse?'
'Oh I don't like blood sir,' said Jamie thinking of the time her friend fell over and all Jamie could do was add to the screams.
'Why do you want to be a pilot when you can stay at home and cook?' asked the Col.
'Cooking doesn't really make me as happy like flying does.'
'You know how to fly?' asked the Col.
'Offcourse or else I wouldn't have tried to join up.'
'The Air Force doesn't accept females,' said the Col.
'Well I will be the first one,' said Jamie, 'Sir I don't understand what does it matter if I'm a female, all that matters is that I can shot down planes and that when I get into a plane it's only about what you feel.'
'All right ma'am I'll talk to the President about this. If you could wait out side,' said the Col as Jamie went out side to find Danny and Rafe with their ears against the door.
'So nice speech,' said Rafe and Danny said something along the lines of that to.
'Thanks. I don't think they will let me fly though,' said Jamie leaning against Rafe.
After 15 minutes of silence the Col said Jamie could come in.
'Ma'am-' started the Col.
'Call me Jamie.'
'Ma'am the President wishes to congratulate you one being the first female in the Air Force,' said the Col. smiling.
Jamie smiled as she heard the boys outside yell 'Yes'.
The Col went outside and opened the door and Danny and Rafe walked in. 'These are my brothers Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker,' said Jamie.
'You're a McCawley?' asked the Col.
'What ever you heard we can explain,' said Rafe and Jamie looking at each other.
'We have been watching you three progress as pilots since we saw little Jamie land her plane.'
'How?' asked Rafe and Jamie.
'How many girls are interested in flying also how many 8 year olds can land a crop duster?'
'A lot I expect sir,' said the three in unison.
'Not a lot. I guess we can expect a lot from the three of you,' he said shoving them out the door.