Austin sighed as he looked down at the note in his hands. It was still as confusing as the time he read it four years ago. The faded letters burned into his memory.
'Felivargas, I promised to protect you and I plan on doing just that. I hope you remain safe in my time of absence. Please take care of your self until I return to you. On the day I call on you everything will be okay, I promise. Loving you more and more every second we're apart; L.B., keep me in your heart.'
He had no clue who L.B. could be, or why he felt so inclined to read it every chance he got. But it made him feel something that he couldn't; confused, safe, and loved among those.
He sighed as a rooster crowed in the yard. His adopted family was going to start coming in for his birthday any second now.
He slowly got dressed and looked down, a little depressed he couldn't remember any birthday past the day he woke up. Not counting a strange voice that never spoke clearly and was always muffled, a feeling of slight reconciliation when he saw someone with blonde hair or blue eyes. But the only people he remembered knowing every day were the black haired, brown eyed farmer father and the red haired, green eyed farmer mother. Though, he did feel a squeeze in his heart when he looked in the mirror.
"Fourteen huh?" His "father" asked.
"Yup."Austin didn't want to talk. He wanted to think. Just think, and think, and think, and think some more. And when he got bored, think some more.