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Age 20, New Jersey
Sucking a deep but quiet breath, Evelyn leaned back in the leather seat on the train which was headed steadily to it's destination and she turned to stare out of the closed window and saw trees and forest lining the landscape and small lakes and ponds dotted the land further on. She sighed quietly, oddly comforted and content, before resting her pale hands in her navy blue skirt covered lap and shutting her dark eyes.
I wonder what Sarah Lynn is doing right now, she thought in the farthest corner of her mind, I can imagine her with her younger sister Elise. Oh Elise, she had always been so prim and proper, had never gotten along with the sometimes brash but anxious Sarah Lynn, them living together again is just humorus.. Smiling in her thoughts, Evelyn silently wished Sarah Lynn and her baby the best luck in the world, and as she kept her eyes tightly shut willed away her tears because inside with a sharp pang it finally hit her that as time went on, the two friends would probably never see each other again.
Opening her eyes, she tucked a few strands of soft brunette hair behind her eyes and glanced at the Lady Hamilton watch that claid her wrist. It was something her grandparents had sent to her, at the last minute when they found out that she was being shipped out with the Navy. Beaming down at it, she let her fingers glide across the shiny surface and remembered the letter her grandparents had sent to her, a short sweet note really wishing her good luck and sending her their love and best wishes.
As she felt the train slow to a stop and began to stand up and straighten her skirt and light jacket she thought, I'm going to need it.
The crowd that was waiting for the train arrival plus the amount of people emerging from the train only resulted in it being at least twice as loud as before, and it seemed to Evelyn that it was three times as crowded and at least that many times confusing. She managed to hang on to her luggage and then pulled a a small folded slip of paper out of her pocket and her eyes scanned the neatly printed information onto it, until it came to the adress of where she was supposed to go, a.s.ap.
Sighing, she darted in and out of the mob, ahem crowd, and flagged down a taxi. As she got in and told the driver her destination she had a small flashback of when she had hoped into the Taxi after getting news about her being excepted into the Navy. She smiled a tiny bit at this memory and then merely smoothed out her skirt and made idle conversation with the driver as he sped off towards her destination.
Getting out of the Taxi some ten minutes later, she politely payed and thanked the man and grabbed her lugage and stepped towards the building. It was cool out and she wished that she had put on her scarf and gloves, but decided not to fret about it. Looking around, she noticed two other women.
One was tall and voluptous, with brown hair, a round face and a sultry look to her, but there was also an air of respect and elegance that hung around her, which Evelyn instantly was drawn to, for Evelyn had always held elegance and class in a high regard and loved those who also held it, as this woman seemed to.
The other woman was slender and medium height, she had long blond locks that fell down of her back in a spiral of curls and bright innocent blue eyes that seemed to pop out of her almost little girl face. The two women were standing next to each other, enveloped in a steady cheerful seeming chatter.
Well, may as well see if they're here for the same reason I am. Evelyn thought, and picked up her suitcases once again and briskly walked over to where they were standing.
"Hello." she said smoothly, standing a few feet behind the dark haired woman and they both turned to look at her, both smiling warmly.
"Hello there, you here to meet the soldier boys to?" said the woman closest to her in a brisk New York accent and reached out to shake her hand.
Smiling a little, Evelyn tried to repress a small giggle and said, "Well I'm here as a nurse for the navy, and I suppose you two are also?"
Both women grinned further and nodded, the blond giggling and said, "Oh yes, I hear the boys here are quite nice." and then they all cackled in an odd laughter, probably half out of nerves and half out of the oddness of the situation.
The women all introduced themselves, the blond as Betty, the brunette as Barbra, and they sat inside and talked the time away, giggling and laughing, telling childhood stories, embarssing moments, thrilling desicions, and private jokes from their teenage years.
Hours later, the three women found out that they had been assigned to sharing a large bedroom, much like a dormroom in all honesty, and they were happy to hear that for two reasons, one the three had become rather close in those short few hours of being together, and second, much espically to Betty's enjoyment, they had the perfect window view of the soldiers who would be arriving in the next few days.
*~This chapter is a little longer then my others, heh, and I truly hope that you all enjoyed it. Please review or else I will get extremly disheartened. ::Sad eyes:: I look forward to your comments!!! Thanks a ton.*~
Age 20, New Jersey
Sucking a deep but quiet breath, Evelyn leaned back in the leather seat on the train which was headed steadily to it's destination and she turned to stare out of the closed window and saw trees and forest lining the landscape and small lakes and ponds dotted the land further on. She sighed quietly, oddly comforted and content, before resting her pale hands in her navy blue skirt covered lap and shutting her dark eyes.
I wonder what Sarah Lynn is doing right now, she thought in the farthest corner of her mind, I can imagine her with her younger sister Elise. Oh Elise, she had always been so prim and proper, had never gotten along with the sometimes brash but anxious Sarah Lynn, them living together again is just humorus.. Smiling in her thoughts, Evelyn silently wished Sarah Lynn and her baby the best luck in the world, and as she kept her eyes tightly shut willed away her tears because inside with a sharp pang it finally hit her that as time went on, the two friends would probably never see each other again.
Opening her eyes, she tucked a few strands of soft brunette hair behind her eyes and glanced at the Lady Hamilton watch that claid her wrist. It was something her grandparents had sent to her, at the last minute when they found out that she was being shipped out with the Navy. Beaming down at it, she let her fingers glide across the shiny surface and remembered the letter her grandparents had sent to her, a short sweet note really wishing her good luck and sending her their love and best wishes.
As she felt the train slow to a stop and began to stand up and straighten her skirt and light jacket she thought, I'm going to need it.
The crowd that was waiting for the train arrival plus the amount of people emerging from the train only resulted in it being at least twice as loud as before, and it seemed to Evelyn that it was three times as crowded and at least that many times confusing. She managed to hang on to her luggage and then pulled a a small folded slip of paper out of her pocket and her eyes scanned the neatly printed information onto it, until it came to the adress of where she was supposed to go, a.s.ap.
Sighing, she darted in and out of the mob, ahem crowd, and flagged down a taxi. As she got in and told the driver her destination she had a small flashback of when she had hoped into the Taxi after getting news about her being excepted into the Navy. She smiled a tiny bit at this memory and then merely smoothed out her skirt and made idle conversation with the driver as he sped off towards her destination.
Getting out of the Taxi some ten minutes later, she politely payed and thanked the man and grabbed her lugage and stepped towards the building. It was cool out and she wished that she had put on her scarf and gloves, but decided not to fret about it. Looking around, she noticed two other women.
One was tall and voluptous, with brown hair, a round face and a sultry look to her, but there was also an air of respect and elegance that hung around her, which Evelyn instantly was drawn to, for Evelyn had always held elegance and class in a high regard and loved those who also held it, as this woman seemed to.
The other woman was slender and medium height, she had long blond locks that fell down of her back in a spiral of curls and bright innocent blue eyes that seemed to pop out of her almost little girl face. The two women were standing next to each other, enveloped in a steady cheerful seeming chatter.
Well, may as well see if they're here for the same reason I am. Evelyn thought, and picked up her suitcases once again and briskly walked over to where they were standing.
"Hello." she said smoothly, standing a few feet behind the dark haired woman and they both turned to look at her, both smiling warmly.
"Hello there, you here to meet the soldier boys to?" said the woman closest to her in a brisk New York accent and reached out to shake her hand.
Smiling a little, Evelyn tried to repress a small giggle and said, "Well I'm here as a nurse for the navy, and I suppose you two are also?"
Both women grinned further and nodded, the blond giggling and said, "Oh yes, I hear the boys here are quite nice." and then they all cackled in an odd laughter, probably half out of nerves and half out of the oddness of the situation.
The women all introduced themselves, the blond as Betty, the brunette as Barbra, and they sat inside and talked the time away, giggling and laughing, telling childhood stories, embarssing moments, thrilling desicions, and private jokes from their teenage years.
Hours later, the three women found out that they had been assigned to sharing a large bedroom, much like a dormroom in all honesty, and they were happy to hear that for two reasons, one the three had become rather close in those short few hours of being together, and second, much espically to Betty's enjoyment, they had the perfect window view of the soldiers who would be arriving in the next few days.
*~This chapter is a little longer then my others, heh, and I truly hope that you all enjoyed it. Please review or else I will get extremly disheartened. ::Sad eyes:: I look forward to your comments!!! Thanks a ton.*~