Well hello! This is the first story i've ever written, so please, go easy on me.
Here's the full summary: Twenty-three year old Ben Carter is pursuing the career of his dreams- The Air Force. But, when tragedy strikes, he is forced to return home. It's here that he meets twenty-one year old Allison Johnson. The two soon fall deeply in love but when Ben is forced to return, he leaves Allison vowing to wait for him. Can their love truly survive the many obstacles life throws at it?
I originally had this story rated as T but I eventually changed it to M, just to be on the safe side. I don't want people to think it's a bad story, but there is a couple of sexual scenes and torture scenes, but I promise, it's not bad at all. I'm only 17, I'm not going to write something horrible haha. My parents have read this, I wouldn't write something I wouldn't want my parents to read. So, please, don't judge this story based on the rating.
I first began writing this story in a composition book in October of 2009. I just had this crazy idea and had to get it down on paper. I had no idea how much I would love writing it. I finally finished it in the summer of 2010, totalling to eleven composition books. Crazy right? :D I wrote it all first and then took a break and then went back and re-read it. After I finished it, I couldn't believe that I had wrote it. I had always been a good writer- my English teachers would agree with me ;) and it first struck me how good I was when we had to write a story on anything we wanted to in my 10th grade English class. I wrote a love story and got the paper back from my teacher a month later. I had gotten an A+ on it. My teacher wrote me a note saying "Wow! Heidi you are truly an amazing writer. Keep writing and practicing and you could have a future with it!" I think that's when I finally realized I loved to write.
Anyway, this author's note is huge. And this story will be even huger (is that a word? :0) I'm telling you upfront, it's going to be a long story. But I hope you stick it out with me! Anyway, enjoy my story! It's kind of based on the Dear John kind of story, where the guy is in the Air Force and he comes home and meets the girl of his dreams and they struggle to be together. Like I said, it's based on the Dear John principle, but I promise, it's a totally different story. Wheww, anyway enjoy! And review! That way I know someone's actually reading this... :D
Prologue
Wilmington, North Carolina was a place alot of people would call perfect. It had three beaches- Wrightsville, Carolina and Kure. The state port employed a lot of local people and people from all over the state. And the U.S.S. North Carolina had been based along the Cape Fear River. Along with beaches, there were mountains that were about six hours away. For alot of people, Wilmington was the perfect place to live. This is where Ben Carter grew up.
Ben Carter was twenty-three years old and still lived with his mom and dad in the up and growing town of Wilmington, North Carolina. He was also in the Air Force; he had joined when he was nineteen years old. His relatives had all been in the Air Force- his great-great grandfather, his great grandfather, his grandfather, his father and almost all of his cousins had all joined.
His father, Mark Carter, had retired almost five years ago and it wasn't a stretch to say that he felt he had to join. His reasoning for joining, though, had less to do with the influence of his family. He loved planes and loved flying them. As a kid, he had thousands of toy planes and about fifty model airplanes. He loved to talk to his father about his time in the Air Force and Ben decided when he was twelve that he would join. He had always been fascinated by the fact that something so heavy could fly flawlessly through the air. So, at age nineteen, he enlisted.
He went to an eight-week basic training program in Texas, then was based at Edwards Air Force Base in Lancaster, California. He usually got two-week leaves about every nine months. He was now in his third year of being in the Air Force and he loved it. Well, most of it anyway. Sometimes, he would be picked for gaurd duty and he decided that it had to be the most boring job on the face of the Earth.
During his three years, he had been shipped to France, Germany, Portugal, Afghanistan, Iran, and most recently, Iraq. He had been shipped to different Air Force bases in the United States but usually if he was being shipped out, he was shipped out of the states.
With Ben being an only child, his mother had never before experienced the feeling of sending her child across the ocean. When he was first sent to basic training in Texas, he stood at the airport hugging his mom good-bye for almost twenty minutes. His mom, Megan Carter, had met his father while his father was in the Air Force.
He was stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina and had met Ben's mother while on leave in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. They got married while he was on leave at his mother's church and they had Ben a couple of years later.
Like alot of cities, Wilmington was rich in parts and poor in others. Though they didn't live in a rich neighborhood, they lived close enough to one, so Ben was able to go to one of the best high schools in Wilmington. He played football his freshman and sophomore year and he began to play his junior year, but his grades started to slip and he quit. Even though he quit, his grades continued to suffer.
He began to hang out with the "wrong crowd" and began to cut classes. At the beginning of senior year, his counselor called him into her office and asked him what he planned to do after graduating from high school. He told her he planned to go into the Air Force and she told him if he wanted to join, he had to get his grades up.
He decided that he would work extra hard and, when it wasn't enough, he got a tutor. After a couple of months, his grades had risen tremendously. When he graduated, he had three B's and one C. He graduated when he was eighteen and he took a couple of months off before joining the Air Force.
Despite his appearance, Ben had never had many girlfriends. He had short brown hair and his skin was tan year-round. During his junior year, he had gotten two tattoos on each of his arms. He had light blue eyes and most would classify him as good-looking. He had a couple of girlfriends his sophomore year and the same one his junior and senior year. Though he had girlfriends, he had never been in love.
While he was in the Air Force, he had made a couple of friends but, by far, his best friend was Jeff Duval. They had met when he was first stationed at Edwards. They were in the same barracks and stayed together in the same regime all three years. Jeff had already been in for seven years and he was considering making it a career. Jeff was twenty-seven, four years older than Ben.
Even though Jeff didn't have a girlfriend, he was in love with his best friend, Emma Stewart. They had been friends since high school but Jeff had loved her from the start. He had never told her the truth about his feelings because he was scared she wouldn't feel the same way and their relationship would change- and not for the better. Amazingly, Jeff lived in Burgaw, about thirty minutes away from Wilmington.
If asked, Ben would say his life was pretty good- he had amazing friends and he was pursuing the career of his dreams. He had no idea how much his next few leaves would forever change his life.
So, here's the prologue! It's not much, but it gives you the background of Ben and how he's gotten to where he is. Please review! The first chapter shall be up soon! How exciting! :D
