Our dear young people are facing difficult moments, the distance and longing for those they love. Let's see how they are doing.

Natasha

Time flies ... Today is exactly two months since Ed left, and how am I? I miss my boyfriend. Ah! There are days when the homesickness is almost unbearable, but I get up and start my activities and time passes and I get lost in the events. I'm sure he must feel that way too. The weekends are the worst, because it was when we spent most of the time together, I try to get busy, I help Grandma with the housework and when I blink the weekend is over. The time flies...

I forgot to mention, before leaving Ed bought a cell phone for him and another for me, I even fought with him for spending money on it, but he did well, because we can be closer, we exchange sms several times a day telling what we are doing and we talk at night. I cry most of the time, I don't always let him know, I don't want him to worry and lose his focus on his studies. He tells me everything about college, the way he talks it seems to be another world, I know he's happy, it was always his dream and I root for him a lot. He made some friends. I know he is happy, but he also says he misses me and I know it is true.

I'm training a lot for my tests. Registration is open next month, I'm excited, but I feel a chill in my stomach when I think of holding a gun, but I want to do good for this country, I know that people with courage are needed for this profession and I want to be one of them. Ed cheers for me, always reassures me that I'm going to make it. I love him, very, very much, I love him with my life. The distance between us is not being easy, sometimes I think I will go into despair, but I remember that time flies.

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College is a little different from what I thought it was, I don't know, it's a lot of study and the training for the football team is also very demanding. I hardly have time to miss home, but when I think of Natasha my heart sinks. I haven't seen her for two months, I miss her so much. When I find her I want to hug her so tightly but so tightly and kiss her, ah! kiss her, I miss it so much. I miss those mesmerizing black eyes, the way she nests her body in mine while she sleeps, the smell of her, I don't want to be away so long that I forget all these things. I know I won't forget. I call her and get lost hearing her voice and she tells me what she is doing, studying, training for the police tests, she is very strong and persistent, I know she will make it. I never thought she would be mine, and when it came to fruition we need to separate, but we are together, even though I know that she is mine and I am hers, we will always be each other.

Next month she has a birthday, I don't know if I'll be able to go and see her, the tests is coming and it gets complicated, because it's many hours of travel. I don't know if she would forgive me, I need a solution or something to ease my absence. I need to think about what to do. I even commented with Megan, one of my college friends, she is a very nice girl and wants to be a journalist at all costs, so she studies a lot on the subject and has already joined the college newspaper. We had an instant affinity, she always gives me strength when I'm very low and I miss Natasha. Her parents were Indian and came to the USA when she and her brothers were children, it was not easy to get American citizenship, but her uncle helped them, she told me everything about her life and I also opened up to her about my life. I thought about getting away, because I have a girlfriend and I don't know how natural a friendship like that can be, because she calls me late at night and calls me to eat something, sometimes I don't go because I'm very tired. I try to decipher her proximity, but I think there is nothing wrong, I told Natasha about Meg and she didn't seem to care, there is nothing wrong at all, it's just a friendship between a girl and a boy. Megan says it will help me think of something to surprise Natasha on her birthday.

Remi

I woke up today with a lot of headache and stomach, it was the third time this week. I have always been very healthy, so the strangeness with this malaise. I don't want to worry Hellen, so I take a painkiller and stay quiet. I do my chores as usual. Roman finds my behavior strange and asks if everything is fine, I say yes. The malaise is repeated throughout the week and I decide to go to the pharmacy. I see what I feared. I'm Pregnant. I don't know if I terminate the pregnancy or ask for help. What Hellen will think. Kurt. Does he have a right to know? Sometimes not, because we should never meet again. That was a slip up, we always use condoms, but sometimes we get excited and leave it alone.

I miss him a lot, but he sure is fine because he has Allie. I'll be fine too. Time passes and in time everything is resolved. I'll be fine.

Kurt

Today is Saturday and I'm at home, I always come to see Sarah, I don't like to leave her alone for a long time with our father. He sucks, not a good example for anyone. Sarah looks fine, two years from now she'll go to college and be able to stay away from that bastard. I avoid hitting the head on Bill, as I don't want Sarah to be in trouble in my absence.

Allie comes in the early evening, I didn't want to be with her, but she insists, she's beautiful, I can't resist. We drink together, pass the check, have sex and I call her Remi. Allie fights and cries, I apologize. She knows that I think of Remi, after she left I didn't have any more news, I don't know where she is and with the military school routine I don't have time to look for her.

I'm falling asleep and I hear the phone ring. I get up to answer, but Allie is gone, when she returns she tells me it was a mistake. At this hour they still call wrong in the others' houses, I curse and go back to sleep, with Allie by my side.

Patty

Ah, I'm at Harvard. This is a technology dream, but at the same time it is rustic and with an air of prehistory. I'm loving it all, I study a lot and think about my future. I want to work on intelligence and I strive to get good grades. There are too many smart students here, a lot more than me, but I try to keep up with them. I have already joined some projects and I spend all my time with that.

Sometimes I think of Roman, I miss him, but he is very different from me, he never really opened up, he lives in his little world, or in the world that his mom created for him and his sister. I also miss my friends, Natasha, Edgar, Kurt, Remi, she left with her family and I saw Kurt suffering, but Allie didn't let that happen for long. I miss Rich, that crazy guy got on my nerves, but in the end he ended up being a good friend. We are planning to meet on the July vacation when we will have time to catch up on all matters, until then we exchange email and cell phone messages. Soon we will all be together again.

And there is David, a very nice nerd that I'm meeting, he asked me out a few times, we kissed, but nothing has become serious yet. We're letting go. The time flies...

Thank you for your patience with this story. A little calm to try to solve the problems of our loved ones.