The next day was a hard one. Beck and André were going to be leaving for basic training, they were going to their recruiters office and from their they'll be taken to the airport. The rest was up to us, if we wanted to watch leave them for basic training. I was surprised when I found out that Beck was going to be driving his own car. I figured that he'd be riding with his parents at least. I yawned and rested my head against the back of the seat, then glanced at Beck. "You nervous?" I asked.
"A little."
I looked in the back, Jade and André were both taking naps. Can't blame them, it's like 6 in the morning. "I would be freaking out. I don't know if I could go a few months without seeing my friends or family." I was pretty sure I'd be visiting my parents a lot, even after I leave for college. I'll only be a few hours away.
"Guess that's something I'll need to sacrifice, but I think everything will be alright." He said.
"Whatever happen to wanting to be an actor? That's what your goal was when we were graduating from Hollywood arts." I said, running a hand through my long hair. I don't know if I could ever put my dream on hold.
"I still want to be an actor, but that will have to wait for a few years."
I smiled a little. "I hope you never get deployed." I think that was everyone's biggest fear. There's a slight chance that he'll be deployed after finishing A.I.T. "Will you be able to call?"
"Probably not."
I sighed and looked out the window. "It's not fair."
I heard Beck chuckle, so I looked at him. "Nothing is ever fair. All you can do is accept it, and I have."
"I know. But ten weeks is a long time, that's almost three months and you don't even know where they'll send you yet. So who knows how often we'll actually see each other." I said, looking out the window again.
Beck didn't say anything for a long time, I think about fifteen minutes went by before he finally spoke again. I was just about to doze off. "You may be right there, but I might be able to get leave for a few weeks after finishing A.I.T. The most being a month. Besides for all you know I might get stationed at Fort Irwin."
"That's unlikely. There's like the only one army base in California." Beck glanced at me, and gave me an odd look. I smiled. "I got bored, so I goggled army bases in California that's the only one that came up. Now if you were wanting to be in the navy, your chances of getting stationed in California might be more believable There's eight navy bases." I said.
"Someone's done their homework." Beck said, laughing.
"We there yet?"
I glanced back and saw that Jade was awake now. "We're about thirty minutes away." I said.
"Ugh...I gotta use the bathroom. Is there a gas station nearby?" Jade asked, running a hand through her long dark hair.
I frowned a little, and then looked at Beck. "I think we passed one about five minutes ago, if you want Beck can turn around. I mean, we're a little head of time." I said.
"Can you? Otherwise just pull over." Jade said.
"I'll turn around. Like Tori said, we're ahead of time. The plane doesn't like till eleven." He said, pulling into an empty parking lot. We were soon heading back the way we just came, not that I minded.
"Hey what happen to your parents? Weren't they right behind us for most of the drive?" I asked. I was going to need to stretch my legs, we've been in the car for like three hours.
Beck nodded. "They probably took a different route." He said.
I looked back at Jade. "Good Morning André." I smirked.
"Morning. You know I'll never understand why we had to get up so early." He said, rubbing his eyes.
"We've been on the road for three hours." Beck said, he turned into a shell gas-station parking lot. Jade didn't even wait for me to get out of the car, she just pushed the car seat forward and then ran into the gas-station. I rolled my eyes and got out of the car, I was use to Jade doing stuff like that. I've known her for two and a half years now.
"So you guys gonna be ready for basic training? I've heard some of those drill sergeants can be tough." I said, running a hand through my hair and smiled.
"I think we are. Jade is kind of like a drill sergeant." André said. I bite my lip to keep myself from laughing at that comment, I've never thought about comparing Jade to a drill sergeant. André had a point though, Jade was very good at yelling. She could be a drill sergeant.
Jade came out of the gas-station, and we were back on the road again. I think as we got closer to the military recruiting station, it started to dawn on us. We'll probably never get to hang out like we used to. I looked out the window deep in thought, but I noticed that no one else was talking. "Is this strange for you two?" I finally asked.
André was the first to answer. "Yeah. It's going to be a long 10 weeks. We may be allowed phone privileges on Sundays, but that will last less than thirty minutes. I have a feeling that won't be for a few weeks though."
"There's going to be a lot of people wanting to call home." Beck said.
"Well what about letters and what not?" Jade asked.
"We should be able to write and receive letters." André said.
I sighed. "At least you'll be able to get to write." I said, which was better than nothing. I was actually happy to hear that they were going to be allowed phone privileges, but was a little disappointed when I heard how long they'd get. It sounds like they'll be extremely busy. "Promise to write?" I looked at Beck and smiled.
"As long as you write back." He said.
I nodded. "Of course." In a couple of weeks I'll be leaving for college, so I knew I was going to be busy but I'd always make time to write Beck and André. Everything was changing so fast, it seemed like it was just yesterday when summer was just starting. It went by really fast, and that was disappointing. I knew Beck and André were going to be busy with training, so they won't be able to write as soon as I would and that's okay. I truly understand that. At least I hope I'll be okay with that.
Not my best chapter, I wasn't sure how I wanted to approach this one.
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