Like Trees In June
Chapter Three
Aldborne, England
"Your going with who?" asked Lindsay as she fixed her hair in mirror with a few bobby pins.
"Floyd, why who's your lucky guy?" Faye asked as she turned away from her own reflection to look at her friend.
"Sobel" she answered without a finch. Faye's mouth dropped open.
"No" she, as lindsay turned to her and smiled.
"No, but I tollaly got you" She laughed and ponited to Faye.
"You little..." she grabbed a pillow and throw it at Lindsay.
Lindsay quickly sheided herself from the attack, and they both started to laugh.
"I would have killed you." Faye said, returning to her reflection.
Lindsay smiled " It was too good to pass up" she said as she sat on her bed.
"so who are you really going with?" Faye asked.
" George asked me." Lindsay told her.
" George as in George Luz, the man of of troubles, George?" Faye went on playfully, then stopped. " I'm so happy for you." She said to her friend.
" Really?" Lindsay asked
" Yeah" She said as she sat down on the bed across from Lindsay. " George is a good guy, but just so you know know, he is the one who roped me into this whole thing." she said
" Into what?" lindsay asked confuzfed.
" The Floyd thing." faye told her.
"What do you mean, didn't Tab ask you?" lindsay asked.
Faye recalled what happened just an hour before now.
"well..." Faye dragged on " it's a long, painful story." she told her friend.
" I bet it's not." Lindsay said as she stood up and walked to the bathroom to put her dress on. then she peeked her head out the door.
"Oh yea, what ever happen to Joe?" she asked.
Faye had completely forgotten about him, didn't he have something to tell her?
" I don't know, I haven't seen him since this morning, why?" Faye asked
Lindsay popped out again.
" I don't know, I guess I thought you were sweet on him at first, you know the way you acted around him, I don't know. maybe i'm wrong." Lindsay told her, dissappereing again.
" Wait how do you know we talked?" Faye asked.
Lindsay finnaly came out. Her red dress flowed around her body, fitting perfectly.
" Because I stalk you" she whispered playfully. " No I was standing right there genius."
Faye smiled at her friend, and thought back.
" I didn't act any differnt did I?:" She secound guessed herself. " By the way you look absolutely stunning in that dress."
" Why thank you." Linsay said as she did a small twril. " Now you go and get chaged." She said as she grabbed Faye and pushed her into the bathroom.
While Faye slipped out of her uniform and into her dress she thought of Joe.
'there is no why I like him, I mean i know he doesn't like me' she thought to herself, as she shook her head. ' but he is extremly handsome, and tall and has gorgeous eyes..'
" stop it." Faye interpurted her own thoughts with her words " there is no way he likes you. now you are going to have a great time with Floyd tonight."
She walked out of the bathroom thinking.
" Faye are you okay?" Lindsay looked to her friend.
"yea, I was just thinking." she answered.
" stop swimming around in your head, that is a dangorus place that you shouldn't go into alone, and oh my god that dress is fabulous." Lindsay said looking at faye.
Faye smiled and looked down at her dress, it was a beaufiul thin black dress that really brought out her fair skin , and blonde hair.
the girls heard laughter, and suddenely that door burst poen, in came Kate and lauren laughing their heads off, practilly hanging on each other to keep themselves balance.
Faye raised her eyebrow at Lindsay who was smiling just at the look of them.
The two suddenly fell to the floor, laughing and holding their sides.
"whats so funny?' Lindsay asked as she walked over to try and help the girls up, but it was useless, they just kept laughing.
Lauren then ponited to kate. " Kate is so wasted" she said between laughs.
"How did that happen?" Faye asked, thinking how early it was in the night.
"you'd be surprized." Lauren told them " and we both just stared to laugh at how pissed Kate was and couldn't stop."
Kate stopped laughing "Hey, I'm not as think as you drunk Iam." Then crack up all over again.
By that time all four girls were laughing and tried to get Kate off the ground and on the bed, which was succusfully done in about three minutes.
They had all calmed down by the time Kate was settled in.
Lauren went up to get a drink of water for Kate, While the other two sat on a neigboring bed to Kate.
Lauren came back with a cup of water and put it by her friend, who had already passed out.
"wow, that girl can not hold her liqour." laren said. The other two laughed.
"we should have warned you." Lindsay said with a smile.
"I can stay here tonight and take care of her." Lauren told them.
"No you don't have to do that." Faye told her.
"No, it's fine, i dont have a date anyway." Lauren told them, as they gave her sad looks. "Really we will be fine."
"we know, but we want you to have fun." Lindsay told her, as Faye nodded agreeingly.
"belive me, I have Had enough fun for today." Lauren said looking to Kate, and laughing to herself.
"Are you sure?" Faye asked.
Lauren nodded. " You both look stunning by the way, I love the dresses."
"Thanks" both Faye and Lindsay said together.
"So who's the lucky guy?" She asked Lindsay
"Sobel" linsay replyed, this time she couldn't help but smile. Laurens eyes wided and her jaw dropped.
"she's kidding, she kidding." Fate said as she threw another pillow at her friend, only this time it hit her square in the face. Lindsay pretended to be shocked at the hit.
"I'm just seeing how long I can keep it up." Lindsay told them. Faye and Lauren looked at each other and laughed at her evil prank, but were interupped by a knock at the door. Lauren got up and opened the door, Tab was Standing there in his dress uniform, his wings pinned on and a big smile on his face.
"Hey Floyd, come on in. Faye said as she stood up and walked toward him
"Faye, you look beautiful." He said, as Faye thanked him and blushed. He saw Kate lying on the bed.
"Is she sick?" He asked. The girls looked from Kate to each other then to Floyd.
"No" They all said together.
"Then what's wrong with her?" He asked, but before any of the girls answered, Kate suddenly woke up.
"Hey, stop shouting!" She yelled at them. Floyd laughed once her realized Kate was wasted.
"How come she's drunk?" He asked, Faye laughed and shook her head.
"I am not drunk." Kate said as she tried to get up, but fell back into bed, Lauren walked over to try and help.
"I am not…" She trailed off as she looked at Lauren with a strange look on her face.
"Did I ever tell you that you look like my friend Lauren?" She asked in all seriousness.
Lauren laughed "yes you are certainly wasted."
Kate shook her head. "No, I'm as sober as a bird." She said then stared to laugh again, soon everyone was laughing as Kate put on her drunken show. Then she stopped laughing, and nodded to herself.
"I am drunk." She finally admitted.
"Well I am glad you see it our way, now you have to rest." Lauren said, trying not to laugh.
Soon Kate was passed out on the bed for the second time.
"Well that was interesting." Tab said as the others just laughed.
"We know how to entertain over here at the Nurses Center; you should come by more often." Lindsay told him as Faye walked over to help Lauren cover up Kate, so she didn't get cold.
"So who's your date Lindsay?" Asked tab, but before she could answer a pillow went flying into the air, and hit her in the face. Lindsay just stood in the same position, looking at Floyd, and trying not to laugh. Tab looked over and saw Faye with her hands in the air.
"Yes, another direct hit." She said in triumph, "that's one for Lindsay and two for Faye."
Tab looked back over to see Lindsay still staring at him. "You guys are crazy." He said shaking his head.
"George" She answered Floyd's question simply as Faye walked behind her waving two fingers in the air, and pointing to herself.
Floyd laughed and Lindsay quickly looked behind her and saw Faye pretending to look at her fingernails, then looked up to see both Lindsay and Floyd staring at her.
"What?" She asked innocently. Lindsay just rolled her eyes and smiled
Tab laughed at the girls.
"what was that all about?" he asked
"oh nothing, Lindsay here just loves to joke around." Faye said.
"Then I guess we are perfect for each other." They all jumped as they heard the voice behind them. Luz smiled to them as he stepped into the room.
Lindsay smiled as her mouthed her a 'hello'. And Faye smiled at the couple.
"you guys don't want to be late" said Lauren from behind th group."have fun" she told them.
"are you sure…" faye started but wa cut off.
"faye, I'm fine, now shoo.. off with you." Lauren said as she waved her hand in the air. The group walked out and headed toward the soail.
Lindsay and George walked ahead, while Faye walked with Tab.
"so did you hear anything about the whole Winters, and Sobel thing?" Faye asked.
Floyd, nodded and stuck his hands in his pockets. "we, uh all the N.C.O's of Easy, gave Sink sort of an opitoion A oipion B sort of think." He said as george turned around and smile, he had alrready heard what they had done.
Faye was confused. " What does that mean?" She asked.
"Well we sort of told him, sobel was to be replaced, and if not we would turn in our strips" He explained.
Her eyes wided, "what, and you still live to the tale.." She smiled to herself.
"Does Winters know, did he know?" She asked.
Floyd nodded," Yeah, he was completely against the idea, said it was mutiny, told us not to do it..." George interupped.
"Yeah, thats when Sobel himself walked in"
Faye raised her eyebrow interested in the finnishing of the story.
"Yeah, but Ranney started talkin' some nonsense, and he just left, it was pretty close though." Tab finnshed.
"I'll say." She said as they approached a small builing, some soliers were outside, smoking and laughing with each other, but most of the laughter was coming form inside.
Lindsay and Luz sat down at a table, and floyd and I sat across from them. Looking around at all the men, some were drinking and laughing, and others were dancing with other girls.
Faye nodded when Luz asked if they wanted a drink, and he went off with Lindsay.
"So do you know when your jump is?" she asked Tab, he shook his head.
"No, but I think it's coming up" he said but trailed off when he looked over her shoulder,she turned to see what he was looking at and saw a certain Dog Company Lieutenant walking straight in their direction.
"Nurse Green isn't?" Lieutenant Speirs asked, she nodded and looked over at Floyd who was also watching Speirs.
"you are friends with Kate... er... I mean Miss. Jeremy aren't you?" he asked. Faye smiled and was very amused by the behaivor of the soldier.
She answered "Yes sir Iam."
"I was accepting her to be here, do you know where she is?" He asked.
Faye almost choaked on her own spit, she heard Tab let out a small laugh, and she elbowed him in the gut, he stopped and held his stomach. Speirs looked at them sternly.
"ummmm.."Faye said as thought quickly for her friend, knowing Kate would get in trouble if the hospital knew she had gotten wasted, she could lose her job.
"Kate is really sick." She lied.
"Really, she seemed fine this morning." he said, with concern, as he looked to Foyd, who had a shocked, and surprized look, but turned serious when he noticed Speirs looking at him.. "I should go see if she's okay. " He said as he started to walk away, she shot up from her chair and grabbed his arm.
"No wait." she said. He turned around, and she removed her hand. "she's probely asleep,umm it wont be good to wake her." she lied again.
"well, okay, tell her I wish her well." he said as he walked away staighting himself.
Faye turned back to Tab, who was laughing.
"Smooth." he said, she gave him a square look.
"Shut up." she said as she looked around the room and she came across Nixon sitting with some other officers, and of couse with a drink in his hand. He glanced over in her direction and saw her looking at him, so he waved for her to come. She smiled and held up a finger, signifing she'd be over in a secound, he nodded.
She turned to Floyd. "I'm going to go talk to Nix, so you can, you know do whatever it is that you do." She said, and stopped to think if it made any sense. "yea" she followed up.
"But I came here with you, you won't get mad?" he asked
"For what, going over to that girl in the corner, who maybe is looking at you right now, why would I be mad, were friends." She said as Floyd quickly glanced aorund the room looking for the girl. Faye laughed, she pointed to the young girl in the corner, and Floyd whisted, she laughed agian.
"Now go, fend and protect." hse said as she pushed him toward her.
"Okay, okay I'm going" he told her as he put his hands up, pretending to calm her down.
He continued to walk slowly backwards, and he bended down and pretended to tip his fake hat to her. " My lady, I'm off" He said, as Faye laughed and shook her head at him. She then walked over to Nixon.
He pulled a chair from another table for her to sit next to him. She thanked him and sat down.
"So I heard about Dick and Sobel." She said
He smiled." you heard that did you?"
"Yeah, what a stupid thing to do." She said.
He let out a short laugh and turned to face her." Yeah but it worked." he said as he took another swigg from his drink.
"It did work." She agreed, and looked around the room some more.
She looked over at a group of men and women. Some were talking and laughing, and others were talking up the women. Her eyes fell upon Liebgott, who, she noted looked very handsome. Faye didn't notice she was smiling, until she started to frown when she saw the girl next to him , who seem to be laughing at something Joe said. She quickly looked away.
"Faye, are you okay?" Nixon asked, noticeing her figdeting. She looked up at him.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I think I'm going to go back to the quarters." She told him
" Are you sure you're okay?" he asked agian
She tried to smile. "Yeah, just tired." She got up and pushed her chair in.
"Goodnight Nix." She said, and he just nodded. Faye Started for the door, giving another look to joe, who was watching from across the room. the girl he was talking to was trying to get his attention by pulling on his sleeve. Faye rolled her eyes and pushed past the other troopers unitl she finnaly reached the door, and walked out into the cool air.
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Joe pushed into the crowd and out the door, trying to catch up to Faye to talk, but when He looked around, he couldn't see her anywhere.
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Faye opened the door to find Lauren in her bed reading, and Kate sleeping soundly.
Lauren jumped out of bed to greet Faye.
"Hey your back early." She said
"Yeah well, I was tired." She lied and sat on her bed.
"Oh, okay." She returned and went back to her book, giving Faye a suspicious look.
They went a few moments in silance, but Faye broke it.
"He was with another girl." SHe said as she lay back in the bed.
Lauren looked away from her book. " Who?"
"Joe." She answered.
Lauren laughed and walked over to Faye, standing above her, she smiled down to her." You like him." She stated.
"What?" Faye said in shock of the statment.
"Yeah, thats why you came home early, because you're bothered he was with another girl." She said.
Faye quickly sat up and shook her head.
Lauren gave her the be-honest-look with a tilt to her head.
Faye flung back on the bed anxiously. "He's so pretty." She admitted.
Both the girls laughed at Faye discirption. "Yeah well you better tell him how you fell before he gets shipped off in those big planes." Lauren told her.
"What do you mean?" Faye asked.
"I just got word that their pretty close to deadline on the invasion, it's coming up soon, really soon." She told her as she walked over to grab some hidden alcohol under one of the beds, she handed Faye a glass, who wasn't interested in drinking before, but was now.
"If that isn't drinking news I don't know what is." Lauren said, and Faye nodded in agreement.
The attack had gone on forward though barbed wire, mud, mines, mortar, and machine-gun fire, fallen back with appalling loss, only to be ordered forward again. This had gone on for weeks.
HaHa, yeah. I remember those days when I acually updated.those were the good days
Anyway hope you didn't hate it as much as i did, (i bash)I dont know something about felt off. Comments?