22nd October 1941
Dear Taylor,
So I'm finally here. I've started my training and been assigned a unit. It's an all black unit (obviously to be expected) and the ones I've met all seem to be pretty nice guys. I have yet to meet my two officers. They say I will be shipped out within the month.
I hope everything well at home and my family's doing okay without me. Let them know I love them and miss them very much.
Is it strange that sometimes out in the fields surrounding the base a gust of wind will catch my hair and I think I can almost smell you on the breeze? I miss you so much Tay, and at night the image of your face is what I fall asleep imagining. If only I could hold you once again. I would give anything for that moment of pure bliss.
Hope you are well and remember as long as I am in your heart, I will never have truly left your side.
Yours always now and forever,
Chad
Taylor must have read the letter a thousand times already. Her heart ached with the loss of him, but she had to be strong for him and for his family. He was depending on her. So, she sat down at her old, small, wooden desk and picked up her ink pen...
9th November 1941
Dear Chad,
She paused, what to write? She glanced back to his letter lying next to her and then took a breath, touching pen tip to paper.
I'm glad everything to going well. As you requested I called in on your Mom the other day. She seems to be coping, I guess looking after little Shane is keeping her busy. She's 'Where's Chad?', 'I miss Chad' and 'When's he coming home Mommy?'. He obviously is just too young to understand.
I've been spending a lot of time at the park where we first met. I mean we obviously knew each other by reputation but it was the first time you had the guts to actually approach me. Guess we both shouldn't have judged each others books by their covers...If someone had told me that in just 2 short years everything that has happened would have I really wouldn't have believed them. I mean me? Dating Chad Danforth? Not in a million years. Guess I was wrong huh?
In other news I've been sending letters and telegrams to my Aunt Tess in England. They seem to be struggling with rationing and the such like over there. However, she's managed to get a job in a factory packing up equipment and food packs to be sent out to the soldiers. Sounds like, in her small way, she's making a difference...
You're never far in my thought and I cannot wait for the day when you return to me.
All the love I possess
Taylor xxx
AN – Okay I know it's short but I think if I made it any longer it wouldn't work as well so I'll try and do a quick update to make up for that. Plus of course, the more comments and ideas I get from you guys the quicker updates you get (I know I'm mean :-P) Thanks everyone. Slayya