Alright guys another chapter, so an update on life, since Base has pretty much opened back up again, I can finally go to the gym again. WHich has been helping me get back into a normal routine. But my time in the army is running out, and I'm already trying to find a job back home even though I still got roughly six to seven months left. But these past few weeks have been busy as hell with all the field training.

Also my SGM kind of screwed me over and rejected my paperwork for CNC programming because it would be going on during JRTC...so in other words, the green weenie strikes again.

Oh and funny thing, one of the soldiers I serve with, I just found out his name is actually Jeremiah, and its kind of funny.

But anyways, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Sorry the chapter is so short, but its independence day, I got my own plans.

Jem

"HELL FUCKING YEAH!" Jem had his guns out as he had his Betsy Ross t shirt on and a pair of american flag ranger panties on while he was drinking Blackbeards delight out of one cup, and some bourbon out of another. How was he doing this when he was carrying his guns in both hands? Simple, he rigged up one of those beer dispensing helmets to work with coffee and bourbon instead.

"Ugh, why are you being so loud?" Winter said as she woke up only to have a cup of coffee shoved in her face.

"Because its Independence day! The most wonderful time of the year!" He said as Winter looked confused.

"I've been studying your holidays, I thought Christmas was the most wonderful time of the year.

"Hell no! Cold beer, fireworks, Barbecued meat, guns, and patriotic movies, this is the best time of the year." He said as he already had the patriot playing in his motorhome.

"Isn't that a bit much?" She asked as Remnant didn't get this patriotic with any of their kingdoms.

"If anything I'm going light this year." He said as last time they had an American Revolution reenactment.

"Besides come on, lighten up a bit!" He said as he headed outside the trailer.

"Where are you going?"

"Simple, I got a ton of ammo to go through, a ton of tannerite, and some fireworks to light off right before breakfast."

"Wait before breakf-" She suddenly saw the big ass pile of eggs, bacon, steak, hashbrown potatoes, and coffee underneath a big heating lamp.

"Yeah! Like I said, now is the time to celebrate!" He said as he loaded a mag into his AR and went to go to his little shooting range.

"Americans..." Winter had been saying that a lot since she had gotten here.

BANG BANG BANG

She looked outside to see Jem was shooting a picture of Xi Jinping dressed as Winnie the pooh.

"Mag change!" He yelled as he dropped one mag, loaded another and started shooting at a picture of Stalin.

"...Well...at least hes enthusiastic." Winter was just glad she wasn't being brought into any crazy antics.

She had a horrible dream last night that for some reason, Jem had been drinking Rum, dressed up like a pirate, and she had to chase him down as he was hopping from semi truck to semi truck. She wasn't quite sure why she had that dream, nor why she was worried about him in the first place. All she knew for sure was that the dream was exhausting as hell.

Ever since she got here she had been having weird dreams. One where Jem fired a howitzer to beat her in a shooting match, another one where he ended up giving Whitley an atomic wedgie in the Schnee mansion, and for some reason she even had a dream of a nameless little girl kicking her father straight in the dick.

...She was certain someone had slipped something into her nighttime tea, because these dreams were full of wtf moments.

BUT, there was one that really really bothered her.

In the dream, she was in the Schnee mansion with Jem, and...well, there was no other way to say it, they had sex...and Jem screamed it loudly enough for everyone including her father to hear.

When she woke up, she had never felt so embarassed in her life, and it hadn't even happened. It wasn't just because he screamed it, it was because this wasn't the first sex dream she had of him. Ever since she read that damn novel and walked in on him naked, she had been having those dreams. Granted, she knew it couldn't be anything serious. And she even had an explanation why.

It was no secret that she had never been in a serious relationship, nor had she ever felt any urges...but ever since she read that novel, and sadly because she saw Jem's body closely afterwards, she was absolutely sure that her brain made the connection between the two, so the only reason she had been having those dreams was because Jem was in such close proximity when it happened, not because she was actually attracted to him!

Granted, it didn't stop the dreams from happening, but now she could rest a bit easier at night.

"Winter! Come on out! I got to teach you how to celebrate the fourth of july!" Jem yelled as she sighed.

"I don't see why that's n-" Suddenly he put a SCAR in her hands.

"...This looks acceptable." She said as it certainly felt nice.

"Come on! We got a lot more rounds to drop!" And then he held up his brown bess musket.

"Isn't she a beauty?" He asked while holding it.

"Kind of old isn't she?"

"Hey, she may be old, but shes still a beauty."

He got ready to shoot.

"Now come on, we got cold beer, good food, guns, and later theres a fireworks show, why don't we just enjoy the day for what it is?"

She still seemed a little apprehensive.

"Well...okay, but I don't know much about Independence day."

"Oh you gonna learn today."