Well I want to start from when it all began. I was 16 going to my morning math class in the beginning of the school year and who sat next to me was a tall blond haired boy. He was extremely smart but did not have the motivation to do the work. And what I mean by that I was always doing my homework, studying and doing my best but hate to admit I could study all week take a test and score in the high 80s, Jon though he’d never study or do his homework and every time we took a test he would walk over to my desk and slide his exam right on top of mine, and with his smirk on his face he’d teasingly say what did you get April. I’d look at his 106% and just give him the glare. Whenever he absent I ended up missing him because I always enjoued his company even though hed try to get rouse out of me. After class we’d always chat and we ended up exchanging number which led to many and I mean many coversations. He’d always walk me to my second period class even though his next class was nowhere near mine. I remember going home telling my mom about Jon and how I’d never date that man oh how I’d eat my own words later. Jon was something else, when we’d walk to class I’d give him a hard time about how he smelt of cherry cough drops and cigarettes and calling him out, he was so surprised telling me no ones ever called him out, he felt he could get away with anything. I remember spending my lunchs someday with him at chess club from time to time. We stayed close friends, I’d sit with him at football games and he even went to my 17th birthday party scavenger hunt. When my sister met him she told me that boy likes you I laughed and said no he doesn’t we are just friends. Looking back now my sister was spot on. I went to his graduation and ended up going to his graduation party he was senior and I was Jr. I loved getting to see him he was always silly and full of energy. After he graduated he enlisted into the army. He knew he wanted to when he was young. In our conversations he told me he wanted to leave where he was, he hated his life at home, it was a rough life. His parents got divorced and his mom had a hard time during the years they were apart. He said one night she brought a man home who he had to thearten with knife to leave. One morning on of the men she brought home was passed out on the front lawn. Not only that his brother who he shared a room with was always sneaking out and drinking and he would always try to cover for him, cleaning his bed that he peed on and one time his computer. Jon always had a good heart though, he had a strong sense of right and wrong. To be honest he reminded me and everyone else of captain America, which of course everyone would call him. During the time of bootcamp we’d always write letters, his first time having his phone back after bootcamp he called me. We chatted of course I got to hear how it was there and he told me no one else answered their phone and he was dying to talk to someone from back home. I look back and think how lucky I was that it was me that answered. Well over a whirlwind summer it was time for him to come home on leave. We texted all the time and he mentioned maybe taking me out on a date when he got back. I was so nervous because he was literally my best friend and I just thought what if it doesn’t work out and I lose him. That summer he came home was amazing. We fell hard and fast. I remember staying up late in the summer night laying in the hammock out back watching the stars, we played tennis, went camping and found the best stream to swim in. We went to his family’s BBQ at his grandparents house and had a great time. His grandpa told me I looked like Jessica rabbit which was a huge complaint because that was his favorite character. Jon was so romantic and we had the best time. I remember when we first kissed in front Shari’s restaurant. We had so much fun and after that we were inseparable well of course until he had to go back to his duty station.
To be continued….
Truths of a young widowed woman 