When Love Goes Wrong

Chapter Nineteen: I Drive Your Truck

~*~Author's Notes~*~ Hey guys! So this is a very sad chapter (I made myself cry writing this. No joke either!). I named this chapted "I Drive Your Truck" after the song by Lee Brice. That's where I got the inspiration to write this chapter from. Oh, and you guys are going to hate me at the end of this chapter. xD Oh and just telling ya'll when you get to the one part with Steve and Adeen, they are not a couple, they are not flirting, they have a strictly platonic relationship. Like a brother/sister relationship so please don't assume they have a thing for each other! Okay enought of my rambling, without further adieu, chapter nineteen! :)

            Adeen laid on the couch staring up at the ceiling. She was dying to get out of there. She hated being in the same room with Dr. Williams…that woman gave her a headache and always managed to make Adeen get in a pissy mood for the rest of the day. Today, they were talking about her time overseas while she was in the marines. Adeen didn’t want to talk to some random person about her times in Iraq. She mostly wanted to forget about all of that and let it be left in the dark. The memories were far too painful for her. She lost too many people in that fight, especially her one best friend…Adeen remembered him the best. She was the first woman to fight on the lines and to lead a team full of men into the field also. Austin always respected her, even if a woman was bossing him around. He didn’t care. The others didn’t care either but he was the one who supported her the most. She could remember his dirty blonde buzz cut, his tall silhouette, his muscular built, his emerald green eyes, and his smile that always assured her everything was all right. They had joined the Corps right after college with each other. Austin was like her big brother that she had missed out on. He was twenty-six and she was twenty-two when they went overseas. Adeen became Lieutenant Captain in a very short amount of time, shocking a lot of the men and upper ranked soldiers. They never thought a woman could accomplish that much in only eleven months. Adeen smiled at the memory of how proud Austin was of her that day she was honored. Dr. Williams asking her something interrupted her thoughts. She slowly turned her head towards the doctor and looked at her.

            “I’m sorry…what did you say…?” Adeen asked quietly, trying to be nice today.

            “I asked, how long were you deployed in Iraq?” she asked back calmly.

            Adeen sat up on the couch scratched the back of her head lightly. She began playing with her ponytail hanging over her shoulder, trying to think about how long she was over there. Dr. Williams waited patiently for her to answer, seeing how she was trying to think about the question. Adeen stared at the floor for a few moments then slowly looked up at the doctor.

            “Not that long…maybe four months…” Adeen quietly answered, looking back down at the floor.

            This was uncommon to see Adeen so quiet and closed off from the world. She was usually the person filled with life and was open with things. At this moment, this was the shy, bullied Adeen from her childhood who barely spoke at all to anyone. This was the Adeen where if you asked her something, she would back away as if you were scolding her for doing something inadequately. This was the Adeen who wouldn’t speak for hours and would seem completely invisible to everyone because of how quiet she was being. No one really ever see this side of her come out, but at this moment, her façade had crumbled down.

            “Any close friends within your unit?”

            “Yes…one…the rest I was friends with but he was the closest…his name was Sergeant Austin Williams…”

            “Were you two ever more than just friends…?”

            “God no, Austin was like my…big brother…” She choked some on her words, no having sad those words nor his name in years.