Forbidden

October, 14th 1949

Paul looks at his letter with a livid face. He doesn't say a thing. We can only hear the sound of the clock's needles ticking.

"What does it say?" I ask worried.

He sighs and puts the letter on the table. He looks at me and says sarcastic :

"Well, our country did some shit again and our amazing government asks me to go to Korea"

I approach him and wrap his head between my arms. He puts his arms on my waist and gently caresses it.

"I have to go check if Alexei received a letter too, Missy"

"Honey, it's the middle of the night, you can see him tomorrow morning at the church meeting"

He sighs.

"Missy, I will not got to the church meeting tomorrow"

I frown and put my hands on his cheeks.

"Why ? You can't miss it, it's important".

He gets up from the couch and says with a sad look :

"Tomorrow, I have to go to a military check up to see if I'm healthy, you know, to go to Korea".

"What?! Already?! What are you going to do?"

"That's the thing, I don't know, that's why I need to go see Alexei right now, He did World War II, he knows how it works".

"We can't trust him, he's a Red. You know how these people are. Don't you remember the last time when you "visited" him ? Everyone stopped talking to us for weeks".

"Yeah I know, I know but he's my friend. I don't care what people says, he's Russian and what ? Not every Russians are fucking Communists".

"Hey, don't say that word ! Neither the bad word !"

Paul sighs then slams his tongue and smirks at me.

"Sorry Mother. Whatever, I need to see him, maybe he knows how I can beat the system, you know. He's a" Red" remember ?"

I shake my head and move away from him sighing, exasperated.

"Do whatever you want but be discreet. If people learns it, I can say goodbye to the opportunity to having a seat to the Lady's Church Bakery".

He chuckles.

"You're not being serious, you want to join those stupid housewives ? Comon' "

"Yes, I do and it can helps us more than the Red freak. There's the general's wife in the club, maybe I can become her friend and you can try befriend with her husband and he'll manage things for you to not go to Korea..."

"Wow, that sounds sooo interesting but seriously, you know like me that it will take months and this idiot of general will not do anything because he loves wars. I'd rather ask my "Red" friend, who has a name by the way which is Alexei".

"Yeah whatever ! At least be careful... I don't want to lost what we earned by the sweat of our brow because you tried to play with the system..."

Paul stands behind me and puts his hands on my shoulders. He kisses my cheek and whispers not to worry, that everything will go well. Ha ! What a good talker he is.

He takes his jacket and puts on his shoes and comes out of the house. What kind of idiot I married ?! if only he had accepted this position in the government, he wouldn't be looking for a solution not to go to Korea... I love him so much...