Expert Lover Badge: A Drill Sergeant's Conquest of Devotion

Prologue

                Feet bleeding, legs sore, mind numb, and chaffing like Hell...Never mind, it's nothing. Never mind, I never even felt these things in the first place. These pains were easily numb away, brought to nothingness, because of my Guardian Angel, Him. I needed him. I wanted to hold him right now, as I lay on my ruck, awaiting the start of the Soldier Ceremony. We formed up in front of the Battalion Commander and Command Sergeant Major as they awaited our rank-up induction from our Drill Sergeants. I knew exactly who I wanted to patch me. Before I could even call out for him, he was next to me, holding my hand. I turned and made eye contact with him, smiling and leaning into him. 

                 "I'm proud of you, trainee. Now, you're a soldier, my soldier." He pressed the U.S. Army patch on me in a playfully rough manner. I could only laugh to myself, as I found his roughness adorable. I was finally here, the end of this all. Well, not entirely, but now I was the person I wanted to be, the person he wanted me to be. I turn to him.

                "Drill Sergeant," I said, "can you give me your number?" From this, a smile formed on his face before he laugh.

                "Soldier, there's no need for me to do that." He winked and turned away. This confused me, even reaching the point of forgetting what he said after the ceremony.

                I was now being shipped off to AIT. My ambitions were high, deadset on making myself the best soldier I can be for him, even if I was away from him. The feelings I had for him here would only escalate as time passed without him, even if I cannot talk to him...wait.... I pull my phone out and immediately open my contacts. From scrolling, I noticed that something was off. There was a new contact going by 'Sexy Ass Drill Sergeant.' I had to restrain every fiber of my will from not bursting out into joyous laughter. But now, I knew that my hypothesis was indeed fact; though this thought was just a lingering one for the longest time, I knew that it was now destiny:

I'm going to marry Drill Sergeant McLaughlin.