Ask Laftan Anlamaz.. The Unsaid Words..

Some fond memories

At the Army base after 2 weeks.

It was a Saturday morning.. Murat just woke up, it was hardly past 5. He wakes up from his bed,  washes his face and changing into a pair of track pants, walks out of his room for a morning jog and he finds an exhausted Doruk walking towards him.

“You look tired Doruk, what happened?” Murat asked out of concern.

“Bhai, you woke up already.. I would have shaken you to death if you were still asleep.” Doruk chuckled dryly.

“Do you find me sleepy Doruk?” Murat spoke.

“No Bhai.. where are you heading?” Doruk asked.

“Just a casual jog, wanna join?” Murat replied.

“No you go ahead, while I catch up on some sleep in your room.. I’m exhausted after the night duty and my room is under maintenance!” Doruk said.

“Ok.. sleep! but you will join me & Kerem for breakfast at 8” Murat replied.

“Ay.. Ay.. Captain!” he said cheekily with a fake salute to Murat and stomped off into the room.

Calmly smiling at his younger brother’s antics, Murat walked down the corridor and knocked at Kerem’s door. Kerem was quick to respond that the door was open. Murat walks in to find Kerem wearing his running shoes, slightly smiling and left a “Gunaydin Murat bey.”

“Gunaydin Kerem..”

They start their stroll in the woods near by, talking about the settling weather and their upcoming things at the base camp. It was around 7 am, they head back towards their rooms.

Murat walks into his room and finds Doruk sleeping in his white coat itself without changing. Shaking his head slightly in disbelief at his brother, he walks towards the bed. He looks at Doruk with a peaceful smile while he slept, He feels happy that atleast his brother was happy and content at the moment which brought an automatic smile on Murat's face too.

Finally after a hard 30 minutes, Murat & Kerem managed to wake Doruk up from his sleep. Doruk gathers himself from the bed, gets ready and they all go to the canteen to grab breakfast.

Tuval walks up to the trio with her coffee mug and joins the table. While there is an announcement on the speaker that - A friendly Basketball match is going to be held at the base on Sunday.. Two teams would be formed WINGS & CLAWS for the flying squad and ground squad of the members. Interested people could gather at the training ground this afternoon to form teams.

“Wohoo.. a basketball match, interesting!” exclaimed Doruk turning to face Murat who didn’t respond.

“Bhai.. you’re in right?” asked Doruk with a hope.

“Not in the moment!” Murat said sternly and walked away.

“What’s wrong with him ya, I miss my old friend Murat! I’m just fed up with this calm soul-less Murat..” Tuval complained.

“Indeed.. I miss my cheerful friend too!” Kerem shrugged.

“We need to fix him before it’s too late!” They said in unison.

“Let’s meet for lunch and plan to cheer him up for the game!” Tuval said while standing from her chair. They nodded at each-other in understanding and left for their respective rooms.

It was around 12 pm, and all of them gathered at the benches in the open area of the canteen under a tree. Murat was called by his superior for some official talk.