Chapter 1 - Page 2

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Well... I get it that he's tired doing the same repetitive things for over a damn month. I might soon even feel the same thing as what he had seen. Yet, I must admit I haven't seen a lot of crazy stuff happening. Constant shelling is surely just traumatising, I must say that my body constantly shakes whenever a shell hits right next to our trench.

No wonder why I have seen many soldiers behaving out of his sane mind, all they could hear was just constant explosives and their enemies' battlecries. I might as well just reconsider what Sergeant had told me many times, "this war isn't supposed to happen, Rang." After all, I volunteered to fight for my country. There's no turning back now.

I sighed briefly, as I closed my small notebook. Putting it back inside my bag pouch. Now, I stare at the moon, my mind just suddenly went blank after I wrote the last part. "This war isn't supposed to happen?" I ask myself. I wonder what Sergeant really meant by her words.

As I stood up, and peered at my surroundings from my trench. Just to confirm that there's no on-going attack tonight. I put my head down again, as I won't risk getting my head shot by an awake soldier from the opposing trench. "Rang! Get to sleep now! Tomorrow will be rough!" Melissa shouted at me.

I immediately try to find a place to fit myself on, as she calls Grotny to continue my night shift. It's not comfortable to sleep in harsh mud like these, but I couldn't complain either. I lay myself down besides Alex, as I close my eyes too. I tried to sleep, but the flashing images of my wife kept appearing.

"Take care honey..." the word that I always hold dearly in my heart, the last thing she said vocally before I had to leave her. I can't tell whether or not I regret volunteering myself. After all, there's no way I'll just sit in my house, and let those men die defending what they left behind.

I need to at least show that I am willing to fight this war, not for the country as I wrote in my notebook... But, because of what I left behind, and who I loved dearly. Natasha, my wife. There's no lie when it comes to her, I would never lie that I devoted my life for her.

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