The promise between us

Chapter 2: Hold together.

It's been 5 months now that Taylor left to the army.

He hasn't sent Cody any letters at all and I can see how its slowly crushing him. Everyday Cody will go get the mail, searching for a letter addressed to him.

I've gotten a few, which I read to Cody to let him know that Taylor asks about him, wondering what his doing and if his little brother is happy.

Cody puts up a brave front, but deep down his breaking.

All the Coy Boy's are like this. It started with their dad, Joe Coy, who was the best father anyone could have ever asked for. He would wrestle with them on the floor even though we was older, he would sneak out with them to go fishing in the morning, he would help them sneak out at night to go to parties and he would be there when they got their heart broken by the cute girls at school. He was almost like my father too, he never once told me to go home, he always wanted me to stay later, he would comfort me when something was wrong, and he loved me like his own daughter.

When he died in an accident a few years back it crushed all of us, none of us were the same after.

Then Charlie Coy, who is the oldest, Man he was a heart breaker. Every girl in school knew and knows who Charlie was and they all wanted to be his girl. He would date a girl for a day and then dump her the next, all through junior high and high school it was like that. But his first week at college he found the girl who changed the whole game. She wrapped him around her finger and made him grow up. They had a rough start, so many bumps in the road, they broke up so many times. In the end, he couldn't live without her, He loved her so much that he chased her down and confessed his love to her for days, that turned into weeks, But finally she admitted that she loved him too.

They are married now, they are the happiness people I know. Their two little girls look just like their mom and Charlie couldn't be happier about that. He loves them so much.

After Charlie there was Mark Coy, The country kid who would fight for anything or anyone who meant something to him. He was the exact definition for tall, dark and handsome, He loved a few, but let them go. I remember that I asked him once on why he let them go if he loved them and he said; "Because someone will love them more then I will. They deserve the world and I can't give them that." I'll admit that for a while I had a crush on him and he had one for me, but I was one of the girls he let go. He told me that he loved me, romantically, but it was more of a sister way the more time passed and I understood.

When Mark sighed up for the army...... The Coy house was filled with chaos. His father had died and his mother needed him, but I could see that he was suffocating. Mark and his father had a rare bond that no one could get simply. It hit him hard when he carried his father's casket and helped burry him.

No one knew how to help him and he saw freedom in getting away from the war in his heart by joining the army. When he left his mom, Charlie, Taylor, Cody and me behind that day, It was the last day we saw him. He came home in a box and the only thing his mother had of him was a flag and memories of her little boy.

Then Taylor, hahaha, boy his was a dork and I knuckle head. He was the most stubborn teenage boy I have ever been friends with, I'm amazed we stayed friends to be honest, He wasn't always as nice to me as I make it out to be. He was a partier and the schools bad boy, the rebel, and the girl magnet.

For a long time I was the girl who grew up next to him, I've known him his whole life and I was at his house more than I was at my own. We weren't super close to begin with, but he noticed Mark getting closer to me and it seemed to bug him a little. In the every beginning Taylor didn't know why I was never at my own house growing up, we would see each other outside often in the middle of the night. He was usually sneaking out to go to a party or girls house and I was always sitting on my roof outside of my window or on the tree swing.