The Burden.

the burdens tolls.

I wake up and room out of the canvas of my make shift bed. I get up and look around. I saw a room half full of men. Their faces stained with the sand of outside. I reached under my bed and grabbed my bottle of water. The clear liquid rippled as I grabbed it and chug the clear liquid into my body. The liquid ran down my throat giving my throat some relief. I rocked my body till I was up. I reached underneath my pillow. The picture was of my girlfriend Cassie. I missed her dearly. She was the thing that meant the most to me. My mind flashed back to the first time I saw her. I was sitting on a wooden bar stool. I was celebrating my graduation of basic training. I looked out into the corner of the bar. I saw her in the corner. She weeped in the corner. I walked up to her. I was dressed in my formal dress uniform. "Want this beer," I asked curiously. Her head shot up. She looked at me. She grabbed the bottle out of my hand and took a swig.
"Thanks," she said in her sweet voice.
"Hey I don't like pretty girls crying and alone," I smirked as it came out of my mouth. She let out a giggle. We sat there and talked about her. Every minute I spent talking to her I fell for her more and more by the second. Her voice was a blessing. We talked for hours.
"We're closed," the bar keep yelled angrily at us.
"Want to go back to my place and talk some more?", I asked her. Her eyes lit up after those words slipped off my tongue. I grabbed my jacket off the hook. We walked out the wooden door of the bar. The neon lights that lit up the bar sign ceased to glow. I snapped back to the current time. The desert wind howled on the building. You could hear the sand pelting the steel roof. I walked through the building to the shop. A man was under my M-ATV truck. I knocked on the metal that protected the truck. The man rolled from underneath the truck. He looked up at me shaking his head at me. "How bad is it john?," I asked curiously.
"It's not to bad but it's not to goid either," he answered back. I walked out of the room and went over to the computer. I looked at the screen is went on to Skype. I pushed the button and saw Cassies sweet face staring at me.