Missing in Action

Missing in Action: Prologue

Missing in Action

Prologue

Cassidy's P.O.V

The rain was pouring off everything in sheets by the time my stuff was in the car. The sky was dark like the night was approaching and, once it arrived, it would never leave.

"Cassidy!" someone yelled over the sound of the rain hammering onto the pavement.

I whipped around to the sound of it. I should've known it would be him. I should've known he would never let me leave without saying something.

He was already soaked through from the rain. His brown hair was plastered to his head with water and his clothes were soaked through. He had no coat or umbrella with him.

"Why are you leaving?" he asked.

"You know why," I replied.

"I don't think I do Cassidy," he said.

Thunder rumbled in the distance and I knew that he should go back inside. It wasn't safe to be out in a storm. I'd be fine in the car, but we wouldn't be safe out here.

"What do you mean?" I called over the increasing sound of the rain. It felt as though the water was pounding my brain.

He shook his head sending droplets of water to the floor. "I don't think I know why the cleverest person I know who could achieve anything she wanted joined the navy," he said. "Cassidy you could do anything!"

"But I've always wanted this Louis," I said.

Lightening forked it's way through the sky splitting it in two and illuminating everything.

"Why though? What do you have to prove?" he demanded.

"I have nothing to prove!" I yelled.

I didn't. Since I was thirteen I had known that I wanted to join the navy. I wanted the people I love to be safe.

"So why are you leaving?" he asked.

He took a few steps closer to me. I couldn't tell from the rain, but he might have been crying.

I looked around at the place I'd called home since I was eleven. When we moved here, I was so sure I'd never miss it. I guess I was wrong.

In all truth, I didn't know why I was leaving. Sure, I wanted to be in the navy for three years but I didn't think that that was the reason.

I looked back at him. "We all have to follow our dreams," I stated.

He snapped his blue eyes to mine. The usual spark they held was gone.

"Cassidy, please don't go," he said. His voice was shaking.

"I have to," I sighed.

"Oh Cassidy, please-" he started.

"I have to," I said again more for my benefit than his.

He slumped looking defeated. He hadn't come to say goodbye, he had come to beg me not to go.

"Then promise me something," he said.

His voice was so quiet that I barely heard what he said over the rain.

"Anything," I said.

"Promise me that you'll come home alive," he said.

He sounded so broken, so lost in himself. A promise like that was impossible to keep where my future would take me.

"I- I-," I began.

"Promise me Cassidy!" he cried.

"I promise," I said. "I promise that I'll come home alive".

And that promise was going to change me and Louis Tomlinson forever, even if we didn't know it.

That promise was one I was always going to keep.

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A/N Thank you for choosing to read my story!

This story is set before Jay's wedding just so you don't get confused.

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