Stardew valley storries

Soldier lost

Sam stood by his little brother in the small graveyard as their mother was sitting on the small pack of grass next to them and was crying, her friend Caroline holding her and whispers small words of comfort that no one really heard, especially not Jodi. They were all dressed in black. The whole village, with the exception of the military men who stood in their uniforms. Sebastian, Abigail and Bella stood behind Sam and his brother, but not so close so they could touch or talk.

Everything had started a week ago, but the days were all a blur for him, he could barely remember anything. They had been ready to eat dinner when there had been a knock on the door. His mother had gone to open the door after putting the pot of cauliflower down on the table. She had wiped her hands on the apron she had gotten for her birthday, it was the kind that only covered her waist down, like in the old movies form the fifties. "Serv your brother Sam." She had told him with a small smile before she left the kitchen and headed to the front door.

"Hand me your plate Vince." He said to his brother who eminently picked it up and held it out to him as he almost jumped on the chair form just the thought of getting food. Sam chuckled and put more food on the plate before there was something in his mother's voice that made his arms stop in the air and turn his head towards the door.

"Mayor Lewis?" She said as she saw the old man stan on the other side of the door. "What's going on?"

"Good evening Jodi. Is it alright is we come in?" Sam didn't hear an answer from his mother, but he assumed that she let them in since she heard footsteps walking inside. "Are the boys home?"

"Yeah. We were just about to have dinner."

"Could you get them please?"

Sam once again didn't hear his mother answer, just heard her footsteps on the wooden floor as she walked into the kitchen. "Come here you two. Dinner will have to wait a little." She said with a smile that didn't reach her ears fully. Vincent walked up to their mother and took her hand and she lead him into the living room and sat down in a couch with him. Sam trailed a little behind them. When he saw the whole room in front of him, he saw Lewis sit down in the couch next to Jodi and took her hand, before them stood two men dressed in uniform.

"Are you Sam?" One of them men asked him. He had a strong face. Strong in the way it looked when one had to be strong.

"Yes Sir." Sam said and took the man's hand and shook it.

"Your father has talked a lot about you over the years. He is proud of you kid." He said and nodded to him as Sam moved his hand into the front pockets of his jeans. He was only wearing a t-shirt with them, his jacket was hanging on a nail by the door.

"Where is he?" Sam asked him and he raised his shoulders. He had a bad feeling about the two mens visit. His feelings was only confirmed when the man sighed and looked at Jodi as a now numb face took over the previously strong one.

"I am sad to inform you that general Kent Freeman has fallen..." The words blurred into white noise as he looked at the man in front of him. He was talking to his mother who sat and hugged Vincent with one arm and was given reassuring strokes on her arms by the mayor. Sam just stood there and looked into nothing and everything at the same time. He couldn't remember the words that the man used to explain how his father had died, but he remembered the smell of his mother's shampoo as he later sat with the crying woman on the couch. Roses.

"Sam."

Sam looked upp at the man in front of him. "Yes Sir?" He asked in a weak and shaky voice.

The man placed his hand on Sam's shoulder and squeezed it. "Take care of your family. You're the man in the house now, and they are gonna need you to be strong." He said and nodded to him. Sam only nodded slightly as he kept looking down on the floor.