The Journey to Freedom: Path to WW3

Chapter XLVII

It's a very slow process

- two steps forward, one step back

- but I'm inching in the right direction.

Rob Reiner

"Wow! Look at this! These are all the pictures that my grandparents and great grandparents have collected over the years. These pictures are from the 30s all the way up to the 90s." I say excitedly.

Eve opens up the other door to the dresser and asks, "Who's guitar is this?"

I look up and reply, "It's mine. It belonged to my great great grandfather. Then he gave it to my great grandfather but he never learned because he worked the fields. Then he passed it on to my grandfather but he never learned either. When his kids were teens, he moved his whole family to the states. One time when I came with him and my grandmother, I saw the guitar and asked him who it belonged to and he told me the whole story. So I asked him if I learned to play if I could keep it. He told me that I could but only if I learned to play and keep playing it. So I did. I learned to play and then I played it for a while here and had one in the states to keep practicing. I can still play, I just haven't had a chance to play in a few months because of everything that's been happening."

I put the pictures back in the dresser and pick up the guitar. I start tuning it and play around with it. "Can you play me a song?" Eve asks.

I look at her and smile. "What song do you want from me? It has to be pure guitar. I don't have a band to play with me." I say while laughing.

"Well do you know any Texan songs? You are from Texas, so might as well be a Texan song." She tells me.

I start laughing and tell her that I will play a song that I first sang for Genesis when she was a few months old and I was trying to put her to sleep one night when she had colic.

I make the final tunes on the guitar and start playing George Strait's – I cross my heart. While I am playing the guitar, Eve looks at me and smiles. I start singing and Eve listens to the song and chorus. She starts to cry and wipes her tears away. As soon as I finish, I stare at her with tears in my eyes. While I was playing the song I was remembering how Genesis was crying. Halfway through the song, she had stopped crying and gone to sleep. I played that song for her at least a dozen times. And every time she fell asleep, she fell asleep halfway through the song.

"Babe, you really are talented. It will be amazing to see what else you can do once we live together." Eve tells me.

I wipe away my tears and tell her that I can't wait until we get back home and I finally become a husband for the last time.

The sun was setting and I tell Eve to get ready so we can go and get some food. She puts on her shoes and tells me that she is ready. Eve was wearing some shorts, a t-shirt and her sneakers. I had on my cargo shorts, a dragon ball Z shirt and my sneakers. I go to the dresser in the living room and get three throwing knives and put them in my cargo pockets. Eve asks me what those were for, and I tell her that they were just in case materials.

She looks at me and tells me, "Ok, do you have anything for me?"

I ask her what she's good with. And she tells me that she is good with pistols, I tell her that pistols are too loud and in public they make a big scene. "So what do you recommend sweetie?" She asks.

I go to the dresser and give her a throwing knife. "Only one?" She asks.

I look at her and tell her that a knife goes a long way. "But why do you get three knives? And I only get one?" She asks.

I tell her, "because its more likely that multiple guys will come at me, than at you. There's always that one guy that will always try to attack a woman. That's why you get one knife."