Chapter 3: breaking the news to the girls

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Next day.......

Hey AnnaLee and Arianna can you come down here please. John yelled

AnnaLee and Arianna came down the stairs and saw their parents sitting at the kitchen table. The girls their parents faces and they knew something was going on.

What's up? AnnaLee asked

Have a seat you two. John said

The girls sat down

This going to be hard for you to understand and accept. Hannah said

Okay. AnnaLee and Arianna said

I got a phone call yesturday from general kelly I've been ordered to be deployed to Afghanistan in 2 weeks. John said

The girls faces go white and they start to cry.

What? Why? Ypu dont work for them? Your the director of the FBI how is that fair? AnnaLee cried

Why now? Why you? Arianna croed

I know this hard girls. Hannah said

No mom this is beyond this is a new level of hatd. Our dad is leaving us to go to a war country. Arianna cried

I know. Hannah said

I want to know for how long? How long is our dad gonna be gone for? AnnaLee asked

6 months to year. John said

6 months to year. Arianna and AnnaLee cried

Its gonna be an adjustment period. Hannah said

Yes mom itll be an adjustment period for us our dad is leaving us for 6 months to a years. Annalee yelled running up the stairs

I wanna wake up from thos horrible nightmare. Arianna cried following her sister up the stairs.

Well that went well. John said

Yeah so well John  I think our daughter might actually hate us. Hannah cried

They probably do Hannah we just told them I'm leaving them for 6 months to a year to go to a war country. John said

Hannah and john sigh


In Arianna's room....

Why? Arianna and AnnaLee cried into each others arms.

Anna why is dad leaving g to go to a war country? Arianna asked

I don't know Ari I really dont know. AnnaLee said

I dont want him to leave anna. What if he gets hurt or killed. Arianna cried

I feel the same way ari. AnnaLee said

I hate this anna. Arianna said

Me too ari. AnnaLee said

Do we tell them that we dont like this and were scared. Arianna asked

No we act like were not scared that will keep dad safe so he wont worry about us. AnnaLee said

Okay. Arianna said

Both girls cry and hold onto each other and they soon cries themselves to sleep.

Downstairs....

We need to go check on them. John said

Yeah we do need too. Hannah said

Hannah and John head to check on their daughters.

They walk into Arianna's room and find them holding each other with tear tracks running down their cheeks.

John we broke them. Hannah cried

We didnt break them Hannah they just received shocking news. John said

Hannah walks out of Arianna's room, and goes into their room.

In their bedroom.....

Hannah is laying on her side of the bed crying.

John walks into the room to find Hannah is crying. He walks over to the bed and climbs in and pulls her into his arms and let's her cry.

I really dont want you to leave. Its gonna be so hard. Hannah cried

I know. John said with tears in his eyes.

Over the next weeks and a half Hannah watched her daughters shut down more each day it moved closer to John's deployment day. The girls hung out with their parents but there was this big dark cloud hanging over them. The girls rarely talked and if they did it was to each othe. When they did need to talk to the parents it was maybe five words at most.

Everyone was dreading when john had to deploy.


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