Deployment
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  • Parts 3
  • Time 32m
  • Reads 137
  • Votes 5
  • Parts 3
  • Time 32m
Ongoing, First published Apr 20, 2016
Mature
I heard a chair scrape against  the wooden floor, a deep gruff voice spoke shortly after, "Scotch on the rocks, and make it a double." 
I looked up and saw his face.  Piercing blue eyes that could stare into your soul with one look, plush pink chapped lips that could make your knees weak as it makes contact with your skin, and light stubble across his jaw. 
"Did you hear me?" He asked rudely, bringing me out of my thoughts about what he could do with his plush lips to me.
"uh yeah, double Scotch on the rocks."
"Thanks" he replied with that husky voice of his.
"You look like you just came from war." I tried to make conversation as I poured his drink.
"If only you knew" He replied.

Brandi Carson. College dropout, Bartender and Ballet student. 
Living with her Best Friend, and almost Sister-in-law, June Crowe. Nurse and 3 months Pregnant with Brandi's Brother's Child, Lieutenant Ryder Carson.

Waiting for his arrival from being deployed in Iraq for months, the girls prepare to give him the great news. But what they didn't know was that he was also bringing back something.  

Could it be good
 or bad?
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