Nixon Valent
Spooky Scary Skeletons
He nodded. "A piece of me is happy that I got to meet you too. Otherwise my dad would still be bitching about grandbabies." He leaned over and grabbed one her hands gently as he held it. "Unless you went through it you wouldn't understand, it's just one of those things. A piece of me died by that lake. I'm the unlucky one in the family who faced death while active duty. I was going to be sent out again after my wounds healed but I started stressing out and freaking out to the higher ups about it. I got sent home. A couple months later I started college. As far as I know Apollo never got shot he just got shot at and my dad I have no idea. There was a picture taken by someone of me that day with the other two that lived. My dad carries it in his wallet along with a picture of my mother. I think he likes that photo of me so much considering I just lived and didn't die that day."