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Post by PirateOTC on Jan 7, 2007 16:03:11 GMT
"...No...Mississippi, originally...why do you ask?"
a weird feeling clutches his stomach..
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Post by Jacky on Jan 7, 2007 16:06:46 GMT
Oh god.. it's him. It has to be.. Oh sh!t..
I take a step back.. look down and take a deep breath before I look back to him. "Did your parents die in Vietnam?" My voice wavers.
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Post by PirateOTC on Jan 7, 2007 16:19:16 GMT
He looks at him, his eyes widen slightly.
I knew it! No, I didn't, but, his face...! I felt it! How could I be so blind, so stupid! He's right infront of me! He's been right infront of me!
He doesn't know what to think as he feels his brain short-circuit, part of him being in shock and part of him telling him off for have being so blind and not realized before. His brother! He never told him his name, but now it's undeniable.
"Oh God...! Adam? Adam?!"
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Post by Jacky on Jan 7, 2007 16:23:20 GMT
The second he says my name I know finally that I've been right all along. No illusions this time. No fairy-tale imaginations. This is my brother, it's Max! And he's standing right in front of me..!
I'm not what to do. Should I laugh..? Cry? Hug him? Shout at him for not showing up for 15 years?
I stand there awkwardly, and I look away from his surprised eyes to the ground. "..yeah um.." I look back up and nervously laugh, "..Yeah it's me."
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Post by PirateOTC on Jan 7, 2007 16:27:35 GMT
He lets out a surprised chuckle and looks around then back at him.
"What..- how...- where um..." he smirks as he can't form the words and he take his hand to his face and rub his eyes with his indexfinger and his thumb, then looks down,
"Alright this is..." he looks up at him, not knowing at all what to do either and not what to say. "wow...is it...you're joining the army, this is..." he smirks and his hands starts to shake
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Post by Jacky on Jan 7, 2007 16:30:42 GMT
"..Funny coincidence?" I finish the sentence for him. I chuckle, though only because of the fact that I feel at the end of my nerve. I just stand there not knowing what to do, and it's freaking me out a little. I mean, who thought I'd find Max back here, in Vietnam..? I thought about finding him before, but I always thought I'd just call him up to say hi. Now that he's right here.. saying hi seems the most rediculous thing in the world.
"How.. Um.. how are ya?" I ask. I make a fist of my right hand and I fold my left over it, and I crack the knuckles one by one.
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Post by PirateOTC on Jan 7, 2007 16:36:24 GMT
"I'm...I'm..." he tries to collect himself now. "Good! I'm..well...as good as I can feel I guess...umm..and you? I mean...how's things?"
This is so weird...a bit awkward, but he tries to collect himself and his emotions and start a normal conversation
With the brother you havent seen for the last 15 years and suddenly he's right infront of you...
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Post by Jacky on Jan 7, 2007 16:39:16 GMT
"Yeah.. um.." I smirk and gesture around the campsite. "Just.. trying to find my way around here I guess." I nervously smirk again, "But I'm okay. I eh.."
I can't seem to find my words. This not a time for sarcasm, and with that as my only defence I feel sorta pressed into a corner here.
"I'm okay." I repeat. "I'm good."
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Post by PirateOTC on Jan 7, 2007 16:43:11 GMT
He nods. "Good...great..!" he smirks. "Yeah I'm..I'm trying to...you know...find my way around aswell.." he gestures with his hand towards the camp, losing words aswell. He looks back at him. So many questions, but so wrong time to start asking anything, he knows they have to be back soon again.
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Post by Jacky on Jan 7, 2007 16:46:21 GMT
"..What are you doing here?" I ask him suddenly. When he looks over I smirk nervously and shove my hands down the pockets of my trousers "..I mean.. I thought you would've had grown up to become a doctor, or a dentist or.. something."
I was only four when we were seperated. No wonder that I thought of him as brilliant in that time. He knew so much more than me - about anything and everything. I guess that image 'bout him never really left my mind. Max was a genius in my eyes.. not a soldier.
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