Locked and Loaded

""So, Pink, do you want to be my girlfriend while we're in Iraq?"

"Yeah... about that... I don't really want to date anyone, plus, this is a horrible time to start a relationship. Sorry."

"Its cool, I guess. I understand."

For the next hour we talked about our lives back home and what brought us to join the Army.

He talked about how he grew up in and out of foster homes and longed for someone to belong to, so he joined a gang. He talked about his time with the gang and how he got shot twice and stabbed once.

"Dude, gangs are stupid."

He gets a little irritated about this, "What did you say?"

"You heard me. Seriously, gangs are stupid. I don't understand why people would want to be a part of something like that."

He grabs a knife, flips it open and points it at me."
Pink's War