Songbird by Lisa Edwards

Author:Lisa Edwards [Edward, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

Speaking to Riley became the highlight of my day whenever he had the opportunity to call, which unfortunately was only two or three times a week.

On the days he couldn’t phone he would send me sneaky text messages, telling me he loved me and missed me. I would read these messages over and over again, trying to imagine his voice saying those words. He had given me his schedule so I knew which nights he would call, and I would make sure I was home and alone so we could talk without interruption.

It became a ritual for me to pour a glass of wine, and curl up on the couch waiting for the phone to ring.

I loved hearing about what he was up to, and the funny things that the other guys in the unit had done. But as the weeks went by, I began to feel more and more like a spectator to Riley’s life, and less like a part of it.

He would tell me about training that they were doing including helicopter flying, and how hard things were or how much fun they were. But I didn’t really know what some of the military terms meant. At first I would ask him to explain things to me, but after a while I felt a bit silly for not knowing, so just let him talk. He would talk about people I hadn’t met and places they went that I had never been. He would ask me what I had been up to, but my life seemed so boring compared to his, that I usually just skimmed over the details.

It had been three weeks and I was feeling further away from him than ever before. But most of all I just missed ‘him’. I missed seeing him and touching him and being able to cuddle up to him at night. I missed his facial expressions; his piercing sapphire blue smiling eyes, and the way he could make me feel just by looking at me.

I decided we needed to make more memories of our own that would help us feel closer when we couldn’t be together. So it became a project for me to find things to do when he was back in Melbourne for Christmas.

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