Sweet Saturday Sample of "Now and Forever 2, the Book of Danny"

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Chapter One

“This way, Danny,” Cal motioned.         

“No, don’t go that way…” Danny hollered.

Too late. The explosion might have deafened him, but Danny got lucky. Running away from  a bomb one minutes,  the next  Danny woke up in an Army hospital in Germany. Still he was the lucky one, he got the Purple Heart and a trip home. Cal had not been so blessed.

Danny had only been out of the hospital for three days when he hitched a ride on a military plane back to the United States. A long plane ride, provided the chance to say goodbye to his buddies.

“Hey, Captain, ever get the guy in Iraq who killed your brother?” asked Sgt. Josh Benson.

“Sure Benson. Him and the rest, too. All those bastards,” Danny retorted.

“You got the highest score. How many killed?” Benson asked.

“Lost count.”

“More than me.”

“Everybody got more than you, Benson. Jenny behind the desk hit more than you,” Danny joked.

“Can’t see nothin’ on you. Look like they never touched you.” Benson crane his neck to look at Danny.

“Yeah, looks can be deceiving. How’s your leg doing?” Danny asked, moving away to make more room for Benson’s leg casts.

“Good,”

Danny saw the beads of sweat on Benson’s forehead…his pale face and knew his buddy was lying about the pain.

“Glad to be delivering you back to your sister. Say what does she look like again?”

“Stay away from her, Captain. She’s got enough to do takin’ care of me. She can’t be cryin’ her eyes out over givin' it to you,” Benson chuckled.

“Too bad. But then if she looks like you, maybe not!” Danny laughed.

“I’m not tellin’...say Captain…you sleep good?” Benson asked, his brow furrowed.

“Okay, I guess,” he lied.

“I see things. I wake up. I don’t sleep all night,” Benson said quietly, looking down at his hands.

Danny nodded, looking away.

“Will those things go away? Will I always be seein’ Joe or Cal when I go to sleep?”

“I hope not,” Danny said, without conviction, looking down at his hands.

“At least I’m still here. Thanks to you.”

“I told you, just shut up about what happened.” Danny snapped.

“Why?”

“Everybody here does his bit. I did mine…with you. Don’t talk about it,” Danny said in a low voice.

“Okay, okay.”

“You’re one brother I’m returning home,” Danny said softly to himself.

“Hey, Maine, we’re coming down over Syracuse. This is your stop, right?” the pilot hollered back to Danny, who moved up to the cockpit.”

“Yeah. That’s me,” Danny said, reaching for his duffel bag.

“Where do you go from here?”

“I got a ride with Sgt. Marie Willis to Willow Falls,” Danny said.

“Some hick town?” He cocked an eyebrow at the Captain.

“College town.”

“You going to school?”

“Teaching."

"Marie, huh?” The pilot remarked.

“Better warn her about the Captain,” Benson piped up from the back.

“Shut up Benson or I’ll have to break your arms, too,” Danny called.

“Ever see her, Benson? Don’t think the Captain will be interested.”

“She’s female, isn’t she?” Danny raised his eyebrows.

“As far as I know.”

“I’m interested,” Danny said with a snicker.

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