Disappearance

I wake up early this morning so I could make it in time for breakfast and maybe, by chance catch my wife online. I barely made it to the chow hall right before it closed. We didn’t have to go out on mission this morning and I was thinking about sleeping in. Sleep was worth sacrificing in order to by chance see my wife online. I ate chow and then went over to the MWR.

I sent her a quick text message on her phone, letting her know that I was online. She then appears and we chat for a little while. She gets tired and says she’s going to bed. I let her go. I start closing all the open windows on the computer and make my way out. As I begin walking out of the complex Specialist High Speed tells me that Staff Sergeant Preacher was just looking for me in the gym. I ask how long ago and he tells me 15 minutes. I tell him thanks and start walking back toward the pad. That’s odd, I wondered. They never look for me unless something urgent has come up. Sometimes, I don’t even want to be found.I get back to the pad and I meat Staff Sergeant Code Talker. He tells me they’ve been looking for me. I told him that I wrote on my door that I was going to chow, then MWR, then the PX. “What’s up?” I ask. “We were going to go out on an urgent mission. They called us up and were looking to scramble some guys to go out.” I found out that we were going to go up north to assist some personnel in distress. MAN! I would’ve loved to go! I guess they cancelled the urgent mission at the last minute. I don’t know why. Maybe it was because we took forever to move out. It would’ve been cool not only to help someone else out but also to see something different.

I began to worry about getting in trouble. They were looking for me and they couldn’t find me when an urgent mission came up. It doesn’t look good. But I had written where I was going on the write-board outside of my door. I know I have an alibi but I knew I was still going to hear it. I would explain that I was in the MWR like I wrote outside my door and they went looking for me in the gym. Next time I think I’m going to underline it and write it in big letters.