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“You walk like a… you walk like my dad used to,” he said quietly. “Like there’s a threat around
every corner. Like you’re anticipating something bad is going to happen at any second.”
Frankie laughed then, breaking the tension.
“You pegged him,” Frankie replied joyfully. “Thank you for my popcorn, kind sir.”
The kid blushed all over again. “You’re welcome, ma’am.”
With that, we walked toward the checkout with our nearly two whole buggies of food and crap
that we probably didn’t need.
Including a metal detector.
After swiping my temporary pre-paid card for all the shit that we didn’t need, it finally occurred
to me that my parents might be able to see the changes that was supposed to be occurring with my
bank account.
According to Tim and the commander, I’d be paid for two years of service here in the next couple
of days.
When I said as much to Frankie, she shook her head.
“Don’t worry about that,” she said. “When you asked me to marry you, and right before you left,
you and I got a joint account. All of your money is still there, in our savings.”
I pulled her to me and pressed a kiss to her cheek.
“You could’ve used some of that money to help with the down payment on the house,” I pointed
out.
She nodded.
“I could have, yes,” she agreed. “But you weren’t here to say yes or no, and I didn’t want to be
that woman that took advantage of her soldier fiancée that was out on deployment.”
“There are definitely different types of people in this world,” I said as I let her go so she could push one of the carts. “And you’re not the type to ever take advantage, baby.”
***
“Look!” she cried, coming out of the water with a beaming smile on her face.
I looked at the ugly, discolored ring, and grinned right back.
How could I not?
“Add it to your pile, baby,” I laughed.
We were on the beach.
Well, I was on the beach.
