Pregnant and Alone: A Soldier's Journey Home Part V A Chance Encounter Part V Later on that night, around 2200 Marie was set up in her own room upstairs. Simon was there as was Aélita, who had left briefly to help Simon close the restaurant. “How are you feeling Marie?” Simon asked concerned. “I’m doing better.” I think the IV as well as the meds they have been giving me are helping. “Aélita, did you by chance grab my phone?” “Yes I did.” Getting up she gave it to Marie. “Thank you.” She said taking the phone from her. Looking through her contacts he found the number Jeremy’s brother had given her incase Jer was deployed or she didn’t hear from him; Sending him a short txt seeing if it was okay to call, that she needed to talk to his mom. Shortly after the text was sent she got a reply, saying that it was fine, his mom was still up. And then asked what was up, she replied saying that she wanted to talk to his mom first before she told him. Dialing the number for Cathy, Jer’s mom, she held the phone to her ear. “Hello.” Cathy answered. “Hey there Cathy It’s Marie.” “Marie, is everything okay?” “Yes everything is fine I just called to tell you something; And to ask you something first?” “Okay, what is it Hun?” “Well, have you heard from Jer recently? Aélita heard from Theo about a month and a half ago but we haven’t heard anything since then, and I’m worried because she said she heard an explosion in the background as they were hanging up the phone.” Marie could hear the sharp intake of breath as Cathy processed what she had just told her. “No, I haven’t heard from him. Which isn’t very unusual until he was placed in a low security base the last time he was deployed I only heard from him twice in the first year he was gone. …but everything was about to change
