Enlistment

Enlistment
(Sweet Embrace: One)
30 June 2016
Clam Gulch, AK, United States
Raleigh hums as he waits for Yancy to finish packing his Army ruck (years of practice have made it an art) as Jazmine pouts on Wanda's couch. She's too young to come with and the PPDC recruiter had barked that she would get in the way. Yancy's fist had clenched and Raleigh'd ground his teeth to keep from laying the guy out flat with his fist.
They'd taken their sister to Mom's friend and had been sleeping on Wanda's couch ever since. Jazzy had been given her own room and a studio for her designs, but since they were leaving, she'd pulled out the couch bed that would be coming with them to the Academy's tiny space.
"Why do you have to go?" she whines quietly, hurt in her expressive blue eyes that she shares with Raleigh.
"So nothin' like what happened after ... Maman will happen to you. Gotta protect ya, y'know? It's Older Brother 101," Yancy answers from the doorway, catching Jazzy as she sails into his arms.
«We'll email you all the time, Jazzy,» he promises in French.
"I'll try to haggle for some tea in the markets," she sniffs, wiping away her tears only to have more spill over.
Raleigh smiles around his own tears as he cocoons her in a sibling hug that lasts a long time.
Wanda's light footsteps pull them out of their reverie, each of them wiping the other's tears away with tender fingers. Yancy and Raleigh give perfunctory hugs Wanda doesn't return because she's stiff as a board.
Both of them know it's probably the last time they'll see Jazzy for a while so they wave for as long as she stays in sight.
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