Chapter+32



My Story By Juan Cervantes Hello my name is Alex Gomez. I am 21 years old. I have 2 kids, one boy and one girl. My oldest is my son Jose. He is one year old. My youngest is my daughter Lily. She is one month old. I live in Costa Mesa, California. When I was drafted to the army, my wife broke down into tears. I was very sad because I was going to leave my beautiful wife and my wonderful kids alone for a year or two. I promised my wife that whatever happened, I will come home to her. As the year went by, I wrote to her saying not to worry about me and to try and take care of the kids. My wife would write tome saying that the house is very lonely without me and that she missed me so much. Finally I got some orders saying I could go home. I was so excited that I started running around the camp. I was packing up my things and I was saying my farewells to all of the people I met and people I never got to meet. Before I got on the plane, I called my wife and said that I was coming home. She said, “Oh my god are you serious? I am so happy for you. I will go and pick you up at the airport in a couple of hours.” So I got on the plane and I was very excited.

When I got to the airport, I was welcomed by my whole family. My wife called my mother, my father, all of my uncles and aunts, my cousins, and all of my friends. I saw my wife and she started running to me. She was crying and I hugged her tightly like I was never going to let her go. I told her how much I missed her and we kissed. Then I told her, “It’s been a while that I have kissed you.” So then we were in the car and I was telling everyone how excited I was to home with my family. When we got home, they threw a surprise party and the rest of my family and friends were there.

I was standing in the living room and I was going to give a speech. I waited for everyone to settle down and I said: “Thank you all for coming. I am really happy that everyone is here. I have seen many things in the war but I have also seen the good side and the bad side. I’m going to skip the bad side for now and go with the good side. I have seen many people and went to see many places. But out of all those beautiful places, my home is the best place I can be. With my beautiful wife who stuck with me and never gave up on me and my beautiful children who have given me a reason to live. I can only say that I am very happy to be home at last.”

When the party was over, we started to clean up and we went to tuck in the kids and started to read them bed time stories. After they fell asleep, my wife and I went to our bedroom and she started to say how much she missed me and how lonely she has been. Then we laid down on the bed and started talking about how we first met and how she was shy and so was I. we started to talk about our first date and how romantic it was. How every afternoon we walked down to the beach and sat on the sand for hours and we saw the sunset. We just talked and talked until we fell asleep.