4 Years To Go

                                    

                                          
Location: Reach
July 21, 2559.
1100 hundred hours.
                          
John smiled to himself as he approached Kelly's room knowing she would be in there, Kelly was sitting on the bed when he walked in.
                          
"John" she greeted before he sat next to her and revealed the bar of chocolate he had taken from the mess hall "see I told you that you could be romantic" she said with a warm, welcoming smile on her face while she was opening the bar and breaking off a piece, she gave one to John then ate the rest "what else makes you happy?" He asked traling his fingers across her hand "John I have 4 years of spending time with you to make up and your company makes me very happy and so does chocolate" Kelly answered pulling him up to his feet and John let her lead him out of the room "let's go for a ride Chief" she said.
                          
Kelly was soon behind the wheel of the warthog and John took passenger wondering what she had up her sleeve, the wind caused Kelly's brown hair to fly back and John couldn't help but admire her amazing features now that she wasn't in her armor.
                          
Kelly felt his gaze watching her as she drove and sat back in the seat smiling as she would keep her promise about making up with her affection for him.
                          
She knew the route like she had taken it a hundred times before but this time John would be able to relax and Kelly made it her goal.
                          
The first stop was a lone tree that stood tall and proud as it had braved the long winters and the hot summers of the previous years next to the lake where blue team had gone swimming with the other cadets before, John liked that memory but it also made him sad because Sam had not lived to see the end of the war.


                          
John held Kelly's hand as the headed to rest under the lone tree as the leaves swayed with the with and shaded a strange shape from the warm gaze of the sun "this reminds me of Sam" he said and Kelly's gaze saddened for a few seconds.
                          
Soon John was on his back as Kelly laid in the grass close enough to drape her arm over John's chest "I'm glad you're relaxing a bit" she said after a while and John nodded "it is nice out here but something tells me this isn't the only reason you brought me all the way out here" he said raising an eyebrow.
                          
"John, I told you I have 4 years of affection to make up" she said gripping his arms to pull him up to a sitting position.
                          
Kelly wrapped her arms around John's waist and surprised him with a sudden kiss, John pulled her closer to deepen it with an arm around her waist and the other around her back.
                          
When they pulled apart Kelly had a smile on her face "I have waited 4 long years that" she said "I'm sorry you had to wait" he replied as Kelly got up to head back to the warthog earning a curious look from John.
                          
Kelly had brought a blanket with her but a glance out to the lake told John she wanted to go swimming again like they had done in old times, Kelly returned to sit down again.
                          
"Can we swim instead?" He asked and she nodded before getting up, John took of his t-shirt and shorts leaving him in a pair of boxers.
                          
Kelly was in her bra and underwear as they both took their shoes and socks off, with a new sense of excitement John ran to the bank and leaped into the calm water causing a large splash and waves rippled by the disturbance caused by the large man.
                          
Kelly landed a little more graceful in the water and John was at the surface with a smile Kelly hadn't seen since they were young, she mentally gave herself a pat on the back.
                          
John was no where to be seen until he came from under the water with a rock which sparked a memory from his childhood when he was getting rocks from the ocean with Parisa, John frowned remembering the promise he made to Parisa but now she was gone and he couldn't keep it.
                          
"John are you alright?" Kelly asked embracing him into a hug "I never kept my promise to Parisa" he said tossing the stone back into the water "but you kept your promise to me John, you came back and at least she knew you would have kept that promise" Kelly replied placing a hand on his cheek, John's expression didn't change so Kelly had to pull him in for another kiss.
                          
John began to relax again and Kelly wanted to keep it that way but John was a harder person to read because his emotions were mixed sometimes or overlapped each other.
                          
Kelly brushed her hands through his soaked hair "I'm sorry" she said after they pulled apart, her hands still running through his hair "come on" she said taking his hand again.
                          
A/n. Let's try to go for 500 reads can we?