“What point?”

“Remember when we sat down and did that pros and cons list to see what we had in common?”

Tasha taking a bite of her turkey club sandwich laughs, “Yeah I remember.”

“I told you then we had more in common than what we actually thought.”

“Yeah you were right.”

Not wanting to ruin the mood there was something Alice wanted to ask Tasha without coming across as being insensitive or nosy. Tasha notices Alice facial expression changed from happy to serious.

“What wrong? If you’re in pain I packed some pain meds if you need them?”

“No, I’m fine—–it’s just that I want to ask you something but it may come across as being insensitive or maybe I don’t have the right to ask you at all.”

“Whatever it is I’m an open book so whatever is on your mind please by all means ask away.”

Taking another sip of her wine, “Tash what happened to you over there?”

“Everything.”

By Tasha giving a one word answer Alice took that as she didn’t want to talk about it.

“Uh, so are you still working on cars,”she asked in an attempt to change the subject.

“Al, it’s okay—-I think it’s finally time for me to open up and talk about it. It’s crazy when I first got back my mom kept pressuring me to talk about it and then all these reporters were hounding me for interviews I turned them all down I just wasn’t ready.”

“Why do you feel like you’re ready to open up now?”

“Because you’re the only one that I feel that I owe that much too.”

Tasha takes a deep breath before beginning to speak.

“We received some botched intel that a high ranking terrorist official had planned to utilize the red zone to ship weapons to supply other terrorist organizations with. My unit along with two others were assigned the mission to capture the individual and seize the weapons. When we arrived to execute the mission we were ambushed. There was gun fire, bombs, and smoke everywhere. Between all three units we had lost 85% of our people. I along with three others were the only survivors and I was captured and taken as a prisoner.

“Tash, I can’t even begin to imagine.