Wow. That was something to hear. Diesel never really laughed? He wasn’t happy? I furrowed my eyebrows in thought. “I’ll miss this when you leave,” Alice said. I blinked quietly. “Miss what?” I wondered out loud. I’ve still got a few months to go and I couldn’t wait until the day comes that I get home to Erix. He slipped into my mind often and it’s hard to fight depression. I don’t fight it when I’m alone though. Diesel sort of distracts me. He’s got a good way of distracting anyone like mindless conversation about little things. One of the conversations we had was about hats. Who talks about hats for an hour? Diesel. “This,” Alice replied. “Diesel is just going to go back to his normal serious self again when you leave, I’m sure of it. Plus, I’ll miss our little arguments. You

