After landing at Gatwick airport me and Gerard grabed our hand-luggage and got off the plane. we headed over to the arrivals terminal. After waiting in line for around ten minutes, we had our passports and work permits checked out. We then went to baggage claim and grabbed our suitcates from baggage claim. We took are cases and headed out to a waiting area. Gerard saw a tall guy with strawberry blonde hair and bright blue eyes. He was dressed in a old grey t shirt and some cargo style pants. He was holding up a sign that said
"BRITISH ARMY ESCORT - WAY BROTHERS"

" Mikes, our taxi is this way!" Gerard said as he tugged on the back of my black flag shirt. We walked over to the guy.

"Uh hi... I'm Gerard and that's my brother Mikey. We're here for the army escort thing ."
The guy smiled

"Okay, can I see your passports please?" He kindly asked.

Yeah, sure." Gerard said as he got out his passport, I got out mine and handed it to the guy. After the guy looked at our passports for a few seconds, he smiled again.

"Okay, Gerard and Mikey , come with me." He said as he started to quickly walk towards the exit of the terminal. Me and Gerard walked with the guy.

"Oh,yeah... I'm Bob. Bob Bryar, uh, I'm a commander in training." The guy said
Gerard smiled ,

"Awesome!! Uh, so... Yeah. Are you doing training too, uh I mean the same training as us??" He asked.

"Well, kinda? I mean I'm gonna be around you guys, but I'm gonna be telling you what to do and helping you out... Two of my childhood friends are doing the same training as me... Its pretty fun" Bob explained

We walked into the darkness of the early morning, when I breathed out I could see my breath. Bob led us to the taxi that was waiting for us, after putting our suitcases in the boot, the three of us got into the taxi .

"So.. Who are your friends?" I quietly asked.

"uh.. I will show you a picture of them both, it'll be easier than explaining what they look like." Bob said as he got out his phone and showed me and Gerard a photo. It was of Bob and two other guys.

One was considerably shorter than Bob. He look to be about 5 feet tall. He had shot cut black hair and two tattoo sleeves. He had a big grin on his face. The other guy looked to be about a few crntermeters taller than Bob. He had frizzy chestnut brown hair that came down to his shoulders, I saw he was holding an acoustic guitar.

"Okay these are my two friends who I just told you about, so the short guy who has a hell of a lot of tattoos is Frank. He is openly gay and he eats skittles like no tomorrow. And the guy with the the guitar is Ray. Me and Frank are trying to figure out his sexuality.... But uh yeah, he plays guitar so good. He's like a god!!" Bob said as he smiled.

Me and Gerard smiled. back. This Ray guy looked cute...

After a twenty minuet drive, we reached the army base. It was still slightly dark, and the sun was just starting to rise. The three of us got out of the taxi and after me and Gerard got our suitcases, Bob took us inside the main building. We walked behind Bob, and he led us into one of the recreation rooms. Sitting at a desk was another guy. His long and straight jet black hair was tyed back into a loose pony tail. He had pail skin and chestnut brown eyes. This guy had a small amount of stubble on his chin. He was wearing a short sleaved red shirt and a pair of navy blue track suit bottems. I saw he was consentrating on writing something down on a scrap of paper. He looked beyond tired, like he haddent slept in a few days.

I saw Bob walk over to this guy, and he put his hand on the guys shoulder.

"uh.. a little better I guess.. can, can .. can we go get some breakfast in a minuet??" the guy asked quietly as he rubbed his eyes and then smiled slightly at Bob. Bob smiled back.

"that's real good, I'm just going to go show the two new guys to their rooms, then I'll be back. then we can go get somthing to eat."

"okay Bob.. see you in a few minuets then yeah?"

"yeah Bert... I will see you in a few minuets" Bob said as he smiled.

Bob walked back over to me and Gerard, then we started to walk down a diffrent hallway.

"who was that guy?" Gerard asked

"That was Bert McCracken. He's like you, he's traing to go to Iraq... I mean we all are, but he is doing the same training as you..Bert has been here for around a month now... Lately he has been feeling down, so I have just been talking to him.. He said that talking to some one helps him." Bob explained

Gerard just nodded. I smiled slightly.

Bob led us into another large room. It had creame coloured walls and large windows. The floor was wooden. This room was currently empty. It had ten bads, these were all made neatly. Next to each bed was a cabinate, and there was personal belongings from each person in each one.


"Okay Gerard, Mikey. This is your dorm. Now that you two are here, all ten beds are occupied"

"uh.. who else is in this dorm then?" I asked

"lets see.. there is me, the two guys I told you about, Frank and Ray. Bert is also in the dorm. Then there ar four other guys, Pete, Patrick, Andy and Joe. Thoes guy are most probably having breakfast at the moment. If you two can put your stuff on the end two beds, then follow me, we can go get some breakfast. " Bob said as he smiled


"yeah sure.." Me and Gerard said in unison as we both walked over to the end two beds. We put our stuff down and then we walked quickly back over to Bob. Then we walked back to the rec room, got Bert and then walked to the cafiteria, this was in a seperate biulding.

Notes

woah. I wrote a lot ... haha sorry I don't usually write a lot in a small amount of time, but uh yeah I guess I did for once?? XD
anyway, do you guys like this?
I have the next chapter planned out already (it might take me a little while to write though, I have been given a lot of homework to do for my GCSE's and ugh.. it sucks :( ) haha
thanks a bunch for taking your time to read this.
don't forget to comment and rate and tell me how I could improve my writing.