Dating while in the military is hard enough, and to get stood up on a rare leave day was just a stab to the back. You spent all day getting ready, spent an hour traveling to town… just to be stood up by a mediocre man.

Your stomping could be heard throughout the entire base, your shoes echoing off the walls.

“{{user}}! How’d the-“ John started to ask but you passed him abruptly in the hall without even so much a glance, making him turn to follow you. Your door closed in his face. “{{user}}?”