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    Jayne Sullivan, Army Brat
    Jayne Sullivan, Army Brat
    Jayne Sullivan, Army Brat
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    Jayne Sullivan, Army Brat

    By Cathy Sharpe

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    Being a part of a Military family, Jayne Sullivan is quiet, shy and always follows the rules. Well, almost always. One day, Jayne decides to take matters into her own hands. On an unfamiliar Army base in the Alabama summer heat, she finds herself lost, confused and ill. A heart-warming story of a child and how military life aff ects her and those she loves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 12, 2010
    ISBN9781450261593
    Jayne Sullivan, Army Brat
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    Cathy Sharpe

    CATHY SHARPE grew up in Anderson, Indiana loving books and reading everything her teachers could provide. With her love for children, she worked at the public library and led the summer reading program to success. She currently works for the Postal Service and finds that writing provides her with the creativity she loves. In her spare time, Cathy loves to garden. She and her husband, David enjoy spending free time with their daughter, Ashley, their pug,Phoebe, and at their backyard pond.

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      Jayne Sullivan, Army Brat - Cathy Sharpe

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter One

      Jayne Sullivan was in the third grade. She had dark hair that she was now wearing at her shoulders and hazel green eyes that always reminded her of a cat. She was quiet, sensitive, worked hard at her school work, she minded her manners and she never broke the rules.

      Rules were her family’s code, and this family was Military. There were always rules, no matter where they lived and lately it seemed, they lived everywhere. She never thought much about who she was other than she was 8 years old and an army brat. She always thought it was funny when people called her that, because she wasn’t in the army and she wasn’t a brat; now her little brother, Greg that was another story.

      Greg was the kind of little brother, who was always busy building something or trying to fix what was not broken. His favorite hobby was eating, It seemed to Jayne that Greg ate all the time. Now to look at him, you would never know, he was as skinny as a bean pole. But she was sure it was because he was always on the move, unless he found someone to play a video game with him. He was seven years old and in the second grade. He looked a lot like their mom; he had deep blue eyes, red hair and freckles across his nose. He was fun to play with had a great imagination and was always looking for an adventure.

      Jayne’s mom was an army wife. Her name was Gretchen; she stayed at home to take care of things while her husband was away. Jayne thought her eyes were as blue as the sky and her hair was the most beautiful red. Not the red like a crayon or a goldfish, but a golden red that would shine when the sun hit it. She was organized and always on time, something she learned from being a military wife. She was always smiling, laughing, baking and enjoying her family. She never let on to Jayne or Greg if she didn’t like being alone so much and they had never seen her upset or even mad. But, she insisted that it was better to be on the base with him than to stay home where her family was. James and her children were her family and she would keep her family together at all costs.

      Sometimes, she cried on the day her husband came home, but she always reassured them, saying that they were tears of joy. Her job was to just keep her little family as normal as possible, even if that meant her husband was gone a lot. Lately it seemed he got called out more than normal, but she would smile and say it was ok, even if her heart was breaking, she kept the pain away from her children.

      Gretchen didn’t particularly like staying on base, but her husband insisted he worried less when they did. She kept things simple and she could get them packed and moved in just a few days. Even when her life got hectic, she would still take the time to sit and play games with her children, and in each city they lived in she made sure that they would find interesting things to visit and would always learn something about it before they left. They always got their library cards. She would let them choose books that they were interested in, and then read to them and tucked them into bed every single night.

      Jayne’s dad’s name was James, he kept his hair very short but you could tell it was the same dark chocolate brown as hers. Jayne thought her dad was very handsome and when he would smile you always just had to smile back. He liked to make her laugh, he understood when she was scared, and he knew how to make her feel safe and always checked for monsters under her bed, he played games and wrestled with her brother. She loved it when he was home. He was a Sergeant Major, he was in special operations in the Army, she was not sure what he did, but she did know that they had moved five times, that she could remember and he was gone an awful lot. His job took him from home frequently and sometimes without much warning. Jayne always had a hard time with him leaving. But, she knew that he was important and people needed him all over the world. But right now, she needed him too.

      Chapter Two

      This was one of those times when her dad was what the army called tdy (tour of duty) that meant he was away and she did not know where. Her dad never spoke of where he went or exactly what he did. Come to think of it, he didn’t mention it at all. He would just tell her it was important business that he took care of and she was not to worry. When Jayne would go to bed, she would stay awake for hours and wonder what kind of business was so important that she couldn’t go with him or that he couldn’t just make a phone call to see how they were.

      Earlier that night, her mom had tucked her into bed and told her to try to sleep, knowing that she would not go to sleep that easily, and now here it was in the darkest part of the night, the time of night that her imagination ran wild and she was too frightened to sleep or even get out of bed. The time of night that she was sure there was a noise in the hall or a sound under her bed. Darkness scared her above everything else, because just like the thought of not knowing where her Dad was, she didn‘t know what else was out there. Yes, she thought, it is pretty stupid, after all I am eight years old now but still it could be there.

      The not knowing, the not seeing those were the things that bothered her the most. It was in this moment laying frozen

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