3 am

Imagine this.

There's an uber important briefing early in the next morning. You sleep late, because you know your cards, you will not be late the next morning.

3am
The phone you placed under your pillow rings and jolts you awake.

"Sergeant.." a faint female voice (?!)
"Sergeant Chi Heng, this is __'s mom, so sorry to disturb you at this hour, but __'s fiance is giving birth soon. I cant get to __... could you please try to get him to call us?"
"?!"

I take a look at the time.
3:28am, the time read cruelly.

"God..." I groaned, taking a moment to register what just happened.

FUCK! i jolted up.
This is a life we're talking about here, if i were him i would have killed to get to my girl and kid.
I picked up the phone and slammed the company's number in, got the duty personnel to wake up and get the proper arrangement.
Set the phone down for awhile.

Fuck it aint gonna cut it, i wacked my friend's number in and got him up to make sure things are moving.

I took a good 1/2 hour to get back to sleep.

I got up, went to the briefing. Ran some errands. Went back to camp.

Then i heard the good news.
"It's a baby girl!"
When my recruit eventually got back, and i shook his hand and congratulated him... It was the ultimate feeling man, aint nothing that even came close.

"Thank you sergeant, for this morning"