Eleventh Plague 107-206

The next day, Stephen decided to go help Marcus pick vegetables in return for letting him and his father stay at their house. During his lunch break, instead of eating, Stephen decided to go and explore the town. He came upon the school that all of the children attended. Marcus and Violet's son, Jackson went there as well as their daughter Jenny. Jenny however, didn't attend very often because she didn't get along with a lot of the other kids beings she was Chinese and they all thought she was a spy, even though Marcus and Violet adopted her when she was very little. After Stephen had explored, he returned to work and worked the rest of the day. The next day, Jackson suggested that Stephen should go to school with him, and Stephen did. After school they went to the park and played baseball. Stephen didn't play at first, but Jackson and his friends eventually talked him into it and got him to play. Stephen ended up doing really well and enjoyed playing with Jackson and his friends. They then went down to the quarry with many other people and went for a swim. When they returned back home, Stephen began to realize how much these people actually did care, and how he liked being there with him. He remembered how he had taken medicine from Violet the night before and hid it out in the woods, so his Dad and him would have something to trade when his Dad got better, and he felt bad about it. The next day at school, Jenny decided to show up and passed a note to Stephen. It said "I saw what you did last night. Your a bad boy Stephen." He couldn't believe what he was reading, and he just froze, not knowing what to write back. After school that day, he went up to talk to Jenny as she was sitting at the top of the hill drawing her notepad. As he went up to talk to her, Will Henry came up and started claiming that they were spies and that he wanted them kicked out. Will began to push Jenny around, which angered Stephen so he lunged at will with his knife in hand. He hit will, but lost the knife in the process and it fell to the ground. Will then hit Stephen and knocked him on the ground, knocking the wind out of him. After a few more times going around, Stephen ended up on the ground, waking up to the teacher coming up the hill with Will yelling, claiming how Stephen started the fight. This made the teacher upset, but most of all made Jackson not want to speak to Stephen. He tried to explain to Jackson, but Jackson wouldn't listen. That night Stephen made his way out of the house, planning not to return, knowing Violet would take care of his Dad. Stephen made his way out into the woods, finding an old barn where Jenny stays when she gets angry. He went in and saw Jenny and talked to her, explaining what he was doing. The talking led to kissing, and before he knew it, he had woken up in the middle of the night with Jenny's arms around him. After laying there for awhile, Jenny woke up as well and they decided to pull a prank on the Henry's. Jenny had some fireworks and they went to the Henry's house and lit them off while letting all of their animals out of their corrals. Not wanting to get caught, Stephen yelled, "Fort Leonard forever!", which was a civilization not too far away from Settler's Landing that they didn't want anything to do with. The next day Stephen decided to return to Violet and Marcus's house to see his dad one last time. When he did this, he noticed that the house was empty and sensed that something was wrong. He began to walk around town and realized everyone was gathered in the church. He cracked opened a window and listened in on the conversation. All he heard was that they were planning to attack Fort Leonard that night, killing anybody and everybody in sight. After the meeting adjourned, Stephen yelled at Marcus and explained to him what happened, but he said it was too late. They had went to Fort Leonard the night before and killed a few guards and lit the supply house on fire. They knew that after they did that their was not turning back, and they had to kill them all in order to keep the peace.