The Always War 1-100

Tessa a girl from the town of Waterford City a run down town in the U.S. The country is in the middle of a huge war and guy from Waterford was being recognized to today at a ceremony for his courage and bravery in the war. The whole town gathers to see this one person who has brought pride and joy to this run down depressed city. He gets up to the stage and when the general calls him to come forward and receive his medal he stops. He hesitates and says he does not deserve it because he is a coward and he runs off. Tessa chases after him to go see what the problem was and if he was alright and wondered why he stormed off. She found him puking into a trashcan and thinks he is sick but he tells her that he is not. He tells her that he did terrible things and he should not get a medal for it so he went back home. Tessa laid in her bed thinking about what happened today and was mad about it. She then heard tapping on her wall coming from the room next door which was Gideon's room and she figured out he was tapping in morse code. She got out and encyclopedia and figured out he was tapping SOS. She then devised a plan to go see what was wrong with him and if she could do anything to help him. She gathered some flowers to take to him so his mom would not just think she is there for no reason. His mom lets Tessa in and she goes into Gideon's room. She tells him that she heard his SOS and that she was here to help if he needed anything. He asks her if she could bring him a computer and she did but hides it on the way to his room so if anybody was watching they would get suspicious. Gideon takes apart the computer and rewires it so the government cannot trace what he is looking at then hacks it into the data files of the military and pulls up a video. He tells Tessa she does not want to watch it but Tessa insists on it and it was Gideon dropping bombs on a village killing men, women, and children and Tessa gets upset. Gideon tells her that he killed over 1000 people in the war and that he was no war hero he was a cold killer. Tessa storms out upset and runs away. She goes to her room and slams the computer under her bed upset. She runs down the street upset then thinks of this beautiful spider web she saw before the ceremony and runs back to where it is at. She goes there and two kids were fighting and one falls on top of the web and this upsets Tessa she starts beating on the kids and runs away. Now upset with herself she thinks back about the video. She realized that he was looking for something in it and he still had hope of something. She goes to her room to find Gideon escaped from his room by going through Tessa's wall and floor and he painted it and left it unnoticeable when he left. She watched outside in the dark and spots Gideon walking down the street but was being followed by someone so she decides to go help and try to warn him. She gets close but hears Gideon talking to someone making a deal and he tells the stranger he can operate it perfectly fine and Tessa hides inside of something and covers up with a blanket and listens. All of a sudden she feels the floor vibrate underneath of her and feels the object she is in go forward and up into the sky.