The Battle

General Macmillan

When Warrant Officer Rick and I got to the station, I could see that the tent was huge, there were guards with guns, one of the guards had a scar on his cheek. They held their guns to their chest and they looked like status at first. when we went inside, I could see that there was a ton of soldiers around the table the I spotted the General who was standing over a big table, when we approach him, he turned to me. "Well, hello there Mr. Cipriano. How are you?" He held out a hand and I shook it. "It's nice to meet you too General"

"Call me General Macmillan."

"Yes sir."

He looked at me and smiled. "There is a reason I called you here." He folded his hands and leaned against the table. "Now, there is a war coming up in two months against Germany, am I correct Mr. Cipriano?"

"Yes sir. You are correct." he smiled again and he looked back at the guys. "Well, you may be 18 Mr. Cipriano but you are going into battle with us, right?"

"Yes sir. I am going into battle with you guys, I would serve my country, protect my people and I will do it for my father."

"Well son, I never had a soldier like you before, your different than any other soldier I had in the past years." He grinned at me then turned back to the table and he began to speak. "Now the war, Mr. Cipriano would you join us please?" I nodded my head and walked up to him and I stood next to him, then he spoke again. "Now everyone here is our first 18-year-old soldier, he is going to be our sniper, when we go into war." Everyone clapped, even General Macmillan was clapping also. A smile crept on my face and General Macmillan spoke again. "Now everyone, it's going to be a tough battle."

I was worried about the battle, but I had to do it for my father. General Macmillan looked at me then at his soldiers. "Now everyone, about in a month, come back here, every soldier is going to study were there going and so everyone knows where to go and what to do." I looked at everyone and they nodded their heads. General Macmillan turned to Warrant Officer Rick, who was just leaning against the wall "Warrant Officer Rick, about in one month, would you like to take Mr Cipriano and help him study." Warrant Officer Rick looked at me then at the General.

"Yes sir."

"Good, now you guys know the drill about in a month." I looked at General Macmillan then thought of Rowan then I asked, "what about Rowan?" General Macmillan looked at me, then at Warrant Officer Rick. Warrant Officer Rick walked towards me. "Um Rowan will not be joining us, he failed to describe and shooting the targets, I'm sorry Jeff. But you may go now if you like to go to talk to Rowan." I looked at him then asked, "so does Rowan know?"

"Yes, he knows."

"Well I will go talk to him." I said in a steady voice, he nodded his head and I left, I didn't know if I was sad or even mad, I looked at the sky which night has fallen, I went to go find Rowan, I stopped by the dorm, when I heard someone speaking German on the phone, suddenly I realized who voice it was.

It was Rowan, I went to the side of the tent and waited until he was done, he spoke German but I couldn't make out of what he was saying, I waited for a minute then he stopped talking, I quickly walked away from his little conversation, when I got far enough I started towards the dorm again, when I got in there, Rowan was sitting on his bed, with his head buried in his hands, when I approached him he looked up and gave me a soft look. "Hey man, how are you." I tried to not be worried that Rowan may be one of the German people, that we were going to fight in battle with in two months, "I'm good and are you going to be okay with not going into battle?" He gave me a dirty look then his expression was soft. "Yeah, I will be fine." I bet he just failed on purpose just so he can't go into battle. I thought to myself for a minute, then I walked over to my bed and laid on it. Didn't even bother to take off my clothes, when I was beneath the covers, I looked over at Rowan who was sharpening his knife, I had a really bad feeling about Rowan stabbing me at night with his knife, but then again, he wouldn't because there are tons of witnesses in here, so I'll probably be fine, I hope.