17-year-old Melody Jones was in a moving van going from San Antonio, Texas to Fort Marshall, South Carolina. Why is she living in a military base you ask? It's because that her father is in the army...a colonel to be exact. Her mom is a retired lieutenant. Her brother is currently in Afghanistan fighting in the war. Her sister is in college majoring in sociology. She got out of the van looking at her new house right next door to a general, his wife and two kids. Melody's father, Colonel Luke Jones looked at her worriedly.
"Melody?" The brown-haired girl looked at her father with her blue eyes.
"Yeah?" she said.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, I guess." Melody looked down at the ground. She had moved to a lot of places while her father was on duty or fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. But in a few weeks he will be leaving to fight in the war.
"Colonel Jones?" Luke turned around and saw someone who was wearing an army outfit who was mostly likely a general and his son who is in his early twenties and looked like a 2nd lieutenant. "My name is General Kevin Clarke and this is my son, 2nd Lt. Patrick Clarke." Lieutenant Clarke is very cute... she thought. But then she remembered what her father had said about a soldier dating a teenager. If a solider starts dating a teenager, then the person in the army must end it immediately. But when she was living in England, she had found most British soldiers very good-looking. But, that was when she was eleven.
"General...Lieutenant." her father greeted.
"Colonel." Patrick greeted.
"I'm guessing this must be you family." General Clarke said.
"Yes, sir." Melody's dad said while he saluted. "This is my wife, Joyce and my daughter, Melody."
"I thought you had three kids." Patrick said raising an eyebrow.
"My daughter, Carla is at Reed College majoring sociology and my son, Brad is in Afghanistan."
"Oh...I didn't know." Her father smiled but Melody stormed off. She was really close to her brother.
"Was there something I said?" Patrick asked frowning.
"She's really close to her brother." General Clarke nodded in understanding.
"Oh..." Patrick said looking down. "I didn't know."
"It's fine."
"But...welcome to Fort Marshall." General Clarke said.