Once there lived a women in Rome named Ereana, she was going to have a child, but Ereana and her husband Ereas, already knew that they were going to have baby girl,they were going to call her Stephon.
They lived in a small house,with a kitchen, three bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room, and a place were they would eat. They had an extra bedroom because it would be for visiting family, but now they would use it for Stephon.
When Stephon she had black hair, blue eyes, and red lips, as she got older things started to changed. The family started to loose money, their farm animals where dying, and Stephon was getting to the point to where she was starting to hate living there so, when Stephon turned eighteen she made up her mind.
Stephon made up her mind, she was going to tell her mother and father that she waned to move to another part of Rome. They replied with gasps, when she told them in the grassy open field.
“ Why would you want to leave this place, it is your home,” said her mother.
“ I do not think I belong here,” said Stephon
“ Of course you belong here,” said her father.
“ Yes your father is right, you do belong here, you are part of this family,”said Stephon’s mother.
“ Besides, what makes you think that you don’t belong here with us, your parents?” Asked Stephon’s mother once again.
“ I think I don’t belong here because, I feel that as I get older the family is growing apart,” said Stephon.
“ Well you do belong here and that is that,” said Stephon’s father, loudly.
“ Why not I am a lot older now, why wont you realize that,” Stephon yelled back.
“ I do realize that you are older, but we will not move from our home,” yelled Stephon’s father.
“ Fine then if we wont move, then I’ll just pack my stuff and leave my self,” yelled Stephon, turning towards the house.
“ Stephon, come back here,” said her mother.
“ No, don’t say anything else, she is right she is old enough, let her go,” said her father.
As Stephon was walking to the house, she was thinking about where she would go, how far away, or what kind of people she would meet.
At dinner Stephon’s mother and father didn’t say anything, then finally Stephon’s father asked.
“ So Stephon, what kind of job do you want to have when you get to where ever you are going?” Asked Stephon’s father.
“ Well I haven't really thought about that, but know that you mention it I would like to be a Baker,” said Stephon.
“ A baker, well that is suppressing,” said her mother.
“ Why is that surprising?” Asked Stephon.
“ Well, it’s surprising because I haven’t really seen you cook,” said Stephon’s mother again.
“ Well you haven’t really because, I haven’t at all, and that is why I what to ask you to teach me mother,” said Stephon lying.
“ Sure I would be happy to teach you, but how long are you wanting to learn,” asked her mother.
“ Only for a week,” answered Stephon.
“ Only a week, how much do you want to learn?” Asked her mother.
“ What do you mean?” Asked Stephon.
“ What I mean is, you can learn to cook a lot, especially if you want to make a lot of money for one thing,” said Stephon’s mother.
“ Well I guess that I don’t want to learn a lot then,” replied Stephon, while she yawned
Then she asked if she could be excused, her mother and father replied with a yawning yes.
Then she got up and went to her room, she opened the door and then closed it if a slam, then she opened it and said.
“ Oops, sorry,” then closed it again.
As Stephon lay in bed she heard the dishes and glasses ding as her mother was cleaning the table. After a while she saw the lights go out threw the crack at the bottom of the door, then she fell asleep.
The next morning Stephon woke up, got dressed, washed her face, then went to see what her mother was doing. Her mother was cooking, that surprised Stephon, that made her think.
“ My mother and father must really not want me to go, but I must I want to see the rest of Rome, not just the market, the fields, and the bath house,” wondered Stephon.
“ Good morning Stephon,” said her mother.
“ Are you ready to learn how to cook?” She asked.
“ Yes but where is father?”Stephon asked.
“ He is out side siting by the pillars,” she answered.
As she walked out side she was thinking if the rest of Rome was like it.
“ What are you thinking about?”Asked Stephon’s father.
“ What do you mean?” Stephon asked.
“ Well you were standing there like you saw a ghost,” said her father.
“ I was just thinking about what the rest of Rome looked like,” she said.
“ Well I’ll tell you one thing, it doesn't look like this place, that is for sure,” her father replied.
“ Really what does it look like?” Stephon asked.
“ Well there’s the palace it is really clean, and big because the king and queen have servants to do all their chorus for them. Then there are other rich people, they are sometimes rude to their servants, because that is the way they are,” said Stephon’s father.
“ How do you know that they are rude?” Asked Stephon.
“ Well I used to be a servant myself and I still regret that I ever wanted to have that job.” Replied Stephon’s father.
“ You better go to your mother now, she is waiting for you,” said her father.
“ I guess you are right,’ said Stephon.
As she walked back inside she heard nothing, she wondered where her mother was, then she looked in the living room and saw her mother, she was asleep, snoring.
“ Well would you look at that, she fell asleep, well I guess I will be going.” said Stephon greedily.
As she packed her stuff she thought about what her parents would do when they find out that she left, but then she said to her self that she would write a letter saying that she went, and that they should not try to stop her, because she wanted to do this for a long time then she wrote Love Your Dearest Stephon.
As Stephon sneaked out the back door, she saw someone or something in the bushes talking to them self. Then all of a sudden she asked.
“ Who’s there?”
“ It is me, Julia, short for Juliana, who’s asking?” said Julia.
“ I’m asking, Stephon, I want to know what you are doing,” said Stephon.
“ Do you really need to know?” Asked Julia.
“ Yes because, you are in my families yard,”Said Stephon.
“ Well I’m trying to put my dog’s leash on,” said Julia.
“ Why are you in the bush and not somewhere else?” Stephon asked.
“ If you really must know, it’s because he ran in to it,” said Julia.
“ Stephon!” Yelled Stephon’s father.
“ Quick, hide behind that bush,” said Stephon, pointing to a large bush.
“ Stephon, where are you?” Yelled Stephon’s father once again, while he looked around, but since he didn’t spot Stephon and Julia he thought she had left a long time ago, so he went back inside.
“ Come on let’s go,” whispered Stephon.
As Stephon and Julia walked farther and farther away from Stephon’s house, Julia started to ask Stephon where she was going. Stephon answered that she wanted to see the rest of Rome, and what a coincidence Julia said she wanted to see the rest of Rome too.
As they both got closer and closer to the middle part of Rome, they got excited. When they got there, they were very excited.
They saw the palace which was like Stephon’s father said it was like. They saw big markets, small markets, clothes shops, shoe shops, bath houses, large pillars with writing, the Colosseum, and they even saw statues of men, women, children, and babies.
“ Wow, those statues are really creative, and artistic,” said Julia.
“ Yeah, I know, they are carved so well that it looks like they are real,” said Stephon.
As the two young women walked threw Rome, Stephon thought about a job, she wanted to be either a baker, or a servant that would work at the Palace, but she was doubting she was going to be a servant because she didn't forget what her father said, about never forgiving himself, she didn’t want to doubt herself but, she really did want to see the palace up close.
“ What are you thinking about Stephon?” asked Julia.
“I was thinking about what I want to do for a living,” answered Stephon.
“ Well what do you want to be ?" asked Julia.
“ I’m not sure, maybe a baker, or a servant in the Palace, what about you ?” said Stephon.
“ Well I think I want to be a servant too.” said Julia.
“ Do you want to go with me and ask, if we could work there ?” asked Stephon.
“ sure, why not,” said Julia.
As they walked up to the Palace their eyes widened, and their jaws dropped, because they thought it was very big.
When they came inside there were people catered all around the place, then every one began to calm down as the king himself walked, then he spoke.
“ Every one line up, and I myself will judge you for this job,” said the king.
Then as he walked past everyone that wanted to work for the king and his family, he pointed and said if they were good enough or not.
“ Nope, uhuh, nope, nope, nope, uhuh, yes, nope, uhuh, nope, yes,” said the king.
Then finally he came up to Stephon and Julia, and said they were excepted, they were so happy. As every one started to walk out, the king said.
“ The ones that were selected must be here tomorrow, and wear their best clothes.”
The next day as the king said Stephon and Julia got dressed and went to the palace. When they got there, the other women showed them to a room with supplies, they said that it was the storage room, they kinda already knew that.
The women showed Stephon and Julia around the palace, it was bigger than they thought, as the women walked around they talked to the servants that already worked there.
One of the servants that already worked there said that Stephon and Julia were the nicest people that worked at the palace, because the other servants would only do what they wish, and be sent out by the large pillars by the king.
“ That is their punishment?” asked Julia.
“ Yes, because the king thinks that if he did that the servants would think they are still getting paid, but when they do, they won’t have the money they expected, and they would want to quit.” said Shirley one of the servants.
“ When do we get paid?” asked Julia.
“ We get paid, every two weeks, don’t you ever read the papers on the walls?”said Stephon.
“ Well not really,” replied Julia.
As the women walked up to a balcony Shirley said that since they work at the palace they could sleep in the extra rooms, and Stephon and Julia were delighted. So that night Julia and Stephon settled in and fell asleep.
That night Stephon wanted to get a drink, but since she did not know where the kitchen was she accidentally went in to the kings bedroom, then she heard something, bump, crunch, snap, it was a person, he didn’t know the place either, then that person bent over the bed and had a knife.
“ Oh my gosh,” thought Stephon, “that person is trying to kill the royal family.”
So Stephon looked for something to hit the person with, then she found a stick from the stack of wood for the fire place, and waked the person on the floor, and when Stephon found the person, she realized it was a women, she was unconscious so Stephon dragged her out of the room, and dragged outside, into a wagon, then went back to the palace and into her bed, then fell asleep.
The next day she woke up, got dressed, then woke Julia up.
“ Just let me sleep for fifteen more minutes, please mom,” said Julia, still asleep.
“ Come on get up, it’s time to work,” said Stephon, pulling Julia up.
“ Stephon, Julia, wake up it’s time t eat then it’s time for work,” said Shirley, trying to find their room, “oh there you are, what are you doing Stephon?” said Shirley.
“ I’m trying to wake Julia up, she’s a heavy sleeper,” said Stephon.
As Shirley got out a bell out of the closet she rang it saying.
“ Get up Julia, get up,”
“ Okay I’m, up I’m up,” said Julia, waking up.
When every one was up, they went to the kitchen, and sat down, but then got up to set the table.
The oldest servant Grace thirty-two years old came up to the table and said.
“ Shirley, you are going to cook dinner tonight.”
“Does everyone have to cook once in a while,” asked Stephon, to Shirley.
“ Yes,” replied Shirley.
When everyone finished they were excused to their jobs, and from that day on Stephon, Julia, and Shirley were good friends.
And that is the story of THE UNKNOWN HERO!
THE END
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