loving your story...
I found it really cool that the setting of you story is actually real. At first, I thought it was just some made up idyllic place somewhere in the northeast but when you started talking about I309, I looked it up and found that everything actually exists, the Nuangola lake and everything. I don't think you mention it but I'm guessing the high school that Steph goes to is Crestwood. From your descriptions in the story, Nuangola seems like a really beautiful place. Anyways, I hope you keep referencing real place names in your story because it just seems to make it more vivid and alive...