Chapter 47- Sydney

Chapter 47- Sydney POV

Talvin asked about my younger years when I was spunky. Those years were filled with fun times until they weren’t. How do I tell him all of this? How do I say to a person I just met about how I am the reason for a law that makes you have a permit? Then it hit me. Like a bandage, just rip it off. The sooner he knows my deepest darkest secret, the sooner he will forgive me for it. “Come here,” I announce to him when he tries to apologize. Pulling him to a secluded area, I take a deep breath and send up a silent prayer to anyone god who is listening. “Oh please, whoever is listening. Would you please help him forgive me? I don’t know what you would want in return, but please let him forgive me.” I plead into the unknown.

          Not knowing where to start, I allow myself to launch into it. “The law about fires and the penalty being death, that is my