𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐄 | ❝ I'm with the Shelby's, you lot are always in trouble. ❞
━ IN WHICH Sylvette Taylor returns home after nearly twenty years to find a shell in place of her best friend. Or, alternatively, Sylvette Taylor pays the p...
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Being a child in England during the late 1890s wasn't the easiest. Especially when you didn't have a real family to turn to when the times got tough.
When Fantasia Taylor died shortly after giving birth to her only child, the Shelby family took the child in. Arthur Shelby Senior had children of his own, but he'd known the Taylor's since he was a young lad and was doing them a favor.
The young girl, Sylvette, grew up with the Shelby siblings. Growing close to one, in particular, Thomas Shelby. Being the same age gave them room to grow together.
They became the best of friends, never straying from one another's sides. That was until the government stepped in, accusing the family of stealing the child. She didn't want to leave but soon enough, she was on a ship to France.
At just nine years old, she was taken away from the only home she'd ever known and forced to live with people she didn't know. Sylvia didn't know why it happened, she loved the Shelby's, she loved her best friend and his friendship. She hadn't thought of living any other way. Then she met a family with little to no knowledge of the English language which caused the rift between her and them to grow exponentially.
Not known to Sylvia, Arthur Shelby left shortly after she did. Only with him, it was without warning. Sylvia had to adapt and change, but she never lost her fire, her sarcasm, her natural ability to irritate anyone.
She never lost the things that Thomas admired about her. Sylvia stayed bold, stayed loud, she only did it in broke French, poetry, and music compositions.
The family that adopted the young girl was one of high reputation. She soon realized they adopted a poor English girl from Birmingham in order to look good. They even hoped she would marry their son.
That idea was put to a halt– much to her pleasure –when the Great War broke out. Germany was trying to invade France and Sylvia was terrified.
Her adopted brother went into war, but never returned home afterward. Once her mother passed due to the pain and tuberculosis... Sylvia knew she had to return to her home, to England. She left the place she'd never felt at home and went for the one she felt as though she belonged.
Slyvia was surprised with what she finds, her dear Shelby's had become gangsters. They lost contact after her second year in France, she knew nothing of their life.
