Choices and Consequences

Prologue

I've lived this way my whole life; out in the woods, just me and my mom in our tiny community. Until now.

Up until a few days ago, I haven't seen anything of the world. I thought there was nothing beyond the trees, nothing other than this forest I called home. if someone ever told me that I'd travel outside the forest and fall in love with someone from outside the tree line, I would've called them insane. Nobody lived outside the forest, there was nothing beyond the forest, I would've told them that it didn't exist, that they were just stories that someone created; fairytales for little kids.

When I was a kid my mom always told me that if I ever misbehaved or broke a rule the community leaders would banish me. I always thought she was kidding, I never thought that they would actually do it; banish someone, I mean. But when my best friend, Jo, disappeared, I went to them for help to find him, and they turned away from me, pretending he didn't exist, as if they had never heard of him. That's the day that me life changed; for better or worse, I'm not sure yet.

This is where my story begins, but to tell my story, I must go back to the beginning.