Dawn
“Do I have to go?” Emily asks me once Ryan has gone to pick up our supplies.
“It"s your decision Em, not Ryan"s,” I answer.
“It"s just that, I like it here. I have friends and it"s really a good place to live,” she says as she tries to justify the hardest decision of her life.
“You should be saying all of this to your brother,” I chide.
“He"s going to hate me,” She starts to cry and I wrap my arm around her shoulders.
“He could never hate you,” I soothe.
“He could stay here too, right?” she asks. The tiny bit of hope in her voice is enough to bring tears to my eyes.
“You know he"d never do that,” I say. “The peace here won"t last if the rest of the colonies are at war. He needs to be a part of it all. As do I. You, on the other hand, can stay here and experience the peace that
