My Dairy

Previously

…She was happy, though, lost in her own little world. I envied her that simplicity, her innocent joy. My life was a tangle of dirt, chores, and a map that promised so much, yet felt so impossibly out of reach. And now, Silas Thorne had entered that tangle, a handsome, dangerous complication. He was a rival, I could feel it, a competitor for whatever prize this map held. But he was also a promise of something more, a glimpse of the world beyond our farm, a world I was beginning to believe I could conquer. The battle for my own destiny, it seemed, had just gained a formidable opponent.