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Chelsea said.
    Knox nodded and stepped into the room grabbing her bag full of clothes. Chelsea gathered up the notebooks and picture of her Mum following Knox out the door. She refused to look in the living room as they went to the front door and as she locked the house, she took a deep breath. The first breath of her new life.
    When they arrived back at the chapter house Chelsea was pleased to see that the fire was still at full roar. She wasn’t happy to see Duggar still sitting there and wondered whether he had a home and why he didn’t go to it. She followed Knox and Mason into Mason’s bedroom where Knox put her bag and belongings on the desk. She felt out of place and bad for taking over Mason’s bedroom and life. She had so little to do with him since they left primary school and she didn’t know how he truly felt about it all. She knew that he felt a level of empathy, but she also recognised that she wouldn’t be able to stay long there, she didn’t want to wear out her welcome and resolved that she would speak to Dylan when she went to school to see if she could stay with his Grandma and he.  She remembered him saying that his Aunty had recently left and got married, so there was a spare room at their home. Chelsea stood in the centre of the room and looked around, running her hands through her hair.
    “You alright?” Mason asked from behind her.
    Chelsea turned to look at him and nodded giving him a small smile.
    “Yes, just a little overwhelmed. Mason I’m sorry for intruding like this” she said waving her free arm around the room.
    Mason gave her the crooked smile that he was good at and shook his head.
    “No stress. You’re welcome here” he said leaning forward and kissing her head. “Now why did you want to know if the fire was still going?”
    She nodded and looked down at the books, sighing.
    “In these books is written every detail that Carl ever did to me” she couldn’t even bring herself to call him Dad anymore. “They were my prayers for help. I want to burn them”
    Mason’s face lit up and he nodded as he took her free hand and lead her to the fire. Duggar was still sitting there which made Chelsea’s heart sink, Knox was standing with a beer in his hand staring into the fire. She wasn’t sure that she wanted to share this moment with everyone, but she didn’t want to ask them to leave their own place, so Chelsea sucked in a breath and squared her shoulders. Knox looked over at her and held out an arm for her to enter his embrace.  She stood beside him with his arm draped across her shoulders and Mason on her other side.
    “Chelsea is going to burn some stuff, cleaning out the old” Mason said to Knox, who looked at them sleepily and gave her a nod.
    Chelsea smiled and stepped forward, starting with the oldest book, one by one she tossed each book into the fire; letting each book burn completely before adding another. If the books had sound it would have sounded like the cries of hell being sent into the atmosphere. She watched as each book burned and turned into nothing but ash, with each burning she felt a little lighter and a little more tired. Finally she had got to the final book. She held it to her heart turning to face Mason and Knox who stood beside one another; Knox had his arm draped across Mason’s shoulder. Both as tall as one another, with the same shaggy dark hair and dark eyes that seemed to dance in the fire.
    “This is the last one. The last prayer was yesterday. The last prayer asked the universe to let me escape to find a way to be free. In my prayer I begged God to give me someone who could save me. That is the only prayer that ever got answered” Chelsea said hiccupping a sob.
    She turned and threw the book into the fire and watched as the colour of the cover turned from red to blue and each page seemed to dance as the fire licked at the edges. She watched as the smoke drifted off into the air, taking with it small pieces of ash. Chelsea sighed and