Page 5 (1/2)

CHAPTER 1

Avett

Don’t worry, Sprite, bad decisions always ood stories …

I could hear htened with huot caught doing so up I was always doing so I shouldn’t then and now, so I heard those words a lot from him Unfortunately, as an adult, my bad decisions resulted in consequences far worse than a scraped knee or a broken wrist fro out of the tree in the backyard he warned h to clientle hile callingto help my current situation at all

This boo-boo was big-time

This boo-boo was life-changing

This boo-boo was anything but a good story waiting to be told

This boo-boo very well could be the end of led precariously for years, and it very well could be the end of any kind of future Ia lifetime of bad decisions and even worse choices screw up At barely twenty-two, bad decisions had sort of become my stock in trade and were as faendary, at this point, for putting all my trust in the absolutely worst kind of people If there was a wrong path to take, I was going to skip gleefully down that road and not look back until I ended up exactly in the kind of situation I found myself in at the moment It wasn’t like this was even a new dead end; it was the saain No etthis dead end, the darker and more wicked it became

I knew better I really did, even if there was a boatload of evidence contradicting that fact

I wasn’t stupid, naive, iht appear that way to anyone on the outside looking in, but I hadloser All of those reasons had nothing to do withexactly what I deserved

For a long ti deep and deeper into a pit of really awful actions and consequences, each seely worse and more painful than the last I also hadn’t made any kind of effort to try and pull ically I knew the only place I was going to end up was right here, right at the lowest part of rock botto