Wish
“I would appreciate if you don’t draw on our trees with chalk, Taylor. They don’t like it.”
They? Who’s they?
I freeze. “I—what?”
“The chalk, dear,” she reminds me, patiently. “You numbered the trees. Please refrain from doing that again. There are better ways of running away than destroying our wildlife.”
My lips press together before I mumble, “Sorry.”
She smiles at me, kindly. “That’s quite all right, dear.”
She sips her tea again, thoughtfully, “I do understand your desire to leave this school—”