A Popular Boy Asked Me to Dance at Prom When Everyone Else Avoided Me Because of My Scars — The Next Morning, His Parents and the Police Arrived at My House

I found the same officers from that morning and told them everything Mason confessed.

And when they asked whether I wanted to press charges, I shook my head.

“No,” I said. “I don’t, and I’m sure my mother won’t either.”

Because nothing would ever erase my scars.

But for the first time in years, I finally realized they no longer controlled my life.

And somehow, neither did the fire anymore.