The Secret Place: Part Two

"You're just pressing your way. And you're almost there."

Sunny tilted his head questioningly, then hummed a low “I see” kind of tone. “Alright, let’s keep walking. You’re almost there.”

As we approached the exit door, I tried to read the scribbles along the wall. I couldn’t make most of them out, except for one, scrawled frantically in pink. “I LOVE ME FIRST.”

Blasphemy, I heard my Pastor say.

We reached the exit, and Sunny placed a hand on the handle to push it open slightly, allowing a white light to begin to pierce through the bleakness around me.

I stopped. “My name...”

“Hmm?” Sunny stopped pushing the door. I couldn’t make out what the light was revealing from the other side of the threshold.

“My name.” I looked into Sunny’s kind, worried eyes, then down at the shadows being seared away at my feet. “It’s...”