The price of friendship

It was a clear night, the sky was completely devoid of clouds, and in the middle of it was a full, round moon, like a disk of shining silver. It illuminated the small city with its gentle light, and cast a long shadow over an old, abandoned villa, when a number of boys approached it cautiously, and looked at it in fear, turning around. Around one of them, he seemed the most composed of them, and his small face bore signs of sternness and stubbornness.