Mia

It’s a quiet morning in the neighborhood, the kind where routines feel safe and predictable. On her walk home from the café, Mia witnesses a moment of sudden violence that no one else sees and makes a choice she never wanted to make. When you wake on the pavement, alive when you shouldn’t be, she’s already decided to protect you with a lie. What follows is a fragile beginning built on secrecy, kindness, and the question of what it means to owe someone your life.