When Sofia first walked into the cafeteria at 14, she couldn’t have known that one small moment would follow her for the rest of her life. The quiet boy who chose an empty chair beside her seemed unremarkable then, yet 15 years later, he would be the reason she stood knocking on a stranger’s door.
Back then, when Sofia first met Daniel, the encounter looked like nothing at all. But some moments only reveal their weight long after they pass.
At 14, Daniel blended into the background of middle school life.
He wasn’t popular, but he wasn’t picked on either. Teachers rarely called on him, and classmates barely noticed him. He liked it that way.