Everyone wants to be a hero. That’s the truth of it. People
 
 would see Adalynn as the opposite. They wouldn’t understand.
 
 She cringed to think of the terrible things people would say.
 
 She could turn off the comments to her video, but she already
 
 knew she wouldn’t do it. She wouldn’t read them but turning
 
 off comments seemed like the cowardly thing to do. People
 
 would feel like she was taking the easy way out or trying to
 
 get the last word in, and that wasn’t what she wanted. If her
 
 life, the things she said in that video, and all the things she’d
 
 learned along the way, could help or inspire someone else,
 
 then it was worth it.
 
 In the end, she was just trying to do what everyone else was
 
 trying to do—navigate the rough waters of life the best she
 
 could.
 
 She knew what she wanted and if she had to give up
 
 everything to get it, then she would. She didn’t want the
 
 greatest and most wonderful opportunity she’d ever been
 
 given to dissolve before her eyes.
 
 Adalynn’s hand curled around her mouse. She started
 
 clicking and then she started posting.
 
 After it was done, she shut off her computer and went
 
 downstairs to the kitchen. She started the coffee and threw
 
 eggs into the frying pan. She wasn’t at all surprised to hear the
 
 steps creak and groan as Cassia emerged. She was an early
 
 riser. By all accounts, she hadn’t slept well. She hadn’t
 
 bothered with brushing her hair or changing—she was still in
 
 the black tank top and pajama shorts she’d slept in. Adalynn
 
 would normally have been distracted by all that creamy skin,
 
 the sleek, shapely limbs, the way that tank hugged Cassia’s
 
 rounded breasts with absolutely no bra beneath. She would