Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

Life can change in an instant.

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.