Two Sides

"Do you remember our first stream, Zin?" Alton whispered, limping through the snow, still putting on the show of pain. "You had spent hours talking to yourself, we hadn't had a single viewer since starting, but that didn't bother you. You were just happy to be given a chance to save others. Gale and I followed you all around town, ready to throw in the towel. If it was down to us, we would have called the stream off twenty minutes in, deleted the account and gotten pizza to forget the ordeal. But, not you; you kept going saving a cat and making us proud. Proud that we could rely on someone like you."

Zinnia looked to Alton, confused, pulling him along. "It felt like a lifetime ago…. But, why ask about that now?"