Sometimes what people want can happen. Alec is 15 years old. She a good person too, especially with her friends. So good a person in fact, she saves her best friend from a speeding truck who decides to ignore a stop sign, Even if it means her herself will get hit. Her life is over. She can't run away from things anymore. Alec can't believe how much goes on while her legs are paralyzed and no one knows she can talk. She wants to talk, she really does, but she feels like it'll be better if she just stays quiet. Her dad isn't a good dad...this whole, not telling her mom thing is probably what he would have wanted. It's amazing how much stuff you hear when you choose to stop talking and just listen.