Sofia

Sofia had always believed that her life in Chicago was permanent. The autumn leaves, the smell of fresh popcorn at the local theater, the familiar faces she passed every morning—all of it felt like home. But one ordinary Tuesday evening, as the golden light of sunset spilled into the kitchen, her parents dropped a bomb she never saw coming: “We’re moving to Buenos Aires.” Her world froze for a moment. Buenos Aires? The city on the other side of the world, where Spanish rolled differently off the tongues of strangers, and she didn’t know a single street or soul. How could everything she knew disappear overnight?