A mother and her daughters.
Sarah, Nina, and Anna are the core family unit. Everything else orbits around them.
Sarah — 45
Registered Nurse · Mother of Nina & AnnaSarah owns her home outright from the life insurance David left her. She works three 12-hour nursing shifts a week — not because she needs to, but because she's spent her life holding people through their hardest moments, and she's not done yet.
She's been quietly seeing James for six months. Her back porch has a weather gauge David installed. His coffee mug is still on the shelf. She talks to him sometimes — not out loud. Just in the space between thoughts.
"She never lectures. She asks the question nobody else is asking."
Nina — 22
Freelance Graphic Designer · Sarah's eldestNina ended a 2.5-year relationship with Jake four months before the story starts. She says she's fine. She says it convincingly. The low-grade fog she's been in is lifting — the fitness journey is connected to this, even though she hasn't named that yet.
She shares the apartment with Kora and Leah. Her room has art prints everywhere, notebooks she starts and never finishes, and two plants she's keeping alive mostly through guilt.
"She was waiting to feel ready. Week 1 is the week she stops waiting."
Anna — 20
Art & Photography Major · Just back from BarcelonaAnna was studying abroad in Barcelona when the challenge started. She FaceTimed in, built the group leaderboard from 5,000 miles away, and arrived home on Day 17 with one massive suitcase and a story about a flamenco class.
She raises the energy of every room by approximately 40%. Her energy isn't purely personality — some of it is filling space. She hasn't named that yet either.
"She didn't know she was the energy. She just kept showing up."
