SOPHIA’S POV I snatched up the phone and saw Candice’s name again. “You need to see this NOW. Scroll to the comments.” There was another video attached and my stomach turned before I even tapped it. At the top of the post, bold and confident, the headline read: Sophia Lanes Caught Threatening Young Women on Campus as Petition Launches to Ban Her From All Acting Institutions. I scrolled and saw the numbers. There were over two hundred thousand signatures in less than an hour, and the comments were filled with people tagging my account and dragging every piece of my life into it. The internet didn’t care about the truth, it didn’t wait for context, and it never needed proof once the story felt good enough to go viral. They said I was violent and unstable and that I had finally sho

