SHADOWS AND SECRETS
~KADE~
{Playlist Suggestions: "Way Down We Go" by KALEO}
I wasn't sure what I was doing as I quietly closed my car door and followed Chelsea's path around the corner. This wasn't like me.
I didn't stalk girls through dark neighborhoods in the middle of the night.
But something about the way she kept looking over her shoulder bothered me. The caution in her movements.
The tension in her body that never quite went away.
I kept my distance, staying in the shadows between streetlights.
The neighborhood wasn't what I'd call dangerous…not by city standards, but it had an edge to it that my part of town lacked.
Graffiti marked building walls. Security bars covered first-floor windows. A group of men huddled outside a corner store, passing a bottle in a paper bag b
