THE GIFT
~CHELSEA~
{Playlist Suggestions: "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten}
I avoided Kade for three days after the storm.
Every time I saw him in the hallways at Crawford Elite, I found somewhere else to be. When he showed up at the gym during my cleaning shifts, I made sure to work in different areas.
The almost-kiss in the storage room had changed something between us, and I wasn't ready to face what that meant.
But Thursday night, when I opened my locker to grab my cleaning supplies, I froze.
Sitting on the bottom shelf were a pair of work boots. Black leather, steel-toed, with thick rubber soles designed for long hours on concrete floors.
They looked expensive—the kind of boots that cost more than I made in a week.
I picked one up, turning it over in my hands. Size seven. My
