WALK OF SHAME{Playlist Suggestion: "Liability" by Lorde / "Soap" by Melanie Martinez}~CHELSEA POV~For the first time in three years, I wasn't doing mental math in the checkout line.Usually, standing in the aisle of Market Fresh was a humiliating exercise in subtraction. If I put the milk back, can I afford the eggs? If I skip the detergent, can I buy the good bread for Chase?Today, I had $400 in cash in my wallet.I had a basket full of things that felt like unimaginable luxuries. Raspberries. A steak. Brand-name cereal. A bottle of vitamins that wasn't the generic store brand.I placed the items on the conveyor belt, feeling a strange, hollow sense of victory. I had done it. I had sold my soul to Kolt Kingston, and in exchange, my brother was going to eat like a king tonight.The cashier, a middle-aged woman named Brenda who had watched me count pennies for years, smiled tiredly. "Big haul today, honey. You win a scratch-off?""Something like that," I murmured, watching the tota
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