The next day, on the subway platform, she wasn’t just waiting. She was waiting for a sign. And then, she saw it: the reflection of the security camera in the opposite window.
She didn’t take off her shoe because her foot hurt. She took it off because she had spent the last year saving money for a new pair of dance shoes, which she now kept in her backpack, but she’d never had the courage to truly use them. The boot was a symbol of her life with Leo: restrictive, high-pressure, and ultimately keeping her chained to the ground.
