About a week after coming back to Jersey, things had fallen back into the normalcy I had grown so accustomed to. Chris, Nick, Angie, and much to my dismay, Carrissa, visited the house frequently. Kade and I had seemed to bounce back from our intense argument in Massachusetts, as well.

Kade came forward a few days after returning home with a proposal. He would try to stop treating me like I couldn’t defend myself, if he could show me how to do it properly. I was going to ...