Leo’s hope deflated. “That’s the building’s property.”
Leo did the math. Twelve hundred dollars was his security deposit, two months of ramen, and the hope of buying a winter coat. It was everything. renters insurance broken window
That night, he opened the CoverHive app and raised his liability coverage to $300,000. He also read the entire policy, line by boring line. He learned what was covered (his laptop, his clothes, his couch, if a fire took them) and what wasn’t (floods, earthquakes, and his own stupidity with a baseball). Leo’s hope deflated
The baseball glove felt like an extension of Leo’s own hand. It was a worn, chestnut-brown Rawlings, broken in over a thousand games of catch with his dad. Now, the glove sat on the floor of his cramped studio apartment, taunting him. Next to it was a dented can of cheap lager and the source of his shame: a brand-new, rock-hard baseball. It was everything
Leo hadn’t meant to throw it inside. He’d just been fiddling, tossing it an inch into the air, trying to find the sweet spot. Then his phone buzzed—a text from his ex-girlfriend with a photo of her smiling next to some guy on a boat. Frustration flared. He wound up and fired the ball not at the wall, but through it.