Chapter Seven (Chase) Summary

Chapter Seven is a story about gifts. Ruby reckons that she's an excellent gift giver. All her gifts reflect the way she feels about a person, and she spends a lot of time researching what gift will mean the most to the recipient. She only wishes guys like Chase gave gifts the same way.

After Hutch's gummy bears, the next gift a guy ever bought her was a beautiful necklace from Chase Williams in seventh grade. At the time, Chase was on the swim team with Ruby but the two rarely spoke. Chase was shy and only hung out with a redheaded swimmer named Josh. Ruby was shocked one afternoon when Josh called saying that Chase had something to ask her. Chase refused to get on the phone, but Ruby could hear him whispering in the background, so Josh...