Friendship before love?

Since I am here, I started to help working in the woods. In The Smoke, everybody has to contribute to help society survive by cutting trees. I first though it was weird and made no sense, but by thinking about it, I find it kind of cool. Not only we work outside all day long, but we also live in a place where there is no money and no other choice than exchanging things to have other things. It is called barter economy. Working in the woods is done in teams of two. It is obviously not the safest job, but it is necessary. To protect my hands, David gave me his only gloves. They were really great gloves and I was happy he gave them to me. However, when Shay saw that he gave this precious object to me, I realized that it wasn’t fair, for a perfect stranger like me, to receive this gift while his long term friend Shay should have had the right to get them. I feel really bad because I have the impression that Shay now thinks that David likes me more than her. The problem is that I think I’m starting to like him too…