Chapter One Hundred & Twenty Seven: Bond

Since that day Dana and Darius developed a special kind of relationship with Dana in the lead and a timid Darius following her about. She thought him to fight and stand his ground and in return he thought her history and philosophy.

A fortnight passed with Darius following her about but one day Darius did not see her again for three days and when he did, he thought she looked a bit leaner than the previous before he had seen her.

"Where have you been?" he asked her but she only shrugged and when he tried making eye contact she avoided his eye; he knew this was anomaly in her behaviour.

"Where you bullied while I was away?" Dana asked.

Darius thought briefly to the boys locking him up in a room filled with vicious rats but that was nothing compared to the vile things they used to do so he replied, "no."

"You are lying. Did you make an effort to fight back at all?" asked Dana, her hands akimbo.