I knew it, my mind couldn’t deceive me about this. I warned that boy and he messed up, he will have to face my wrath or I, Daniel and Leo’s wrath. We have been in this position for the past thirty minutes she decided to just cry in my arms. I hugged her and rubbed comforting circles on her back and told her to calm down. When she was seated she leaned back from the hug and wiped her face from the tears that stained her cheeks. “Mum is around already and would be up here in no time to ask us to come downstairs to eat, now do you want to tell her about this?” I asked and she shook her head no. “Okay, clean your face up and lay on my bed, I will tell mum you aren't feeling too good so that I can bring your dinner upstairs.” She nodded her head and cleaned the fresh tears that fell on her cheeks. “Thank you” “You are welcome” I stood up from the bed and she lay on my bed facing the other side. I wore my slip

It's been over a week since all that Albert drama thing and I can see that Elle isn’t affected by this breakup thing and it was a good thing for me. For now, though, I still haven’t told her yet about the Albert liking me thing. She might have known since Leo said I was the only one clueless to the guys in school who likes me and even she had confirmed it too. I want to just leave it at that with the thought that she is aware of it but… what if she doesn’t know about it? And she learns from someone else? That would not be good at all. She will definitely be angry at me for that. It was Saturday morning and the sun is glaring hot so we didn’t bother with the plans we had for today and decided to postpone it for a day with more favoring weather. I walked up to the door that separates her room from mine and took in deep breaths then let it out slowly. “It's now or never” I muttered and raised my fist to knock. Just as I was about knocking

“So, you can't explain to me the reason why they are on talking terms and why you couldn’t make your move?” he asked. The boy didn’t reply, instead, he bow his head and had a frown on his face. He couldn’t bring himself to do what he was instructed to do and needed to be free from this bondage. He used to do it then for fear of what the man would do to him because he was little, naive and had little or no strength to go against the man but now he is already big enough and the beating he gets from the man coupled with the ones he got from the streets made him a bit stronger. Although not enough to fully take him down but enough to get him injured till he gets help but… what exactly is stopping him from doing so? He couldn’t understand that. When he was younger he determined to grow older, get enough strength, get into fights that would enable him to have the stamina and ability to endure pain so he can prepare to take this monster of a man down.

“So what do you want to talk about now?” I asked him as we walked slowly after the school had closed already. I told Leo that I and Chris had some things to talk about but I could see he wasn’t pleased in any way. He just rolled his eyes at me and said ‘Whatever’ before walking away from me. Whatever is between them must be so serious for him to feel like this towards Chris. I might not know the deepest part of Leo but I am so sure he has a pure heart in there and I haven’t seen him detest someone as he does with Chris. It was strange but everyone has who they like and who they don’t. I cant blame no one. I told my siblings I and Chris needs to talk and that he would bring me home, just like he promised. When we left the school premises we didn’t say anything for the longest time till I had to ask before he let out a sigh and started talking. “First I would like to say this” he began and I took a glance at him then back t

“I think she’s dead” I heard Org say some meters away from me and with a gruff voice. I heard shuffling of something, a slight thud, and faded steps. “Stop saying stupid things,” Del said after some time. “Remember this is the day we have to leave to where boss asked us to meet him at” he continued. “Yeah, yeah, whatever… but after today do we still get to babysit the girl? Like come on, I can't stand kids and she has overstayed her welcome. I don’t want to be shouted at because of a little girl” he said. “Just for a matter of time, just for a matter of time” Del replied him and then I heard more footsteps and this time it was coming in my direction. I did my best to pretend I was sleeping deeply and that was when I felt a light tap on my foot. I stayed still for a while and felt the tap again and it wasn’t as light as the first one. So I moved a bit and stretched on the duvet I spread on the floor to sleep the previous night and yawne