After some days later Danny was discharged from the hospital and Bryan chose to bring him home since he had nothing doing, he just wanted to escape to people and Veronica's occasionally looking at him. " Brother Bryan!" A young voice sounded a little like he was in pain, " what! Are still in pain?" Bryan shouted in shock making the passing by nurses turn to look at them with worry, Danny smiled and held on to the hands of Bryan assuring that he was okay and shook his hand when Bryan still had the big frown on his face. "Am okay...." He said before he walked towards the entrance of the hospital, with Bryan staring at his small figure.
Veronica's eyes softened when she felt the warm hands hold her's and gently pulled her backwards,with his figure blocking her view. " Is there any problem here?" His deep yet lovely in the ears voice directed to the men with strange faces. They had come to the shop and she was only going to serve them when, they started saying nonsense. Bryan stared furiously at them his total demeanor changing into one Veronica had never seen since she had known him, for sometime now his unsmiling face had changed and Veronica thought that made him more handsome than he was and now he looked like the modern world devil with crazy beauty and she swallowed, trying to digest what was in front of her. One of the men stood up and tried to grab Veronica's arm right from behind Bryan but rather got caught in the trap of the devil, with just one twist from Bryan and the sound of a broken bone was heard followed by the painful scream from the man being held. Bryan shook his head forcefully turning the wrist again and breaking five fingers, a sign of warning to those who tried to retort back into their sitting position. And he smiled his eyes holding mischieve , " let me ask again, is there any problem?" He asked with a smirk and a raised brow ready to turn and break another bone of his captive if they stupidly refuse. " All is well!" A man in Black spoke amongst the men, he had an irritated expression as he said and Bryan smiled pleased with their response before letting go of the man. One last look at the man in black before he pulled Veronica with him, Veronica was short of words, those men were new customers that she had never seen before, everyone in the hood knew her mother and never tried funny ways on her and Danny, so she kind of did not blame them because they were new. " Am... sorry-" Veronica tried to say something to break the silence that always fills up when ever the two were together but then Bryan turned to look at her, making her swallow and shiver at his intense gaze. He grabbed her arm and both ended in a different room, far away from the counter were he pinned her to the wall and his light blue eyes staring right into her brown ones and Veronica took the moment to look at him shamelessly. Not only his eyes mesmerized her, his pink lips and the cute nose she wanted to pinch, to his golden blonde hair that was combed falling over his forehead making his brows almost not seen. Taking notice of the mark on his collarbone, it was a half moon shaped mark and she wondered if it was his birthmark, her shaking hands wanted to touch him but he grabbed them," you should be careful...I won't always save your neck" he said and pulled away from her walking back to the main hall of the shop with shaking hands, he by passed Veronica's mother without looking at the smiling face of the woman and she called him countlessly yet he did not turn back. She turned to find Veronica walking meekly with her wet face, " Veronica!" The girl quicken her steps and locked herself up in her room.
"...."
The woman stood there dump folded, what was happening. Bryan sat at the driver's seat, opening some part of his shirt and he struggled to breath. His eyes squeezed itself due to pain and sweat form on his forehead making his soft hair wet, his hands grabbed his inhaler and took shots of it trying his best to calm down. What the hell was going on, he doesn't remember the last time he had an attack, that annoying gay shouldn't have shown his face to him. MK, the man in black was the last thing he wanted to see in his peaceful life here! A knock on his glass window brought him into reality. He rolled down and Mr. Potter stared at him with a worried expression, he had come out because the old lady was worried about the boy. " Are you okay kid?" He asked when his face came into view and Bryan and he shook his head weakly, " am fine" he said to the man as he tried to adjust to the pain in his chest and he gave an apologetic expression, he had been here for two months and their warm demeanor had had an impact on his cold and freezing life, enough to make his freezing heart crack and now he was not prone to pain. The man left with a small nod, Bryan relaxed his pounding head on the wheel and decided to move when he was done taking his meds, going back inside was a bad idea so he drove back to his apartment only to be greeted by his best friend. " What happened, don't tell me you are sick?" He asked when he saw the weak face of Bryan, " man! This place is not helping at all and....you need to return back to school" he said earning a glare from Bryan. " Am fine!" Bryan said with authority, " go back to campus" he added making his friend frown. " But I just got here and uncle Drake says I should return with you!" Manuel said with seriousness, " what! Uncle Drake is back?" Bryan asked with wide eyes. " You are dead meat if it's a lie, Manuel!" He growled at him making Manuel flinch, just then Bryan received a call and it was his uncle, Drake. He was the only respectable person he feared, he was the CEO of the well known PL groups of companies and he was a strict man. He was last child following his late father and he sometimes thought he took after the stubbornness of Drake, " get back to school, before I come to get you myself!" Was the expected words and tone from Drake. And hanged up the call without listening to the other end, Bryan just glared at Manuel who was about to stuff his mouth with fruits, all he did was to eat in serious situations. " What are you waiting for? Get the hell out of here!" Bryan burst out having just enough of everything and now uncle Drake!
" Dear, what happened a while ago?" Yet the girl with swollen eyes did not want to speak, she kept on trying to make some ordered coffee which did not go well. " I know am beautiful, mama but.....he- no one see this" Veronica managed to say something but not making any sense to her mother as she stared at her beautiful girl who was full of happiness was now left with nothing. It was like all of the life in her had been taken away by God knew who, " are you still having plans to further your schooling Veronica is that why you are so down?" The older woman said feeling bad for not being able to take her child to a better school in the city, she took the cup from the girl's hands and signaled for the new worker to take over as she tried to talk to her daughter. Her results were out and it had been a while since she heard Veronica talking about college, she used to talk so much about how she would love to go to college. Listing out the names of colleges she wanted to go to and then..... " Am fine mama" she said her brown eyes looking down at her palms, she dared not look her mother in the eye. " You don't even trust your mother anymore? And when did you start telling lies?" The woman asked with a deep frown on her face, Veronica looked at her mother with wide eyes. " What are you saying, it's not what you think" she said shaking her head, her mother would not understand any of it.....how she felt and what kind of dreams she has, how big it is and now the big dream has been past for her since it couldn't come true. " I just changed my mind, mama! I don't want to go to school anymore.....I want to work and help-" her mother shut her up by slapping her open arm making her flinch, " I don't need your held here Veronica, your future matters, Danny and you are my future! Am alive till now because of the two of you so what do I do now that you are not planning to have a future?" The woman said tears filling her eyes, she wanted the best for her children even if she didn't have. " It's okay mama, I just don't want to go to school anymore.....you said I should do what I want and this is what I want" Veronica said bitterly knowing very well she was lying, she wanted so much to go to school. " Good evening, miss Agnes, Veronica....." Then both raised their heads to look at him and there he was, his light blue irises looking dull as he stared at them, Veronica blinked a few times before she hurriedly stood up and dashed into her room without saying a word to Bryan. " What happened to you my dear?" Miss Agnes asked and Bryan was still looking at the way to Veronica's room. " She's having a lot on her mind and you know the way she behaves when you are around, don't take it personal, tell me what happened in the morning? You don't look so we'll" the woman said cupping Bryan's soft cheeks in her palms, he was cold. " Come, sit here "she pulled him to sit down and she brought him his favorite chocolate milkshake warm enough to earn a smile from him, " am okay, I guess I missed your milkshake" he said making the woman rub his arm gently, " you are such a sweet talker, don't feel burden to share anything with me okay?" She said and the boy nodded.
Veronica slammed to the wooden floor of her room just in front of her door, she pulled her legs to her chest as she burst into tears. Pain filled her chest her eyes landed on the pictures and magazines she bought, that carried her dream, the school she wanted to go it was all there, the program she wanted to do and thinking she was never going to be in such a place, the heaven built for the rich and powerful people and most of all intelligence, the school was known for its sharp students and how competitive they were someone like her would not fit in no matter what, her sobbing filled the room with just one person behind her door with a frown on his face.