“Err, what?” Damien was momentarily confused as to why she was back with such fury and why she had even heard him at all. He had been angry but he did not speak up and she was already leaving when he said what he said.“You will throw who into an abyss?” she said as she moved closer to him and pushed him on his chest with her two fingers, tapping him as she asked “You will what? Who do you think you are? You are just a common gardener and a liar too. You have not even set a foot in the main house yet, whereas I live in the staff house and you think you can talk to me like that? Who will you throw?”Damien was confused by a lot of things going on at the same time. Surely he had been touched by these humans before but they had been men. Sky was so used to grabbing him when he wanted to share something with him or teach him about something or whenever he was just fooling around. He had been touched by Michael before even Mathew and at least one or two of the elders.The girl’s touch was

“Do you want to kill me?” she shouted at him as she held her hand to her bruised forehead.“I am so sorry,” Damien said in a panic as he tried to rush to help her to rub her forehead. He belatedly remembered what happened when the other girl touched him and he stopped just as she was also saying “Don’t touch me!”His relieved sigh was palpable as he stepped back already and she peered at him from beneath the hand she held her forehead with “You are weird”“I am…”“I don’t want to hear it!” she snapped with her hands raised “Will that heal my head? Believe me, mum is going to kill you if I tell her that you caused this for me!”“I am…I did not know that was you. I thought…” Damien trailed off as he realised how dumb his statement would have been. What he thought was bloodied hair was only the red hair of his self-acclaimed friend, Andrea Macmillan.The girl was clad from neck to toe in a black jumpsuit with a black pair of sneakers and he wondered where such a kid was going by that ti

“So you think you can do whatever you want now just because you managed to get yourself a backer in a small girl?”“Sir, I…”“Get out of here. I will allow you to attend your so-called school. Just know that you will be gone the instant I see that you are slacking off on your job here!”“Yes, sir”And that was all it took for Damien to be allowed to attend Maryland High School by the Head Gardener. Despite the girl’s assurance the night before, Damien still thought that he might meet up with disapproval from the man about his school.So, with apprehension in his heart after speaking to Michael on phone the following day, he approached the man in the gardener’s office. HG Salem gave him a cutting glare even as he knocked on the door which made him feel like going back instantly.After explaining what he wanted to seek permission for though, the man granted it without much ado. Apart from the glare he had pinned on Damien throughout his talk, the HG did not show any other form of disple

Just like a phoenix rising out of the ashes of the unremarkable buildings close to it, Maryland High School stood magnificent and different from most buildings that Damien had seen so far. Not even the shopping center he had seen the other looked this magnificent. The land was so expanse that Damien couldn’t see its end from where he stood, openly gaping at the white-walled six-story building. Uniformed security men stood at attention at the entrance enclosed with a marble-walled fence and two giant, black wrought iron gates that opened up to the magnificent grounds of the school that had a uniquely designed driveway that veered to different sections in the school compound. After greeting the guards at the gate, who gave Damien a questioning look; Sky took the lane that led up to the main door of the school main door. Different cars were going in and out of the building, each of them dropping off impeccably dressed students. Some of them did not pay Damien any attention as they lif

“My goodness! You are looking like a mess!” A.O. Sylvestro, the principal of Maryland High School said when Damien entered her office.Sky winced at the principal’s high-pitched voice and he looked back at Damien as if just seeing him as he thought of how Damien must look to a woman who was used to only seeing her students at their very best. After all, students of Maryland High school were known to have at least about one uniform for each day of school and some of them couldn’t be caught dead in a rumpled school uniform not to talk of a stained one like that of Damien at the moment.Sky hated the fact that Michael had a rule set in place for all of them that forbade them from what he called unnecessary advantage because he would have loved nothing more at the moment than to wring Mr Dax's neck.The man had vented his anger on them after the powerful trio left. After yelling at Sky to get going, the man refused to leave until he saw Sky left so Sky had no choice but to tell him that h