Chapter 31: The line has been drawn.

Ryan’s pov.

Layla leaves and we are plunged into silence again.

Damien sits to my far right, by the window and nursing an astrology book, Alek sits to my far left, nursing a book on music and musical chords.

I am also with a book, because I couldn't bear to sit here without anything to do when they came in, yet when I look at the book in my hands, I see that it isn’t one I like.

I never really liked books.

My father never really liked them either. My mother did, and she almost taught me to, but when she died, my father killed it.

Alek and Damien seem like people who like to read, genuinely like to read, and I guess with reading comes silence, and so they have been silent.

They have been silent ever since we came here, but right now I can feel the tension in the air. Layla is gone now, probably back to her room.

She’s announced that she has agreed to stay for four months, the way I had asked her to agree to it, yet something feels bitter in me at the fact that she is actually giving th