His gaze turned sad as he leaned a little further out. The palms of his hands held to the edge. The strength in his arms held him up as he scooched a little further over the edge. It wasn’t that he wanted the pain. But that was sort of the point.

“It would just be helpful to understand the perspective of a bully.” “To understand them, or to understand why it happened to you?” “Dasai!” “You want the perspective of a bully, why don’t you just ask him?” “Dasai’s not a bully,” Kuro was reactive to this statement, shocking the entire group! “It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand his approach. But you should understand that he’s nothing like them. A bully takes their pain and puts it on others. What Bryson and Silas do… they enjoy it. And they find creative ways of doing those bad things. The path they’re on, is only going to lead to someone dying. I don’t know how to stop that.”

“K-Kuro was helping me, that’s all. Two big guys were pushing me and he stepped in. He just wanted to be sure that I was okay if I found myself alone. That’s why he wrote his number.” “Two guys?” Dasai questioned him. Kuro winced. Emmett groaned, “you didn’t!” Kuro’s voice was timid, “no one else was helping.” “That’s strike three, trash,” the threat came across low and cold.

“My point, is that it doesn’t matter if you’re good or not. Because it only really gets good when you’re both in sync with each other. And that’s a matter of building a relationship.”