All Chapters of 366 Days Together: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

 Karen's revelations had surprised Derin as she had no idea that a person could hold this much to herself. Also, she found herself pitying Daniel. He turned out to have the worst childhood with a mother like Karen, a father with Lake, a step-sister, and his very own sister.The beeping of a cell phone caused Derin to snap out of her thoughts. Her eyes flew to Karen's face, and she saw that Karen had slept off.Well, that was quite fast.Carefully, Derin stood up. She placed Karen's head on the arm of the couch, ensuring that she was well angled on the couch.Glancing at the purse where the beeping sound had come from, she immediately felt the intrusiveness to read whatever notification had come into the cellphone, but her inner-mind reminded that she shouldn't be going through someone else's phone.Siding with her curious self, Derin delve

 Derin's shoulders shook hard as she laughed.Take back what exactly? She never had a choice, he did, so, he had no fucking right to claim that they both had a chance to stop their marriage."That hilarious, Daniel, because I'm not the one to take my words back," She pointed out, as she moved to him, "Read my lips, Mr. Hartley, I had no fucking choice, but you had a chance to say no."This has been a rough conversation, and she wanted nothing more but to be out of it.Daniel raised an eyebrow at her, 'Really?""Yes," She replied and walked to the door."Wait, are you walking away from this?" Daniel yelled after her.She turned around to him - her hand on her hip - and, determination plastered on her lips in form of a thin smile."No, Daniel. I just found this conversation to be boring, and pointless," She said.

 The lights around them flashed, as Daniel held her in his arms, and Dolapo noticing that his cousin had passed out, crouched beside Daniel.“We need to get her out of here,” Dolapo stated.Daniel nodded, and instantly hoisted her up into his arms – just as he hoped – the army had arrived and were making their way through the cluster of cameras and people.Sighing, he muttered, “About time.”To clear the crowd, the army fired warning shots into the air – this caused the reporters to draw back.The crowd cleared away quickly as the army paved way for Daniel, with Derin in his arms, and Dolapo to get into Daniel’s car. With one reverse, he drove out of the premises of the diner – the army following closely.???

 Stroking her hair, Bayo watched Derin as she slept beside him. They had been discussing the trends – just about anything to take her mind off the incidence –when she began to yawn, and soon fell into a long slumber.He was sitting up on the small-sized clinical bed, enclosed with Derin – who snuggled up to him.He hated to see her hurt – both her and Bimpe. They were both the only true friends he had ever had – they were the one who truly understood him, and he in turn, understood them.The only thing he had failed to understand was the feeling that had developed in him towards Derin. He cared for her, and he desired to always have her around himself, but he just never found the guts to tell her this. His fear was at the thought of getting rejected, and losing her friendship.However, after the demise of her parents, he still

 Daniel’s jeep approached the huge black gate of the hospital. From afar, he noticed the vans of the men from the army parked at the side of the hospital’s wall. His brows snapped together, as he drove into the hospital.Looking around, Daniel could tell that something was very odd, and he couldn’t shake off the cold feeling that crept through his bones.On alighting from his car, after parking it under the garage canopy, he turned to the huge building, and saw Bayo hurriedly walk out – looking very unkempt and bothered.Daniel further noticed that he had several bruises on his arms, upon walking closer to him.“What’s going on?” Daniel asked.Bayo spun around – his eyes widen on seeing Daniel, and he coupled this up with his quizzical question, “You are here?”