Chapter 113 Zane's First Shock

• "Is she here?" Shane looks around the room like Daisy would be hiding in thin air in the bare room. The look of actual fear in his eyes makes me uneasy. I shift in my chair. I am suddenly very uncomfortable. As much as I want to know what their connection was about, I feel like I really don't. Because I don't want to have to deal with the aftermath of getting that knowledge. What would I do about it? What can I do now?
• "No. She is not." I tell him. The fear and tension in his features doesn't ease up. Oh God. I feel terrible. He has just confirmed one of my biggest fears. And that is the fact that Daisy got to him. She wasn't only going after the girls in my class, she must have gotten to him too. But for what reason? And what did she do to him? Christ. How did I manage to miss all that when it was happening right under my nose?
• "Shane, please can you sit down? Sit with me for a few minutes, please?" He is still at the door, his eyes dart around the room, he looks from me to the four corners of the room, panicky, I hate to see it. I hate to see him like this and know, somehow, I am responsible for what he has become. Such a waste. Such a profoundly sad waste. It is almost poetic. The irony of it all knocks the breath out of me. I clench my fists under the table, I can't show any emotions, especially not pity as that would only push him further away from me.