"Unwarranted love is like tasting your own fresh blood, it is warm and yet you lose iron when it gushes out of your body",Den told a frustrated Zach, who had in vain been trying to get his best friend out of the drugs and the girls, he was getting dizzy day by day, and the fact that he and Mary were together was not helping anything, since everyday he had to check on her and they spent most of their time together meaning Den was left alone and what he did alone sent shivers down Zach's spine.

One day he had meant to surprise Den with a gift on his birthday, he had gone over to his place, the front door was open, surprised Zach went in, only to be met with a startling scene, he saw Den smoking a cigarette, but that was not the terrifying part, the terrifying part was that he pressed the burning part of the cigarette to his skin, and he closed his eyes and breathed as if taking in the moment very soothingly and then he smiled, the most paranoiac smile Zach had seen in his life. He rushed and took the cigarette outta Den's hand."What the fuck do you think you're doing Den", he yelled he had succumbed to tears upon seeing his bro like this, but Den gave a slow calculating look towards him and said, "Hey Zach, didn't see you man, sit and I'll toss you a drink." Zach sat, breathless, he smelt the cigarette, that wasn't nicotine, he knew the smell of burning cannabis pretty well, having smoked it with Den himself once upon a time. He couldn't control himself anymore, he went inside the kitchen, and Denezius who was making the drink turned and Zach ferociously punched him in the face, knocking him out, he called the ambulance then, and put Den on the sofa.

Bisar had finally gathered up enough courage to ask Anna out on a date, they went to the new Chinese place near their school, 'Liànrén de jùjí de' which literally meant "the place for lovers".

"So Bisy, I was under the impression that you were wanting to tell me something...", Anna took the glass of wine, sipped it, put it down and faced Bisar, smiling in the process. Bisar was out of his wits, this wasn't academics where he could ace the paper, because he could, this was the game he was most afraid of, "The Game Of Love".
He decided to employ the direct approach and went for it, "Yeah Anna, I just wanted you to know that I...I, I love you", he said looking down in the process.Anna looked at him imploringly, Bisar saw that she was smiling, but it was a kind of a sad smile mixed with empathy and love, she took his hand and said slowly without pausing, "Bisar I know this will be hard to hear, but I always imagined you as a friend, and you've truly been a great friend, you helped me break out of my cage of shyness and you helped me gain confidence, and I won't trade that for anything", Bisar couldn't hold his tears no more, he was both happy and sad and fresh tears oozed out of his eyes, as Anna walked over to his chair and hugged him.

6 Months Later
Sneak peek of Chapter 6:- "But sir why can't we code it using the String Tokenizer object that you'd taught us?", Ella asked Mr Smith,he answered "Definitely Ella we can but we can also employ the classical approach of using just a String or a String array like the one Den used in his program.........."
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