Chapter 7: Search
Only one thing was sure- the bond has deepened. The night fall and the sky became a big black carpet full of stars that were hardly seen. Totis chewed his last chocolate bar and he yawned quietly, covering his mouth with his hand. "Want to head to bed?" Mark suggested and looked over at Totis "I am sorry we couldn't find any time to unpack your things...".
"No, don't say that, it's OK" Totis replied and stood up. His eye fell onto Mark's phone and he saw some comments that Mark was reading "Will you sleep late?" he asked.
"Yeah" Mark answered and scrolled down the comment section in order to avoid eye contact. He was feeling so much happy and relaxed than before; he was sure that his relationships were stabilized. He raised his eyes and watched Totis walking to the stairs, when suddenly the boy stopped. For a couple of seconds the only sound that they were hearing was the water falling in the shower. "Is something wrong?" Mark asked.
"No, I am just very happy I am your guest and not somebody's else" Totis said in a low voice and the man smiled, he was feeling the same way, "Mark, if you want, I can sleep on the couch or you can even came to sleep in the bed, it's big enough and I don't move a lot" said the boy and walked away quickly before he could hear the man's answer. He couldn't stand hear a 'No'. But he didn't know that Mark wasn't going to refuse.
As soon as Totis left, Mark made a new search on his browser: "Unidentified program Europe". After a second, only one result showed up on the screen: "Did you mean Death Program?" but right after Mark read the text, it disappeared; never to be seen again. Mark gave a quick glance over to Amy. Their eyes meet, she searched that too.
"Mark, what have you put yourself into?".
To be continued in Chapter 8: Raw...