DARREN Life wasn’t going well. We were surrounded in an intricate web of mishaps. Misfortunes were occurring one after the other. Still, I thought, we were into it together. We were each other’s foundation. Solid. Strong. We were unbreakable. But that was a big fat lie she made me believe. I was a teenager, the same as her age. I was absolutely not invincible. We had flaws. But I was convinced that we were learning things together. …. ‘Do we have time, Ren? Do you think we can make it work?’ She would ask me whenever she felt low and I assured her that everything would be all right. It was a fact. If she was right there beside me, I would have had the courage to make things all right. I could fight the devil and Gods for her. What I needed the most was time. And time was exactly what

