The next morning, Lily woke Darryl up. “Wake up; we need to go to school.”

Darryl stretched and sat up slowly. He was so hooked by the book last night that he went to bed late.

Lily handed him clothes. “Go wash your face, and I’ll make you breakfast.” She turned and went to the kitchen.

Darryl was shocked by the warm and fuzzy feeling lingering in his heart. In the past three years, Lily had never made him breakfast. Darryl used to prepare their meals for them, but now her attitude had changed entirely. He was still not used to it.

Today was their first official day at The Hexad School. By the time Darryl arrived, almost every student from every class had arrived.

‘Weird. Why was Dax not in? Did he oversleep?’ Darryl thought.

As Darryl stepped into the class, he frowned. His headteacher taught the first period on human acupoints.

Katherine wrote: [Human Acupoints] on the board, and started teaching. “The temple, also known as the strange acupoint outside our meridian