Chapter 14 Danny– his story (2/2)

He still could not sleep due to the restlessness, as well as the psychological reaction of sleeping in an unfamiliar place. Sleeping in an unfamiliar place, that too in a sleeping bag on the first day, was not easy. Maybe, if he spent another night at the camp then he could ensure that he would get used to this sleeping bag and the surroundings. He would definitely be able to sleep as soon as his head touched the pillow of his temporary bed (sleeping bag) in the tent at the camping site.

Though he had not spoken to Luke Sir, he had spoken a little with Zia ma'am. He felt that there was something like romance brewing between them. It would take time for the romance to bloom. He was still young in years but he could feel it in his bones so to speak. They were definitely on their way to like each other and maybe wedding bells would be there by the end of the year.

As far as his life was concerned there was nothing much to tell.His father, Ronny, had brought him up. His mother, Sheila, had died of cancer when he was a baby. She was a Doctor who had specialized in Cancer treatment. His father was also a doctor and had specialized in Pediatrics. He and his father were very close.

He had managed to teach himself about stars after visiting various websites. He had downloaded apps that indicated the night sky over a particular area at a particular time at night. He would then try to see the stars with the naked eye as well as through the telescope. There was a lot of information on the net if you really wanted to learn something. To quench his thirst astronomy he would read a lot of books, gauged a lot of information from the internet, or he would watch other such channels to enhance his knowledge.

His plan was to study Astronomy and become an Astronomer.

He had become quite independent from an early stage and could manage to look after himself. His father was a busy person but he insisted that Danny learned to look after himself as reads to cooking, cleaning his room, washing his clothes. He wanted that his son would not be dependent on anyone.

Slowly he started feeling drowsy and his eyelids started to droop. After a few minutes, he was fast asleep.

It was around 5 a.m. and Danny awoke with a start due to the huge disturbance coming from outside their tent. He could hear the tearing of the tent from outside along with grunt sounds as if it was a pig or a bear was standing outside and trying to rip open their tent to come inside. Ben was screaming and struggling to get out of his sleeping bag.

Danny quickly got out of his sleeping bag and helped Danny to get out of his sleeping bag and they both went towards the entrance of the tent. Ben could not unzip the tent opening as his hands were shaking. They were about to rush out when the heard a gunshot. Sherpa was outside their tent helping them out. Luke was running towards the back of the tent with his gun and fired another shot. The huge animal who had been trying to rip the tent apart took to his heels after hearing the second shot as the bullet just missed the bear's ear by a few inches.

After the bear ran off, Luke came over to Danny, Ben, and Sherpa who had helped the two boys get out of the tent. He wanted to know if both the boys were ok. When he found that they were just scared and Ben was shaking a lot. He asked Sherpa to give Ben a glass of normal water with sugar dissolved in it to calm him down as he was in shock.

Sherpa immediately ran to the tent he was sharing with Sunny and got out his sugar solution. He carried it in a paper cup to give to Ben. Sunny also joined them and so did the rest of the campers. All of them new that Ben must have been eating in bed as is his habit.