David Hayford

Just Before the Corner=

 is one of the main characters of the Just Before the Corner series. He's a professional hacker. Out of his friends, he is the biggest troublemaker, usually coming up with the crazy plans. Together with his two best friends he gets a job at a secret government service... unknowing that the newly elected President has horrible plans involving this "secret service".

Appearance
David wears a brown jacket, over a green plaid shirt, grey trousers and brown loafers. His brown hair is usually a perfectly messy, spiky hair.

Appearance in Now or Never specific
In Now or Never, David's appearance hardly changes, apart from his jacket being buttoned up and his shirt being a plain green instead of a plaid shirt while working.

Personality
David has always been the protectors of his friends. Angelo and Martin had to cope with the same Bully Team, but David managed to keep them away from them. Angelo didn't really get bullied by them as much, probably due to David being present most of the time. Unfortunately, even David couldn't prevent Martin's parents' decision to move Martin from his father's house to his mother's house.

David is very confident and often likes to show it to the ladies, who usually refer to him as a joke.


 * -|Friends Around the Corner=

In Friends Around the Corner, which takes place 18 years after the beginning of Now or Never, David is the only survivor of the group of three. He has taken on the care of his godchildren, helping Nathaly raising them. He loves them very much, although they still give him painful memories sometimes.

He has got a new job, as a music teacher at the high school.


 * -|Just Around the Corner=

In Just Around the Corner, David appears often, but in two stories the most. In Fixing the Future and in Bullet Holes. In Fixing the Future, a few years prior to Bullet Holes, something goes wrong when James and Samira manage to travel back in time and "save" their father from dying, causing a dystopian future to be created. This leads the two teens to their "father," who, of course, never had children; yet they still need each other to save the world and restore the timeline. Angelo and David failed to get out of the "secret program," leaving them with their memories of their family erased.

Bullet holes unveils the mystery surrounding Angelo's and Martin's mysterious deaths, as nineteen-year-old Samira and seventeen-year-old James try and find answers to their questions. David helps them find these answers, appearing both in the "past" and "present" aspects of the story.