Child of Chaos by Harmon Cooper

Author:Harmon Cooper [Cooper, Harmon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boycott Books, LLC
Published: 2019-07-08T22:00:00+00:00

.2.

I waited until Orange was asleep to slip out of my bed.

I stepped into my shoes as quietly as possible, the pair in a perfect location to make this transition incredibly smooth. I was already in normal clothing, the type of stuff someone would wear outside on a breezy summer night, which I had kept under my blanket, going to sleep with my shirt off and shuffling into it once Orange dozed off.

Once I reached the door, I dropped my hand on the handle and opened it as quietly as possible, wincing when it squeaked.

I paused, looking over my shoulder at Orange, hoping it hadn’t disturbed his slumber.

Even after I was in the clear, I still waited another few moments just to be sure.

Good, I thought as I stepped into the hallway, where I made my way to the stairwell at the end of the corridor. One flight up and I was on Amethyst’s floor.

I stopped in front of her door and flicked her door handle twice. After I’d made the signal, I stepped aside and waited.

I heard movement down the hallway, my heart skipping a beat. Even if the headmaster believed I would eventually be able to control my organs, I still didn’t see that as a possibility, not yet anyway.

But I decided to give it a try as I waited for Amethyst, narrowing my focus on that thing inside my chest that kept my blood pumping.

I had to stop breathing to actually feel my heartbeat, but once I felt it, I was able to speed up the rate at which it thumped, and slow it down too. Speeding it up made me feel anxious, while slowing it left me feeling lightheaded.

Weird.

I stopped playing with my heart as soon as the door opened and Amethyst slipped out of the room she shared with Margo.

Two years had passed since I’d met her, and in that time, she had started to develop. The future love of my life still held herself like a child, loose, oblivious to her body parts. But as with all people, exemplar and non-exemplar alike, there had been some noticeable changes as she’d progressed through puberty, from her chest to the way her hips had grown.

I wasn’t really one to judge.

I had grown taller and more muscular over the last two years, at odds with the boy who had first shown up at the program. I used to be relatively thin; now I was stocky, my features slowly chiseling as I grew into the body I would have as a young man.

The changes had been gradual enough that I couldn’t actually document them, but I did notice a difference when I grew out of my clothing, or when my hand brushed against my stomach and I felt my abs.

Things like that.

“What are you doing?” Amethyst asked as she took my hand, leading me back to the stairs.

“I was playing with my heart,” I whispered to her.

She rolled her eyes at me. There was a smattering of zits on her forehead, which she’d clearly tried to cover up with some type of powdery concealer.

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