Oryon by T Cooper

Oryon by T Cooper

Author:T Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2015-01-29T16:00:00+00:00


CHANGE 2–DAY 41, PART TWO

Just got back from the Changers (Re)Mixer. During the break-out sessions, the Council facilitators said that it’s recently come to their attention that some of us are not Chronicling every day like we’re supposed to. How they knew this, they neglected to mention. They told us they understood how it can feel impossible to set aside time, but that it is major league critical to transmit at least some daily impression, recollection, or realization so we have the “full story of our lives” when it comes time to select our forever Mono. Like high school is really going to determine the full story of our lives. I fracking hope not.

Whatever. I choose to table the whole Mono conversation until my last V. Worry about it then. I mean, what’s the use of getting all excited about being who I am now, when I could wake up next year as Thor, for example. One thing’s for sure: this mixer was markedly different from last year’s, when I was in awe of all the older Changers, basically trying to appear unfazed by this whole new life I’d started living, but inside I was Jell-O. I remember being so excited to meet others like me after a month of feeling like the only blue person on a planet full of reds. And then there was Chase. My forbidden Changer crush. Leonardo DiCaprio on the Titanic. King of the Changer World!

Chase was there this year too. I figured he’d be all rogue and out front demonstrating like the rest of the RaChas, but his parents made him toe the line. Homeschooling and adhering to the Changers Council minimum requirements were conditions he had to comply with in order to be allowed to stay in his house, which he didn’t hesitate to tell me while he bitterly complained about every aspect of the mixer. I mean, he whined so much I started to defend the whole thing, even though I agreed with a lot of what he was saying. That seems to be where our dynamic has settled. Reflexively oppositional, like an old married couple.

In a seminar called “V2: The Sophomore Slump,” Chase was channeling his inner Jason, conspicuously sighing and sucking his teeth and taking up as much space as possible by splaying his beeftastic arms across three seat backs with his legs draped over the chair in front of him. Everybody’s chitter-chattering like it’s a family reunion, only no one resembles the person they did before, it’s like we’ve all joined the Secret Service and undergone complete facial reassignment surgery.

The side door to the stage pops open and Turner, the Lives Coach, glides in wearing some sort of loose white swami getup with a lotus flower appliqué on the front, and strands of wooden beads around his neck, wrists, and ankles. Somewhere even Gandhi is like, Dude, tone it down. He’s followed by a handful of Council members: Charlie “Mr. Cool” exec from last year, some people I don’t



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