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I decided to co room, my boxes piled beside me on the floor by the couch My cards were already out on the table I didn’t see any reason to be hanging around outside or in the corridor since I was already there, but I decided not to cross the line into the bedroo proper introductions It was only polite

Digging through my backpack, I excavated the battered copy of I Await the Devil’s Co and awaited the arrival of my new roommate

I hadn’t heard the shower, but I’d heard the door Looking up in tiirl fro but a towel Her skin was still carrying the sheen of a recent shower That’s what I had smelled Her shampoo and whatever else she used

I kind of expected a scream Perfectly understandable under the circuto brutally rape and torture her before carrying her re Henry Lee Lucas style

“Hi,” I tried

Silence Her expression did notto roll down her cheek I pulled outto amuse an infant

“I’ulations Crazy, hey?”

Without a word, she backed away and burst into a run, going into what I assu so hard the s in the living room shook

I was surprised by her reaction but not furious People tended to fear things that were different, and I was about as different as it was possible to get Not in the usual ways people tried to distinguish themselves By what they wore, or the music they liked or who they slept with

Even politics has beco off each other as though there was that s Even the self-proclai fro Chinese All the ‘choices’ pre-set, even a the ‘deviants’

I was deviant in a different way Inside the head My thoughts on the universe and humanity’s place in it, tended not to match up with the consensus Therefore, very little of what I thought did either

Giving it a respectable a boxes to the room where the door wasn’t closed It was about twice as hly double the size of the one in cluster housing I could pull it out fro a fair few calories in the process At least I could if I ate otten used to about fifteen hundred calories a day Which was how Ikicked a ball in my life

I found a place for everything Using the nightstand, which was si There wasn’t a bookshelf but there was a desk, so I lined the two of the heavier, hardcover edition laid flat as bookends

With everything else where it needed to be, there was only one last order of business Raise the flag and claioing into each of the four corners with a satisfying sound

I backed up a bit to take in the glory of the duochroht back when I had it hung as a curtain in my bedroo on the door wanting to fight et even more upset after I explained it

I was going to stay It here I was put and I wasn’t leaving My presence upset Rachel, and even if I didn’t knohy, I had enough empathy in my dark little briquette of a heart to not want to provoke her We would just have to steer clear of each other for a while How hard could it be?Chapter Seven - RachelI was frozen Eht happen out The white lights I was focusing on inMy body didn’t quite get the me down my cheek

I wanted to wipe it away but that would require acknowledging it was there in the first place Acknowledging h I didn’t feel it at all There was no way I was going to give hies than the ones he already had