Flip the Coin [BL]-Chapter 144. Relieved

As I watched them, I crossed my arms and narrowed my eyes.

So my visions had been wrong all along? And although he interrupted Chelsea and me, not even getting the concept of foreplay, he jumped at the first possibility to get his cock fondled by a girl with whom he had only talked once before?

And what a coincidence—not anyone else, but me, came to see them in the act?

BULLSHIT.

I feel flattered that he would orchestrate such a play to ease my mind, but come on, bro. Do you really think I am that gullible? That guy has no idea just how fucking paranoid I am.

And it makes me only more paranoid when he feels the need to prove me wrong so desperately.

If that scene in front of me were really true, it would mean that Henry unknowingly stole the girl my future self wanted to sleep with—that would also be infuriating as hell.

I was getting more annoyed with each of his moans, suddenly feeling they sounded fake, when Henry raised his head. He kissed the girl’s neck and nuzzled her ear with his nose, making her giggle happily while she never ceased the movement of her hand. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

At that moment, he opened his eyes and suddenly noticed me.

Dazed eyes sharpened in an instant as he fixated on me, who was watching them through the slit in the door.

I was in the midst of smirking when a deep frown etched into his face, giving me the feeling of being utterly unwanted right now. He moved his eyes to the side before glaring at me, obviously telling me to fuck off.

Hmm?

I turned around and stepped silently over the debris to go back to my room. His expression didn’t seem fake, yet we all know that Henry is a world-class actor.

Anyway, maybe I am scaring myself needlessly. Maybe he just wants to release some energy before he gets possessed again.

I relaxed for a bit in my room and had a smoke when my door was opened.

"Why did you stay and watch?" Henry asked, clearly frustrated.

I laughed.

"You didn’t finish?"

"How could I? After I saw a bright red eye looking at me through a slit in the door? I nearly pissed myself!"

Oh, true—I would have as well. I broke into laughter, and Henry also chuckled along.

"Sorry, I didn’t want to glare at you. I just wanted a bit of fun before I’d have to slit my throat, and she offered it, so why not?" He shrugged and leaned against the wall, crossing his arms again.

"Mhm..." I took a drag from my cigarette, asking myself if my judgment had really been that wrong. I stood up and leaned beside Henry. Sliding a bit to the side, my shoulder bumped into his. I was in the middle of flipping the coin when he spoke.

"If you have to make sure of it yourself, then look into the future instead of the past. I don’t want you to see me go limp just because someone scared the shit out of me."

"Sure." I said, getting really suspicious once again, and flipped the coin. Black; palm; correct the future of Henry; eyes uncovered.

A tall man waits inside a hotel room. He suddenly jumps from his chair with clear, joyous anticipation.

He opens the door, and a green-eyed woman enters. She touches his cheek while he smiles down at her before their lips meet.

Coming back, I breathed out deeply, feeling better. I flipped the coin a few more times, always seeing them meeting in a hotel.

"I’m a bit angry because that girl and I would have been involved with each other in the future, and because you promised me in the forest that there would be no woman for you this soon, but thank goodness." Nothing gay, my ass is safe.

"She would come to be your girlfriend?" He asked, sounding unhappy.

"No, something more casual. Don’t overthink and be together with her all you like. Though you didn’t know, and I am nevertheless angry because of that, I am still so fucking—"

"Relieved?" He asked with a laugh.

"Yes. You have no idea how stressed out I was because of this gay shit. And it was so damn embarrassing to boot."

"I told you I am not like that; no idea why you have seen that stuff. Besides, we have bigger problems at the moment, right?"

"I know, but it still had me stressed out. Fuck, I am really relieved." I burrowed my face in my hand, holding the cigarette so that I wasn’t burning myself.

He can play a script out with Athena, but I trust in my ability, as I did when I got paranoid before. And I doubt he would meet her for years just to prove to me that he was not gay. Maybe the path to gayhood had changed for Henry because he got freaked out by me and my visions. Well, he could be gay, just not with me. And if he got a bunch of kids in the future, they would have come only into existence because of me. I am practically the savior of his children—that doesn’t feel so bad.

Most importantly, I can finally take him as a normal friend and stop walking on eggshells constantly.

"Can I do that now without you getting paranoid?" Henry asked while putting his arm around my neck, like guys would do it.

I chuckled and conjured up another cigarette when mine had disappeared.

"Suit yourself." I leaned back and let his arm support my head, staring at the ceiling and thinking about the next shadow.

"If we take turns, you’ll have to die eight times. I seven times."

"I know." He muttered darkly.

"Should we just let the others do it? I don’t want us both to constantly die to save people we don’t even know."

"Wasn’t it you who wanted me to carry Jeyjey although you just met her?"

I moved my head upwards, and seeing the close proximity as he stared into my eyes, I turned away uncomfortably.

"It’s different. Carrying her did us no harm; leaving her in the forest with a broken leg would just have been sadistic."

"I know. But if they can’t kill themselves, we have more problems than not."

"True." That is also why I feel forced to do it myself together with Henry.

"Not to mention, the shadows that had entered this world probably did so because they felt their human counterparts here. There is no way Chelsea would have been attacked coincidentally by her counterpart, and if your theory is right, won’t they all go crazy on us?"

"It won’t... go that fast, I think. We’ll have to prepare for it nevertheless. When we kill a shadow, someone has to watch over the human it would have attacked."

"Yeah. Let’s ask my grandma and her gun to do that."