Flip the Coin [BL]-Chapter 148. Advantage

Henry’s POV

I sat at Kenny’s door and waited for him to wake up.

This corridor, filled with endless doors and everything upside down, was a surreal picture. Especially the anchor for the chandelier that was deeply embedded in what we now use as a floor. The broken chandelier itself had long been discarded by the others. It was good that they did the minimum to justify being fed and given water for free.

A door opened, and Athena stepped out; upon seeing me, she sat beside me in silence.

"Go away." I said quietly.

"Isn’t it more believable if I hover around you?" She asked just as softly.

"No. Go away. I remember my promise; don’t worry."

"What happened yesterday? The screams..."

Annoyed, I wished for Kenny to get me a cigarette. I had long stopped smoking, but he had hooked me again.

"Does it matter?"

Athena pressed her lips together, and I leaned my head back.

When is he going to wake up, and why is he sleeping so much? I had checked on him four times already, and he was sound asleep each time. To avoid going overboard, now that he had finally opened up to me, I decided to wait outside his door instead of inside.

"Do you have a plan on how to get me away from the police?" She finally broached the main topic.

"Yes. I want you to cut your hair and pose as a man when we leave. When the time comes, we’ll see how it goes. If there is a chance, I will create a commotion, and you’ll have to slip away."

She sighed deeply.

"Is your hair more precious than your freedom?" I asked her with a smile.

"No, I just thought...you would come up with something better. I don’t want to go to prison." She buried her face in her hands.

"Don’t cry in front of me." I replied with disgust. I hoped she didn’t believe I had turned into her friend just because we were helping each other.

"I am not." Raising her face again, she looked at me with a blank expression.

"Good." I looked away once more and thought of the next shadow. How lucky I was to have a counterpart come to me first. I wouldn’t disregard Kenny’s feeling that killing our counterpart wasn’t wise, but the chance to grow stronger was indeed enticing. And if I was attacked first, there was no other option but to protect myself.

"Are you sure you aren’t gay?" She suddenly asked me.

"I am sure." I closed my eyes and leaned back again, contemplating a way to rid myself of her presence, though it would be beneficial if Kenny found us together; she was right about that.

"I was in denial for a long time as well... about my sexual orientation." She leaned toward me and whispered.

"Maybe you still are. You could be heterosexual and just denying that fact."

Kenny said he had seen her in a vision where they were ’casually’ together, which implied a sexual relationship.

"No. I would never do it with a man. If you had asked me to really touch your thing, I would have preferred to go to prison."

This was even better; if she had any designs on Kenny, I would be even more annoyed. Maybe this proved that his visions were simply false, or indeed about a counterpart of mine and Athena’s.

Additionally, I had discovered a very important fact about his ability. If I decided to go through with something in the future and pictured it in my mind while he flipped the coin on me, then he would see exactly what I wanted him to see.

I had the power to influence what to show him and what not to. Luckily, Athena seemed true to her promise—to continue meeting me in the future, so it worked out perfectly.

The first time he had a vision of me in a sexual situation with someone was in the forest, where I felt overwhelmed with joy and desperation after finally seeing him again.

The second time, when he saw me sucking him off, was after I had asked Chelsea to leave and was furious about him being with a girl while we were in this parallel world and had more important things to do.

The third time was when I was possessed by the shadow, and I was shown scenes of Kenny and me getting intimate.

Each time he saw things like that, I was flooded with feelings for him, even though they were swept away by the shadow on the third time.

It seemed that these feelings had spilled over and triggered his ability, showing him scenes that forced him to distance himself from me.

But that could also be used to my advantage.

And now, even standing in front of him naked, he was behaving relatively normally, not falling back into anger or disgust.

Additionally, I could touch him again, and not only that. From what I had seen while stalking him, he was now letting me touch him even more than his friends, whom he constantly pushed away. As if the intimacy between us in the future, which he had witnessed, was so extreme that putting my arm around him was not even worth a push.

It couldn’t have gone better.

Another door opened, ripping me out of my thoughts. I saw Sebastian coming out and walking toward another door. He entered the room, which I remembered to be Red Hair’s.

I closed my eyes again in disinterest, noting that he seemed to behave normally, not as insane and tormented as yesterday. It was a good sign if he could even continue his messy relationships with Valeria and Jeyjey.

Good for him; just don’t get on Kenny’s nerves, and you can do what you want. Even if they had an orgy, I wouldn’t care.

Yet, the silence was interrupted by a female scream, and although I wanted Kenny to finally wake up, I didn’t want him to awaken to some nonsense drama.

Jumping up, I followed into the room Sebastian had entered and looked stunned at the scene before me, which resembled an attempted rape.

Grabbing him by the hair, I pulled him away from Red Hair, who was still screaming.

"Be quiet!" I bellowed, pulling on Sebastian’s hair to see his face. He looked dazed, as if he had just woken up from sleep.

"What happened?" He asked.

"You just attacked your lover." I pointed at Red Hair, who finally fell silent.

Turning around and looking through the open door, I didn’t hear any footsteps.

Thankfully, Kenny was not awoken by them.