All Chapters of The Boy who Circled Time: Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

"Didn't you here about the new hire being snubbed for the end of year bonus and pay rise?""I thought that it was all automatic. It was for us.""I heard that it was because she's from R2 and management didn't think that she was trained properly, so she wasn't allowed in the lab like she was supposed to be, so they didn't give her the pay rise.""Wait. If she's from R2, how's she even here?""It's through their employment programme. If the government wasn't supporting Border Schools, then she wouldn't even be here. Oh shit, she's right there." ... "Hey, aren't we supposed to have, like, another person in here with us?""Oh yeah. It's the girl that's been doing all our paperwork for us. I mean, she didn't even fight back or anything. Must be desperate for this job.""I need help with this set up. Liz's using the good screws so I'm gonna need you to hold this up for me. You're gonna be out of the way o

Gretel had to pause at those words, her body unable to move or respond after hearing her supervisor scream at her like that.His voice echoed off from the walls of the building, bouncing around in her skull and and rattling about in her brain.The mild annoyance that she had felt before, back when she was with the security guard, returned with a fervour once more, heavier and darker to become anger instead, tinged with a cold sense of fear as well."You signed the paperwork, sir. I couldn't leave without your express permission and you signed the paperwork, I have digital copies of all the necessary documents with the date of their signage, if you want to dispute the allocation of my persons, though you will have to take that up with the Bureau of Internal Employee Affairs' Human Resources Department," Gretel intoned out to him, trying to keep her voice as level as she possibly could, internally wincing whenever she picked up on the inevitable tints of annoyance

Fire, Red_Two had to concede, was the only think that was keeping him alive.The red flush of fever, as he held his shivering and frozen hands on his face to warm them up, was the only sustenance that his body was receiving, the words of his mother, said in passing to someone he never knew and had never known, echoed in his brain."Your kid has that type of illness. He would live after just having water for two weeks and be completely fine."Red_Two hoped that he was suffering "that type of illness".He had no real other choice.Wandering around the forest, never stopping and always moving, following the river downwards as his only point of direction, his clothes had not dried.The shirt that he was wearing stuck uncomfortably onto his back, clinging onto his skin as if it wished to fuse and become one, the sweat that his back leaked outwards the perfect adhesive to keep them united and touching, refusing to be parted. No matter

Emmet's first crush was another boy.He had been in high school, the first time that he had seen the other.His hair was a deep, chestnut brown, slightly curly and in a different hairstyle every single day, the boy's hair long and flowing and something that he had never seen before on a man.It had awoken something within him, and as soon as he saw the other, he realised that he had wanted hair like his.He wanted hair like the boy's, and he wanted it to look just as good on him as it did with the other.Approaching him as easy enough, but broaching the conversation topic of his hair was something else.Emmet had been keeping his hair short, not allowing it to reach past tickling his shoulders, the heat of the summer usually being too much for the back of his neck to handle, itching and uncomfortably wet with sweat, so he had Aunt Minnie cut it for him every single year, waiting for it to grow back out and needing to be cut again soon enough

A hand wrapped itself around Gretel's arm, and harshly pulled her upwards, each and every individual finger squeezing around the skin, flesh and bones there, the force of it all being a brand intent on searing the circular marks of the pain into her body forever.Her eyes brust open and her mouth automatically fell in pain, as she instinctively lashed out towards the offending limb, ready to get a decent jab in with her free arm, when that limb was also restricted.Panting from the exertion of keeping herself going, tied down and held back at both sides, Gretel forced herself to look around and see what was truly happening around her, ready to use her legs to exact her revenge and bring herself to freedom once more.First, her gaze settled on where she was receiving the most pain - the direction of the first constriction of her limbs, those fingers squeezing tighter and tighter, as if they were the type of snakes that would first suffocate and break the necks of