Chapter 2: Spinning

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 The next day, Type wakes up on the sofa with the Tharn alarm clock. Tharn also wakes up with difficulty, he has red eyes. He cried? Type gets up immediately to join him, but Tharn locks himself in the bathroom, before Type can reach him. Talking about the bathroom, Type hasn't been there since he woke up with his headache, yet he doesn't feel like stinking, and he feels fresh, strange.

Once ready, Tharn leaves the flat. He didn't pay any attention to Type while he was getting ready, yet he looked around several times, as if there was something wrong, as if there was something he couldn't explain.

One thing annoys Type too, Techno. He hasn't been here, while Type hasn't given any sign of life for several days. Techno knows the address; he's already been to their flat after a party at the bar.

Type follow Tharn, but this one walks so fast that Type can't manage to take the lift with him. Tharn has to go to the university, it shouldn't be difficult to find him for the moment, but he has to find him before he enters his building, Type doesn't know this building.

Type takes the stairs to try and catch up with Tharn. When he reaches the bottom, he sees him getting into his car. If he was going at the speed of light, he could perhaps join him but now he doesn't see how. He just wants to talk to him, why is it so difficult? If Tharn really thought that he had cheated on him, he wouldn't have come to the flat to sleep, so why does he ignore it? He wants to teach him a lesson?

Type closes his eyes and when he reopens them, he is in the car, on the front passenger seat. How did he end up there? Would it have been Tharn who put him in the car, but he didn't feel carried, and he didn't fall asleep in the car park anyway? There is something that escapes Type's understanding.

They arrive in front of the Tharn building, Tharn parks the car before leaving. Type wants to follow him, but... Wait... Did he just go through the door? How is that possible? What's going on? What's going on? He must be testing something.

Type catches the arm of a passer-by at random, he thought about doing his experiment on Tharn, but he had a hunch, that he shouldn't. The passer-by looks around, tries to find out who has held him back but sees no one. He tries again with several people, while following Tharn, but nobody seems to see him. He has become invisible? Why has he become invisible? Is it really possible? He didn't know it could happen in reality, he only thought it possible in science fiction.

Tharn sits in class, people come and sit next to him. His friends? Type is a shitty boyfriend, he doesn't even know Tharn's friends, not even their names. He just knows Lhong, Tharn's best friend. Besides he doesn't see him anywhere, Type had understood that Lhong and Tharn were in the same business with the same specialities... Where is he?

All his friends greet Tharn with a pat on the shoulder, as if they wanted to say they were there for him, supporting him. Even the guy he saw looking at Tharn badly the time he caught his boyfriend talking to his ex, Tar, at the bar... Tar? Who's Tar? Tharn's ex, apparently. He's the one he saw in his vision the other night. Why did he see him in a hotel room? Why not in the bar, where he knows he's seen him before?

One of Tharn's friends asks him a question. Tharn tells him that he's OK, even if he feels like he's going crazy at times: He has the impression that Type is with him in the flat. Tharn is sure that some objects have moved while he was away.

Type listens religiously to Tharn, Tharn who has not ignored him but simply does not see him. Why is he in this state? He needs to find an answer to this question, so that he can perhaps return to his normal state and into the arms of Tharn at the same time.

All morning Type stays by Tharn's side, he doesn't listen to the lessons, he observes Tharn. This is the first time he has been able to observe him so long in public without feeling embarrassed, at the same time nobody can surprise him. Maybe Tharn feels his presence unconsciously, Type has seen many turn their heads towards him. It's strange to be looked at without really being looked at. Type puts his head on Tharn's shoulder, as a support, if he has disappeared Tharn must need it.

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