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All Chapters of The Boy who Circled Time: Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

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Chapter 152: The Open Lungs

Emmet waited inside the room that he had spent the entirety of his time, waiting for the lunch that he was sure that Lila would bring. He was in pained, his muscles burning after the exertion that was taking a bath and then walking back to the room. Every moment threw him into the perilous situation of ending up sick. His entire body felt as if it had been crammed into a tiny box, his joints shrinking to tiny, shining, burning points of pain, sparking and alighting through each and every single movement, no matter how slow. He heard his bones crack and pop, like dry branches and tinder ready for a furnace. It also didn’t help that the world almost continuously swayed all around him, the walls circling around his body like vultures before his very eyes, dizzying the senses and making Emmet feel distinctly seasick, as if he were on a little dingy, desperately clinging for his life as he was tossed here and there and everywhere, during a thunderous storm. He had desperately grasped a
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Chapter 153: Mother's State

Jasper led there, dragged throughout his days in a grey, repetitive cycle, while his pupils became more and more blown from his rage. He woke up in a different box, in a different cell, for all his troubles, cast aside completely into obscurity and isolation and was completely and utterly alone. He did not eat, not by his own will; there were no meals sent to him from within the little box that he had been confined into, shoved inside and set aside to probably die off from starvation slowly and painfully, with the nanobots moving through his bloodstream doing their best to keep him alive as he slowly shrivelled up and withered away, only having two to three days to live without water. He did not sleep, not be his own will; his mind was far too active, the visions of hellfire swirling up all around him, leaving up from the crevices of the doors that burst out in vicious reds and burning golds, ready to anoint him with a molten crown for all his sins and despotic behaviours. Jasper f
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Chapter 154: The Bottle

Lila knew that her family did not care about her. She knew that they would rather leave her out to die rather than let her live her own life away from them - far, far away from them in a place where she would never have to see them again and would finally, finally be free to do as she liked. She knew that they would rather murder her and bury her body in one of the holes that she had previously dug up in the garden for fun, than let her leave the house without knowing exactly where she was going and when she was returning, and having a phone only made it worse. Being given a phone - for all the others that Lila had listened in on, eavesdropping for all intents and purposes, not that she would ever admit it -should have been some sort of liberating mark of adulthood, some kind of symbol of sophistication and the indicator that she now had responsibilites, not that it was for her.  The first thing she did as soon as she was out of view of the house, was tu
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Chapter 155: Lifeless

The day that Lila had received her A Level results, her mother had actually bothered to come with her in the car to the college, sitting like all the other parents in the college carpark segment that had been delegated and set aside for the students. She had dressed up with her wedding ring on her finger, hardly ever wearing it at home, and wearing some large, chunky, gaudy necklace as well, the bells on it jingling with each and every movement that she made as she turned her head around to hiss at Lila that she needed to pick up her results early. Spitting out some other vitriol about how she had probably failed and just in case needed to see her results in private before everyone else arrived and looked over her shoulder to whisper about what she had received, all of them laughing at her for her poor results. Lila had told her mother that she would go then, and then, as soon as she had entered the building, made a beeline for the bathrooms, fully well knowi
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Chapter 156: That Tsundere

An A* is biology. An A in chemistry. An A in maths. And a B in Ancient History. Breathe in one two three four fiveBreathe outone two three four five And a B in ancient history. Breathe in one two three four fiveBreathe outone two three four five Lila did the worse on the subject that she poured the most effort into - the one subject that she worked the hardest on, producing flashcards, writing out preparation essays, memorising previous points on highly marked student answers, engaging in wider reading, memorising the texts of the modern historians, reading through her copies of Herodotus and Thucydides over and over again, highlighting the photocopies of the textbooks, making more and more information sheets on individual subjects, reading the entirety of the Lactor, and memorising all the maps. The one subject that Lila worked the hardest on was the one subject that she did the worst on. The one thing that she had put her en
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Chapter 157: Braids

Jasper found himself quickly and harshly locked into a new schedule for the day, a new itinerary served to him as punishment to suffer. He was locked away, in a little box, somewhere else and foreign. In this new prison cell of his, there was no bed for him to sleep on, a grey, cold floor taking up the entirety of the space, the dimensions of the area not enough to allow him to even fully stretch out his own legs, despite being the exact average height. The height of the box more than made up for it, however, the ceiling far above him to the point where, in his delirious and hunger induced dreams, he could not reach the top, the grey surface moving further and further away from him with each and ever leap and bound that he made, seeking freedom with every movement upwards to try and reach the sky. The blue, blue sky above him. The blue, blue sky that would look so much like the swirling depths of Emmet's hues and with all the vivacity of his playful smile, overflowing with so many
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Chapter 158: Nothing Food

Jasper did not know how long he had spent in that box, lying there with his knees slightly bent to fit his entire body within that space. The floor was hard and cold, and no matter how Jasper arranged his body, it remained hard and cold, the bones of his limbs jagged and unyielding and finding no comfort within the metal and grey surface beneath. What little heat was in his body was conducted away almost immediately as it was generated, never sticking around for too long and always leaving Jasper cold and alone in the pitiful state that he found himself in. Every now and again, Jasper looked up towards the ceiling and failed to find the light source that was illuminating the space that he was occupying. There was no central light source, despite the entire area being awash in a sallow and dead grey, the exact shade and tone of the light, at this point, being almost identical to the shade of the floor beneath Jasper, and seemingly being emitted from ev
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Chapter 159: The Lab

There was nothing around Jasper but grey. And there was nothing around the grey but Jasper. There was nothing around him but the four grey, pattern less walls and the grey pattern less ceiling that his head looked up at.   Nothing but the grey   The exact surface that had opened up to be the door would have been forgotten a long, long time ago, if Jasper wasn't sure that it was the wall behind him, a fact that he had only remembered and known because of the way that he had been thrown into the room. His limbs dragged along the floor as his those responsible for his torture had gotten bored enough of his inaction, deciding to pummel his ribs inwards one more time, snapping the joints of limbs the wrong way once more, and using this final opportunity to paint upon his skin a collage of blues, purples, browns, reds and greens that seemed to have been imprinted on the very bones of his being. He had been thrown in
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Chapter 160: Administration

Jasper had wanted pain. He had needed pain. He had deserved the pain that he had been given. He had deliberately sought it out and he had received what he had wanted. He needed to atone for what he had done. He had needed to suffer just like all those who had suffered around him and now that he was in pain, now that he was suffering, it was all wrong.   It was wrong. It was wrong.   His muscles ached at each twitch that his limms made, the impact of each and every metal kick to the very bones of him firmly imprinted onto the calcium surface and probably denting the very marrow within. His blood was burning, his skin wet and cold. Each and every breath that he took, deliberately forcing them to shallow and gauzy for the sake of his battered and bruised ribs, was a pained thing, his ears almost picking up on the cracking and creaking of the bones that were forced to move with each
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Chapter 161: Perspective

Inside of the office room, Lila threw herself onto the sofa in the corner and screamed into a pillow. It had been two days already. Two days of her trying and failing to draw Emmet out of the guest room and further into the rest of the building. She had been the extra cooking to make sure that he was still being fed, and was still laying out new clothes for him to wear in lieu of the ones that he had originally arrived to her in. She huffed out a sigh and lay back on the plush leather surface, deciding that watching the flickering shadows on the wall were as good as any course of action that she could possibly take at this point. The sun was setting now, falling down below the faraway line of the horizon, blinding Lila whenever her eyes strayed away from the darkness and towards the window. Wanting to know the time, she reached into her skirt pocket and fished out her phone from in between a pack of Polos and some spare loose change. She sighe
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