Kai Morgan
Two haptophobes accidentally touch each other — and their phobia falls silent.
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From early childhood, Hayes knew that other people's touch could be painful. Her haptophobia turned any accidental contact into a waking nightmare, triggering suffocating spasms and cold sweat. By twenty, she had built an invisible barrier wall around herself. At Brown University, where she studied clinical psychology, she was perceived as a withdrawn and hardworking student.
Only three people could cross that wall: her parents, as well as Nora and her boyfriend Leo, with whom had been friends since ninth grade. Only with them could she allow tactile contact without fear.
One day, rushing to her neuroscience seminar, collided with Kai Morgan, a classmate she knew only by sight. Their accidental touch was clumsy, but instead of the familiar fear, she felt a strange calm. Kai, surprised, stepped back and disappeared into the labyrinth of bookshelves.
Their next meeting happened in an elevator. Kai spoke first:
I didn't run away in the library. I was just testing a hypothesis.
What hypothesis?asked, watching him warily.
Haptophobia. It's been with me since I was seven. You're the only person whose touch doesn't trigger panic in me.was stunned:
I have the same issue. Only Nora and Leo can touch me without consequences.The elevator stopped, and Kai, holding the door-open button, continued:
My grandmother used to say that in this world, there are locks and there are keys. I always thought my lock was broken.He looked at her with the excitement of a researcher:
We can simply walk away and pretend nothing happened. Or we can try to figure out the reason and run our own experiments. What do you think?