In a heartbeat (Malris)

This whole story took place in 1962, in the small and suffocating town of Derry — a place where anyone who tried to step outside the mold established by society was condemned to absolute rejection. No exceptions.Phil Malkin had always been strange: the boy who talked about aliens, absurd conspiracies, and better worlds far away from that rotten land everyone called “a sweet home” (there’s nothing sweet about it).But that afternoon wasn’t focused on impossible theories or the overflowing imagination of a thirteen-year-old teenager.It all began after he saw his best friend, Teddy Uris.The one he had feelings for that went far beyond typical friendship.Even though they were both boys.But the era wasn’t the only problem.Malkin’s heart had physically manifested outside his chest, leaving destruction in its wake… and making it impossible to keep pretending those forbidden feelings had never existed… ♡