Living in downtown Toronto can be expensive and frustrating, but Leo is willing to deal with the traffic and working the overtime in order to experience everything else the city has to offer. Or would be, if he had any energy left to do so. The fact that his upstairs neighbour is making more noise that a herd of elephants isn't helping things either. Tired, irritated, and on the verge of losing his patience, Leo knows that things have got to change.<br><br>Gordy is one of the most attractive young men that Leo has ever met, and Leo has no doubt in his mind that Gordy has been using those good looks to get whatever he wants for a very long time. So when Gordy starts turning on the charm, Leo can't help but wonder if it's actual interest or merely appeasement.<br><br>Together they're going to try and figure out just what can be done with Gordy's new roommate -- an energetic, excitable, and very noisy young goat whose visit comes with a deathbed promise and a tight family bond. What Leo doesn't realise is that she also comes with an ability to make him understand more about himself than he could have ever imagined he needed to learn.

Gordy's Got a Problem

The shake became a strong, persistent thump that Leo’s surfacing consciousness insisted it could ignore. It was followed by a crash, several sharp bumps, and what sounded to Leo like forty footfalls, all wearing clunky, heavy heels. His eyelids snapped open. He was gritting his teeth so hard, his cheeks bulged. Something screamed—a long, wiggly sound that was either child or demon—and with the window open beside him, it was loud enough that whoever was making it could have been in bed with him. He heard his upstairs neighbour slam the window shut and the sound did quiet…in the way that a transport truck rumbling past sounded quieter than a train.


Nine or twenty children went running from one end of the apartment to the other.


Chapter 4