Good rivals, but perfect boyfriends

Chapter 6- Staying home

Janus and Remus were talking about their Greek mythology assignment while Roman lagged behind in the conversation.

To which Janus noticed him acting off, Roman was generally social, so it was a little strange, but Janus put it off as Roman being in a bad mood, which was quite common when he was on his period, I mean, cramps are painful and uncomfortable, it made sense.

"Hey Ro, you good?" Remus asked, he sat backwards on his chair, leaning a little on two of the four legs, occasionally falling backwards and making a loud sound when his chair hit the classroom floor.

"Huh? I'm okay I guess."

"Come on Roman, just tell us what's wrong." Janus said, sitting down next to Remus.

"I don't know..." Roman continued colouring in the flowers he had drawn, "You know, it might be my period, or maybe it's because everyone keeps staring at me and not minding their own business and trying to slip through the cracks into my personal dating life which doesn't exist because I don't like Virgil romantically when they think we don't know what they're doing, Janus." Roman kept his head down, a straight face on while he wanted to smile and laugh so badly.

Janus just kinda stared at him for a while as he took in what Roman had said.

And at that moment he knew, he fucked up.

"Mmm, yes, agreement noises." Remus sarcastically said, looking at Janus with the smuggest 'I knew it' smile on his face.

Janus avoided Roman during break.

Made sense, but Roman would confront him, not yet though, he wanted Janus to think about it, and as evil as it sounded, make him panic a little.

It was mean, but hey, it was also justifiable.

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Virgil had just spent almost his whole lunch trying to explain to Patton the concept of personal space, and you know, not spying on people just cause you 'ship it'.

"Buuuut, you two would totally be cute together." Patton said, doodling cartoon dogs in his notepad.

"That's not what we're talking about Pat- are you even listening anymore?" Virgil sighed, why does Patton have to be like this?

"Look Kiddo, I'm sorry, okay? I did a thing you didn't find too Gucci, but you need to face the real issue, you're in love with Roman, and maybe you've realised it, and you're just not telling me, which isn't very nice, but I'm just making sure you got it, okay?" Patton said, looking up from his notebook.

Virgil did like Roman in a way that was not platonic, but he wasn't going to say that to Patton, that would make everything worse, and that was the very last thing he'd do.

"I actually don't Patton, you need to just stop and give up on it, I'm sorry, but you're wrong, and the smart thing is to stop, isn't that right Logan?" Virgil asked, lying through his teeth.

"I do agree with Virgil, if he itself says that there is no chemistry, we shouldn't blind ourselves to the clues to it in favour of the ones you may prefer, it is a smart thing to move on from your beliefs to face the reality of the situation, that Virgil isn't attracted to Roman romantically, and no offence, but thank god, I can't imagine that relationship." Logan said.

The words hit a little too close to Virgil's heart for his liking, but he wasn't one for expressing his thoughts, so he added it into the 'Soon-going-to-overflow cauldron of feelings' and left it for future him.

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Well fuck.

He grabbed his notebook, it was filled with tiny scribbles, hearts and stars of varying shades of blue and purple.