Without you - Sanders sides human! AU - book 2 (discontinued)

Chapter 20 (Roman's POV)

After the incident at lunch time, I had managed to avoid my friends during the whole afternoon, but that'll come to an end now, since classes had ended for the day, meaning that the second I got home I'd have to deal with the three of them worrying over me.

Don't get me wrong, I love my friends, but sometimes they worry in excess over little things. I'm ok, it isn't such a big of a deal. I hoped they could understand that, but they don't, they never do.

I guess that's why I ended up talking with Dee so often lately. He didn't bother me, he just listened and calmly sugested me how to improve the situation. And when I didn't want to talk about it, he understood, and changed the subject to keep me distracted by talking about simple stuff, like theatre, which we both loved. It was just much easier to talk with him, he trully understood what I was going throught.

The door of my appartement was closed, but not locked. Logan was home. Hopefully, it'll only be Logan, he's easyer to get around with, altho my luck wouldn't be so good, I was certain. At least Patton would also be there. And how leaving Virgil alone wasn't an option, he'd be here as well.

 I opened the door, and as I suspected, Logan was waiting for me in the living room, altho there wasn't anyone else in here, which I found strange

"Saluations Roman. It's nice to see you came," Logan said, coming closer to me. As usual, he had a calm neutral expresion, which he tried to maintain even tho he seemed slightly concerned

"Hello to you too Lo," I replied, going to my room

"Want... want to talk...?" He asked. I stood still, shocked. Logan wasn't the one to talk about the day, and less to try and help when things where rough. He'd ussually try and leave me space or call Patton. I bet this was all his idea.

"Uh- yeah, why not?" I replied, without looking at him, "Let me just- let me just leave my stuff in my room and then we can talk, ok?"

"Sure, sure, go leave you things, I'll- I'll wait for you here."

I got inside my room, and rested my body against the wall. What was wrong with him todayf? He wans't the person to ask if I wanted to talk. This was weird. I was sure Patton had told him to talk with me. Yes, it was probably that. After what had happened at lunch, he wouldn't like to over-stress me, and making Logan be the one to talk with me was the savest option, since it'll be more cassual, or at least that's what he must've thought. I sighed, breathing in in an effort to calm myself so it didn't show what my thoughts where. At least this was Logan who I was dealing with, and he wasn't what you call an expert on understanding body language.

"So... What you wanna talk about?" I asked, once I got outside

"Well... How are you feeling right now?" Logan asked. He really didn't have any idea on what he was doing, didn't he? At least he tried, which was something. 

"Alright, how I'm feeling..." I mumbled, trying to come up with an answer for that, "I-"

Suddent knocking interrupted my words. Both Logan and I looked up at the door, equally confused. I wasn't expecting anyone, apparently neither was Logan. He stood up and walked towards the door. He looked through the peephole before opeing it. 

Inmediatelly, my cousin rushed in, pushing Logan aside.

"Hey bitch, missed me much?" He asked.

"Remy? What are you doing here?" I asked, standing up from the couch where I had sat on. This was a big surprise for me, I didn't expect him to come by

"I'm just here to take you out to buy some starbies," Remy explained, holding me by the arm and carrying me with him, "Come on,"

"What? But-"

"No buts sis, ya comming with me," Remy pushed me ouside and waved back to Logan, who hadn't moved from his spot, "Baiii!" He waved, and with this, he closed the door.

"Alright Remy, what was that?" I asked, once in the elevator.

"I already told you, we are gonna get some starbies," He replied.

"That- doesn't explain much. Why have you kidnaped me out of my house and why have you-"

"Chill girl, I just wanna talk. We haven't had a good talk in ages, and you are my fav cousin, so I thought this was a time as good as any other," He explained.

"Hm... I'm still suspicious tho. You haven't come visit me in months-"

"You haven't come vist me either! Someone had to do the first move, so I did. And if ya gonna ask me why today and not any other day, I'm just gonna say that you've been over a lot of stress lately and you deserve to go out and get some air," he explained. The elevator stopped and Remy walked away, so I jogged to get my his side.

"A lot of stress? What do you-"

"Sweety, just today in the cantine. It wasn't such a big of a scene, but it's clear that you have loads of things on your mind," He said.

I stopped for a second, before starting to walk again. Wow, so if he had seen, then everyone had seen. And that meant that now they where probably talking about him and how much of a mess he had made and how stupid and pathetic he was and how-

"Ro, chill, I can sense the waves of self hatred radiating from you," Remy's words brought me back to the real world, "And not everyone has see it or anything. This is college, people don't care as they did in high school. You are just another stranger who got mad at his friends and that's it, no need to loose your sleep over it,"

"That helps..." I mumbled.

"Your welcome. Now tell me, how's life? What happened? Who do I have to kill?" Remy asked, lowering his glasses to look at me in the eye.

"Wow wow wow! Now it's you who has to chill, mister! No need to kill anyone," I laughed.

"Hm, I had to give it a try," Remy hummed, "I still wanna know what's going on in you life. And remember that I'm dating your best friend's sibiling, and their relationship is much better than your's and Remus's, so if ya lie to me, I'll know."

"Is that a threat?" I wondered, trying to hide my laughter and surprise. It really had been a long time since I had spoken with Remy, hadn't it?

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Depends on the pov. Now tell me babe, what is it that's bothering you?"

... AND that's it for togay!

I know that y'all are probably Remy and Emile starved, so, good news, they're gonna apear much more often in this book than they did on the first one (hurray!)

Until the next time, take it easy guys gals and non binary pals!