About You Now

Pity Party

"What's up with you?" Jey asked when he saw Roman moping around the back of the school. He was listening to music, scrolling through his phone, and sighing loudly every few minutes. Jimmy was at his twin's side, looking around the immediate area, searching for any signs of the group Roman had been associated with since its creation, finding it odd when he found none. Not even Seth and Dean were in sight. "Where's yah buddies gone, you're girlfriend?" he asked, although he didn't bother elaborating on the girlfriend bit. Everyone in the school knew of the drama of the relationship between Summer, Roman, and Serenity.

"They abandoned me," replied Roman, seemingly ignoring Jey's comments regarding his girlfriend, more because he was unsure who his cousin referred to. The leggy blonde he regretted being with or his baby momma, who had come to hate him over the past few hours. "I gave them a choice; they chose wrong," he added in a solum voice, quieter than usual, as if the day's events had finally hit him. How his friends had chosen Summer over him, Dean and Seth among them, Echo hadn't even spared the time to hear him out, Serenity was expecting, everything he had been working toward was crumbling around him, and Summer seemed more than thrilled by his pain.

"Well, what were expecting Uce? Give them all a dumb decision like that," called Jimmy, a severe expression painted on his lips. "I'd wanna see you suffer too if I was Summer. Plus, don't you have more pressing things to panic about? Like what yah gonna do about fatherhood and your baby momma?" he questioned, a slight grin on his lips. "Yeah, everyone heard that meltdown. Congrats, though," worded Jimmy, suspecting the whole thing with Serenity would be common knowledge by the end of the school day.

Once again, Roman could only sigh, allowing himself to fall further into the pity party he'd thrown himself. He would return things to how they were the year prior and take over Daniel's place but call himself the Tribal Chief instead of King. He'd planned for Summer to be at his side, but that was useless now. She hated him as if he was her worst enemy. The more Roman thought about it, the more he felt like all the plans were becoming pointless. He didn't have Seth and Dean at his side anymore, and they blamed him for their brotherhood becoming obsolete. His other friends, once a part of the popular group, didn't want anything to do with him either, and the darklings, who knew what was going on with them.

"I just wanted things to go back to how they were. Back when everything was simple, we were all carefree and happy," worded Roman, reminiscing about the old times. When Dean worked as a lifeguard at the local pool during the summer holidays, Seth worked at Hot Topics, how the three would hang out at every given chance, so much so it wasn't out of the ordinary to see them together more times than not.

"You royally screwed that up," responded Siko as he walked past, a scrawl on his face, being flanked by the three known as the bad boys—other members of the elite family tree. "You made all those plans and forgot your boy turned everything on its head to prove he wasn't playing games with Demon," he added, recalling all the uncertainty back then, but despite that and diving head first into the unknown, it had worked out for the most part. The family to come from it proved one didn't have to be the same to find their place; they proved opposites could work and be stronger than anything that came before it.

"Try apologizing sincerely this time," voiced Jey, glancing over to Siko and his boys in time to see Tama Tonga rolling his eyes, holding back the comment that threatened to fall from his lips. Jacob was close by, sniggering at something, no doubt the idea of Roman apologizing to those he'd all but gone out of his way to hurt over the months, all of it to become the Tribal Chief.

"I've got a better chance at getting a hug from Bayley than he has at being forgiven," commented Jacob, pointing out the obvious yet also being truthful. Despite Bayley not being as huggable as before, he still stood a better chance at convincing her than Roman did at earning the forgiveness of those he'd once considered friends and family. "I'd bet his baby momma would throw a shoe at him if he tried to get near her again."