This is not a fairytale-Sandersides

Chapter 17

Just as life seemed to not be able to get any better, Virgil started pushing me away.

He started slowly, like turning his face away so I kissed his cheek instead of his lips.

But then the signs started getting more and more obvious and I could no longer deny that there had to be something seriously wrong with him.

These last few months I had seen him happier than ever, always smiling at me with that beautiful rare smile of his and doing his low chuckle wheneverI said something even slightly amusing.

And yet, whenever he had gone away to where he ran off to Logan would look at me as if I was being even stupider then he thinks I usually am.

'You know he's lying right?'

His comment made me look up in surprise, completely lost of what he was talking about.

'Pardon me?'

'He's lying. It's an act. You, being the great actor you claim to be, would obviously see through his act wouldn't you?'

I might not know much about mister Albert Einnerd but I do know one thing: If he is being sarcastic you need to be very, very careful.

'Why would he be lying?'

'And I thought I was the one without emotions, Virgil is lying because he is afraid to make you feel anything else than the romanticized feeling you are right now.'

I just stood in front of him, not understanding the situation even the slightest bit.

'Also you might want to confront him about the fact that he has about an eighty-three percent chance of depression, all of the signs are showing and, as we've experienced before, if one of us is showing signs of depression it is very likely our host himself will be absorbing those feelings and as I myself am a part of him I feel the need to protect him from that. Therefore, Roman, it would be nice if you would be able to get down from the metaphorical pink cloud and would actually talk to your partner.'

The word partner sends a strange tingle down my back but it quickly ran cold again as I realized what mister walking Wikipedia had just told me about the person I adore the most.

'Depression?'

'Yes, he is showing all of the symptoms. He has shown to lose interest in the things he has enjoyed for over a decade, for example, he stopped listening to music which is highly unusual as he always used that as an escape. He also has been acting very tiredly and has slept way too long or not at all in the past few months. The lack of negative expression also is extremely worrying as he is, and will always be Anxiety. For him to just stop acting negative in any kind of way is not a good sign.

Also, he has caused himself and Thomas to hide his negative emotions, making them crash down on both of them whenever he thinks none of us are looking. I can't believe I have to explain this to you, what is it like in your funny little brain Roman? It must be so boring.'

And as he left me in complete shock, not knowing what to do with this information or the fact he has just quoted Sherlock I just stood there until Virgil had come back after going to the bathroom.

'Virge are you depressed? '

Now before you blame me, I might be the creative side, but for heaven's sake let Patton and Logan do the talking because I had absolutely no idea how to handle this kind of conversation.

Virgil apparently didn' t either as he just stood in front of me as if I had just slapped him across the face.

'excuse me?'

His voice sounded off as if he was hiding something.

In the back of my mind, I had always known there had been something going on.

But me being the overly romantic person I am, just shrugged and told myself I was probably just overanalyzing.

I noticed how Virgil's eyeshadow got slightly darker with every time he tried to say something and as he finally was able to blur out the word 'no'his hand clasped onto his mouth as if he tried to keep whatever sentence would follow trapped inside.

This wasn't good.