What's Wrong With You?

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Despite the music being loud at the club, Roman could still make out he was getting a call on his phone. He felt the vibration inside the front pocket of his jeans and fished his hand into it. By the time he took the phone out of his pocket, it had stopped ringing. He then placed the phone onto the table of the bar allowing Seth to look at its screen.

"Its Dean..." said Seth.

"Yeah," sighed Roman, still sniffing in order to control his tears.

"Look Roman, just call him back. Alright? Its really not a good thing that you're here getting a drink instead of telling Dean what worries you." Seth suggested.

"I... " said Roman and sighed again. "I can't. How can I? I don't wanna ruin all that we have between us."

"Alright, suit yourself then. Or in case you change your mind and decide to call him back, I'll give you some space. I'm at the washroom, ok?" said Seth getting up from his chair.

"Hey, come back Seth. Don't go anywhere." said Roman in a pleading tone, looking up at Seth.

Seth stared back at Roman's face. He felt bad for Roman as he had never seen him look so hurt and distressed. It was like he was begging Seth not to leave him alone. Seth then clicked his tongue and said, "And since when did you start looking like a scared stupid, Roman? Cheer up!" Seth then bent closer to Roman again and said, "We keep living no matter how bad things are. Why don't you try doing everything you can do so that you won't have to live with regrets later on? And yeah... I really have to visit the toilet. I'll be back soon!" Seth smiled at Roman before he made his way towards the washroom.

Seth continued to walk, his pace getting faster at each step, until he entered the empty washroom and shut the door behind him. "It's okay, Seth." said Seth to himself, while he huffed for air. "Its okay. You're going to be okay, Seth."

Meanwhile, Roman stared at the screen of his phone with teary eyes as he received a text message from Dean on there. 'How was the dinner?' it read. Roman sniffed hard and stroked his tears off his face before quickly typing up a reply. More tears started filling up in his eyes while he typed the message. He was crying heavily again by the time he sent the message. Dean, as he was watching Roman from a distance, didn't care to hide himself from Roman or Seth anymore and just got up from his seat in order to walk up to Roman and comfort him. He hated to see his love cry that hard. He just needed be with him. But then he felt his cellphone vibrate in his hand. Dean thought he would just ignore it and walk towards Roman's direction, however he couldn't resist himself from reading the message. He had seen Roman type, even though he was crying real hard. Dean was curious to know what the message was about.

Dean opened the text message to find that Roman had replied to his previous message as 'Goooood :) It's my fav restaurant after all! We're still out and I miss you ☹️'

"Why is he sending me smilies as if nothing really happened? Is he pretending to be okay?" Dean curled his eyebrows as he thought of it. Dean huffed, as he had never expected Roman to pretend as if everything was okay with him. This got Dean really frustrated as he quickly typed up another message. He was disappointed to the point he pressed his thumb hard onto the send option.

'I miss you too, Roman. Did you have fun?' said the message. Dean then started to observe Roman from where he was standing. He watched Roman how he read the message and typed a reply to it between his heavy cries. Dean got Roman's reply delivered on his phone not too long after. "We did! We had a lot of fun! And we're still outside. Ah, its so refreshing to take a quick break after all those weeks of working and working. But I miss ya☹️ A lot."

"So he really is pretending to be alright. Why is he doing that?" Dean spoke to himself in agony.

"What are you doing here, Dean?" said a voice right beside Dean's ear making Dean get startled. Dean almost jumped as he turned to his side to find Seth standing right next to him, glaring at him.