I can't believe I got myself into this. I have to drive in a small car with Roman all the way to Kansas! It takes twenty-one hours to get there usually with a straight path. It'll probably take longer. "No stops besides food and occasional pee," Roman says starting the car up.
"Whatever wake me when we get there," I say falling into a deep unconsciousness.
"Virgilllll...." I hear Roman's voice call out. "Virgil get up!"
I slowly open my eyes. "What do you want?" I ask looking at him focusing on driving.
"Where do you want to eat? Sorry, I woke you I just know Patton will be mad if I don't feed you," Roman apologizes to me.
"It's fine. I don't care where we eat," I say closing my eyes.
"No, no wake-up," Roman says impatiently.
"What?" I snap keeping my eyes closed. "I'm awake dumbass."
"Oh I know, just don't fall asleep again," He says turning up his music.
"Why not?" I groan opening my eyes.
"I'm bored," He says awkwardly.
"Of course you are, sing to me Princey," I say chuckling at his eyes lighting up.
"Okay!" He exclaims as I close my eyes. "Don't fall asleep to my voice."
"No, no I won't," I say drifting off as he starts singing.
A few hours later I wake up and it's super dark out. I look around crazily as I'm dazed and very confused. I look outside the window and see nothing but hay bails and fields. "Where are we?" I ask looking at Roman with confusion in my voice.
"Kansas," He states. "We have five more miles until we reach my family's farm.
"Your family owns a farm? How come I didn't know this?" I ask relaxing a bit.
"Maybe because you never bothered to ask about my family or where I grew up," He says looking at me and smirking.
"What? I asked where you grew up before!" I exclaim but he continues smirking at me. "Look at the damn road! What're you even smiling at?" I ask as he looks at the road laughing.
"Your hair!" He says laughing harder. I pull down the mirror and look at my hair. It's a mess. It's sticking up every which way. I quickly push it down until it goes flat and I put the mirror back up.
"Rude!" I scream rolling my eyes. "I'm hungry," I say and Roman hands me a bag of chips. "Thanks," I say opening it up and eating the chips inside.
A few minutes later we make it to his family's farm and he pulls into the driveway. "Don't get out. I have to make sure the dogs are in the kennels so they don't trample you." He says getting out and walking around taking a German Shepard and a Golden Retriever by the collars pulling them away. He comes back and opens the door for me. I roll my eyes and get out. I start shaking slightly. "Don't be nervous Virge it'll be okay. Don't worry," He says trying to coax me out of an attack. I nod and he grabs our stuff with one hand and interlocks his other hand with my hand. We walk up to the front door and he turns to me. "It'll be okay," He says knocking on the door.
A few seconds later a short stubby older woman opens the door with a big smile on her face. "Roman! And this must be your boyfriend!" She exclaims wrapping us both in hugs and kissing each of our cheeks.
"Hello, Mama this is Virgil, my boyfriend." Those words sound so strange coming from his mouth but I know it's just pretend so I calm down slightly.
She smiles at me seeming to wait for me to speak. "Hello, ma'am," I say quietly looking to the ground.
"Oh, we got a shy one!" She yells to everyone inside and I hear a rumble and many people show up behind her. I hear multiple shouts from everyone ranging from 'I didn't expect him to look like that.' to 'He's so cute! Perfect for our Ro!' I smile slightly embarrassed.
"Everyone leave him alone he just got here!" Roman exclaims. "Can we please go unpack?" He asks his mom and she nods moving out of the way. Roman takes off his shoes and gestures for me to do the same. We walk to a large room. The room has posters from Disney movies on the walls and playbills in boxes. The room just shows how much of a theatre
geek Roman is.
He puts out bags on the bed. "Where am I going to sleep?" I ask hesitantly standing in the doorway of the room rubbing my arm.
"The bed with me, of course," He says pulling his clothes from his bag and putting them away. I feel my face heat up and I look down shaking slightly. "Don't worry Virgil, nothings going to happen. We have to anyways just in case someone walks in," He says walking towards me and putting a hand on my shoulder. "You know for realism."
I nod and go towards my stuff slowly unpacking everything. "Where can I change?" I ask and Roman shuts the bedroom door.
"In here I'll face away and you do so as well and we both can change," He says turning away from me pulling off his shirt. I quickly turn around and start changing. After we finish Roman crawls into bed and pats the spot next to him. I roll my eyes crawling in feeling very uncomfortable. "Just trust me," Roman says before pulling me closer to him and I yelp in surprise. He chuckles and wraps his arms around my waist.
"W-what're you doing Roman?" I ask nervously. I tense up at every movement trying not to move too much for him to be uncomfortable.
"It's cold," He says chuckling. "Relax Virgil you'll have to be close to me like this all week might as well get used to it." Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into?
