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Part 16.

Virgil's POV

"Virgil, who's that? And why is he with my brothers?" Patton asked while hiding behind me. "First off, you don't need to hide behind me, we're invisible remember? And for the guy, that was supposed to be Thomas."

We followed them into my apartment complex and up the stairs to the forth floor. We trailed behind the trio all the way to my door. "Is this where you live?" I nodded slowly as I watched Roman knock on the door. We could hear the shuffling of feet before Remy's smiling face appeared in the doorway.

"Hi, can I help you?" Patton opened his mouth to say something but I shushed him. "Yeah hi, we're here to see Virgil. Is he here?" The supposed Thomas spoke first. "I think he went to work, I didn't see him this morning. Who are you guys anyway?" Patton quickly spoke up, "this is Roman, Thomas, Logan, Virgil, and I'm Patton. Oh wait, you can't see me. Oops," he giggled making Logan wip his head around.

Me and Patton gasped and looked at him. He stared at us for a minute before turning back around. We both sighed in disappointment before turning back to the conversation. Remy was inviting the others inside so me and Pat followed suit.

"So you're telling me that Virgil is your brother and he doesn't know it because all of your memories are gone. That what you're telling me?" Thomas looked at the other two before nodding. "Then I'm going to ask you to leave now." Roman jumped up, "what!?! Why?" Remy stood as well, "because Virgil watched his dad kill his mom when he was ten. This is why he refuses to remember back that far, not because he can't but he won't."

Roman and Logan sat in silence while Thomas looked completely unfazed. "I'm going to the bathroom for a moment if you don't mind." Remy nodded and pointed down the hall. Roman then got up and left, leaving Thomas, Logan, and Remy in an uncomfortable silence. I heard sniffing behind me. I turned around to see Patton trying to hold back tears. "Hey hey hey, what's wrong Pat?" He erupted in sobs and started crying, "you really watched that happen?"

"I mean yeah. Well he stabbed and shot me first but yeah I watched him kill my mom," I said with a shrug. That obviously didn't help at all because he only started crying harder. "Come on Pat, it's okay. I'm still alive and I have you back now so it's all in the past." He continued to sniffle. "How about I show you around the apartment while we wait for Roman to get back?" Patton looked at me before giggling and clapping.

"What was that?" We turned around to see Logan looking around the room in confusion. "What's up Lo?" Logan looked over at Thomas, "I thought I heard Patton. I guess not, maybe I just miss him." "He's fine Logan. He probably left early to try and find Virgil." Logan nodded slowly. "You keep saying this but it doesn't sound like him to go off on his own like that. What if he got hurt, I never got to tell him-"

"GUYS! COME QUICK!" Everyone got up and rushed to the bathroom. Inside was Roman standing in front of the bathtub. He looked like he was about to be sick or start crying. "What's wrong Roman?" Logan spoke up. Roman didn't respond, instead he lifted a shaky hand and pointed into the bathtub. We all looked in and saw something horrible.

The tub was full of blood, my razor on side, and on the back wall written in blood was-

"'Anxiety has a secret, find him.' That's horrible! And who's blood is this?" Logan kept asking questions, Remy ran out crying, Roman looked sick, and Thomas was unfazed. I turned and saw Patton crying. "Virgil, what does this mean? Where did all this blood come from? Was it self-harm, is that it?"

I couldn't stand to look at him, so I directed my attention to Princey. I walked over to him and wrapped my arms around him. "It's going to be okay, I promise."

Then the screaming started. Roman clutched his head and dropped to the ground, the pain overwhelming him. Remy rushed back in, "what the hell happen? Why is he screaming?" "I don't know, he just started doing that. It's just like what happened to Pat." Logan kneeled down next to Roman, "Hey, you okay? What's happening?" When he didn't respond Logan stated, "We should get him out the bathroom." The three men carefully picked him up and moved him into the living room.

*time skipeth*

Roman passed out an hour ago and hadn't moved since. "Will he be okay?" Patton looked up at me with worry filled eyes. "He'll be fine. This is what happened to us right, so he'll be okay."

"Thomas, why is he flickering? WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO NY BROTHER!" Patton and I looked back at Roman but we didn't see him flickering, he was opening his eyes. Roman's eyes fully opened and looked up at us.

"ANXIETY! Oh my god I can't believe it's you!" He lept up off the couch and tackled me in a hug. "Logan, where's Roman." Me and Princey looked up a saw Thomas and Logan staring at the couch.

"Anxiety, why is Thomas made of shadows?"