Unlikely Roomates

Chapter 05 - Day Out

The day is Wednesday, June 12'th 2019 Roman has some spending money from his birthday last week (June 4'th) and decides he wants to go to Walmart to buy some fake flowers for deco, and maybe some other things! Walmart is the ultimate store, and a trip to Walmart is an event.
He takes a light coat, his wallet,his phone, and his sunglasses.  He shoots a text to the groupchat to tell them where he's going "Sander Universiboyes" it used to be "Universiboys" but at some point Virgil added an E along with a ";)" text to the chat

Roman thinks about the name Virgil as he walks out of the house, closing the door behind him "I swear I've heard that peculiar name before..." he searches his memory but is interrupted by the fact that he indeed just walked straight into his car, and falls straight onto his ass
"You alright there kiddo?" Patton calls out from a window, Logan's head pops into the window next to Patton's "You should watch where you're going." Roman waves them off embarrassingly, gets into his car and leaves... "was Patton in Logan's room?"
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Patton laughs lightly as Roman drives off "what a Card!" "Yes indeed, Patton?" "Huh?" Logan crosses his arms and a small smile forms on his face "you came in here to ask me something, correct?" "OH!" Patton knocks on his own head "anyone in here? Haha- yeah I almost forgot.. uhm.." Logan takes a seat on his bed, he looks Patton up and down, then settles back on his face as he finally pulls his words together "I've known Roman ALL my life, were practically brothers! But I just met you so i was wondering when you're free we can go and get lunch? If you're okay with that that is!" Logan turns and dramatically looks at his blank calendar "I'm sorry it seems I'm booked!" "Oh that's totally fine! Maybe another ti—" Logan waves his hands "oh no! Uh it was a joke, you seem to like jokes so I thought I would—" "oh! That's sweet of you" Patton smiles at Logan, realize he's been staring and looks off to the side. "I mean, I'm currently free, and since it's still early..." Patton looks back at Logan with stars in his eyes "yeah?" Logan nods "yeah so maybe we could do brunch." Patton blurts out excitedly "I love brunch!" Logan responds caught off guard "ah! Me too!"  Patton throws his arms around Logan pulls him up to a standing position, squeezes him tight, he looks at Logan's flush surprised face and— quickly lets go and bolts to his own room regretting literally every moment in his life up to this point.
Who just- who does that! Who bear hugs their crush, after shouting: I love brunch!
Patton takes out his phone, and texts Roman

Patt: Logan said me and him can have brunch! :D!!

Roman: Brunch?

Patt: yes! Brunch

Roman: hey Dad

Patt: yeah kiddo?

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Roman then explains that brunch is gay and that this is totally a date
Patton gets embarrassed and teases the idea of inviting Remus over soon to scare Roman into shutting his pretty little mouth

Patton tosses his phone onto his bed and plops down on his carpeted floor "..we never agreed on a time- wait should I be getting ready?"
He quickly stands and rushes into some nicer clothes, he puts on a white and blue floral shirt, grey cardigan tied over it and some nice causal bluejeans. "Nice!" He looks into his mirror "hm.." he tucks his shirt into his jeans, cuffs them and puts on a belt that matches his brown shoes "that's better!" He looks at his watch and figures he should go get Logan
He opens his door and quickly takes a step forward which leads him bumping into Logan who, reflexively to keep him from falling, wraps his arms around Patton.

"...." "...." "I Uh-" Logan lets go and dusts off Patton's shoulder "I'm sorry about that Patton the i isn't realize you'd be walking out, you see the probability of that exact event is—"
Patton smiles at Logan as he goes on and on about probability and percentages, he takes Logan's hand in his and gives it a light squeeze "Lets go, there's a nice place not too far from here. We can walk" Logan returns the same smile and squeeze and they walk out the door together. Logan texts the group chat that he and Patton will be our and will return later. 

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Roman walks the isles, picking up what he needs. 
He's picked out fake flowers in all the colours of the rainbow. He figures he should get some small gifts for his new Roommates!
For Patton: 1# Dad mug, some alphabet fridge magnets, and a puppy calendar
For Logan: a rubix cube, a sudoku puzzle book, and "CodeNames" it's the closest thing to a word association game.
And for Virgil... "what would he even like?" He speaks a little louder than intended but he remembers Patton said he's shy so he gets what comes to mind: A fidget cube, a blank journal, and a black mug "shy kids like tea or coffee usually right?" He heads up to pay
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Patton and Logan get coffee and something to eat and they chose to sit outside, Patton nervously sips his coffee, they've been idly chatting for about an hour, Patton asks an important question. "Do you like any games? like get to know you games?" Logan thinks for a moment before responding "I like word association games if that counts?" "Sure!"
Patton smiles "I'll say a word and you say what comes to mind- ok?" Logan just nods

"Alright let's see... colour?"
"Indigo Blue. "
"School?"
"Fun. "
"Drink?"
"Coffee. "
"Activities?"
"Studying"
"Friends?"
"You"
"Boyfriend?—" the words are out of Patton's mouth before he can think about it
They both collectively take a comedic spit break and clean themselves off while blushing like the total idiots they are. Logan clears his throat "Single" he taps his fingers on the table
"Good to know! I mean- well I didn't mean it that way, it's not like I'm- you know! Uh.."
Logan similes "I belive its my turn then. " "oh yes please, go ahead!"

"Colour?"
"Light Blue!"
"School?"
"Homework.."
"Fun?"
"Games!"
"Friends?"
"Everyone"
"Parties?"
"Dancing!"

"You're very bubbly Patton" "is that a bad thing?" Logan shakes his head, Pat leans over the table and taps Logan on the shoulder "you've just met me so you're in for a lot more than this" Logan puts his hand on Patton's "Can't wait. " they smile at each other
Patton can practically feel Logan melting, but if he's being honest? So is he.

Logan opens his mouth to say something and that's when Patton's phone rings, he quickly answered and turns around and speaks into the phone with a hushed voice
"what??"
"Oh hey chill out they're Daddy-o, I'm on my way home and was wondering if you and Nymble would like a ride home!" Patton sighs, he turns and looks at Logan
"Hey Lo- Roman asked if we wanted a ride back to the house?" He crosses his fingers in hopes of a no "Oh, tell him that would be very kind and appreciated" Patton fakes a smile and tells Roman okay and hangs up rather quickly

"You okay Patton?" "Huh? Oh! Yeah sorry I guess I just lost track of time you know?" Logan stands and offers a sympathetic look and a soft smile "don't worry, I did too- I'll go pay then we can wait for Roman" and so he goes back inside
Leaving Patton alone to stew in his feelings- he was feeling great a moment ago- but now he'd really like to go home and stare at the ceiling.

he's completely staring off into space when a hand touches his shoulder and he leaps to his feet "woah! Relax Patt" it's Roman "oh! Hey- Lo's inside he'll be out in a moment, we were about to go wait for you.. how'd you know we'd be here?"

"Patt this is the only place around here that you like- anyways, are you alright? You look a bit, distressed? Did I interrupt something?" Patton shakes his head "Probably not, I'm just stuck in La La Land a bit, I need a bit of a reality check"
Roman looks at him confused and is about to question his statement when Logan walks back out and Patton immediately smiles and folds his hands together "are we ready to rock and roll?"
Logan is about to comment sometimes about then not being rockstars but Roman shoos them all into the car.