Never Let Go// Prinxiety

Chapter Four: Icebreaker

That's what Amara looks like. What do you people think? Ik I suck at drawing but I tried my best.

Roman's POV:

I started looking for Virgil, That cute emo kid I met yesterday. There's about thirty minutes until class starts, and none of my friends ever get here this early, so I've decided to try and talk to him again. Platonically! Not for, um, any other reason... .

I'm scanning the courtyard, when I see him sitting in that big dead tree by the school. Along with him was a short skinny emo girl who was trying to climb down the very large tree, that nice cheerleader Amara, from last year, a nerdy-professional looking girl, that kid Patton that's always so nice to everyone, and a girl with blonde curly hair and freckles.

When I got over there I think I startled the tiny emo girl, cause she fell off the tree and onto the curly haired blondey.

"Oh god are you guys okay?!" I asked hoping I didn't accidentally cause two people to break their bones. The blonde girl giggled. "I'm fine, Mel weighs like 5 pounds." She said sarcastically and laughed, though I could tell that the tiny emo girl didn't like it. "I'm Darla! But you can call me Dari. This is Melony, Kayla, Amara, Patton, and-" I cut her off "Virgil. We met yesterday. I'm Roman!" I looked up at Amara, who had a perked up eyebrow and a smirk painted across her face. I know she knew what was happening.

You see, only three people really know I'm gay. My best friend Mike, Amara, and now Virgil. I told Mike a while ago, cause I tell him literally EVERYTHING. And Amara knows cause she caught me making out with another guy in a tent last year at the school fair. She knows everything that happens in this school, so I wasn't surprised that she found out. Luckily for me, she knows how to keep her mouth shut.

"Nice to meet ya!" Patton said, snapping me out of my thoughts. He gave a wave and smiled brightly. I feel really bad for him. You see, he recently broke up with Damian Mentir. The rumor is that Damian was very abusive, physically and mentally, and they didn't break up on good terms.

"Nice to meet all of you too! Mind if I sit?" I asked. "Why not Princy." Virgil said scooting over and patting the spot next to him on the branch. "I guess you're part of the group now!" Amara exclaimed.

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Virgil's POV:

Today is our first day of actual class. Yesterday was the day where the teachers introduce themselves to all the new students and tell you the basic things we're gonna be doing in class for the rest of the year.

It was about twelve thirty and I was just leaving to lunch with Mel. Because of Kayla, all of the girls in our friend group are incredibly smart at at least one subject. Like, Mel is one year advanced in math, Amara and dari are one year ahead in Language arts and Kayla is ahead one year in, well, everything. So I ended up having a couple classes with all of them this year.

"Hey guys! Let's go I'm starving!" Patton and Amara ran up from behind us grabbing both our arms and rushing us to the cafeteria for lunch.

Mel and I don't have money for lunch, and we don't have a loving family to make sure that we have food in our stomachs, so Amara usually buys my lunch and Mel eats tiny bits of food from Kayla's lunchbox.

When we got to the cafeteria, Dari and Kay were already sitting at a table, Kay eating very little of her packed lunch and Dari chowing down on the stuff that Kayla wasn't eating. They were laughing and smiling and talking, it almost seemed like flirting to me... .

"Wussup nerds." Mel said as she plopped down in her chair and took a snickers bar out of Kayla's lunchbox. We can never afford any of the luxuries the other kids could, like lunch or drugstore candy bars , so kayla and Amara would usually help us out. Amara's dad is a surgeon and Kayla's mom is a lawyer, so they insisted on helping out. Thank the heavens for them, otherwise we would probably be in the hospital due to malnutrition right now.

None of them knew what was really happening at home, cause we didn't wanna worry them, so we just told them part of the story. That would be that our dad can't find a job, and because of that we're living in poverty.

"Hey Roman! Come sit over here!" I jolted up when I heard Dari yelling Roman's name. I then slouched back into my hoodie. Roman shrugged and walked over to our table, sitting down next to me. I was too anxious to speak at that point.

"Salutations, Roman." Kayla said in a less monotonous voice than usual, which took all of us by surprise. Patton waved and Mel gave him a little salute. "Wussup guys!" Roman said in his cute cheery voice. Dari started again, "so guys I was thinking, since Roman doesn't really know any of us, and we don't really know him, maybe we could do like a get to know you kinda thing!" Kayla cut in "like an icebreaker?" "Sure! An icebreaker!" Darla said in an exited, innocent, happy voice.

"Who wants to start off?" "I'll go!" Amara said. "Okay, I'm Amara love, I'm bisexual, uhh, I've been on transition hormones for about three years now, and got official operation about a year ago, and, uhh, I LOVE to sing!" She kinda yelled that last part.

Kay started talking "I'm Kayla clever, most people just call me kayla but for some reason all of you insists on calling me Kay, I'm one of the few people who doesn't like summer, uhh," "I second that" Mel cut in, raising her hand. "You guys don't like summer!?!" Roman said, VERY surprised. "No I really don't. Too sunny for the liking." Mel continued and Kay nodded in agreement. "Well I guess it's my turn"

"I'm Mel Oscuridad, I like my chemical romance, Panic! At the disco, and Billie eilish, and I don't really like most people cause most people don't like me." "Okayyyyy," I added on "I'm gonna go throw my garbage away before you guys make me talk" and with that I headed to the garbage can.

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Roman's POV:

We all watched Virgil walk over to the garbage can. Once he got far enough so he couldn't hear us, they started shooting me with questions. "So you like Virgil right?" Patton asked, looking over at me. "Wh-What?! No, why would you even-" I was cut off by Amara "it's kinda obvious" they all nodded. "N-no! No it's not." I said, shaking my head. "If you do, like him I mean, you don't need to stress about it. We are all homosexual here in a sense." Kayla informed me. "I'm lesbian." She added. "I'm pan!" Dari and Patton said at the same time "I second that, or, third, I don't know but I'm pan too" Mel continued. "Heck, I'm trans and bi!" Amara exclaimed very dramatically. "So we won't judge you if you like Virgil." Mel quickly added on. "Besides, he needs another commitment than sitting in a dead tree with us losers everyday." I could tell the others were surprised to hear that come from Mel's mouth. "So, do you have romantic feelings for Virgil?" Kayla asked. They all leaned forward at the same time, as if on que.

"I guess I do."

I'm gonna try to update every Monday or Sunday but I can't really promise anything. Byee!

Also, Damian Mentir is supposed to be deceit, and will come back in the story later. And if you didn't catch on to any of the last names, Mentir means 'a lie' in Spanish, and Oscuridad means dark, or in the shadows.

Okay, byee for REAL this time.