Pride!Roman

Part 6

I woke up rather peacefully, after not being able to remember my dream. It's nice not waking up from nightmares ever since I opened that cursed box. However, this calm feeling didn't last long.

I sat up in my bed and almost screamed at what I saw before me.

I saw a rather unamused Deceit sitting on my desk on the other side of my room.

"Well look who finally woke up."

"Deceit?! W-what are you doing in my room?! H-how long have you been sitting there?!"

My face was beet red from embarrassment and quickly tried to hide myself with my blanket.

"Waiting for you to wake up? What else would I be doing? We need to talk."

"About what?"

"About this."

Deceit stood up from sitting on top of my desk and walked over to me. He then revealed what was behind his back. He was holding a box. The box. The one that I hated so much, as it reminded me of everything I didn't want to be. I started to shake, mainly because I didn't want to look at it, and also because the screaming started happening again. I looked up at Deceit's snake face to see that he looked...sad?

"Where did you get that?!"

"I totally didn't take it from your closet."

There it was. The lies. I didn't realize how much I missed them until he started showing up in videos and when he popped up in the mindscape a few times.

I looked up at Deceit to see that he closed his eyes and started to breathe heavily. I could see that his lip started to quiver and he was visibly upset. He took a deep breath before he spoke.

"Remus came home last night."

"And?"

He started to squeeze his eyes shut even harder than before and took another deep breath.

"And he said you're coming home."

My mouth fell open as he opened his eyes. I saw tears started to roll down his face, on the snake half and normal half.

Was it true that me leaving them hurt him this badly? I had no clue how much pain I put the others through.

"Cut the lies Roman, for you and me. Is what he said true? D-don't play with my emotions like this, y-you've already done e-enough of that when you l-left us."

His voice was shaky and he had an obvious stutter. I could tell that it was also very painful for him to make eye contact, as every time he'd look into my eyes, he'd quickly tear his eyes away and look at something else.

I opened my mouth to answer but nothing came out. Instead, I found myself standing up and walking over to him and gently wiping away his tears. He then grabbed my shirt and pulled me into a tight hug and started to cry into the crook of my neck. I started rubbing his back soothingly while whispering sweet nothings into his ear.

"I told Remus that I was thinking about it. Truth be told, I don't feel like I belong here anymore. I used to enjoy the life I created here, but lately it feels like no one wants me around and that they're much better off without me. That is, until I found out how much you and Remus missed me back home."

Deceit let go of my shirt and started to wipe his eyes.

"I hate to admit it, but I- we missed you so much. It hasn't been the same back home since you've left. We managed without Virgil, since we already knew the pain of you leaving and it wasn't a surprise that he'd follow you. But the moment you left, every thing started to fall apart. I could feel Remus and I starting to disagree a lot more on things than before. We didn't have as much fun as we used to. I wasn't there to yell at the chaotic twin brothers to stop whatever stupid thing you were doing, even though I secretly loved how silly and carefree you two were together. Remus acts like a normal person without his other half and that scares the living hell out of me."

Was... was all of this true? I mean, I know I'm talking to Deceit, lord of the lies, but something tells me that he's being genuine. I lived with this man for a good portion of our lives (the sides sense of time is different than Thomas's, and that's why they feel a lot older than they really are), and I know when he's lying and when he's not.

I was about to open my mouth to speak but suddenly Deceit turned his head harshly to the left and started staring at the wall with his eyebrows furrowed and a pout on his lips. I raised my eyebrow and leaned my head down to the side so I could see his face better and tried to figure out what he was doing.

He snapped his head back to me, which made me stumble back a little bit with how aggressive it was.

"Sorry, I have to go deal with your idiot of a brother." (Dark sides can hear everything that's happening in the dark side of Thomas's brain, no matter where they are. Sometimes I can still hear a few things but it's not that frequent because it's been so long. I wonder if Virgil can hear it too.)

And just like that, Deceit rather sassily walked out of my room and almost slammed the door behind him instead of just sinking out like the majority of us (Remus just appears).
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Hey guys, sorry for the long wait for this short chapter. I haven't been doing really well mental wise but I wanted to get something out regardless. I don't really like it much, but I hope you enjoy anyway.