Lies and Dysphoria

Chapter 7-- feelings

Every day was the same for Virgil, or at least the mornings were. He would wake up at around 10am, he would try to sleep in but his body wouldn't let him. So today, he got up, had a shower and proceeded to stare at his body in his thin, body-length mirror.

He hated looking at himself, but it was like his mind thought that he had to. That he had to check through all the rights and most importantly the wrongs of his body, mainly the lack of male body parts and the presence of female ones.

Virgil had stood naked in his bedroom for over half an hour. He hadn't realised that he had been staring at himself for so long. He was too busy nitpicking at tiny imperfections on his delicate, pale skin. The man wrapped his towel back around his hips and froze in sheer panic as he heard a pounding at his door.

-------------about 3 hours earlier-------------

Roman had had enough. He was going to confront his counterpart and ask him about what he could only assume was some dark strawberry sauce on his missing pillow. Why had Virgil not only spilt something on it, but also had hidden it away from him. The Prince knew he shouldn't had sneaked into the other's room, but he needed the truth, and he needed it now.

The creative side was going to wake Virgil up early so he could pay for what he had done (in a nonthreatening way). So he got up at 7am and tiptoed across the hallway to not wake anyone else up. He was stopped in his tracks however when a nervous looking Patton bumped into him.

"oh sorry kiddo! I wasn't looking where I was going!" Morality said as normally as he could muster.

"you okay Pat? You look like you haven't slept in days!"

"actually I was on my way to see you, I want to talk. I kinda need some advice" Patton replied, a tiny blush appearing from under his round glasses.

"oh?!" Roman looked at Patton and put two and two together. "love advice??" he asked suggestively.

Patton's rosy cheeks blushed a brilliant shade of pink as he lifted his head to look at Roman.
"maybe" he squeaked.

'Virgil can wait' Roman thought. 'I have LOVE to discuss!'
Roman guided Patton into his room and sat next to the dad on his red and white bed.

They sat next to each other for a while, Roman sometimes gave his friend a reassuring wink or nudge until finally.
"so.... I do like someone" Patton said

"Logan?"

" waa..... How did you know?!" Patton said, flustered.

"it's kinda obvious. You blush a lot around him, you always sit next to him, little things like that. Also It couldn't be Virgil cause I know you see him as your son and that would just be weird. It also wouldn't be one of the dark sides, cause ya know... The whole Deceit and Remus thing"

"y..your right" Patton smiled sheepishly

"I'm always right!" replied Roman almost too selfishly.

Patton immediately switched into dad mode and said "nobody is right all the time". He gave a look to the other and crossed his arms.

Roman just shook his head. "anyway, we have love to discuss!"

The two continued having their conversation for around 2 hours and after a lot of crying and worrying from the older side, Roman decided it was a good idea to put on a movie to watch to calm Patton down. This seemed to work because after watching One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Patton was bad to his happy, cheerful self and skipped downstairs to make breakfast for everyone.

Roman looked at his Pinocchio wall clock and gasped. It was already half 10!
'screw waking him up early I need to talk to him now' he thought. He stood up and strode towards Virgil's room with full power.