Lies and Dysphoria

Chapter 8-- wrong timing!

Roman rapped on his friends door with some force.
"Virgil I need to talk to you!" he said with his nose and mouth stuck in the crack of the old door.

Virgil froze from sheer panic. He couldn't move. It wasn't like last time when he had his binder on.

When Roman heard nothing from the other side of the door, he stook back and kicked the door with full force. Luckily it didn't break down.

"Virgil!!" he sang as he stepped inside. He opened his eyes. His heart skipped a beat. Never would he ever think that this was one of the possibilities that his eyes would set upon.

Virgil was standing there, facing him, naked with only a towel wrapped around his waist. But, were those...........

Roman's face turned dark red.
"s.. Sorry!!" was all he could say before he quickly ran out the room and shut the door.

-Virgil POV-

Virgil just stood there, he couldn't do anything! Why did his body have to seize up like that! He was facing Roman as well!
He slowly moved over to his bed and put on some trousers and his hoodie, nothing else. He couldn't be bothered to put on his binder again, he was aching and in pain because he had worn it so much.

Anxiety sunk down onto the floor, back resting on his bed, and burst into an uncontrollable fit of tears. He hadn't cried like this in years.
He called himself weak, stupid and disgusting over and over again in his head. His thoughts were so loud, he didn't hear patton calling everyone down for breakfast. He wouldn't need it anyway. He didn't deserve it.

-Roman POV-

Roman sat outside Virgil's door in complete turmoil. What had he just seen? Well he knew what he had seen, but was it real? Was it a trick of the lights? He knew Virgil could shape-shift, so was it a prank? Virgil wasn't one to pull pranks, he certainly wouldn't have gone that far to pull one. And by the look on his fac..

"Greetings, Roman. May I inquire why you are sitting outside of Virgil's door, looking shocked?"
The voice of Logan shook Roman from his cycle of endless questions and confusion.

"oh, hi Logan, I just walked in on Virgil changing that's all." Roman blushed at the thought of naked Virgil.

"ah, and you are shocked because you have feelings for him? I understand" replied the teacher.

"what!!" Roman said, a thick blush appearing on his cheeks. "wait, you understand?? So you can love! What a surprise!" he said sarcastically

Logan blushed slightly "I.. I wouldn't say 'love' just some uncanny human emotions"

"sure thing glasses!" again, Roman couldn't help but be sarcastic. "I knew you were meant for each other!" he said under his breath.

"pardon?" Logan looked confused.

Before he could answer, the faint voice of Patton could be heard from the kitchen on the first floor, "breakfast is ready kiddos! Come downstairs when you are ready!"

This was a queue for Logan to somehow blush more from thinking over their last conversation and the person of the topic from that conversation butting in without realising.

Logan turned his head towards the stairs, looked back at Roman, gave him a farewell nod and walked downstairs to conversate with the man that he 'didn't' love.

The Prince continued to sit on the floor, not sure what to do with himself. Suddenly, a faint series of cries could be heard from the other side of the old, black door.
'wait... Is that Virgil.... Crying??!!' Roman thought. He pressed his ear to the crack in the door and listened only to hear more, louder crying from Anxiety's room.
'oh crap it is! It's probably best if I don't go in there, ummmm.... Maybe Patton is the best bet for this situation' He got up from his cosy spot on the floor and almost sprinted downstairs to get the dad.

"hey kiddo! Ready for breakfast?" asked Patton, looking up from his pancakes.

"umm.. Actually Patton, I was going to ask you if you could go upstairs and comfort Virgil, I think he's crying and I think it's my fault." It was hard for Roman to say what he did. He didn't like admitting that he was wrong.

The dad immediately stood up from his chair and rushed over to Roman." oh no! What happened??!!"

"I kinda walked in on him changing and I saw something I probably shouldn't have..." he hated this, but he wanted to tell the truth for Virgil.

"Oh..... Can you tell me what it was kiddo?"

"umm. Actually Patton, I think it was kinda, really private." Roman answered, looking at the floor.

"okay! I go calm Virgil down!" The dad gave a concerned look to Roman and ran upstairs.

"thanks Pat, I really appreciate it" The Prince said, under his breath.