Lies and Dysphoria

Chapter 10-- pizza

After a while, the two had gotten a bit more comfortable and sat on Virgil's bed. The younger side was sitting on the edge of the bed, nervously biting his bottom lip until it started to bleed. The father figure was perched on the middle of the bed, cross-legged, he looked like he was going to burst into tears again, just after calming himself down.

"So...... Are you going to ask me questions?" Virgil asked, agitated as he looked up at Patton's rosy face. He could track the tear stains that ran down the others cheeks. Even though he knew Patton cried easily, he only felt more crushed that he made his 'dad' cry.

"Umm...okay.... I guess, I want to know..... Who do you identify as?" Patton looked up and met Anxiety's gaze. He rubbed his hands on his trousers as he realised that they were sweating from nervousness.

There was a pause in the air until, "I... Im a male, trans male if you want to be precise. I was created as a girl........ I felt out of place with everyone else. Deceit took me in and...." Virgil stopped there, unable to say anymore. He noticed the fear that struck across Patton's face when he mentioned the dark side. It was like he had been slapped and his face was frozen in time.

Morality snapped out of his trance-like state and gave a simpathetic look at Virgil. After a while, he started again. "So, how did that work exactly? Like you are a part of Thomas so you should have been a male all a long. I mean you are, you are a man, a manly man, a man who is manly. Not a girl, no, not that no..." Patton seemed to be lost in his mumbling. He felt like he had dug himself a hole and jumped right in. Suddenly, he felt a warm hand on his thigh. The dad jumped at the touch and glanced back at his son. "Sorry!"

"Patton it's okay! I know how confusing it must be. To answer your question, I honestly don't know how Im different. It sounds like something Logan will know about."

"Speaking of, when are you going to tell the others, if you are."

Virgil placed his hand back in his pockets. "I.. I don't know. I know that they will find out eventually, they have to. Now that you know, I feel bad from keeping this from them." He looked up, awkwardly at the other side and quickly moved his gaze to one of his limited edition My Chemical Romance posters.

"Whatever you decide to do, I am right here with ya kiddo." Patton said as he wrapped his arms back around Anxiety's waist side-on, causing him to fall on his left, his arms being the only thing that held onto the scrawny boy.

The two chuckled to eachother and smiled. They both enjoyed the others' company and it felt nice to have an open-hearted chat between them.

Without warning, Patton's phone started to play the campfire song song from SpongeBob, Roman had texted him.

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Sir-Sing-Alot:Paaaaattt im hungryyy 😩

Dad: hi hungry I'm dad!

Sir-Sing-Alot: 😑 when's the food ready??

Dad: oh sorry kiddo! I haven't started cooking, what do ya want?

Sir-Sing-Alot: PIZZA!!

Dad: sure thing kiddo! Extra everything??

Sir-Sing-Alot: EXTRA EVERYTHING!!

Dad: okay Roman, will do 😸😸

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Patton looked up from his phone and giggled.

"who is it?" Virgil asked, slightly disappointed that the moment was ruined.

"oh don't worry, its just Roman, he wants me to make pizza for dinner. Is that okay with you?"

"yeah sure, you know what I like"

With a grin and a kiss on the forehead, Patton trotted downstairs to make pizza for everyone.