Ten Feet Tall [Royality] (Highschool AU)

😈❤️Devil Town II❤️😈

😈Chapter Seven😈

Please let me know if I ever represent anything wrong, wether it is cultural, trans/gender related (even though I'm trans), or whatever else. Accurate representation is the most important thing ever to me and I want to represent people right.

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Roman walked into English after having a really good day. He talked to Remus last night and got some closure and his classes today were really cool and accepting. The second day of having odd day classes and today was pretty alright. He only had to correct somebody all of twice and they instantly corrected themselves. He felt really heccin Valid and happy today. Please don't let this English teacher ruin that. 

Roman glanced at the board and grumbled. His deadname was on the board. This time the teacher was sitting at her desk, reading a novel rather than at the front doing something or whatever. Maybe if Roman approached her this time she would actually change the board. Seeing Ramona really bothered him. So Roman walked up to the desk with his kindest smile and with the most passing voice for a boy he had he asked her one more time.

"Excuse me? Can you please change my name on the seating chart? It's Roman, not Ramona." 

She looked up at her book, a brief expression of pure disgust for being interrupted before she realized it was a student and she couldn't really do that or she'd be fired. The author assures you that his English teacher is so much better than this lady. She placed a notecard in her book and leaned around Roman to see the board. She looked at the space where his deadname was amen she sat back in her chair. She looked so unamused. She didn't even open her mouth but Roman already knew she was going to deny him.

"Look, I just out the names of the kids that are on my roster. I don't do nicknames or crossdressing names or whatever. The seating chart's only going to be up for a few classes to let everyone get used to where they're sitting so can you just deal with it?"

Roman opened his mouth to object but-

 "Go sit down. I don't want you to interrupt my reading any more."

Roman locked his jaw shut, but his fist also found itself tightly clenched too. His seat was right next to the teacher's desk too to make everything worse. Roman, who used to be having a wonderful day, was now a pissy teenage boy thanks to one little thing. Thaaaaaanks ignorant English teacher. He slumped into his seat, hardly bothering Marceline and Monika who were each doing their own things: Marceline was fixing her black and pink nail polish while Monika was writing something in a nearly full composition book. Patton wasn't here yet. That's really odd. Roman was really looking forward to seeing Patton today. He wanted to talk more, and not just because the storm kept Patton awake and he needed someone to talk to at three in the morning.

The bell rang and Patton sprinted into the classroom just as the teacher stood up to slam her door shut. He was on time so all she could do was scowl. Patton looked like he clearly didn't get enough sleep. His orange hair was quite messy and his nail polish was kind of chipped. Maybe he was picking at it? He slid himself sloppily into his desk and hurried to get s thing in his desk. The teacher slammed the door and pressed a little clicker to move the slide. They were going head first into project already? Wow, Roman really likes this teacher. Ella es May malad y inutíl. It was an essay. Fun.

"We're going to write an essay basically about something that is really important to you. You're going to take lyrics from different songs and merge them together to form your paragraphs. This is supposed to encourage creativity and ingenuity. I don't care if you use your phones for this because you need song lyrics, but if I see earbuds I will ship them and if I see AirPods they're mine. Got it? Now get to work. Rubric's on the board."

Like that she grumbled and went back to reading her book. Somebody is a grumpy grinch. Roman glanced at the board. On the back of the essay every line must have a color-coded key to what song it came from. Monika and Marceline glanced at eachother, forming a secret girl's devil pack. Marceline was a guitarist and Monika was an expert at poetry. Of course they'd excel in projects like this. But Roman? The only songs he really knew were songs that he and his brother would google and sing when they were bored. Oh and some offhand broadway shows and one artist that Roman adored growing up. Roman looked at Patton, seeing what he thought.

"Uh, wanna work Together Roman? It says we can use partners on the board."

"We can?"

Roman looked back and sure enough, partners were allowed. Roman scribbled down his name and a title for his paper. Freedom to Be Me. Roman got out a few colored pens and Patton took out an entire set of twelve glittery gel ones. Whelp. Never mind. Patton took his chair out from under his desk and they crammed both under Roman's. It's okay because both of them are skinny twink Boiz. Patton put his phone on the table and had a few tabs with song lyrics ready to go.

"So I am kind of obsessed with a few artists but I wanted to get three songs each that we know that we can put it! I chose Idle Town by Conan Gray, One For The Road by Dodie Clark, and Home by Cavetown!"

Cavetown...? Did Patton just say Cavetown? That's the artist that Roman has been obsessed with! He got into it because of the Cut My Hair Monika Remix and he didn't like how high the voice was so he searched up the original version and thus began his obsession. Roman went completely fanboy mode. He forgot to speak English for a while he was s one overwhelmed with joy! A great turnaround to the pissy mood from earlier.

"Ohmigosh yes! Me ENCANTA Cavetown! ¡Estoy obsesionada con Robbie! ¡Sus canciones son incredíbles! I'm sorry I went in a rant there, whoops! But Cavetown and Broadway shows and Disney was my entire life! Of course we always had to listen to the spanish dubs or watch with subtitles on the internet but still! Sorry I need to calm down. My face is probably all red and I'm gushing and yeah. Let's get some lines from those songs first and then we can pick a few more to fit the theme. I know I kinda chose it but yeah."

Roman was grinning from ear to ear and so was Patton. Patton took the green, purple, and blue and wrote down each song's name on the back in that color. Meanwhile Roman took Patton's Phone and created three new tabs and put a new song in each. One was I'd Rather Be Me from Mean Girls because it's iconic, Things That Make It Warm which is also by Cavetown, and a somg he doubts anyone would know: Yumeyume. Remus was always obsessed with those Japanese songs and they'd translate them to Spanish and English on the internet. This was always their shared favorite. Roman smiled, yoinking the red orange and pink glitter pens as Patton looked through his choices.

"Oh I love the new song! I was debating on using it! I wish I had it memorized, I'd love to sing it!"

"Yeah, me too. I also wish I could play an instrument and do music covers and put them on the internet like a bunch of other people did when I was growing up. That'd be cool."

"We can do that! I can play the ukulele and the acoustic guitar! Maybe we could meet up this weekend and work on it. I mean, it's only two days away."

"Oh, uh, yeah! Perfect! But for now let's work on this!"

Roman found himself blushing a bright red face at that idea. They split of the three songs in pairs for each paragraph so it would escalate in each and have a main idea for each. They put Home and YumeYume first to show self discovery, then One For The Road and I'd Rather Be Me for self pride, then Idle Town and Things That Make It Warm to show how happy being proud of yourself makes you. A really beauitful message that means a lot to both of them. Roman picked a very good topic, yeah? And they were lucky that it just came all together like that. But still...

Playing music and singing the songs that helped Roman discover himself? And maybe sharing the same ones he shared with Remus when they were kids? That sounds amazing. That sounds super fun. Then maybe they can use those songs to reach out to him on the internet so they can stay in touch. That would be everything to Roman. Roman kinda zoned out in the middle of getting song lyrics thinking about it. There was no use trying to save him now. He's too far gone and he can't wait for the weekend, even though there's no plan set in stone. Roman cannot Wait.

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~Eva/Remus