Pride!Roman

Part 12

I opened the door and was immediately hit with a chilly breeze. It was rather strong. So strong, that I could feel my cape flapping behind me.

I didn't know where the wind was coming from, as I don't remember any windows being nearby. And this is the mindscape so there isn't really wind unless it was created and last time I checked, nobody really crates anything anymore besides me.

I brushed it off saying how this is the dark side and things don't really make sense here. It makes as much sense as Remus when he's hopped up on deodorant.

I stepped out of the door way and my door immediately closed behind me rather loudly. I could've sworn that Thomas could hear it himself. The breeze came to an abrupt stop and I started to slowly walk down the hall with my hand gliding against the wall.

It was exactly how I remembered it. I saw that my hand left a streak on the wall. With a closer look I realized that it was dust. That's when I actually started to look around at the hall itself. The walls were a very dull shade of the color red that I last remembered and it really hasn't changed at all.

When was the last time someone has been down here? It looks like this hall has been empty since I've left.

I can see why they wouldn't go down this hall anymore. See, each of the four of us at the time had our own separate hallway because the dark side of the mindscape is rather large. It's actually a lot bigger than the light side.

I made it about 3/4 of the way out of the hall into the  main area before I saw a cracked picture from hanging up on the wall. I pulled it down and my breath hitched when I saw it.

It was one of the pictures the the four of us took when we were all happy here. I saw my left arm lazily hang over Remus's shoulder as it appeared all of us were laughing. Remus was playfully punching Virgil in the arm and it was one of the rare times that Deceit gave out a fully body laugh. It appears it must've been something that Virgil said that made us laugh like that.

My smile fell as I looked at the cracks that ran across the entire frame. I really shouldn't have broken this family up like that. How could I have been so selfish?  I should've never left. I carefully put the frame back up on the wall.

I slowly made my way out of the hall and prepared myself for what awaits me.

I stepped out and saw that not much has changed. A few things here and there, but nothing too major. Like I could see that the red and purple colors splattered on the walls were gone. It was replaced with full yellow and green. Yes there already was already yellow and green on the walls to begin with and all the colors were to symbol all four of us, but since Virgil and I left, there was no use in keeping the other colors. It probably hurt too much to look at.

There was never a quiet moment here and the fact that it was dead silent made me very concerned. I never expected that they'd be this upset when I left but I guess I wasn't thinking of them when I made that decision to leave.

When I went to the light side, I expected the layout of to be the same, but it's not. The dark side has two extra hallways for Virgil and I on the first floor while Remus and Deceit stayed upstairs. I never knew why Remus and I never stayed on the same floor since were actual brothers but I never really minded that much.

I looked down Virgil's hallway and saw a very dull shade of purple on the walls. I couldn't really see much as it was as dark as mine. I got a pang of sadness in my heart staring down at the empty walls. I'm really going to miss him but I can't go back now.

"Ugh! Why are you dragging me down stairs???"

"I'm telling you, I heard a big slam down here. I'm surprised you didn't feel it shake the whole dark side."

"Well yeah I did, doesn't mean I wanna see what it was."

I looked up to the stairs to see the two dark sides quickly coming down the stairs. Well Deceit was going down slightly above a moderate pace while Remus was trudging behind him. That was until Remus turned his head to the left and saw me half way down the stairs.

My brother, oh the last time I've seen him here. All those memories, they were so overwhelming I had to force myself not to cry. Being apart from him for so long really put a toll on me and I can tell that he felt the same way.

When he noticed me, his eyes went wide and he blinked a few times to make sure I was standing there. He reached out to Deceit with the arm that he wasn't pulling him with and grabbed his arm, as Deceit hasn't noticed yet I was there yet. He turned around and looked at him.

"Hey, what are you-"

That's when he noticed that Remus was staring at me and turned his head to see what he was looking at.

His gloved left hand found his way up to his mouth and tears started to fill up his eyes.

I really, really, really missed that pretty little liar. He was never afraid to show affection to his family and that's one of the reasons why I loved him. I did have feelings for him when I left but I also had feelings for Virgil at the same time, so it was really confusing. He always showed me kindness and was never afraid to be brutally honest, but I guess that came with the job of lying.