Winged and Hurting (AU!Virgil One-shots)

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Instagram, Seventh Grade [05/19/2020] {Edited 5/20/2020}

Virgil was sitting by himself, back against the wall. He was playing on his phone. It was a cool fall afternoon and most of the other kids had left for the day. The only people left were those who were in a club or had to stay after school. 

Since it was a friday, his mother was supposed to pick him up from school. She took him for the weekends while he stayed with his foster dads on the weekdays. He didn't really mind that she was late to picking up. His mother wasn't a great person and she didn't exactly react well when he came out to her as gay last time they talked. He had recently gotten a boyfriend. His foster dads were really supportive of this. They even bought him a rainbow pride flag for his room! His mother however? Not so much. Not exactly supportive in any aspect, especially with something like this. She simply didn't believe him. That wasn't something he would care to go into at this time though. Virgil's face flushed a light pink at the thought of his boyfriend as he started to day dream.

Speak of the devil, there he was. He was pulled out of his thoughts as he noticed him walking over. Colyn smiled at Virgil as he got closer. He must have seen Virgil sitting over here. He was exactly hard to spot with his recently dyed purple hair and it wasn't like he was trying to hide. "Hey babe." Colyn held out his hand out to him to help him up.

Virgil reached up and took his hand. He was pretty light so it wasn't hard to pull him to his feet. Colyn pulled him into a kiss, much to Virgil's surprise, and curled his wings around him. Colyn enjoyed surprise kisses as he was quickly learning. His face flushed pinker as the kiss continued.

Once he pulled away, he asked, "Wasn't your mother supposed to pick you up?"

"Yeah." Virgil nodded, face still pink. "I'm still waiting for her."

Colyn set down his school bag and leaned against the wall. "I'll wait with you until she does then.."

"Really?" Virgil asked, tilting his head. "Don't you want to go home?"

"I'll rather be here with my boyfriend." Colyn smirked, getting immediate satisfaction when the pink on his face darkened.

"O-okay..." He ducked his head, in an attempt to cover how flustered Colyn seemed to make him. This was all still so new. He was only in seventh grade and he didn't have much experience in this area of life. He didn't really have many stable relationships to look up to either.

Virgil leaned against the wall next to him, watching the cars pick up the remaining students as Colyn talked about the clubs he was participating in currently to pass time.

Once Colyn finished talking about the current club in question, Virgil spoke up, "Isn't your Mom picking you up?"

"Nah, I'm walking home today. It isn't too far." Colyn shrugged, not looking bothered.

"Won't she be worried that you aren't home?"

He shook his head. "Nah I never actually told her when I would be home. I doubt she'll care or even notice until it's dinner time anyway. Plus, if she's really worried, I have my phone on me."

Virgil accepted the answer and went back to watching cars and random birds. It made sense to him.

"Hey, do you have Instagram?" He continued after a slight pause, "On your phone?"

Virgil glanced at him from the corner of his eyes. "What's that?" He looked slightly confused. He kind of recognized the name but he didn't really know what it was.

Colyn looked baffled by his response. "Do you like under a rock? How do you not know what Instagram is?"

Dang it, was he supposed to? Virgil pulled on his hoodie strings, looking down at his shoes. "M-mom didn't let me have a phone and I-"

Colyn cut him off, "You don't always have to talk about it."

"I- talk- what?"

"I already know the gist of it. Your mom is a homophobic, neglectant parent who was awful to you as a child." He dismissed "People don't like to hear the same story twice."

Virgil bit his lip, hunching his shoulders. "Sorry I didn't mean-."

"Forget it, it's fine." Colyn waved him off. "Give me your phone." He held out his hand expectantly.

Virgil pulled out his phone but didn't hand it to him. "Why-?"

He reached and took it from his grasp with a roll of his eyes. "To download Instagram. Gosh, you're being slow today."

Virgil went to reach for his phone. "Hey, give it back. Oscar and Antonio said to not let anyone-."

"I'm your boyfriend." Colyn cut him off as he turned the phone on, "It's okay if I touch your phone. What's your password?"

Virgil stopped his attempt to grab his phone and answered his question. "51315.."

Colyn tapped away at his phone and a few moments later, he held out the phone to him. "What do you want your user handle to be?"

"What's that?" Virgil regretted asking immediately. Colyn had given him a look of annoyance.

"It's like a username. Like, I'm '@kingcolyn' and you can be whatever. It can be a reference to something you like, something you think sounds cool or whatever you want."

Virgil was at a loss for a name. What could he use? "Emo Nightmare?" He suggested after several moments. It made sense to him. The more he thought about it, the more he liked it. It sounded cool!

"Alright, edge lord." Colyn rolled his eyes but typed it in anyway. "I made your password the same as your phone. I also had you follow me and filled out your profile and bio. You can change it later." He handed the phone over to him, "Here you go, you're welcome." 

"Thanks?" Virgil took the phone back and looked down at it. He started to scroll around some and eventually found Colyn's page. "There are pictures of you."

"Yeah, you post pictures. It's what you do." Colyn sighed, sounding slightly frustrated. "You really know nothing, huh? It's what you do. You post pictures of stuff." And idea popped in his head, "Here, let's take a picture together! It can be the first picture on your account!" He sounded excited. Before Virgil could give his input, Colyn called out to a girl passing by who probably just got out of her own club. "Hey, can you take a picture of us?"

The girl turned to look at them and then agreed. "Sure!" She walked over to them and Colyn handed Virgil's phone to her. She stepped back and held up the phone. "Ready?" She asked.

Colyn looked at the camera and threw up a three fingered hello of sorts to the phone and Virgil just stood there awkwardly. He wasn't used to pictures being taken of him. "Remember to look at the camera." He whispered right before the girl explained, "Say 'Cheese!'"

The girl handed the phone to Colyn. "I think I got a few good ones though you both could smile more."

"Yeah, we know. Thanks." Colyn waved her off, looking down at the picture. "Look at us! So cute!" He held out the phone to Virgil so he could look. "You have to tag me in it!"

"How do I do that?" Virgil asked and, again, Colyn sighed. Virgil tensed again. Colyn seemed frustrated to have to deal with him. He didn't want him frustrated at him.

"It's not that hard." Colyn started tapping away at Virgil's phone again, explaining how to post a picture with tags. "There, posted. You should post pictures of yourself here and such so I can see what you're up to."

"Is this a common thing people do?" Virgil asked with a frown. He didn't mind, necessarily, but posting his life online? Taking pictures of himself? It didn't sound fun.

"Yep!" Colyn confirmed, excited to have his boyfriend on the app with him. "Anyone who is anything has Instagram!"

Virgil just nodded in acceptance, putting his phone into his pocket. Right then was when he heard several honks come from the parking lot in front of the middle school. "My mom's here... I'll text you later." Who else could it be at this hour.

"You better." Colyn pulled him into another kiss as a goodbye. When it ended, Colyn had a smirk plastered on his face.

"Bye Co.." Virgil blushed, picking up his own school bag. He turned heel and walked toward his mom's car.