Pride!Roman

Part 16

Sorry to keep you all waiting! It's been a wild ride since you've last gotten a part. It's been waaaay too long since I've written and I felt bad for not posting anything.

With grins on their faces Logan, Patton, and Virgil started to sink out, and since Remus was so adamant on bothering Virgil, he sunk out too.

That left Janus an I alone in the dark side of the mindscape. Jan has his back toward me so I walked up to him. I placed my hand on his shoulder.

"Hey Jan, how about we-"

He swatted away my hand aggressively which cause me to stumble back in shock.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

He turned around to greet me with an already red and puffy face with tears streaming down from his eyes, and a look of pain and anger in his eyes.

"What's wrong?! Are you seriously asking me what's wrong?!"

I didn't know what to say, so I remained silent. Maybe I shouldn't have done that, but I'm afraid of making things worse. How does someone even respond to that, especially when they actually don't know what's wrong?

He let out a sharp exhale and buried his head into his hands. I wanted to walk over and hold him in my arms, but something told me not to get close to him.

"Roman, I don't trust them, after you and Virgil left, I-"

He paused for a moment.

"It hurt, it hurt a lot actually, but you already knew that. It's just, everything is just way too sudden. I don't know how to handle it. You come back, and then all the sudden we're all joining together? They almost took everything from me, Roman! Everything! They only think they didn't take away from me, was Remus, because he doesn't care about being a light side. And now Remus is joining them because he doesn't care and he thinks the the two of us are both following him. The light and dark sides aren't supposed to get along, and now we're all buddy-buddy??? I don't want to do this, at least not right now. I'm going to need time."

"Then why did you say yes? You could've easily said no."

Janus gave out a little chuckle.

"I know you Roman. Almost as much as Remus does, and he's your twin brother. I know you wouldn't have taken no for an answer. Besides, everyone else was agreeing and you all were just looking at me waiting for me to say yes."

I started to step closer to Janus before I was stopped dead in my tracks.

"Don't touch me! You know what? Don't even get close to me! I don't even want to see you right now!"

Janus dramatically stormed up the stairs towards to what I assume to be his room.

I stumbled over to the couch and practically fell down onto it. I held my head in my hands and I couldn't get the image of his face out of my head.

"What did I do wrong?"

God I'm such a dunce! Why do I have to be so insensitive to other people, and then not even knowing that I'm being insensitive?! Of course he wouldn't want to be one with the light sides, I could tell that he has had really intense trust issues and he's been holding grudges against them for quite some time.

What's going to happen now? What am I going to tell everyone else? Am I going to go back to light side, or am I going to stay here?

How am I going to get out of this without hurting anyone?

Without giving a second thought I sunk down to the light side of the mindscape.

They were...celebrating.

Logan was sitting on the couch, reading a book as usual. This time, however, he had a rather large smile on his face.

It appeared that Virgil started to like Remus's company, as they were both sitting in the floor laughing together as they were playing Uno.

"Oh hey Roman! You're just in time for cookies!"

I looked to my left to see Patton walking in with a tray of  freshly baked cookies.

Classic move Padre, he can never stop baking cookies, no matter how many cookies go bad because we could never keep up.

The other three people looked up and greeted me with smiles, surprisingly.

This, this is weird. I came over here to talk to them about Janus, but now I just feel sick to my stomach.

Why are they being so nice to me? Is it because I left? Is it because they knew I was unhappy with how hey were treating me? Are they scared they're going to lose me again? They shouldn't be thinking that way because for all they know, were all going to put an end to the titles light and dark. I'm so uncomfortable.

Suddenly I came back to reality with Logan being extremely close to me while waving his hand in front of my face.

He jumped back in surprise when my eyes widened. He quickly adjusted his glasses and stepped away from me, a rather large blush appearing on his face.

"My apologies Roman, you appeared to not be responding to anything that anyone was saying to you so we got concerned for you."

Virgil gave a slight smirk.

"Uh correction, you were concerned for him. He was clearly just spaced out."

"Spaced out?"

"Are you serious?"

"I'm always serious Virgil."

"You know, like zoning out."

Logan pulled his vocabulary cards out of his pack pocket and started to flip through them, until he stopped on one and started to read it.

"Ah okay, I think I understand now. Still, he looked like he was very concerned about something that seemed to be bothering him. If you knew what was happening, then why didn't you say anything?"

"I don't know, it was funny I guess."

I looked back to Patton while Logan and Virgil kept talking, who was still holding a tray of cookies, only now his smile was gone. He was staring blankly at the wall. I looked down at Remus, being scarily quiet. He was messing with his outfit, almost if he was trying to fix something. He looked almost... sad?

What exactly is going on here? And how in the world am I going to tell them about what Janus said?