Meaning Of A Purr (Sanders Sides - LAMP Fic)

Chapter 58: Thomas's Frustration

Good morning, two quick notes. First of all there were two chapters posted if you skipped over the first because you clicked a link in the notifications or something. The previous chapter is an in between one that holds no importance to the actual story, however if you'd like to read it and you missed it, I'd like to inform you it is there. Second, I'd like to mention that this chapter was very heavily inspired by my wonderfully creative friend Incognito_Girl again. She gave me the idea, I wrote it so huge shout out to her for all her help. Now back on to our regularly scheduled warnings list, I don't think there are any. This is a pretty fluffy chapter. Anyways, as always take care of yourselves and thank you so much for reading!

Yet another tally mark in the analogical column. This had to be it, Logan and Virgil were dating. There was no way they weren't. Sure he kind of shipped Prinxiety and Logicality, but this one had the most tallies by far. Besides he'd been several times now that he'd seen Virgil sitting on or against Logan, although there was good reason for it Logan was also very openly protective of Virgil, and finally it's happened twice that Virgil was able to convince Logan to change his mind about Thomas's schedule without even having an argument. There was no way anyone could convince him there wasn't something going on there. That being said he had also been feeling an almost concerning amount of love and happiness for quite some time now which he assumed they had to be coming from Patton and Roman. Thus, despite the fact there weren't many tallies in that column, he was fairly sure that they had to be together. Patton does stay to take care of Roman every time Thomas didn't do too well on his auditions and Roman has been very quick to comfort Patton whenever he's upset.

Thomas sighed and leaned back in his chair, rubbing the bridge of his nose. He'd been visiting the mindspace regularly with the excuse of just checking in, asking random questions he probably could have decided on his own, or even just saying he needed a break from Remus, which was quite true. He just wanted to catch them in the moment or get them to admit it. He didn't like not knowing what was going on in his head and the sides seemed to still be hiding a lot of things, relationships just felt like something that didn't need to stay hidden.

Thomas's phone buzzed beside him and he saw Joan was calling.

"Hey, what's up?" He asked.

"You haven't been answering any of your texts. You busy or something, man?" they replied.

"No, I just must have not heard you text," Thomas chuckled nervously.

"You're still trying to figure out the shipping dynamic of the people in your head, aren't you."

"Well you don't have to say it like that, then I sound crazy," Thomas pouted.

"I mean you kind of are," Joan replied.

"But the sides are real," Thomas countered.

"I mean, yes, they are, I believe you said it was Virgil who scared the shit out of me by pushing my cup off the table. But that doesn't change the fact you are obsessed with this," Joan laughed.

Thomas chuckled a bit at the memory. Virgil was so afraid Thomas would lose Joan's friendship after they caught him chatting with his sides after they returned from the bathroom so he had decided to manipulate the surrounding to show Joan that all of them actually existed. Now Joan would even sometimes talk to the invisible sides.

"I'm not obsessed," Thomas finally said, returning to the conversation. "I just want to know what goes on in my head. I'm like the owner of an apartment complex, I want to know when there is something weird going on in one of the rooms."

"Why don't you just ask them? Wouldn't that be easier? You said Patton doesn't lie so he would tell you if you asked him," Joan suggested.

"I don't want to use him like that. Putting him on the spot by asking him that because I know he won't lie feels like a betrayal of his trust," Thomas reasoned.