Trip Down Memory Lane

Pictures and Figures chapter 28

Virgil's POV

     I had finished putting up the last of my drawings, which just so happened to be a chalk painting, so my hands ended up dusty. Instead of washing them, like I should have, I just wiped them on my pants and sat on the couch to look through Tumblr on my phone as everyone else finished up there jobs. 

     Roman and Logan sat on the couch around the same time, soon after Deceit and Remus stepped in. Deceit then came and sat next to Logan on the couch. Remus must have knew better than to sit by Roman, so he got up and crawled on top of the couch backing like a cat, before stretching and laying down on it. 

     ¨Sorry if I am late. It was hard to get Remus dressed up, this is how far I was willing to go before giving up.¨ Logan put a hand on his shoulder, stopping Deceit's quickening breaths, ¨It is absolutely fine. We are just so glad you came out.¨

     It was quiet for a second, so I decided to chime in, ¨What are we doing anyway?¨ Roman looked at me and started talking, waving his hands all over, just like always, ¨Well, we have set out scrapbooks, photos, and other sentimental of Patton's for us to look at. We also set out some food at the table. Once everyone is done, we are going to participate in Patton's favorite activity wa...¨ ¨Watching old family home video movies.¨

     Deceit cut Roman off, he is not going to be happy, ¨Yes, and after that, we can go back to our rooms, or chill in the commons if we so desire, after we clean up of course.¨ Roman wasn't mad that he was cut off, who took Princey? ¨I would like to look at the book of his childhood art projects first.¨ Deceit said standing up.

     ¨Okay, Dee, I will join you. I dont have much to do anyway.¨ Once Remus made it up to Deceit, I heard parts of their conversation. ¨Remus, I know you have a lot of energy, so if you get to antsy, feel free to go into the imagination for a bit, just restrain from jumping around to much or saying things that might be offensive or rude.¨ ¨Dee, you know I can't do th...¨ ¨For me? Please?¨

     I was caught off guard. Deceit was able to tame Remus... by SAYING IT WAS FOR HIM! Who took the real Duke? Anyway, Logan went over to some scrapbooks and so did Roman. I went up to the food table to grab one of Roman's desserts before I start walking around. 

     Patton's favorite music was playing in the background and I was softly swaying to the rhythm. I took a bite out of one of Roman's cookies and immediately recognized it as Patton's recipe, but it had a nice sweet twang to it.

     I chowed down on the whole thing with only three bites and went back for seconds. Afterwards, I went to a scrapbook that Patton made only a couple years back. It was from the year I first arrived.

     The cover was a glittery grey that faded to black. I opened it to see the inside said, ¨My Dark Strange Son is Home!¨ with Patton's signature at the bottom. That one sparked some tears in my eyes.

     I took a lot of time flipping through the pages, seeing a past Patton get excited over the simplest things. There was picture for our first meal together, when my room moved to the light side, our first movie night, and even one from the first time I cried in his presents.

Love ya Pat, but that's kinda creepy.

     At this point, I had looked through 6 scrapbooks. Everyone knew it would take days to look through all of them, so we all sat down at 3 to start watching the movies, bringing Roman's snacks to the table in front of the couch.

     The first one was when all the sides where younger. He didn't meet until a couple year ago, so I was not in most of this tape, but it was still fun to watch. 

     A young Roman always walked around with a cardboard crown on and a red towel that he used for a cape. He had a cardboard sword and a cardboard box fort to be a castle. This must have been the times before he knew how the imagination worked.

     Young Logan was never caught without a book, and I thought he was bad now. He often covered his face from the camera with said book, but it was still pretty cute to say the least.

     Young Patton was quite adorable, he had large round glasses at the time instead of his black, square frames. It also looked like he always carried around a plush dog. The dog was orange with yellow dots speckled all over. 

     Then, there was a young Deceit. With him, he either hid from the camera like it was a gun about to shoot him, or he became a model and started posing for it. He would often go up to it with his hand on his hips or crossed over his chest and say, ¨Sssssssstay away if you don't want a bite.¨ Always making sure he drawn out the ¨s¨ in stay. 

     We sat there watching the home tapes for hours, laughing at each other's stupidity. Unlike most family movie nights, no one was bored, or angry, or fell asleep. Everyone was wide awake and laughing. All fights and grudges, all hiss fits and fist fits where held at a stand still. This is just what Patton would have wanted.

     This is when I heard a faint knock coming from the door of the imagination. ¨Roman, your door is making noise.¨ Roman huffed and stood up with a crooked smile. ¨I am sure it is one of the dragon kids wondering where I am.¨ I stood up, ¨YOU HAVE KIDS?!?!¨

     Roman looked down, ¨No, but the dragon witch had babies. She stopped attacking and I have had a lot of fun playing with her babies. Usually I come out at this time. I forgot to tell them I had plans, be right back!¨ 

     We all heard a blood curtailing scream and we all jumped up and rushed to go get Roman out of the trouble he was in. 

     We circled the corner to see him on the ground in tears, and what was once lost wrapped between his quaking arms.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. This book should be over with within the next week. There is only 30 chapters and I am thrilled to have this book over, that is my motivation to write currently. I am super happy that you decided to read this much. Thank you and stay hydrated.