Sanders Sides Oneshots

Being Me

Requested: No
Remus is aro in this. Please respect that people can be aromantic. It is not a choice.
TW: None
Ship: None

Remus's POV

Patton knocked on my door, "Remus? Can you come down for a minute? We need you for something."

"Ooooh! Do you need me for-" I was interrupted by Roman.

"Don't finish that sentence." He warned.

I huffed. But kept quiet.

I followed them down the stairs to see Logan, Virgil, and Janus on the couch, all sitting as if they were expecting a visit from their- you know what? I should just get back to my story.

Logan spoke up, "We were wondering what it feels like to not be able to experience romantic attraction."

"I don't understand what half of those words mean but I heard experience, and I can make you experience a lot of things." I replied in a seductive tone.

Patton just say there looking confused, Virgil and Roman looked like they were going to puke up their guts, while Janus and Logan looked unfazed. I wasn't the least bit surprised.

"He's asking what it's like to be aromantic dumba-"

Virgil was interrupted by Patton shouting, "Dumbo!"

I suddenly felt sick.
I hated talking about this.

I grabbed a chair and sat down.

"Umm, well, I don't really like talking about it."

"That's okay kiddo, we just want to be able to understand how your feelings work."

I got up to leave, but then paused.

"Are you sure you want to know?"

Everyone nodded their heads. I sat back down.

"Sometimes being aromantic is like having a price of your heart torn out, or missing.

You try to fill the hole, fix the parts of you that are broken.

But you can't.

You try to pretend that nothing's wrong. But on the inside you feel broken.

The world makes love seem like the most amazing thing,

But I cannot feel it.

Being aromantic is not necessarily bad, but everyone makes you feel worse.

You need to help us belong.

I'm not broken.

I'm not broken,

But I'm not entirely whole."

This was more of a rant chapter because I had an idea for some angsty poetry, but it didn't really work as poetry. I feel invalid all of the time because of my romantic orientation. Please help people like me to feel like they fit in. I am not broken, nobody in the aspec community is. I love everyone of you out there who are struggling to fit in, platonically of course.

-Enb