Once Flames Now Flowers

Chapter Fifteen

Roman walked into Virgil’s room with a solemn look on his face. He didn’t know what he was supposed to expect. Virgil was a curious character that had been hard to read for the three months they had known him. It was always a mystery with this boy.

Upon entering the room he found that Virgil was not unpacking his things, rather he was sitting on his bed doing absolutely nothing. It was something that Roman had expected. Virgil didn’t seem to be the type that would get working as soon as he was asked, especially when it was after an emotional moment.

“You ok, Virgil?” Roman asked.

“Oh, um yeah. I am just thinking about things,” Virgil answered looking at Roman from the corner of his eyes.

Roman walked over and sat next to Virgil, letting the shorter male lay his head on the tallers shoulder. It was a comforting thing, and they both really needed it in that moment. Not that Roman had told anyone about what had happened, there was too much happening with Virgil.

“Somethings wrong,” Virgil stated.

“What do you mean?” Roman questioned.

Virgil didn’t answer for a moment and Roman started to comb his fingers through the purple hair. The shy male leaned into the touch as if he never got touched in a way like that before. It made Roman’s heart ache that Virgil hadn’t had these touches from his love.

“You, something happened and you aren’t telling anyone. You can tell me,” Virgil answered.

“It’s not that big of a deal. I am way more worried about you. I know there is something wrong and you need to talk about it. You can repress emotions,” Roman stated.

“I am not telling you anything if you don’t tell me what is wrong,” Virgil retorted.

Roman didn’t know what to do. His problems were nothing in comparison to Virgil and yet the male wanted to hear them. The male who had so many problems wanted to hear about Romans. It was almost surreal. How could someone who already had so many things going wrong want to hear about even more problems?

“Well… my cousins are coming to thanksgiving this year along with my grandparents and they want me to come over and spend time with them. It is only a month away and I don’t think I have the will to do it at all. I can’t deal with their hurtful words you know?” Roman explained.

“Why don’t you just take Logan and Patton then you can spend time with them and no one can say anything mean to you with them there,” Virgil offered.

“Patton spends the holidays with his family and Logan doesn’t celebrate the holidays so he usually stays home,” Roman explained.

“I can go with you,” Virgil suggested not even thinking about what he was offering.

“Wait, really?” Roman questioned.

“Well, I don’t see why not. My family is dead so I don’t have anywhere to go. I don’t really celebrate the holidays either, but I will, I don’t mind,” Virgil shrugged.

“That’s brilliant! Ok, now what’s wrong with you?” Roman asked.

Virgil didn’t know if he should tell Roman the truth. He didn’t know if he should tell the confident male that Carlos was acting nice and that the man had realised his mistakes. Sure the man had been rude for a long time, but if he realised that he had been wrong then that meant that he could get better. That meant that Virgil could be happy again and not lose that part of his life.

“It is just weird to not be with him anymore,” Virgil fibbed. It was weird not to be at his home but that wasn’t really troubling him. He was more concerned with other matters.

“It’s going to be ok, you just have to give it some time and it will steadily get better,” Roman stated.

“That’s true. I think I am going to go to sleep now. This day has been a lot,” Virgil smiled.

Roman left Virgil’s room and went to the kitchen and started to tell Patton how Virgil was feeling. But he told them about thanksgiving. He let Logan and Patton know that he had been worried about everything and they comforted him. He hadn’t realised that he needed that.

For the first time in months Roman felt at peace because he felt connected with his boyfriends again. He slept peacefully that night knowing everything would be ok. He knew that in that moment he was loved.

Virgil on the other hand was freaking out. He had heard the three boys head to bed and then an hour later he heard Remy and Emile head to their bedroom. Virgil couldn’t sleep though, so he climbed out the window and onto the roof so he could look at the stars.

He had a warm blanket pulled around him as he stared up into the beautiful sky. The stars had already begun to litter the sky. Virgil starred up there and imagined what it would be like to walk amongst the stars and he fell asleep on top of the roof, the cold air chilling his bones but the sleep was one that was free of stress.