Soul Bound

Chapter Nine: The Waiting Game

They got to the high school and Virgil was quick to head inside. He had no idea how to find Roman and Patton, so he figured he ought to let Coco lead the way.

"Coco, you can find them, right? You have before."

Coco began walking towards the cafeteria, and Virgil scrambled to catch up with her. He followed Coco into the cafeteria, who led him to a table where two very familiar boys sat with their breakfast. He headed over and sat beside them, Coco jumping onto the table.

"Oh, hi Virgil!" Patton greeted excitedly.

"Hello, dark and gloomy!" Roman said with a suave smile.

"Uh... hi," Virgil replied. "So... I don't know where to start, but... um... I've kinda already met our fifth soulmate."

Patton and Roman exchanged a look. "I figured that might've been the case," Patton said. "Did something happen between you two?"

"That's the thing. I've been all over the damn country because my dad has moved us around so many times. So when I found out I was moving here... away from Janus... it scared me. So I... pushed them away to make things less painful. But... I don't even know that it worked."

"Oh, Virgil, I'm so sorry," Patton said sympathetically.

"I can only imagine the pain that must come with parting with a soulmate." Roman paused. "Actually... I can imagine it."

"Yeah, Logan is in London right now, right?" Virgil asked, Roman and Patton both nodding in surprise.

"How did you—"

"Well, Remy and Emile mentioned that part, but... I kinda knew him when we were both around ten. But then I had to move, as usual, and we eventually lost contact with each other. I mean... I eventually stopped getting letters, so... I'm guessing he stopped writing them."

They both paused, clearly surprised. This only served to confirm the fact that Logan never mentioned him. Not even once. It hurt, but he expected no less.

"I can't believe Logan knew you and didn't say anything to us," Patton said softly.

"Yeah, same," Virgil murmured.

"Oh, Virge, I... I'm sure he still remembers you and cares about you, there has to be a reason he never said anything."

"And that reason is probably embarrassment at ever knowing me."

"No," Roman said firmly. "I know that's not true."

"And you know that after... what, a whole hour of knowing me?"

"Technically, I've known you for almost twenty four hours."

"And you met me for one. What did I do in that timespan? Complain."

"So you had a rough first day of school, who hasn't? You mustn't beat yourself up over it."

Virgil disagreed but said nothing about it. He sighed and swiped a hand over his face.

"I miss them. Janus, I mean. Our, uh, soulmate. But... I cut them out of my life before my dad and this move could, so... I dunno, I... I wanna make things right, but would that be selfish of me?"

"Not at all, Virgil," Patton assured. "I know you and Logan lost touch, but that was a long time ago. We can send texts instead of letters and it's so much easier to do long distance. I know you can make it work, and it wouldn't be selfish of you at all."

Virgil softly sighed. Perhaps Patton was right. Either way, it wasn't fair of him to make that call on his own. Janus deserved some input as well. Perhaps the thing that scared Virgil the most was the possibility that Janus was the one who couldn't do long distance.