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Roman slowly woke up. At first he was confused on his dark surroundings. But memories of that day slowly came to him. He groaned and rubbed his head. Roman's neck was stiff from sleeping with it at such an awkward angle. He looked over the bed to the still figure in the bed. Virgil was still asleep, much to his relief. He got up and tip toed over to the bathroom, careful as to not wake up his gloomy friend. He cracked his neck multiple times. Damn, he would never sleep without a bed ever again. Roman used the bathroom and inspected himself in the mirror. His hair was a mess and he had slight bags under his eyes. He scoffed at his less than princely appearance. To be seen like this woul-

"Roman?" Virgil stood in the door frame to the bathroom, groggily staring at him while leaning on the door. 

"V- Virgil! Good morning my Chemically Imbalanced Romance!" Roman looked Virgil up and down. His face was blotchy and red and his skin was stained with tear streaks. The bags under his eyes were a mix of his smeared makeup and a restless night. He rubbed his eyes, smearing his makeup even more. Despite his skin, his hair and eyes were as cute as ever. Er, beautiful. No. Well shit. "Virgil, er, why don't you go get some more sleep?"

"I won't be able to get back to sleep now, Princey. What are you doing here?" 

"I, uh, fell asleep." Virgil shuffled.

Fell asleep? In your room? Hah. I thought they had had enough of you.

"Look, Roman. I'm sorry. About last night. And whatnot. I overreacted. I kinda just... I always think you guys hate me. And just as I feel like you don't, I give you one more reason to hate me. It's an endless cycle."

"Virgil, we could never hate you." Roman soothed, going up to him. "I'm sorry if we made you feel that way. But just know that we won't ever hate you." Virgil give him a weary smile but it quickly faded. A knock made him jump. 

"Virgil?" Logan's voice came from behind the door of his room. Virgil walked slowly over to the door and hesitated before opening it. Logan stood at his door, looking at him with concern. "Good morning, Virgil. I'm glad to see you... awake." Logan said, rather questioning his still very tired appearance. "Thomas wanted to talk to you. You can eat first if you so please." Virgil shook his head. 

"No, I'll just go talk to him. What's it about?" 

"Yesterday evening. About... that." Virgil blinked.

"Oh." 

"Well, I hope to see you later. Good day, Virgil." Virgil bid him farewell and turned to Roman who had a worried expression on his face. 

"He didn't mean it in the way you thought he did. He doesn't hate you. Like I said. We could never hate you." Virgil gave Roman another small smile at his effort to calm his nerves.

"Thank you, Princey. I-" Virgil looked down. This had been nice. He wanted to stay with Roman and talk. Just him and Roman. Escape his problems and just hang out with the person he treasured most. But he knew he couldn't avoid Thomas forever. Sooner or later he'd have to confront him. "I'll see you later, Princey."

Roman nodded and Virgil sank out by Thomas. Thomas jumped at his less than neat appearance as he did when any of the sides just appeared but this put Virgil even more on edge. He shifted in his spot.

"You wanted t- to talk to me?" Virgil cringed at his stutter but other than that, he pretended it never happened. Thomas looked at him worriedly before continuing. 

"Virge, I'm so so sorry for upsetting you. I didn't mean it like that, I swear. I was just... shocked. Can you forgive me, please? I swear I don't hate you. I don't care if you are a dark side. You aren't Remus or Deceit. You aren't any of them but you. And so far, you have only given me reason to love you."

Virgil stared at Thomas for a second before answering. "Do you mean that?"

"I hold my word to it with my life." Virgil nodded. 

"I want to say sorry as well. I caused so much trouble for all of you. I made you all worry, Roman even slept in my room. On the floor you dirty bitch."  Virgil added, seeing Thomas quirk his eyebrow. Thomas laughed. 

"Nah, Virgil. Don't apologize for things that aren't your fault. You did not overreact." he said, as if reading Virgil's thoughts.

"... Thank you, Thomas. I need to go see the others, if we have that all cleared up?" Thomas smiled at him and nodded. Virgil smiled awkwardly back and sank out.

 Before going down to the kitchen, Virgil went up to his room to fix his appearance. When he had applied new makeup, he walked down to the dining room shyly.

"Hey, guys." Virgil said, seeing Roman and Logan at the dining table. He turned to the kitchen and saw that Patton was cooking something for breakfast. Roman brightened at seeing Virgil and Patton turned around with a bright smile.

"Virgil!" 

"Greetings, again, Virgil." Logan said.

"Hello, my dark prince! How fares thee on this fine morning?" Roman announced dramatically.

"You've already seen me this morning." 

"Ah but is there any problem with seeing how you are this morning?" Virgil snorted.

"I'm okay." Virgil sat down awkwardly. "I, um." Roman looked up at Virgil. "Thank you."

"F- for what?" Roman was confused.

"All of you. For... last night. You didn't have to do that for me but yet you did. I was a mess." Patton smiled in the kitchen.

"Kiddo, we did it 'cause we love you. We hate to see you hurting. Em, I also wanted to say sorry again. For trying to break down your door? It, uh, was uncalled for."

"It's fine, Pop Star." Patton's smile widened even more and he giggled before continuing breakfast. 

When breakfast was all done, Virgil remembered the good parts about last night. Being hugged by Patton and Roman. Snuggling with Roman. It felt like pure bliss.

"H- hey, do you mind if we... hang out... today?" Virgil muttered to Roman. Roman's eyes shone.

"Of course my dark prince! What shall we do?!" Virgil clicked his tongue. 

"Wanna watch a movie in your room?"

"Sure! What shall we watch?"

"Your pick, Princey." Virgil and Roman went up to Roman's room. Roman beckoned to the beanbag chairs on the floor and Virgil plopped down in one. After Roman had put in The Little Mermaid he sat down in the red beanbag next to Virgil's. When the movie started, Roman glanced at Virgil and took in his facial features. He looked happy. Like a contented kind of happy. He was never like this. What changed?

Roman wrapped his arm around Virgil's shoulder and before he could react, he leaned and left a small peck on the temple of his head. Roman smirked at the flustered side and then laughed at his confusion. His laugh faltered when he noticed how sad he looked. Roman started regretting his move.

"AAAAH, I should've asked first, I'm sorry, sorry, I must've made you so uncomfortable. You probably don't even like me, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-" Roman grumbled as he "accidentally" let that last line slip.

"Hey." Virgil interrupted him, his scowl growing and the blush under his foundation showing. "Jumping to conclusions is my thing."

"J- jumping to conclu- gasp." 

"Did you just say gasp?" 

"So, what of it." Virgil huffed.

"You can't love me. I'm unlovable. I'm a dark side for fucks sake." Virgil whispered that last line. Roman stared on in shock.

"Bitch, wah. We've been over this, haven't we. Look. You're Virgil. I wouldn't love you if you weren't Virgil. 'Cause, ahem. I love Virgil. Don't tell Virgil this though." Virgil snorted and his blush seemed to be getting more apparent as they talked.

"Dumb ass." 

"Chemically Imbalanced Romance."

"I hate you."

"Love you too, Emo Nightmare."

Patton fell into the couch next to Logan who was intrigued in the book he was reading. 

"Do you think Virge will be okay?"

"He's got Roman, he'll be fine. I saw them head into Roman's bedroom after breakfast. I'd say it was about time Roman confessed." Logan stated.

"What do you mean?" 

"You haven't noticed it?"

"Noticed what?" Logan sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. 

"Roman has unsaid romantic feelings for Virgil." Patton giggled. 

"I knew it."

"Then why-"

"So is he finally gonna confess?!" Logan sighed again, exasperated.

"I don't know Patton." Logan looked to Patton. He was starting to notice every single detail again. He smelled like bubbles, his glasses were slightly lopsided, his eyes shone with pride for his "children". Logan turned back to his book as a slight blush came over him. While he was immersed in his book, he noticed Patton lean in. He didn't notice what he had leaned in to do. He felt the warmth of Patton's lips pressing against his cheek and his face practically blew up red. He whipped his head around to find a giddy looking Patton. 

"Love you, Loganberry." he said smugly. Logan opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out. For once, he was at loss for words. Patton laughed at this and leaned into Logan's shoulder, closing his eyes in bliss. "I believe you. He'll be okay with Roman. You know, you're a very good friend to them, Logan."

"T- to you?" 

"Boyfriend material." 

"You're insufferable."

"Love you too, Loganberry."