"The lie of the party" A Virgil X Reader -Part One-

Chapter Two: "Roommate(s)?"

As I parked my car in my driveway, Ethan and Sabrina pulled in right behind me, as I stood up and stretched from being in my small, beat up, old, car, Ethan first greeted me, "Hey Riles! Got yourself a dorm to move into I assume?" I turn to face him and sarcastically roll my eyes and scrunch my hand in my hair, "Pfft... Yeah, I wish!" "soooo, then where are we bringing all your stuff then? The dump?" Ethan let out a laugh, as Sabrina exited the drivers side of the cab and proceeded to elbow Ethan in the stomach and give him a nasty glare. "Oww, shi-!" before he could finish, sabrina interrupted him with a yell to change the subject "--ANYWAY, where's the Mrs?" "My mom?"
I replied in question? "yeah," sabrina reassured me. "she left for work already." "I swear, your mother's gonna work herself into the grave if she's not careful... " sabrina's tone was serious, but my response was through a chuckle "she's a nurse Sab, she's expected to work wonky hours all the time... It's part of being a nurse." Ethan chimed in "Yeah, some even work eighteen hour shif--! Oof!" I turn to see sabrina smirking and Ethan holding his stomach tightly once more, "Shut it, nobody asked you wire head!" I withheld the strong urge within me to laugh, but then, Ethan responded, his facial expression wincing "Goddammit Sabrina! You could've ruptured my fricken splean!" that's it, I burst into laughter at Ethan's serious, yet amusing remark, as did sabrina, we both guiltily laughed for nearly three minutes... Before Ethan also gave in and joined in with the laugher. After that, we proceeded inside and began to load sabrina's truck with the boxes which held my few precious belongings within them.

-Time skip 45 minutes later-

"... Aaaannnddd, done!" I exclaimed, as I set the final box into the bed of sabrina's shiny new black pickup, and reached for Ethan's hand as he helped me jump back down onto my paved driveway, "thanks again guys, you know I need ya both... !"
I tried not to get too sentimental in the moment, as I grinned at them and they both cheerily replied the usual cliche "no need to thank us" lines.

Then, a few minutes later, we were off to thomas's house... What to expect when I arrived, I hadn't the slightest clue...

-Time skip a long, boring four hour drive-

After four hours of a lonely, boring drive behind Ethan and sabrina, we'd finally arrived... Here we set, both of our vehicles somehow managed to be parked in his small, narrow suburban neighborhood driveway. We were at Thomas's house. I set in my car for a moment, almost not believing it was real, finally... a break from all of the stress and gossip of my hometown...
When suddenly, my relief of arrival suddenly faded into a pit in my stomach as thoughts began to plague my mind and my sweaty palms gripped the steering wheel...

Wait. What am I doing?! I drove four hours, moved all of my belongings, dragged my two best friends out here to move me into a house with someone I haven't seen in eight years? Oh god Riley, you've really screwed yourself this time...

Then as I saw in front of me, Ethan and Sabrina begin to emerge from the truck, I desperately tried to reassure myself with positive thoughts and suggestions

... No no, I'm sure it's fine, besides... You're reconnecting with an old friend from middle school, that's good, right? And he's gonna help you become spot on with youtube... That's good, right? Yeah...Don't worry Riley...Just breathe, chill, you're cool... You're cool...

Suddenly, I am jolted from my thoughts as my car door is abruptly opened, I look up in a cold sweat, to see sabrina with one hand gripping the car door, and the other extended out towards me, "cmon riles, we better make introductions short and sweet so we can get all of your things inside before dark." I glanced over at my car clock which vividly read, in its obnoxious digital green font "7:16pm" I rushed to unbuckle my seatbelt and grabbed sabrina's hand as we hurried to the front door. And after a moment, I gulped a nervous thought and gently pushed the doorbell...
*ding dong...ding dong... Ding do-!*
Suddenly the front door opened, and we were greeted by the oh-so-familiar and warm smile on thomas's face that id remembered from middle school! "Riley! You're here!" he gestured to me as he quickly grabbed me and gently hugged me in a welcoming fashion. After we'd pulled away from our excited hug, His gaze then turned to sabrina, "Brina? Brina Carpenter is that you?" he joked as he softly punched her into the arm, sabrina only let out a soft giggle and smirked. Ethan chuckled at the opportunity  "Brina, aye?" sabrina snapped out of her joyous moment and punched Ethan in the arm, much harder then Thomas had to her "SHUT UP KEY BRAIN!" she yelled, as she then cleared her throat and Thomas let out his usually excitable giggle. "anyway, uh, I know it was probably a long ride and you're all tired but, uh... Before you come In theres something I need to tell y-!" sabrina paused him as she put her index finger to his lips and sarcastically said in a serious tone and gripped his shoulders "it's okay Thomas... We already know you're gay." I pushed sabrina and felt my face became red as she let out a loud, goofy laugh and Ethan smirked and rolled his eyes, Thomas giggled and said
"no no not that, I uh... I'm not the only one living here, " his gaze fixated on me as he then added "sorry that I didn't mention that, part earlier..."
I could see in his face that he was nervous, and to be honest... So was I, but he was my old best friend after all so I had to give him the benefit of the doubt on this... Right? So, I replied, with the fakest smile I'd ever put on "oh, well that's alright... Who are they?" Thomas gripped the back of his neck with his sweaty palm as he nervously replied with an odd smirk, "well, uh... It's not really a "they"... It's more of a "them"... "
My eyes widened, and I'd noticed out of the corner of my eye that sabrina's had too. "how many roommates are we talkin' here sanders?" sabrina finally asked, to break the awkward tension that had been building.
As I turned my gaze from sabrina back to Thomas, he took a step back from the doorway, into his house and gestured for us to come in as he began to speak "well, uh, I live with different parts of, well, myself..." Ethan's eyebrow raised at this comment,  sabrina's expression grew skeptical and mine simply grew more confused.
As we walked into the entryway of his house, I first saw another Thomas, but this one dressed in a black dress shirt with a slick blue tie and black, shiny glasses, "this," Thomas began as he gestured to the other Thomas, "is my logical side, or more casually known as Logan, " before any of us had the chance to respond, the well dressed Thomas extended their hand for a handshake and greeted us, "my pleasure. You must be Riley, Thomas has spoken quite highly of you, well, as high as his vocabulary may allow him to reach, I may add." The well dressed Thomas let out a soft laugh as I nervously smiled, and giggled in response, before I heard Ethan's voice behind me break the tense silence, "my kind of guy!" we All chuckled, as sabrina muttered under her breath "figures, he'd like the nerdy one. " 
Then as thomas's voice continued,
I turned to the right and saw a very prince-like Thomas, wearing a white coat with a red cloth wrapped and draped over one shoulder, as he smiled at me and gently knelt down to kiss my hand, I raised an eyebrow in confusion and Thomas began his introduction as he gestured to the fancier looking Thomas, "and this...
Is my creative side, or better known as Roman." as the fancy dressed Thomas began to speak, he was suddenly cut off by a happy yelling Thomas that I saw jumping and flailing in excitement from the kitchen, "OOH! OOH! DON'T FORGET PRINCEY! WE ALSO CALL HIM PRINCEY!" The bouncy Thomas clapped his hands in excitement, he was also wearing black glasses, but instead had a baby blue t shirt on, with a light gray shirt tied around his neck. Thomas hushed him as he rested his face in his palms for a moment and muttered in fristration "aaaannnnd that's my morality... Or, my dad-like side, also known as Patton... " Patton bounced up and down as he excitedly waved his hands at us "HIIIIII!!!!" We all slowly waved in return, I giggled at his enthusiasm. Then I glanced back down to the soil kneeling fancy dressed Thomas now known as "Roman" who continued in his deeper, Prince like voice "greetings Riley, as Logan already mentioned before, Thomas has told us many wonderful things about you... But I have a very, very important question for you before this introduction goes any further... " his expression was stoic, me and sabrina exchanged confused glances with one another as I responded shyly, "... Yes?" he rose to his feet, Do you like disney?" I replied with a slight scoff and laugh "uh, pardon me?" he added, "Disney, You know, like frozen, little mermaid, lion King..." I laughed once more as I wiped the sweat from my forehead "yeah, yeah I love Disney... " "EXCELLENT!" he exclaimed as he backed up a bit so Thomas could stand by me once more. I looked up to Thomas "they seem... Nice enough."
He gave me a warm smile and then as I heard Roman let out a dramatic gasp, we all turned to the left of the entryway, where, sitting on the couch with his feet propped up on the coffee table and a single earbud hanging from his ear, a Thomas dressed in darker clothing, black ripped jeans, an old, torn up black and purple sweatshirt, hair hanging in his face and excessive amounts of black under each of his eyes, silently and nonchalantly glanced up at us all, as if no one were even there. As Logan and Roman both scoffed at the sight of him, and Thomas gestured to him and said blatantly "and that's, my anxious side. Also known as Virgil. The one with all of my anxiety, fears, worries... Ya know, all of that fun stuff!" his sarcastic tone amused me, though I didn't dare laugh in the presence of him in fears id offend the dark appearing Thomas now called "virgil", as he nodded his head up at us, with a simple "Sup?" I suddenly felt that pit in my stomach reappear as I felt his eyes suddenly fixate on specifically me. I ignored his eyes many attempts to capture eye contact with me and instead turned back to Thomas and cheerily said "well, you all seem lovely, thank you again for having me Thomas, uh, err, let's start to unload the truck... Shall we?" I nervously turn back to the door and exchange a desperate look with both Ethan and sabrina, and as I begin to open the door, Thomas stops me, "Sure! We'll help! Thanks again for understanding Riley, I know I shouldn't have put you on the spot like this but... I just couldn't explain it on the phone. Oh and by the way, you'll have your own room... Upstairs, I thought you'd like that better then sleeping on the couch for the next four months..." I turned back to him for a moment, with an anxious crack of a smile on my face  "oh it's nothing, I totally understand... And, uh, am I the only one upstairs?" I asked, with a hint of hope in my tone, and as Thomas replied,  I swear I saw Virgil's expression grow a devilish smirk on it from the corner of my eye.
"well... Almost. Me, Patton, Roman and Logan are all downstairs... Virgil's room is the only other room upstairs, but lucky for you he's also the quietest out of the bunch!" Thomas laughed.
I forced a smile, and replied "oh, good." The words felt bitter tasting as I spoke them, again I avoided the eye contact of virgil, who was still sitting on the couch. I then turned to the door once more, and we began to bring my things up into my room...