Hanahaki Disease // Sanders Sides - Virgil

🌹Chapter 26🌹

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Anyways, enough of me talking...

Chapter 26!!!!

TW: This wouldn't be a true chapter if there was no crying, so there's that.

|Previous chapter:

I stared at the page, mouth agape and eyes wide. I didn't remember that happening, probably because I had been half asleep. But Roman said that he might like me as more than a friend.
I blinked, looking up at Dr. Picani. "If he might like me as more than a friend, why did he get so upset at me when I didn't hear him?"

"Well," Dr. Picani said slowly, a mischievous grin on his face. "I think someone might have made him just a tad bit jealous."|

Roman POV:

As soon as Virgil's door was shut behind me, I sighed and rested my head against the wall opposite of the door. I had no idea why I had gotten so upset. I mean, yeah, I wish that he had been listening to me, but that was no reason for me to act the way I had.

I groaned to myself. It was all too clear that I had done exactly what I was trying to stop doing; being a jerk towards Virgil.

Pushing off against the wall, I turned back towards Virgil's door, the better half of me wanting to burst in and apologize. I paused, though, with my hand on the doorknob when I heard Picani and Virgil talking.

Groaning again, I took my hand off the doorknob and turned down the hall towards the kitchen. The last thing I wanted to do was interrupt their conversation, seeing as I had dragged Picani to the Mind Palace solely so that the two of them could talk.

I was not even two steps away from Virgil's door when the sound of coughing stopped me. Pausing, I listened for the sound again. It wasn't long before I heard more coughing. I continued walking towards the kitchen, figuring that Dr. Picani would be helping Virgil if he was having a fit, but I immediately stopped when I realized that the sound of coughing got louder the closer I got to Deceit's room.

Tip-toeing up to his door, I put my ear against the door, and I could clearly hear Deceit's coughs. It concerned me that he was coughing this much.

I hope he's not sick.

"Deceit?" I asked during a lull in the noise. "Are you okay?"

It took a few seconds before I heard him croak out, "Yes," only to immediately start coughing again.

"Are you sure? You sound like you're sick."

"It is just a cold," Deceit croaked out again, and I heard footsteps approaching the door. I took a step back, and the door opened a few inches, allowing me to see the side of Deceit's face that wasn't covered in scales. "I will be fine in a few days."