Things Left Unspoken (SandersSidesAU)

Chapter Seven

Roman
It was Sunday and Micheal had found a note that was addressed to him that was slipped under the door. Micheal said he didn't recognize the writing but it didn't take Roman long to figure out who it was. With the amount of notes he'd seen Virgil write, it didn't take a genius to figure it out.

Roman didn't really want to open it, he was currently ignoring it. But he did carry it with him when he went to the library on Sunday. He wasn't sure what to think of it, but he had decided something and Roman was stubborn.

He was doing his math homework and the note was burning a hole in his pocket. He knew Virgil wrote it and he had kind of grown fond of the emo. But Roman couldn't help but think that Virgil was helping him because he was guilty that his friend was beating him up. Roman had his doubts about Virgil and Janus being friends. He had never seen the two of them together hanging out, granted Roman really didn't go anywhere but classes and his dorm. He had people he talked to and some people invited him places but he declined saying he had some things to attend to.

    Roman wasn't wrong, he had a person to run away from and work to do to pass classes. He also had a brother to keep tabs on and feelings to run away from.

Roman currently sat adjacent to the door and was hidden behind a few bookcases. Patton was working and wasn't glaring at Roman each time he passed by the place where Roman was working. He was staying quiet and working.

"Virgil, you can't be telling me you want me to stop." Roman heard Janus whisper. He didn't see Virgil or Janus come into the library but they were at a table on the other side of the bookcase. Roman didn't expect to hear Virgil talk.

"But-but he could be bad.." Janus sounded concerned. Roman heard scribbling and then paper passing around. "You have a point, but unless he stops acting like such an entitled prick I am not going to stop. This school is supposed to fix attitudes and he needs to learn that, and don't you dare bring up what you are going to. I already apologized for that."

Roman heard the chair move and footsteps from the other side of the bookcase and he saw Janus walk through the doors. He saw Patton wave and Janus nod towards him. Roman knew that he wasn't wrong, he did act that way but it was the best way to keep people at bay so he didn't have to face his feelings. Roman finally got the courage to open the note from Virgil.

Roman- I wonder what that child is like. You know the one in your picture? But I think that you know what he is like, I would like to know as well.
-I am not going to sign it.

Roman almost chuckled at the end. He thought about it a little, does he know what the child is like grown up? Then Roman shook his head. He changed for a reason, he cared for his brother but that was a different kind of relationship. That was brotherhood. Virgil was just a pretty distraction that was here at the school and that was it.

He didn't need to be interrogated by Virgil. Virgil was a distraction to why he was really here. He was really here to protect Remus. Remus wanted to do something stupid and he allowed him to so. Roman took the fall like he usually did and it cost him everything. He couldn't believe he lost his sight of what he was really doing here.

All he needed was himself and the people he ate meals with. After this year he would have the option to return to the local school for his senior year. This was a detour. Something that he just needed to do. He didn't need friends and he sure as hell didn't need Virgil on his ass. He just needed to prove that he could be okay, and he was. He hadn't gotten in trouble from the start of the year. Also most of the fights he got into were because of Remus but Roman knew better than to blame his brother. It wasn't the Twins fault, it was the rest of the students.