Characters- Deceit, Patton, Roman, Logan, and Virgil
Relationships- Angst Moxeit, Moxiety, Logince if you squint
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It had been a long time since Virgil had first met his starry eyed neighbor with the big smile and a slightly shorter time that they had been friends. Five years of knowing, three years of friendship. And out of all the friendship and knowing each other the only thing Virgil was certain of was Patton was the best thing since fluffy hoodies. It had been two years ago, exactly one year into friendship,when they met Roman. They instantly became a trio. But Patton and Virgil were always a pair. A pair of what is a question they couldn't answer. But now Virgil knew the answer. They were a pair of boys, hopelessly in love, in a clueless situation, at the worst time.
That worst time being high school. The land where you were judged even on the color of your toothbrush. On Virgils 17th birthday, a year and a half into friendship, Patton came out as gay.
Pretty much everyone accepted him so another boy, named Carter came out and confessed he was in love with Patton. Patton is sweet but would never lead someone on. So he rejected him.
Two weeks later, bullying got to be too much. Carters body was found in a stall at the pizza place. He had overdosed on drugs.
Patton closed himself off a little after that, put everyone else first and always did exactly what everyone wanted him too. It was hard for both Roman and Virgil. For Roman it was like losing the only support he ever that, the one person who believed in him unconditionally. For Virgil it was like watching an ocean full of sharks, and in the middle was Patton, covered in blood. Normally the sharks don't attack but when sharks smell blood....
It kind of got better towards the end of the 2nd year. They met 2 other boys, named Logan and Deceit. While all the boys had their own flaws, they all seemed to click. Flaws being, Deceits pathological lying, Logans need to be right, Romans insecurity that he tried to hide, Virgils extreme worry over everything, and Pattons need to hide his bad feelings.
It all came crashing down when Deceit did the single worst thing he could do. He dated Paton.
He manipulated Patton in the worst way. Lying through every bad situation. Making Patton feel like a Prince, even though Patton deserved to be treated like a king. Deceit used Patton, used his ability to have everyone like him to gain his own following. Then he outed Roman and told everyone Patton's insecurity. No one blamed Patton and most took his side but, the pain of the betrayal was still there.
Roman took a hard hit after that and stopped trusting everyone. As proud as he was of being gay, his parents weren't. They forced him to abandon his male friends in trade for female ones. He threw himself into his theater and started treating Virgil as some villain because if he couldn't have Virgil why even associate with him. Yeah, Roman assumed he was in love with Virgil because of all the butterflies in his stomach around him. He never noticed that he still had thosebutterflies around Logan And that maybe those butterflies were not even about Virgil at all. Roman ignored them at all costs and disrespected Virgil at all chance.
Logan took it the least. He cut all ties as soon as drama came, claiming he was focusing on his schooling. But it was really about Roman. Logan thought if he left the group, Roman would return to being his friend. But it never happened and Logan was too ashamed to return to Virgil and Patton.
Patton was... less trusting after that. He couldn't tell which was worse, destroying someone else's life or destroying his own. He never had a relationship after that.....he was just alone. But this did not sit well with Virgil. He was uncharacteristically fond of the dad friend of their group, if you could even call them a group anymore and the fact that anyone would hurt him made his blood boil. So he snapped and he beat Deceit up.... It was not a smart decision. Then Patton was alone. After all you can’t break a kids arm without your parents sending you to boarding school...or maybe his parents were just looking for a reason to send him away. Roman and Virgil had the worst parents of the group. The former group. And whenever he closed his eyes, Virgil could see his lips moving. The last happy birthday before it all went crashing down. Patton saying, "Why don't you make a wish, Birthday Boy?"
