Patton woke up.

He smiled immediately. He loved his life. He loved his parents, He loved his friends, He loved his pet dog, he was thankful for everything he had, and everyone he met.

He skipped downstairs happily after getting dressed in his usual peppy attire.

"Hello mom! Hello dad!" He chirped out.

"Hello, my beautiful son!" His peppy mother said, smiling at him.

"There's my favorite gay son!" His dad said with cringy finger guns.

Emile walked into the kitchen and pouted. "Daaaaaaaddd!" Emile whined. "Why is he your favorite?"

"Oh-you were awake.." their father muttered. They all laughed and sat at their table. Patton's mother made a lovely breakfast of blueberry pancakes and bacon.

They ate and discussed something Patton subtly and oh so casually brought up.

Patton inhaled.

"EMILE HAS A CRUSH ON REMY!" He yelled.

"PATTON NO!" Emile screamed in a childish voice and slapped Patton playfully.

"Patton, YES!" Their mom replied excitedly.

"Oooooohhhh" his father smirked devilishly. "Is he hot?" He asked his son mischievously and winked.

Emile covered his red face and groaned. "Daaaaaadddd!"

"Oh he is very cute..has a bad boy style to him though. Looks like the type of guy that has a party every night. I've met him a few times. Good choice, Emile." Patton's mother said with a smile and a wink.

"Oooh our son is into bad boys isn't he?" Their father wiggled his eyebrows in mischief.

Emile's cheeks turned rosy red and he said in defense, "W-well Patton has a crush on Logan!"

Patton blushed and pushed his brother slightly. "Emilllleeee!"

Their parents gasped and their mother said, "You like logan?! OH MY GOSH OUR GAY SONS ARE CHOOSING THE BEST MEN!" She squealed.

"Ooooh Emile likes bad boys and Patton likes the respectful nerds?" His father said, laughing.

"Moooooommmmmm, daaaaaaaaaddddd!" Patton wined in embarrassment.

Patton's face burned bright red and he started making groans of embarrassment, hitting his head on the table repeatedly.

"Oh dear, we're only messing with you!" His mother said with a smile.

Patton said "I know" and everyone laughed.

Life couldn't be better.

Patton looked at the time and his eyes widened. He took his orange juice like a shot, and ran to grab his stuff.

"Emile come on! It's time for school You know the bus driver hates literally everyone and won't hesitate to leave us!!!"

Patton threw Emile his backpack and they ran out the door to the bus and got on. They had almost missed it.

They sat down and sighed in relief.

Emile looked over to Patton, going on a gay rant to him, when Remy's voice boomed throughout the bus. "Hey ladies the starbies gurl is here!"

Remy walked over to Emile and started to flirt with him.

Emile almost fainted with a nose bleed but Patton snapped him out of it.

Right after Remy came on,
a shy looking boy walked on the bus looking super self conscious.

He walked on and sat near the back of the bus, right beside Patton, Emile, and Remy.

The boys recognized Virgil because he was in a few of their classes.

Emile, studying a lot about psychology and therapy and mental health, picked up the signs of severe anxiety Virgil showed. But of course, he could always just be cautious.

'Maybe we could have a conversation!'' He thought happily to himself.

"Hello, Virgil!" Emile said to the shy boy, with a smile.

Virgil flinched and his eyes widened, he put his arms over himself and shut his eyes closed tight as if expecting to be hit.

Emile said "sorry!" Quickly.

'Nobody ever talks to you. He could be trying to embarres you or hurt you or make you cry just for the sake of making fun of you, or he could- wait is that just Emile? Well he's one of the nicest guys in school
But what if-' Virgil's thoughts were cut off when someone started shaking him.

He tensed up but relaxed a bit when he realized it was Patton and Emile again.

He sighed in relief. It was just them.

Some of his nicest acquaintances.

(A/N: ouch. Acquaintance zoned)

Emile and Patton could potentially be Virgil's friends. But He was too scared to actually say he was their friend because what if they secretly hated him?

He looked over to them and gave a shy smile.

They smiled back.

Maybe today would be a better day for Virgil.

He looked over and saw Remy kissing Emile's head.

'That's cute. I'm suddenly aware of how lonely i'll be the rest of my life.'
Virgil thought to himself.