On the bus, Remy was flirting with a blushing Emile, Roman was attempting to talk in a flirtatious tone with Virgil, and Remus wasn't even being subtle with Janus.

You could hear him from the back of the bus.

"Why does Dr. Pepper come in a bottle? Because his wife died!" Remus screamed at Janus while laughing.

"Is your name winter? Because you'll be coming soon!" He said before Janus could even respond with flustered stutters.

Virgil looked over to his two friends and held back a smile.

Remus and Janus were Virgil's best friends since diapers. Virgil wasn't scared around them at all. He knew he could trust them with his life.

Patton and Emile were people he'd come across pretty often and often they would talk to him. He considered them nice people.

He didn't really know anyone else,
or the hot guy trying to flirt with him.

But he realized him as the stereotypically really popular jock who also does drama and theatre who's probably rich and his friends are douche bags but he's nice.

'Welp.' Virgil thought to himself.

Virgil flashed a smile over at Remus who was groping a flushed Janus.

Roman smirked and said, "Your smile is almost as big, warm, and lovely as my penis."

Virgil spit out a non existent drink and started choking on air.

"If you can't even handle air with that gag reflex, I doubt you'll be able handle this big-"

Remus leaned over and slapped Roman, and screamed, "Stop traumatizing my best friend!"

Roman was surprised and looked over to Virgil in shock. "You're friends with that loser?!?" Roman said loudly. "How can you even tolerate him?"

Remus gasped at Roman and started crying.

"My brother hates me!" He said, hiding his face in his hands.

Virgil said defensively, but still really quietly in a whisper, "He is not a loser..."

"Woah, that was literally the most he's talked all week." Janus said.

Remus mock cried. "He defended me, Janus! Our little boy is growing up so strong and so fast! Virgil, Roman was so mean to me, beat him up please!"

Janus rolled his eyes and shoved Remus. "Relax Virge, Remus was just being over dramatic, and Roman is just like that. You know, we go over to Remus's all the time. Roman is just a part of life that we have to deal with."

Ignoring Janus, Roman continued on his pursuit of the emo, "Remus, how'd you score such a cute friend?"

"Bro! Lay off!" Remus said, still groping Janus.

Patton sighed, pointed to Remus and Janus and said, "Roman, control your brother."

Virgil looked over to Remus and Janus and said quietly, "this is normal."

"There's nothing normal about you three freaks!" One of Roman's jock friends, Bryce said, slapping Virgil over the back of his head, hard. On that sensitive spot that his father hit him on with the bottle a few weeks ago. It left a pretty bad scar.

Virgil gasped and jumped back.

Remus got worried by how Virgil reacted, grabbed him, and pulled him to where him and Janus were.

The bus seats were pretty big so three people could sit in one seat.

"Woah babes, what's wrong with emo boy?" Remy asked, a little worried.

Roman looked over to see Virgil holding the back of his head, wincing, obviously holding back tears.

"Bryce what did you do?!?" Roman panicked.

"Pfft little fag's too sensitive. He'll be fine. I hit him pretty hard but he's not gonna die" Bryce said with a roll of his eyes.

They looked over to see Virgil scratching his arms and Remus taking his hand off of the arm, then pulling Virgil up to him and asking in a whisper, "did he hit you in any of the spots?" He sounded outraged.

Virgil bit his lip, rubbing the back of his head with tears that burned in his eyes, nodding yes.

It looked like he was suppressing a scream.

Remus and Janus looked very mad and glared at the jock.

Remus and Janus knew what Virgil's dad did to him. Virgil texted them what happened this morning. They went to the police several times in the past few years ever since Virgil got even the smallest amount if courage to do so, but they never believed them.

They heard what they were talking about and Roman said, "what spot, what's wrong with his head?" While giving his friend the "back off before I ruin your reputation" look.

"Nothing." Remus spat out coldly to his brother. Everyone gave confused looks. Janus hugged Virgil and started talking about how he's going to kill Bryce.

"You can't kill me, freak" Bryce scoffed to him.

Virgil started hyperventilating and muttering quiet sorry's over and over again.

"Oh Virgil, it's not your fault." Janus said and started to do breathing exercises with Virgil.

Soon enough, Virgil's head stopped hurting eventually, the ache cooling down to a little throb, and he could breathe again.

He started conversing with his friends.

They started whispering, "Can you show us what your dad did?" Asked Remus.

Virgil nodded and grabbed his phone, showing his friends some pictures of what happened to his face and other various parts of his body.

"And I have a limp.." Virgil said quietly, quickly deleting the photos.

"...wow your face almost looks worse than Janus's!" Remus said, with a smirk.

Virgil smirked too and Janus scoffed and said "this is serious!" but eventually laughed along with them.

'Why are the gay emos the best at makeup?' Roman asked himself with a pout, looking at Virgil's face, oblivious to the conversation that they were having.

The bus soon halted to a stop. and they were at school.

Everyone unloaded, saying their goodbyes, even though most of them had all of their classes together.

Virgil walked into his classroom with Roman and Remus.

They had first period together.

They sat next to each other a lot but Roman never really noticed Virgil before today. And when he did, he realized how cute this smol shy emo boy was.

The class soon started, making Roman sigh.

'Math'  he thought with a frown, suppressing a groan.