Virgil's POV:

I put down the pencil and rush over to Roman who's sitting on my bed. "What do you fucking want now?" He's really starting to irritate me. I'm fine. He doesn't have to be following me around 24/7.

"If you could have any superpower, what would be?"

"To make people leave me alone when I want to be alone."

He sighs. "I'm just worried that you'll try to kill yourself again."

I sit next to him and stare down at the floor. "I'll be fine."

"'Fine' means that you're dying inside."

"I'll be okay."

"You sure?"

"Uh-huh."

"You positive?"

"Yup. Positive."

"Please, Virgil...stop putting up this façade."

"I'm not putting up a façade. I truly am okay."

"I don't believe you."

"Well, maybe you should."

"Your building your walls back up."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

I sigh heavily. "I'm not, okay? And that's final."

"No it's not. You keep lying to me and it's not okay."

"When is anything ever okay?"

"True, but that's not the point."

"Then what's the point?" He's starting to aggravate me now.

"The point is that you're not opening up to me anymore. I need you to open up to me, Virgil. Have you seen what happens when you don't? We fight, breakup, you cry and cut, I help you, we get back together again. I just want to break this cycle!"

"No compromise as I fight to break the cycle" I start to sing.

Roman gives me a confused look. "What?"

"And being an end to this suffering."

"Yes, Virgil, I want to bring an end to your suffering."

"I'm a shadow, a black out, a storm in the background." Does he realize that this is me opening up to him?

"Is this you opening up to me? Through song?"

I nod and continue. "One man's whisper is another's scream."

"Okay, Virgil, okay. Continue and I shall listen."

I smile and continue.
"Forsaken, I walk the night alone
No sanctuary
No place for me to call my home
But it's time to break the cycle, go!

Can someone tell me who the fuck I am?
Now I'm on my knees, try to drain this disease
Repair this machine with unsteady hands

Forsaken, I walk the night alone
No sanctuary
No place for me to call my home
But it's time to break the cycle

I've been the prey of my own mind
Three records later, still confined

Now I've become my own device
Of malice and of contemplation
To go back to expired time
I'll break through the silence and leave it behind
And I'm lost on the stage I've spent
Isolating from nameless faces
Reliving the same dead end
Break through the cycle I swore to condemn

Forsaken, I walk the night alone
No sanctuary
No place for me to call my home
But it's time to break the cycle

The past is haunting me
Haunting me
Let go and set me free
Set me free
Open the door to the unknown"

Roman looks at me, hugs me, and says, "I'll be your home, your sanctuary, your device. I'll break your cycle."