Virgil POV
I was laying in Roman's room.  In Roman's room.  I never would've guessed that one day, I would be in here.  By myself.  Because Roman wanted me here.  Because he cared about me.  Loved me even.

I've always kinda been secretly pinning for him with all those sarcastic remarks, but I never would've in a million years guessed that he loves me back.  Especially loves me this passionately.  He just about murdered someone because I got hurt. I guess that's my fault though. 

I jumped, as the door slammed open.  Roman stood there with a smirk on his face.  What did he do now? 

I pulled my headphones off and looked at him in confusion.  He didn't say anything, he just walked over to me and put his hands on my knees. 

"Hey Virgil~"  He said seductively.  His face was only an inch or so from mine. 

"Do you need something?"  I asked him.  I was very confused. 

"I just wanted to know,"  He started to say, but paused mid sentence to give me a quick kiss.  "If you'd go on a date with me?" 

I stared at him for a bit.  Is he seriously asking me on a date?  Right now?  I felt extremely happy, like real happiness.  Princey wanted to take me on a date. 

"A real date?"  I asked, blushing slightly. 

"Yeah."  He said, pausing to give me another kiss.  "A first date.  So it's official." 

"I think it's already official Princey."   I said.   Roman smiled. 

"Please come on a first date with me."  Roman begged. 

"Of course I'll go on a date with you."  I told him, giving him a quick kiss.  "Our first official date." 

Roman smiled and picked me off the bed, causing my headphones to fly off.  I blushed and clutched onto Roman. 

"Yes!"  He yelled, spinning around.  I held onto him for dear life as he held me bridal style and continued to spin around.  He stopped and gave me a deep passionate kiss. 

He pulled away and let go of me.  I stood up, grateful to be on the ground again. 

"What do you have in mind for our date?"  I asked him. 

"I've already gotten everything planned out."  He said with a smirk. 

"Of course."  I said with a smirk.  I laughed gently.  He grabbed my hand and pulled me out of his room.

We walked down the stairs.  Patton and Logan were sitting together on the couch while watching a movie.  Patton gave Roman a thumbs up as we passed by. 

We stopped at the door.  Roman grabbed an umbrella.  Than he held his elbow up to me. 

"Seriously Princey?"  I asked with a laugh.  He nodded.  I sighed and hooked my arm around his. 

He opened the door and than stepped outside.  He held the umbrella up the best he could over the both of us.  We had to drop each other's arms to huddle together underneath it. 

I noticed we were heading towards Imagination.  I wandered what Roman had planned for our date. 

We reached a sign that said 'The Field of iMaGiNaTiOn', but it did not look like Imagination.  Instead of a big white empty space, there was a giant forest.  Roman dropped the umbrella and only than did I notice that here, it was sunny.

Roman leaned the umbrella against the sign and held his hand out to me.  I placed my hand in his.  Roman lead me down a small path that lead deep into the forest. 

After what felt like forever, we came upon a small clearing.  Roman moved aside so that I could see everything he had set up. 

I let out a small gasp.  There was a small clearing with a picnic, than a sandy beach and than a huge lake.  The water was basically crystal clear.  I dropped Roman's hand and walked out into the clearing. 

I stopped at the picnic blanket and turned around to Roman.  He was smiling.  Not a smirk, but a smile of...love maybe. 

"You did...all this just for...me?"  I asked, still a little shocked. 

"Of course."  Said Roman, walking over and giving me a kiss, he pulled away and placed a hand on my cheek.  "Your worth all this." 

I smiled, feeling my eyes tear up my happiness.  No ones ever done anything like this for me.  Roman's smile dropped instantly and was replaced with concern.

"Are you okay?  What's wrong?  Did I mess up?  Too much too soon?"  He asked me, seeming very worried.  I smiled, a few tears falling down my cheeks. 

"I'm sorry, no it's not your fault."  I told him.  "This is amazing.  Nobody's ever done anything like this for me.  Much less even liked me." 

"Awww Virgil."  Said Roman.  "I didn't mean to make you emotional like this."  I responded by kissing him. 

"Let's not dwell on it, come on, the pizza isn't gonna finish itself."  I said once I pulled away from him.  Roman laughed and wiped all the tears away. 

I smiled and sat down on the picnic blanket, and looked out over the lake.  Roman sat down across from me.

"Ya know Roman."  I said, getting his attention.  "It's impressive how unbelievably extra you can be any chance you get."  I smirked at him.  He laughed. 

"I wanted it to be special."  He said with a small smile and a blush.

"It's very special." I mumbled, raising on of my hands to run my fingers over the roses. Roses are my favorite flower. Maybe that's just because of all the colors and intricate meanings behind them.

"I think..." Said Roman, grinning a devilish grin at me. "That we should go swimming." I blushed instantly.

"Swimming? In the lake?"

"Yeah, come one it'll be fun." Said Roman, standing up.

"But..." I started to say. "We don't have swim-trunks." Roman smirked at me.

"We can just strip down to our underwear and swim in them, like in the movies." I blushed when Roman said that, thinking about seeing Princey in just his underwear.

"I don't know..." I said, feeling self conscious.

"If that's too awkward we can just go skinny dipping." He said with a smirk.

"Roman!" I yelled playfully, kicking his leg softly. I blushed heavily.

"Come on please."  Begged Roman.  "I'll go first." 

"You can, I'll enjoy the view from here."  I said with a smirk. 

"At least come down to the bank with me."  He pleaded, giving me puppy dog eyes.  I sighed, but stood up. 

"You owe me for this Princey."  I told him.  I walked down towards the shore of the lake.  I sat down on a large group of rocks that was jutting out of the sand. 

Roman came down to the edge of the water.  He started kicking his boots off.  He threw them over to me.  I started taking off my own shoes and socks.  I dug my toes into the sand.  It felt calming to do that. 

Out of nowhere, Roman's top and sash landed on top of my head.  I pulled it off me, very flustered.  I looked to see a shirtless Roman.  I flushed bright red. 

"You look like a tomato."  Roman remarked, as he started taking off his pants.  He had on red boxers with little gold crowns on them.  Of course, classic Princey. 

I couldn't take my eyes off him.  He was lean and muscular.  He was fairly built, but not in an over the top way.  It kinda made me feel self conscious about my skinny and not muscular at all body. 

I watched as Roman came over to me and climbed up the rocks.  He climbed up to the tallest rock, that jutted out over the lake.

He let out a Tarzan yell and ran off the rock.  He splashed into the lake.  He came back to the surface and turned to me. 

"Come on Virgil!  The waters great!"  He called to me.  I thought for a bit.  I wanted to join him the water, but I'm just too self conscious. 

"I'll go underwater while you take off your clothes!  Please!"  He called.  I did my best to ignore the anxious feeling in the bottom of my stomach and stood up. 

"Fine, I'll get in the water."  I told him.  "Turn around!"  Romans smiled before diving underwater. 

Slowly, I took off my hoodie.  I laid it on the rock.  Do I really wanna do this?  I want to swim with Roman.  What if he thinks I'm ugly.  Or disgusting.  I'm not near as hot as him. 

I pulled off my shirt and laid it on my hoodie.  I looked at the bandages wrapped around my forearms, wondering if they were waterproof.  I didn't really want to take off the bandages, exposing all the scars and cuts.  But it'd be worse if the bandages got all waterlogged. 

I sighed and left the bandages alone.  I quickly glanced back at the lake, surprised to see that Roman was still underwater.  I unbuttoned my pants and pulled them off.  I sighed, looking down at myself.  Ugly as fuck. 

I was all skin and bones.  You could see most of my ribs.  And than there were the bruises.  They faded almost as quickly as they appeared, but there was still about three that were still visible on my arms. 

I walked down the the edge of the water and dipped my toes it.  The water was freezing.   I heard splashing as Roman returned to the surface.  He was facing away from me. 

"Are you ready?"  He yelled over his shoulder. 

"Yeah I guess so."  I said, crossing my arms over my chest. 

Roman's POV
My cheeks turned bright red when I turned around to see Virgil.  He was so adorable and innocent looking, yet so breathtakingly beautiful. 

He was standing at the edge of the water in his black boxers.  He had his arms crossed over his chest.  My eyes trailed over his body.  He was skinny, painfully skinny.  That couldn't be healthy. 

But he was just so small and frail.  So tiny and cute.  I wanted to protect him from everything bad in the world. 

I started swimming over to him.  When I got to knee deep water, I stood up and looked at him with a smirk. 

"You know that your absolutely beautiful right?"  I asked him.  He flushed bright red and looked down at the water. 

"What...whatever."  He mumbled, clearly flustered.   I held my hand out to him. 

"Come on, you actually have to get in the lake for it to be considered swimming."  I told him.  Virgil grabbed my hand, but didn't move farther into the water. 

"You asked for it..."  I told him, picking him up my arms.  Virgil's eyes widened and he grabbed onto me. 

"Wait no!  Roman!"  He yelled gripping tightly onto my shoulders.  "My eyeshadow!"  With that I chucked him into the lake. 

I started laughing like crazy.  A very annoyed Virgil floated up to the surface with eyeshadow streaked down his face.  He glared at me. 

"Sorry."  I said playfully, smiling at him.  He swam back over to me and stood up in the water.  He tried to wipe the eyeshadow away, but it just made it worse. 

"Look what you did."  He said trying to sound annoyed, but I could tell he was trying not to laugh.  I looked at him, also trying to contain my laughter. 

"Awww look at my precious little emo nightmare."  I cooed at him.  At that we both lost it, starting to laugh like crazy. 

"Here let me help."  I told him, trying to regain my composure.  I imagined that the makeup was gone, and than it was. 

Virgil smiled at me.  He reached his arms out like he was going to hug me, but instead he shoved me backwards into the lake. 

I let out a shocked yell as I splashed down into the lake.  The water was freezing, but you got used to it quickly.  I quickly popped back out of the water, to see Virgil laughing and smirking. 

"I'll get you for that."  I growled playfully.  I launched myself out of the water and wrapped my arms around his waist. 

Virgil let out a little squeak as I pulled him down into the lake with me.  He struggled a bit against me. 

I pushed up against the bottom and me and Virgil floated up to the surface.  Virgil glared at me playfully, but was also holding onto my arm for dear life. 

"You okay there Virge?"  I asked him. 

"Just not the biggest fan of being out here in the middle of the lake."  He mumbled.  "Where I can't see the bottom.  Who knows what's down there." 

"There nothing down there, I created this place myself."  I reminded him. 

"Still."  He argued.  I wasn't going to let him get anxious like this on our first date.  I pulled him over to me, and onto my chest.  He wrapped his legs around my waist and his arms around my neck. I wrapped my arms around his waist. 

"Your perfectly safe out here."  I promised him.  "Besides, I'm a prince.  I can protect you from anything."  I smiled

"Sure."  He said sarcastically, pushing himself out of my arms. 

After that, we spent probably a good half hour swimming around together, dunking each other in the water, making out, and jumping into the lake.

PLEASE READ THIS ———

I've decided to start writing a Sanders Sides High School AU called : But Now We're Stressed Out

It's just prinxiety, logicality, and maybe some picremi/remile (whatever their ship name is)

Here is a sneak peak at what it'll be about —

Feedback on this idea is appreciated 😂

Till next chapter xoxo
—Jinxx