Virgil's pov 

i opened my eyes to the blinding sun right in my face. i tried to get up but couldn't due to Roman. we were facing towards each other with Roman's arms around my waist keeping me there. i have to admit it, i loved this. but i looked around and soon realized our situation and where we were. 

'well thanks to whatever was chasing us last night we are now lost, well more lost then before. i mean god deceit didn't even tell us what direction to go in. we could be going the opposite way of where Patton and Logan are.' i thought.

 i tapped roman to wake him up. "roman wake up we have to get going".  he groaned and clung to me. "Nooooo" he said "you're warm and i'm comfy, five more minutes pleassssssse." i rolled my eyes and finally was about to get out of Romans grip. not much after that roman got up and started to roll up the sleeping bag. i grabbed two granola bars from the bag, handed one to roman and sat down on a nearby log. 

once ro was done he came over and sat next to me. we ate our bars in silence for a while until he spoke. "hey virge?" he said in a serious tone. "yah" i said uneasily. "well since we are in one of the most dangerous places in Thomas' mind i thought we should make some rules.". "wait, why is this place one of the most dangerous?" i asked. "you're kidding right? did you miss the entire getting chased by creatures last night? this relm of the mind has hundreds of things that want to kill you.". i frowned remembering it. "even me being the ruler doesn't know all of what is in here.  so we definitely need some rules. 1. don't die". i let out a small laugh. "2. we stick together at all times. 3. don't do anything stupid.". "HA, i think you will have to be more concerned about you doing something stupid more then me princey." i said. "whatever" he said laughing. " anything to add?". i was still trying to take this all in and remember it. "uhh i don't think so". "well we should probably get started then ".

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i was getting really bored of walking. it had been at least 3 hours and by now it was around 11. roman and i had been talking for the past 2 hours so it made it a bit more tolerable. every once in a while our hands would brush against each other. 

apparently i had zoned out and roman was trying to get my attention. he grabbed my hand while trying to talk to me and i immediately snapped back to reality. i looked down at our hands and back up to roman. his eyes grew wide and he started to pull away. "i'm sorry Virgil i di-" i cut him off by intertwining our finger together. he looked up at me and smiled. 'god every time he smiles my heart melts. i didn't think it was possible for someone to be this amazing'.

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we continued walking hand in hand until we decided we needed to eat lunch. i was getting out some sandwiches from our bag when i noticed that we were almost out of water. it was hot out so we definitely needed more. roman said he remembered a stream we passed a while ago, so we started in that direction. 

we got there about an hour later. as roman was filling up our canteens i took my shoes off and put my feet in the stream. "hey ro come join me!" after a bit of coxing i got roman to join me. i may or may not have pushed him into the stream. and he may or may not have pulled me in with him. when we actually got out of the stream we were soaked. "oh my god roman look!" i pointed to my left where you could see the outline of a town. we grabbed our bag and headed towards it.

i know its a short chapter but i have no idea what to do next sooo. ill be at camp so don't expect another update before July. love you my dudes.

peace✌

-annie