Roman-Centric 

Human

Doesn't really feature the other characters.

TW: Loneliness, not eating, short

Roman walked into the lunchroom and glanced around the sea of people until he spotted a table in the back, up against the wall. His usual one. 

He started down an aisle, making sure not to bump the people chattering in the seats around him. All the noise had come together in a hum, and he could barely make out small snippets of conversation. 

He spotted one of the popular kids, Patton, sitting at his usual table near the lunch lines. He looked up and waved a Roman, a bright smile playing on hi slips and Roman gave a smile and wave back. Patton then went back to talking with his friends, and it was as if it had never even happened. 

Patt wasn't like the people in movies. He'd gotten popular because he was always introducing himself or talking about random things to bring kids out of their shells in the first few weeks of school, and everyone loved him.

Even Virgil, who Roman had tried to talk to before by sitting at his lunch table for a few weeks, but hadn't made much progress. The kid was too introverted, and it was hard to hear him over the chatter of others. 

Yet Patton had somehow been able to befriend the kid, and the emo boy was currently sitting at Patt's table, talking and nodding with all the rest. 

Logan nodded at him over a book as he passed by, and Roman gave a little smile back. Remus noticed and grinned, a mischievous light in his eyes. "Hey Lettuce!" Then, he went back to pestering Logan.

Roman remembered when they had been brothers. Real, ride or die brothers. Sitting up on the roof, playing hide and seek, stealing their dad's wallet, or just eating ice cream and watching a move in a blanket fort. Then, middle school had come and they'd both started their hormonal changes and decided that maybe they didn't like the other that much so they went off to get their own friends. 

Logan was in a few of Roman's classes, they had actually worked together on a couple projects, but he was heard to break, just like Virgil. And Roman hadn't been able to do it. Instead, Remus had gotten Logan by pestering him constantly about homework and interesting him with gross facts. 

Deceit gave him a small smirk when slipped behind him a few tables over from the Brain and the Brawn. His table was the second most crowded in the cafeteria, Patton's being the first, and a few kids were sitting on the one next to it. 

He'd earned the nickname when he played Kaa in the school's rendition of The Jungle Book and had kept messing with the teachers by giving a fake name and sucking up to a lot of them after with fake flattey. He's gotten the lead every play after that. Deceit's real name was Janus, though only the new kids called him that.

He was nice enough, if you ignored the fact that it was all probably fake. Roman had played smaller characters in a lot of the plays, so they had talked a bit. 

Finally, Roman reached his destination. He sat down with Marie, L, and Jackson, his best friends. Marie being a sticker of an elephant someone had stuck on the end of the table and no one had ever been able to get off no matter how hard they tried. And Jackson being a crusty wad of gum the someone had stuck on the wall just below the table before Roman had even started here. He didn't think the teachers even knew about it. 

And of course, how could we forget about L, his constant companion. They were heavy as all hell, but after years of carrying them around, Roman had gotten used to it. He just had to ignore the squeezing sensation in his throat and the way his heart seemed to be gripped by and iron hand. 

Of course, L was short for Loneliness.