#rook writes

“Yeah…” Virgil was hesitant to share his idea.

“I mean, I could take anyone, but like, a wedding is a serious date, you know? You can’t take a guy to your brother’s wedding on the first date.”

“Yeah, especially when you’re the man of honour, so you’re gonna be super busy, and they have to meet all your childhood friends and it’s just a little too fast.  So then they get to hear all the embarrassing stories before you get to convince them you’re not a total freak. It’d be so much better to take someone you already know.” Virgil settled for hinting at it, make Roman think it’s his idea. Better than it being his own idea.

“Yeah, I mean, I’m amazing, but I totally get where you’re coming from. Dating is hard, I wish I could have a relationship without all the hard parts. You know, just being cute and stuff. Oh, a boy can dream…” Roman stared wistfully at the ceiling.

“You mean like a fake relationship, just for show, I guess that wouldn’t be terrible.” Virgil pretended to muse, Roman may be an actor, but Virgil wasn’t too bad himself. 

“Yeah, exactly!” You could practically see Roman’s neurons firing and the idea occurring to him. “Wait, what if we did that? We could go to the wedding together so we don’t look all single and lonely.”

“I mean, we could, but we’d have to start like tomorrow, and we’d have to stage a break-up afterwards.” Virgil had started to see the downside, as always.

“Oh c’mon, lighten up, this could be fun, and Patton’ll be thrilled. Oh, this’ll be such fun, like a constant play. Too bad it’s not a musical, I’d love to show off my gorgeous voice.”

“If it were a musical, I’d have to sing. I don’t sing,” he grunted.

“Could’ve sworn I heard Meant to Be Yours coming from the shower last night…”

“I swear to the gods, I will kill you,” Virgil growled.

“Oh, but you have a lovely voice, J.Delightful.” Roman jested.

“Shut up before I make you.”

“You don’t scare me, Count Virgil.”

“Wait until you see my fangs.”

The next day Roman was dancing and washing the dishes, Gaga blasting from his headphones. He almost dropped the glass he was cleaning when he saw Virgil lounging on the counter waiting for him.

“What are you doing here?!”

“I thought I’d take you to a play. There’s a showing of Bridges of Madison County at the local theatre. If you want, we could skip it and just get the ticket stubs, though…” Virgil shrugged.

“Are you kidding??? I love that musical! You don’t have to, but I’m going.” Roman huffed.

“Ugh, I guess I’ll go, we should probably have evidence of it anyway. So, do you want to tell Patton and Logan or should I?”

“What if we went on a double date? We could take them out to eat, after the musical! Tell them it’s to celebrate their engagement then announce that we’re dating instead!” Roman enthused, and Virgil could almost see the image. For once, he was actually hopeful about a social engagement.

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