There was a few times when Roman realized that should've stayed at his parents' house when his parents went to the store, but no, he decided to go with them, to spend time with them. However, his dad had broken his arm, and had a brace that went straight to his fingers.
So he walked by them, while his parents tried to catch up with him.
"They decided that we need to get mentally evaluated," Roman said.
"How many times did Dean get evaluated?" His dad asked.
"Twice," Roman said.
"How many times did you get evaluated?" His mother, Jennifer, asked.
Roman wasn't sure if he should tell the truth. He decided to go for the truth, "Three times."
His dad, Nick, looked at him, "Three times?"
"It's complicated," Roman replied.
Jennifer looked at him, "How so?"
Roman shrugged, "It's a long story." He decided to change topics, "Seth got two guinea pigs."
His parents knew that Roman purposely changed the subject, but didn't call him out on it.
"That's nice," Nick replied.
"He wanted them to mate," Roman replied.
Jennifer looked at him, "Did they?"
"Yes," Roman replied. He wondered why his mother sounded so interested in if his friends' guinea pigs mated.
"That's good, right?" Nick asked.
"I guess," Roman replied. They continued to walk around the store, putting things in a shopping cart.
"We should get something to eat," Jennifer said. Roman was prepared to duck and cover before his mom throws something across the aisle, like last time.
Nick looked like he was preparing to duck and cover too. They looked at each other and stepped back, out of range.
Sometimes I wonder what Blake listens too nowadays.
Roman briefly wondered if Blake was into Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana, Justin Beiber or One Direction. That was a scary thought. He nearly shuddered at the thought. He couldn't picture Blake listening to that.
What is he listening to?
A song that started with 'Turn me on, let me feel you. Turn me on, let me taste you.'
Roman actually had no words to describe his confusion at that.
That's…
From a so-called Christian Screamo band.
Your cousin listens to screamo?
Sometimes. Should I be concerned?
It's just a song.
You're no help.
Sorry?
After three minutes, Roman didn't get a reply. He continued walking with his parents and kept a distance, before his mom throws something.
After a few minutes of walking around, Dean finally replied to him.
Blake told me that he likes a part in the song where something hits the ground and the singer shouts, 'Yeah' in the background. -.-
That's good, right?
I guess.
Roman didn't know how to respond. At least Dean finally gotten to the bottom of his cousin listening to a song that started with the words: 'turn me on.'
Jennifer was putting boxes of rice in the cart and Roman looked at his dad.
Some of the songs that Blake listens to are kind of catchy.
No Dean. Don't turn emo on us.
Roman realized what he had texted.
That's rude. Besides I can't pull off the 'Goth' look.
Roman didn't know what to say to his friend, so followed his parents.
"What's going on?" Jennifer asked, looking at Roman.
"Dean is freaking out over his cousin listening to a song with…uh…'inappropriate' lyrics in the beginning of a song," Roman replied.
"His cousin is…fifteen, right?" Jennifer asked.
"Yeah," Roman replied.
"So, what's the problem?" Nick asked and Roman shrugged.
"I think Dean wasn't freaking out, he was just confused," Roman replied.
"Right," Jennifer replied. "His cousin is fifteen. I don't see what the big deal is."
Roman wasn't sure if it was place to tell or not. "His cousin, Blake, doesn't get crushes on people."
"So, he's asexual?" Nick asked and Roman was surprised. He didn't know that his parents knew that term.
Roman nodded, "Yeah."
"I can see why that would worry someone," Jennifer replied. "Now, let's go find some actual food."
Roman and Nick braced themselves, as they followed after her. They knew how she got when she was very hungry.
"You know, you should bring your friends and Blake with you, one of these days. His cousin seems like an interesting person," Jennifer said.
Roman shrugged, "I'll ask him."
"Do you think Blake loves spicy food?" Jennifer replied.
"I don't know," Roman replied.
"Oh. Well, you should ask some day," Jennifer replied.
"Yeah," Roman said. "One day." He shrugged, just not today or at the moment.
He didn't know if it'll be okay to have a fifteen year old meet his family. Hell, he didn't know when Blake goes on a break. He'll have to ask Dean about when his Blake's school breaks are.
Hey, do you think caterpillars ever stop building their cocoons and think 'bro, what I doing this for?'
Roman didn't know how to respond to the question that Seth sent him.
Why did you ask me that?
Blake asked me that.
How should I know?
After looking around and getting things, Roman wasn't sure how long it took, probably about forty minutes, they finally went to a cash register. They managed to get their stuff checked out.
"I'm starving," Jennifer said.
"We're almost done," Nick said.
Roman waited as his dad struggled to take out his wallet, waving away his wife's help as she tried to take out Nick's wallet. Roman was no way in frozen hell going near his dad's ass with his hand, that was his mother's job.
"I'm so hungry I can rip off someone's arm," Jennifer said.
In a serious tone, Roman said, "Well, Dad's got an arm that he's not using." He realized that he's been spending way to time with Dean to the point that Dean seemed to have rubbed off on him. That thought actually freaked him out. His parents just looked at him, stunned.
I should've stayed at home, Roman thought.
About two minutes later, Nick finally relented and allowed Jennifer to take out his wallet to pay for the groceries.
A/N: This took a lot longer to write out than I hoped for. You may have noticed that I may have had writer's block and added in random parts that shouldn't belong.
I actually wrote Seth's chapter first because I had trouble writing Roman's chapter. I found Seth's chapter easy to write.
The 'turn me on' lyrics is from a song called, A Message to the Unknown by blessthefall. It's a Christian Scream-O band.