AUTHORS NOTE-

This is inspired by the song "Half Broken Japanese" by Ewy.
I also didn't proofread... again cuz it's 4:35am and I need to wake up in 5 hours.

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"i swear he's as blind as me..."

Anne chuckles softly at Ominis' joke but puts an arm around his shoulder, resting her head on his other. "He'll surely get it one day, just keep trying..." She tries to reason, but is swiftly met with a sigh.

"How many times do I have to write 'I love you' in an owl until he gets it...?"

Ominis hates how unobservant Sebastian is. Frequently talking shit about people behind them, loudly asking for answers in class, and reading Ominis' confessions of love, not realising it's not platonic. Surely he notices how pink Ominis' face gets when he talks to him. Surely he notices Ominis' slight protectiveness. Surely he notices his clear loving affection.

Were the late nights of them laying on the grass talking about their lives not enough? Was Anne "jokingly" calling Ominis his boyfriend not enough?

His blindness to Ominis' clear interest hurt Ominis more as he was already shameful. It felt wrong that he felt like this towards his best friend already, the two of them being male was a problem for later.

He remembers telling Anne, he was very concerned about how that would affect their trio dynamic, or if Anne would treat him differently. He remembers sitting on the ground, his back against the cold wall of the undercroft, Anne was up, burning off excess energy, walking around while listening to Ominis ramble on about anything. They had a good day, easy classes, the sun beaming down nicely onto the thin layer of snow. The three of them worked on a snowman army and threw snowballs at passers-by, acting innocent when accused. Sebastian called it an early night and went off to bed already.

He remembers breathing shakily as he tries to focus on her soft footsteps.

"Anne I think... I-I've been thinking a lot about Sebastian."
"...what about him?"
Ominis' comment intrigued Anne. They've known each other for years and have already declared they are best friends, and everyone knows it, professors commenting on it. Whenever Professor Ronen sees Anne and Sebastian without Ominis he asks "where's your last puzzle piece?" It makes them smile every time.

"I've been thinking about... How I feel about him..."

Anne's heart sinks. Oh no. What's Sebastian done? What's he done to upset Ominis? Did he mean it? She tries to think of any comments he's said to Ominis that potentially hurt his feelings, figuring that he was too scared to tell Sebastian directly that he didn't like it. Though, she can't think of anything that he's said that Ominis wouldn't immediately argue back. He's quite direct about things he dislikes.

“and," he pauses, "I've come to the conclusion that I... love Sebastian... Like a lover."

Ominis may be shaking but the fact that Anne doesn't stop her calm pacing is helping his racing heart.

"That's okay!"

Ominis can't stop the tears from flooding into his eyes. He puts his hand over his mouth, quietly trying to keep his voice steady, says "...really...??"
Anne paces over to Ominis, sitting next to him. Her soft voice always soothed him, he always reminded her of that. "Of course...! If that's what you think your feelings are, there's no point to keeping them in your mind where they keep poking and prodding at you."

If you had asked Ominis how he reacted to Anne's kindness, he would've denied his sobbing. He would've said you were "telling fibs" if you said he had hugged Anne as tight as he could, sobbing and thanking her desperately. However, if you asked Anne, she would admit to hugging him back, patting his back softly and telling him that what he was feeling was completely normal, and not wrong to feel.

From that point onward, Ominis tried hard to get closer to Sebastian, etching towards the answer of whether Sebastian even likes men in that way. The only thing that kept him from giving up on his feelings was the fact that Sebastian has never commented about a girl, or at least in that way. Poppy was the first test.
"So... What do you think about Poppy?"
"She's nice."
"Anything... Else?"
"... It's nice that she cares so much about animals, makes her an easy person to be friends with."

Every other week Ominis tested him on different girls.

"Saw Imelda out in the middle of the sky this morning... How she wakes up that early just to fly baffles me."
"At this point I don't think she sleeps."
Ominis' laugh at his joke makes Sebastian giggle himself, Ominis' heart warming to the sound of it.

"Maybe you aren't being direct enough."
Ominis turns to Anne, offended.

"I write 'i love you', I put little hearts down at the bottom, i hold his hands a lot, when he's staring at the stars, i rest my head on his chest. I could keep going."
"Please don't."

Anne shuffles in front of him, taking both of his hands into hers, softly but firmly saying,
"You're just going to have to tell him to his face, 'Sebastian, I'm in love with you.', stop this dawdling. He won't run away, he won't be disgusted, you're his favourite person, Ominis. Don't be afraid of your- soon to be- lover."

Ominis sighs. Anne's right. She always is. She always annoyingly is.

"I will... I'll stop waiting for him to notice..."
"How long will you wait to stop waiting...?"

Anne isn't surprised when she's met with Silence.

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SECOND AUTHORS NOTE-

Yeah sorry the ending is boring but I couldn't let myself sleep unless I finished it ("ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ)