Kalim turned, glancing at Cater, the light music club's bass player “Have you heard anything from Lilia today?”
Cater shook his head, “No, I don’t think so.”
The bubbly prince looked concerned, “He’s never late! He's typically the first one here!”
“Maybe he got busy? He has a lot of responsibilities, anyway.” The ginger pointed out
Kalim sighed, “Yeah, you’re right. Well, we can get on with practice anyway! Esther said they’d be here in a minute.”
The Heartslabyul student was already tuning his guitar, “Yes sir.” He said teasingly
Kalim laughed before returning to everyday conversation, “Oh yeah, what were you saying about Riddle?”
Cater's eyes lit up, “Ok, so-”
Just then the light music door, and behind it was Lilia Vanrouge, the fae the main subject of the other two boys' conversation. The two turned around to greet him and noticed a brighter pink on his cheeks
“You ok dude?” Cater asked
The black-haired man only sat down on the couch in the clubroom, grabbed a pillow that Cater handed to him, and screamed into it.
He paused before speaking lightly, “I have a problem.”
Kalim, upon hearing that, put down his drumsticks quickly and sped walked over, “What happened?”
The other sighed, “Y’know Starling?”
The prince's head tilted, “Yeah? Of course, we do! Everyone around campus atleast has heard the name!”
“Well, I was having a normal morning, y’know having my morning tea like normal, and I got to thinking about whatever and I came to a huge realization,” He breathed before continuing his story, “So, uhm, once when they and Malleus were hanging out, Starling mentioned a dream they had that long story short, had a character that matched my description to a T.”
Cater smiled, “That's cute… What's the problem though?”
“Well, for one, they had the dream before they came here and for two, in fae culture, dreams about the other are sure signs that the person dreaming of you is your future partner in one way or another.”
Kalim looked like he was pondering something before speaking again, “Well, do you return any romantic attraction to him?”
Lilia faceplanted into the pillow, curled up in a ball, “I-I think so? I don’t know! I haven’t experienced any romantic attraction in about… 40? 50 years? I didn’t think I even experienced it anymore.”
Then the door opened again, revealing Esther Faris, Daisomnias vampire first year. Upon seeing the scene on the couch they laughed, “Is he still having pan panic?”
Lilia scoffed, “Oi, I had to listen to you, Silver, Sebek… And Arie for that matter, gay panicking over each other for about two months, let me have my gay panic over Starling, ok?”
Esther smirked, “Fine, fine. How’re you doing though? You’ve been like this since breakfast.”
“I think... A little better? I mean, I know it’s romantic attraction, I guess.”
Kalim spoke up next, “Have you always had a crush on them? Or did this just hit you now?”
“I always did, I just didn’t realize it.”
“Do you wanna tell them?” Kalim asked
Proba- Where’d Cater go?”
Esther shrugged, “Riddle needed him for a dorm thing.”
“Hm,” Lilia paused, “But yeah, I would want to, I just don’t know how I would go about something like that. I’m not exactly familiar with human traditions when it comes to these things.”
The vampire smirked, “I have an idea.”
‘Why did I agree to this?’ I thought as I stood in one of Diasomnias back gardens, Esther's idea itself was sound enough but it's just the idea of saying that I like Starling that's the problem for me. Sweet Seven help me. I breathed, well no backing out now. I mean, even if I do get rejected I’ll have the satisfaction of admitting my attraction.
I smiled at the sight of his multi-colored hair, “Good morning, Starling.”
Starling’s head whipped around, “Vanrouge-san? What’re you doing here?”
“I may or may not have been the one who invited you here.” I laughed lightly
“Ok, this is probably going to sound weird to you, so stop me if you need to,” I breathed, “I heard your conversation with Malleus about that dream you had, and the description you gave matched me, right?”
The boy nodded, “I’d say so.”
“In fae culture, when someone has a dream about another person that's a sign of-”
Before Lilia could respond Starling spoke up, “It's a sign of romantic attraction, right? I did some research myself after the dream.”
“Mhm, that's what it means, so uhm… I… I don’t know what I’m doing, for the love of the seven..” I chuckled, sitting down
Starling smiled and sat in front of me, “Are you asking me to date you?”
I nodded, “if you’ll have me.”
The bird-named boy reached out and enveloped me in a hug, “Of course, I don’t think I’d be able to ask for anything better.”
I buried my face into their shoulder with a laugh, “Thank you, I love you.”