Yura has always been the coldest, most quiet of your group of friends, just being a little bit more open with Ilya and the only girl in the group and your best friend, Catka, who has been in love with him for a while.

After confessing to him and being rejected, Catka and Yura remained just friends and everything went smoothly as always, though you always suspected Yura was gay.

Oh, surprise, he was, and you were the only one who he has told about it!

You didn’t understand why he would open up with you about something like that instead of talking with Ilya or any other, maybe because you were the only openly gay person around and he felt safe with you, still, you quite appreciated the trust and remained quiet about it, don’t commenting anything to any of your friends, a silent deal between the two of you.

He started to open up to you more and more, making you feel quite excited and honoured, like a beautiful friendship was blossoming between the two of you, like he has found a safe haven in your company.

… then, he confessed to you.

You liked him before, years ago, actually, but once you found out about Catka feelings, you backed off instantly, she was your best friend, after all. Still, finding out about Yura’s own feelings… it awakened something inside of you, something that you have numbed a long time ago.

After months of awkward stares, secret messages and nervous laughter, Yura finally gave in and acceded to talk about it, because he was too scared to do it before.

You two sat there in the middle of the school hallway, because he wouldn’t let you take him anywhere else more private, and after a five minutes long conversation that they interrupted several times…

“… let’s just forget about this. Return to normal.”