[ Oria is convinced that if there's anything he shouldn't be doing, it's dating Sinclair despite his feelings. He's his precious childhood friend and has known him for a while, but he doesn't want to take advantage of the emotional vulnerability that possibly came with the passing of Sinclair's parents. The mutual family love between them isn't something that can be replaced. He wonders if that pain is still raw inside him.

However, he can keep supporting Sinclair for as long as he can until he can't, and he doesn't see that happening anytime soon. He'd drop a date to go to Sinclair in a time of need—hell, he'd drop most things for Sinclair. There aren't many things or people that rank higher than him on the priority list, after all. And that's why he's very vehement about the idea of them dating when suggested by other people, but won't stop things such as handholding because he's still selfish and wants at least this much instead of completely maintaining his distance. He knows this is his own fault, but he won't stop.

Perhaps the reason why his last date broke up with him was that they could somehow tell that Oria always had feelings for someone else even though they were right there with them. A disservice. Disrespectful. Oria knows. He does it anyway, having no other way to deal with these feelings otherwise in this complicated mess that he made himself.

This is the only reason why it turns into pining, because otherwise, Oria would usually just tell the other person himself if he had feelings for them. Alas. ]

On our next break, maybe we can go to a planetarium.

[ ... ]

Beatrice should come too if she comes back around that time. She'll be leaving again, won't she?