- i love you | brocon

four

ｎｏｔｈｉｎｇ ｈａｓ ｃｈａｎｇｅｄ

{ your p.o.v }

"Is there a reason that you're camping out in my apartment on New Years Day..?" Natsume had asked as I just casually huddled up in the corner of his living room couch, his two cat's named after Tsubaki and Azusa curiously peering up at me from where they sit just under the coffee table.

I glanced over to the orange haired man with a cheeky smile. "Just, you know, wanted to drop by and see how my favorite sibling is doing and wish him a Happy New Years."

A beat of silence passed as Natsume just stared at me for a moment before sighing. "___, what happened?"

"Nothing happened-"

"___." The older cut me off easily, walking over to sit on the other end of the couch, leaving a respectable amount of distance between the two of us while his cat's watch both him and myself now. "Something's clearly wrong. If you're not going to tell me now, then at least call Ukyo and Masaomi and tell them where you ran off to before they have a panic attack or something."

My shoulders deflated some at that. "But I don't want to call them."

"Then tell me what's wrong and I'll call them." Natsume compromised.

Pursing my lips, I thought long and hard about what the possible outcomes of this conversation could be if I actually tell Natsume about his older brother's text message.

Outcome one is that Natsume won't believe Azusa meant it in a truly romantic way. Outcome two is that Natsume will try and murder Azusa because of the whole "protective older brother" syndrome and all that jazz (though that's unlikely since Natsume is generally the most levelheaded of the triplets and probably out of all my siblings now that I think about it). Outcome three is that Natsume loves me too and confesses which is also super unlikely but I can't rule it out just yet either. And outcome four, Natsume gives me good advice and no one has to die. I think I speak for all of us here when I say I hope for the fourth outcome.

With a sigh shakily slipping passed my lips, I looked out the glass doors to my left and away from the orange haired man. "Azusa messaged me last night right at midnight." I said softly, slipping my phone out of my hoodie and opening up the text before handing my phone over to the older man. "I've been avoiding him all morning because I'm not sure on what exactly I should do."

A few minutes spent in silence passed as Natsume read over the text message while I continued to stare outside to the balcony, watching as snowflakes flutter down from the sky in the beginning to warm up some nine in the morning weather. "Well," the orange haired man spoke up, "do you like him back?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know, never thought about any of you guys in that kind of light before to be honest." A small, dejected laugh escaped past my lips. "This is all just so surreal I mean, just a week ago we were celebrating my one year anniversary of being adopted and suddenly I have Azusa confessing his love for me?" I said almost in disbelief as I glanced over to my step-sibling from over my shoulder. "Surely I mustn't be the only one here who thinks that's a little crazy, right?"

Natsume nodded. "It is a weird situation to be in, I can agree with that." He responded. "But, have you considered this from his perspective?"

"Of course I have. I barely slept even a full hour last night because I was thinking and agonizing over this so of course I've thought about it from his perspective." I murmured. "A popular seiyuu with an insanely promising career just like his twin, he has no time to go out and meet someone for himself, and I'm always home. I'm convenient to like, I'm nice and I flirt because I find all of your reactions to be just the cutest and funniest things and I truly love all of you and hold you all dearly to my heart, but in what way I don't know. So, of course, of course Azusa would fall in love with me. Even Wataru could probably see this coming from a mile away." I scoffed.