Because imagine:
We saw in the school festival episode, that Rio is in the Theater Club or just does theatrical plays at school. So, what if they‘d want to do some medieval romance play about a knight and a princess and Rio gets the role of the princess. She goes to Durbe to help her rehearse her lines and-
He‘s just so good?? At playing the knight??
Because he WAS once a knight, so he just FEELS the role!
So she asks him to officially play the role, but he‘s a bit unsure. Because it IS a romance with kiss scenes and all, so he‘d rather talk to his boyfriend about it first. Kissing someone else, even if it IS just Rio, feels weird to him and like he‘s cheating or something. But Nash tells him, that it’s no problem (solely because it’s Rio, if it were anyone else he‘d be very against it). It’s just a play and it’s just his sister. He knows that their bond goes way deeper than this, so it shouldn’t be a problem, right?
Oh, but it IS. At least for Nash.
So, after some thinking Durbe takes the role and we skip to the evening of the play. And Nash is just sitting there in the front rows and just absolutely torn between a feeling of pride and jealousy. Pride, because look at his boyfriend, he‘s doing so great and he’s so awesome and acting so romantically-
And jealous because he isn’t acting romantically towards HIM. He can even hear the hushed dreamy sighs of the girls around him in the audience, gushing about HIS boyfriend and that certainly isn’t lifting his mood.
So through the whole play he‘s just sitting there pouting and frowning
And part time cringing about the dialogue, but he can‘t say anything because 1) He knows he was WORSE in the mushy letters he wrote to Durbe in their past life and 2) He doesn’t want another shoe thrown at him.
But then in one act the knight does a monologue about how much he loves the princess. And while Durbe is supposed to look into the distance, he just STARES Nash directly in the eyes the whole time while he is talking about his undying, forever eternal love. He might even slip up and accidentally say he instead of she once, but he corrects himself so fast only Nash notices.
Nash has to fan himself with the play pamphlet, because he just grows such a hot blush on his cheeks, it’s so bad. HE‘S down bad. Just completely whipped. Can‘t even remember his own name for a second-
Then later after the play is done and they finally get to talk in private, the convo went a bit like this:
Nash: You were incredible, love!
Durbe: Aw, thanks! But it was all thanks to you!
Nash: Huh? Why?
Durbe: Because I was just always thinking of you! :3
Nash: …Say what now-
So, yeah turns out, that in every single romance scene Durbe was thinking about Nash. He pretended he was talking to Nash, talking about Nash, kissing Nash, etc.
And how many slip ups he had at rehearsals, because he was always saying Nash‘s name by accident.
And while he‘s talking about this, Nash is just
So in love.
Like just stands there, face red and thinking omghewasthinkingaboutmethewholetime
And then he just tells Durbe to shut up, because he needs to kiss him so bad right now.
Please I need someone to write this out, they’re so important to meeee 😭😭