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Dear Diary,
I can't help but want more from Sonny and Uki. I get it, I'm just a good friend to them, but is it wrong for me to want them both? Especially as... more than friends?
I suppose that's the reason why I don't mind third-wheeling them everyday. I have a slight hope that maybe, just maybe I could be more than a best friend to them, but goodness knows if I'm just creating false hope for myself in want of love.
Signing off, Alban.
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The brunette released a sigh as he clicked his pen, shortly after closing his diary, placing it under a pillow he doesn't sleep on.
He had been laying on his stomach. His blanket touching his abdomen, giving him slight comfort.
His legs kicked the air behind him in an alternate motion. They swung in a trance, unsure of when they'd stop moving. At the same time, his noir tail travelled from side to side, as if he was dancing without realising.
His eyes gazed upwards at the painting of a sunset that hung above his headboard. The sun itself being yellow, with the evening sky being a bright orange. Purple streaks seeped between the orange, completing the scene.
"Reminds me of us." Alban thought to himself, referring to his two best friends, or crushes for that matter.
After spending such memorable times with Sonny, he had developed a crush on the man training to become an officer, that was until Uki came into the picture, and ended up dating the man right before his eyes.
Alban thought that he'd be heartbroken at that, of course, the past him was upset at the sudden news of their relationship, but overtime he came to realise that a part of him desired Uki as well.
The kind gestures, the fact that Uki calls Alban "Kitty" as a nickname really struck something in him. Uki's features in general could be compared to that of an angel, everyone who saw him would fall in love. Alban was no exception despite the fact that he may have dated his crush.
But Alban didn't mind at this point. All he minded now was his feelings towards the both of them.
How on earth was he supposed to cope with it? Better yet confess his emotions when he knew that the friendship he shared with them could be at risk.
He wanted to try forget about these emotions, perhaps lock them up and never visit them again, but that was simply foolish to him. It would be a waste to not atleast try a confession.
Who knows, perhaps they could accept him too.
Besides the point, Alban had already drifted into a slumber from the amount of thinking he'd done.
Tomorrow, he would see the two he liked anyways, since they had school and even classes together. Not only that, Alban had also invited Sonny and Uki to his house as a normal hangout between them after school.
It was no surprise that Alban had dreamed about one of his fantasies which included the three of them as a couple.
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The following morning, Alban had risen from the warmth of his bed with a yawn and a whine. He was never a morning person, however, his only motivation to waking up had been the thought of seeing Sonny and Uki, which was no surprise.
The brunette lazily entered his ensuite to sort himself out and get dressed for the day.
After a couple of minutes which included him spacing out most of the time, he finally paid full attention as he watched himself in the mirror.
The white dress shirt caressed his slim waist perfectly. A black tie hung from the collar, making him think he was dressing up for a fancy occasion. He wore a light grey sweater over it, paired with black shorts and socks that met below his knees.
Even he found himself to be stunning in this particular outfit, he smiled once he knew he was ready, and stopped admiring himself in order to leave the bathroom.
Rushing to grab his bag and keys, he hurriedly put his shoes on and leapt out of the door. He wasn't in a rush, it was only because he's eager to see the others.
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Every morning, Alban would wait for Sonny and Uki to arrive at the gates of the school before the three of them would walk together.
Quite rarely, Sonny and Uki would also wait for Alban together if the boy was later than them, but that was only a few times as Sonny tended to pick up Uki from his house, from there they'd venture to school and meet with Alban.
Currently, Alban stood by the gates in a place not too out in the open, waiting for the other two. The place consisted of a small patch of emerald grass, and a bench in the middle, alongside a tree that formed a beautiful arch around the wooden seating, almost as if it were a fairytale.
During the waiting time, he adored the gentle winds that caressed his face and swayed a few strands of his hair, smiling with his eyes closed as he was in a state of tranquility.
He was too focused on the breeze that he didn't notice Sonny and Uki already standing before him.
Uki wore almost the same outfit as Alban, the only difference being that his sweater was a shade of violet, and cute star clips had been placed in his ombré hair.
The angelic male had been clinging onto his lover's arm.
Sonny on the other hand wore black trousers instead of shorts, a short sleeved polo shirt with a black tie, and a leather jacket to go on top. To others, he looked like a delinquent, but in reality he was just like the sun itself.
The two had shared earphones on their way here, and still had them on. They both had a free ear though, so they could still hear as Alban greeted them with a laugh, still amused by the fact he didn't notice them immediately.
"Hey kitty, after school we're walking to your house, right?" Uki wanted to confirm the plan. "Mhm! Yes we are." Alban smiled brightly, his tail wagging without his knowledge. Uki just giggled as he found it adorable.
"We should probably head in now." Alban suggested as he watched almost the entire front of the school now empty with the other students going inside.
Sonny and Uki both nodded in unison, the three now began moving their legs and walking to where the majority of people were.
At one point, Alban ended up walking slightly behind the couple as there was no room to go beside them, he saw Uki take out both of their earphones and place a soft kiss on Sonny's cheek after he did so.
How Alban wished to be apart of that too.
Eventually, he was able to walk alongside them as they went to stand by a wall while they waited for the beginning of lessons. The couple leaned against the wall whilst Alban stood infront of them.
"Babe, what lesson do we have soon?" Uki asked Sonny, still drowsy from morning fatigue to think properly. "Geography, all of us are in that lesson." Sonny informed, also referring to Alban.
"Aww man... Mysta is gonna be such a pain in the ass." Alban complained.
Mysta was one of Alban's other friends that would often visit him and talk to him when he had the chance. Their friendship was a love-hate one, but that was the whole fun of it.
For Sonny and Uki though, they weren't as close to Mysta as Alban was, but they were generally respectful to each other. The only times they'd see Mysta was when he'd stop by to annoy Alban.
"You'll survive." Sonny gave the catboy some reassurance. "Hopefully— Nya!" Alban whimpered out as he felt a smack on his behind, specifically his ass.
The brunette immediately slapped his own mouth shut due to the embarrassing noise he made.
He looked behind and saw the very person they were just talking about, crying of laughter at the reaction he received.
"FUCK YOU MYSTA!" Alban yelled angrily as he raised a hand to then slap the shoulder of the culprit. "You went... Nya!~" Mysta bursted out laughing again, practically wheezing at this point. The imitation he did sounded a lot more inappropriate than what Alban actually let out.
"Why did you do that?!" Alban asked in humiliation and anger, his face burning a bright crimson thinking back to the sound he released.
"I heard you talking about me being a pain in the ass!" Mysta spoke, continuing to laugh afterwards. At that comment, Alban could hear Uki giggling too, Sonny just watched this play out in amusement.
"You asshole!" Alban wanted to let out tears from the amount of overwhelming embarrassment he was feeling.
"Mysta... leave him alone." Another voice belonging to a person by the name of 'Ike' spoke.
"Ughhh fine, I'm coming back though baby." Mysta nicknamed, making Alban furrow his eyebrows in cringe.
Before Alban could scold the other, he'd fled the scene and left to go towards Ike, who looked at Alban with a wink, knowing that he just did God's work for him. The brunette reciprocated by showing a heart with his hands towards Ike.
Unfortunately, Mysta saw that heart and blew a kiss towards Alban.
The catboy sighed and turned back to look at Sonny and Uki who have been watching that entire scene.
"I'm so sorry for all of that..." Alban apologised, scratching the back of his head.
"Kitty... that was so cute!" Uki's voice erupted into a laughter as he let go of Sonny's arm to pinch Alban's cheeks. "Stop... that was just embarrassing." Alban whined as he spoke, his words being muffled due to the pinching on his face.
"No no, that was so fucking adorable oh my god... right, Sonny?" Uki asked his partner, "It was definitely amusing." Sonny cracked his poker face into a giggle.
The psychic among them brought Alban's head closer and placed a little peck on the crown of his head.
Making Alban flinch slightly, but he easily melted into it.
Since they were best friends, Uki loved being affectionate, therefore pecks on Alban's head was sometimes given. It made the brunette super happy everytime. Sonny didn't mind them either.
"Though I do have to ask, are you and Mysta together or... something?" Uki's face alarmingly darkened for a moment as he pulled away, making Alban's head tilt in confusion. Though, when the brunette looked again, a visible smile was spread across Uki's face.
Alban couldn't exactly tell why he had that expression, but when he looked at Sonny, the man just glared at him in a way that made him feel as if he was under a spotlight.
It was an odd tension that Alban felt, but he brushed it off with a laugh.
"Ew! Me and Mysta? No way, I would rather eat vegetables than date him." The catboy confessed. "Didn't he call you baby though?" Sonny added on.
For some reason, Alban felt as if something was off.
They normally never ask questions about Mysta like this, especially when he'd do something so simple as call him a nickname.
"He calls his friends that as a joke. Nothing serious!" Alban giggled, unsure of why they glared at him for a moment in a strange manner. "Um... isn't it time for our lesson? We should go now." He added on after the both of them stayed silent.
"Yeah, okay." Uki nodded, breaking his poker face. Sonny's visage still remained expressionless. Alban couldn't tell what he was thinking.
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After a long day of working, it was time for students to head home and rest. Alban's heart on the other hand raced at the fact that Sonny and Uki would be going to his house now.
He called it 'his house' as his parents were very rarely home, always on business trips and work related travels, so he was always home alone.
Of course, it wasn't the first time Alban had the other two come over to hang out, but it was certainly rare as they'd normally hang out in a park or somewhere outside rather than a house. But Alban wanted to have them come round to eat and have fun.
The three had grabbed their bags and exited through the school gates. Uki, as usual, grabbed onto Sonny's arm, making Alban feel a tiny bit awkward by their side but figured he was used to it.
"Lead the way, Kitty." Uki spoke, smiling at the brunette who nodded whilst gazing into the heterochromic eyes that he adored.
"Of course, just follow me." Alban giggled, looking away as he began to move his legs towards the path he normally takes.
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Currently, Alban had just dug around in his bag, searching roughly for his keys until he finally fished it out with his fingers. He slid the key into the keyhole and twisted it, unlocking the door for him and his guests to enter.
Alban was the first one to enter, immediately standing behind the door to hold it open. "C'mon in, make yourselves at home." He greeted with an innocent smile.
Sonny and Uki both walked in and took their shoes off by the door. The host closed the door behind them and lead them into the living room for them to sit.
Sonny decided to sit down on the bigger couch, to which Uki snuggled beside him. Alban on the other hand plopped down onto a single couch, anxious to sit next to the couple.
"Do you have anything to do in mind?" Sonny asked the owner of the house. His eyes wandered upwards in thought. "We have options, depends on what you guys wanna do."
"We could play games, watch a movie or—." Alban paused his sentence and his phone erupted into a vibration and noise, indicating that he was receiving a call.
"Who is— Oh, uh... you guys decide what you wanna do, I need to take this." Alban claimed as he shot up from his seat, about to walk away before Uki spoke, "Kitty, can I go to your room? I miss that cat plushie you have on your bed."
"Oh, of course, go ahead Uki." Alban spoke without thinking too much of it. He saw Uki stand up, Sonny decided to follow him as they ventured up the stairs to where they knew Alban's room was.
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"Really Mysta? Vox is jealous because you keep on getting touchy with Shoto?" Alban sighed to the phone.
"Yes dude, I don't know how to comfort him!" Mysta yelled in panic.
At the same time, Alban heard a door being opened, he looked into the living room and saw Uki and Sonny back on the couch.
Since Alban was in the kitchen, the door was open, meaning that now the two in other room could hear Alban's conversation if they listened.
"Have you tried talking to him?" Alban spoke to Mysta. The couple on the couch gazed back to see Alban inside of the kitchen, still talking on the phone.
"Yes! But he won't stop ignoring me." Mysta claims, his voice whining.
"Okay... how about you talk to Ike about this." Alban suggests.
"But why?! You're the only one who's gonna actually try help me!" Mysta yelled, full on panicking at this point.
"Listen, Mysta. I have no idea what advice to give you. I have no experience in this, whereas Ike dates Luca and has a lot more knowledge. That's why you should probably speak to him because, again, he knows a lot more than I do when it comes to relationships. Okay?" Alban spoke his last word in a high pitched voice with a smile that no one saw.
"I...— Ugh fine... I'll go talk to Ike." Mysta sighed from the other side of the phone.
"There you go, now, I'm busy, goodbye. I love you." Alban laughed as he heard Mysta shouting at him aggressively from the phone after saying that. The brunette hung up and giggled to himself.
He then finally jogged out of the kitchen to host his guests. "So! Have you guys decided on anything?" Alban questioned as he sat himself down at the same single sofa.
He saw Uki had sat on Sonny's lap with his cat plushie from his bedroom sitting on Uki's lap. It was a cute sight to behold, but again Alban felt awkward to be there.
"Hey... Alban?" Uki began to speak, his voice had a certain tone to it that made Alban believe something was wrong. He felt tension in the air due to the pause in Uki's words.
"Yeah..? Something the matter?"
"We um, saw something that maybe we shouldn't have, or at least not yet." Uki explained, biting his lip slightly.
This made Alban's heart feel heavy, he felt scared now. "W-what did you guys see?" He stuttered, feeling extremely anxious.
"Your diary." Sonny straightforwardly confessed in a low voice.
Alban's heavy heart now shattered into millions of pieces at those two words only. His eyes widened as he felt tears threatening to fall from the corner of his eyes. His hand clasped his mouth that was open in shock, words didn't even want to come out.
After a few seconds of silence in the room, Alban didn't like the tension whatsoever. He absolutely hated the fact that now his secrets had been discovered.
He couldn't handle the thought of his closest friends now hating him, so he quickly stood up from his seat and immediately ran away to his bedroom.
"Alban! Wait—" But the boy couldn't hear the pleads for him to stay there, and rapidly locked his door with tears finally cascading down his cheeks. The catboy desperately retreated to the comfort of his bed, completely hiding himself in shame from what he knew they had read.
A waterfall of tears dropped onto his pillow, staining it with emotions of sadness and humiliation. A combination of three gentle knocks on his door made him bury himself even more into his blanket. "Kitty? Could you please open the door?" Uki called out in his soft voice, tempting Alban to unlock it, but no, he was too embarrassed, ashamed to face them.
"Alban? Please, unlock the door." Uki called him by his first name, with that, Alban knew Uki was slowly loosing patience, but he was still afraid.
"Alban Knox, open the door and listen to what we have to say." Sonny spoke up, using his full name. Now Alban was even more worried of what they had to say.
"Please... g-go away..." Alban sobbed, his voice muffled into his cover, he wasn't sure whether they had actually heard him or not.
"Alban, you can't tell us to go away when you've invited us over." Uki sighed from the other side of the door. "Open the door otherwise we'll force ourselves in." Sonny spoke. He understood that he sounded harsh, and that Alban was scared to face them, but at the same time they needed to speak to him about this properly.
The brunette was terrified at them saying they'd force themselves in, so he quickly shot off the bed and ran towards the door. He regretted running to the door, knowing that they've heard him, and now he has no choice but to unlock it.
With slow and unsteady hands, he clutched the lock of his door whilst wiping his tears with his other hand. He made the decision to unlock the door and bolt for his bed after doing so. Which is what he did after sliding the lock to open and instantly ran back to his original position under the covers. He knew the lock itself would've made an audible noise to them.
Alban heard his bedroom door finally opening a slight second after running. "Kitty?" Uki called out normally, now Alban could tell he was relieved. Though, that wasn't enough to prevent him from crying. His muffled weeps were perceived by the two as they strode closer towards the bed.
The boy could feel his bed dipping from both sides as the two had seemingly laid down beside him. Alban couldn't see them properly but he assumed they were glaring down at him with disgust.
However, that was far from the case.
"Hey... look at us, please?" Uki called out, placing a hand atop of the blanket on where he assumed the catboy's head was.
Alban felt the hand caress the side of his head, his heart felt warm and giddy at that gesture, but he hasn't forgotten about what they now knew. "Alban, don't make us force your blanket off." Sonny added on, making Alban's eyes open wider.
The brunette whimpered softly before letting go of the inside of his cover, rapidly shoving it off his face whilst then using his arms to cover it again. Uki's hand that was previously caressing his head was thrown off on accident, Alban missed that feeling of comfort.
Sonny and Uki looked at Alban with an expression no one could decipher. Alban's arms doing their best to hide his face, but the two could clearly see his tear stained cheeks. His cat tail was wrapped around his own body as if trying to comfort himself.
"Listen to us, alright?" Uki asked, scooting closer towards Alban, to the boy's surprise, he felt a hand in his hair, a thumb rubbing against his forehead whilst a different hand ventured to the exposed skin on his thigh, also rubbing it as gently as they could,
"We know how you feel about us." Sonny spoke in his tender voice followed by another rub against his thigh. His words made Alban let out another sob though. "Shush... don't cry Kitty. We just want you to know that we... feel the same, and we really want you to join our relationship." Uki admitted, making Alban's tears pause as he attempted to process what he'd just heard. "Yeah... everything's okay now, you don't have to worry." Sonny spoke into Alban's left ear softly.
The catboy finally lowered his arms to meet both of their gazes on him. "Goodness, look at how much you've cried..." Sonny said as soon as he saw Alban's bloodshot and swollen eyes. His words tickled Alban's ear and gave him goosebumps. "Kitty? Will you accept us? We need an answer." Uki questioned, playing with Alban's hair. "I... y-yeah, oh g-god yes." Alban nodded his head slowly, as soon as he did even more tears of happiness traveled down his face. "Stop crying now, okay?" Uki asked. "Mhm..." Alban let out.
Suddenly, he saw Uki's face tower over him, inching closer and closer until he felt a soft pair of lips collide against his own as if he was something so delicate. It wasn't anything like those random kisses Uki would give him on his forehead as a way of affection, this was the real deal.
It ended shortly, but it was soon after replaced with Sonny's lips, also giving him a peck on his mouth.
It was a lot for Alban to process, but either way he felt more pleasant than ever. His heart beat like a love song, not knowing when to stop racing at the feeling of love and pure bliss.
They cuddled together after that. Sonny ended up in the middle so that the other two could lean against his firm chest, listening to his heart also beat in a melody. The officer in training kissed the two of them on the crown of their heads gently, to which the two responded by snuggling into him even tighter.
Sonny's right arm held Uki's waist while his other hand sneakily drifted down to Alban's ass, patting it once with force to hear the catboy let out another, "Nya! —Sonny!" His head perched upwards, "Sorry, you were so cute when you did that earlier, though..." Sonny's voice trailed into a deeper pitch. "Though?!" Alban asked still moody, "We hate how Mysta was the one to slap your ass." Uki added on for him.
Alban's countenance changed from sulky to laughing within a second.
"Guys... me and Mysta are just best friends!" The brunette giggled as he explained for the nth time. "Yeah, and we are your boyfriends." Sonny spoke back with a smirk. Alban was caught off guard and blushed at that answer. "You guys get so jealous." He pointed out, settling back onto Sonny's chest. "Aren't we allowed to?" Uki asked, looking at Alban's eyes. "Yeah yeah." Alban rolled his eyes.
"What's this? Alban's already giving us attitude?" Sonny's eyebrows lifted up. "I say we teach him a lesson." Uki suggested, "Huh?" Alban let out before all of a sudden he felt his body being dragged to the middle of the two, Sonny and Uki hovered over him, the boy felt his face and neck being peppered with kisses.
The rest is history.
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