11.4 Unsettled emotions

"Yomo," Jin began carefully. "Do you have feelings for Rau?"

Yomo didn't answer. It wasn't that he didn't want to answer, but rather that he couldn't. For he himself didn't know. For he himself did not know. He had been asking himself that question for weeks, and he despaired of ever getting an answer.

The two friends looked at each other as their friend remained reflectively silent on the sofa in front of them. After a moment, Yomo told them of his uncertainties.

"I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know what I feel or why I feel it anymore. Rau is the biggest anomaly I've ever met. Plus he's downright ambiguous about his sexual orientation...I don't know what to think anymore, frankly."