my gosh yes! This! Need them to have their time apart and then if they meet again, nice! Him chasing after him right now makes no sense cuz he can’t say he loves him, he’s sad he lost someone he was so close to. Give it time and if they fall in love on a clean slate, that’s perfect. Y’all saying “suffer” don’t get it. That trope only works if they were both previously interested in each other and one person was treating the other coldly. In this scenario, one person thought they were just friends
Yeh exactly he needs to catch feelings before he can even chase cause what will he be chasing, friendship? Yeh no
I don't really like the "you don't know what you have until you lost it" trope because he doesn't like glasses. He's never seen him that way, he's just caught up on the fact he isn't there anymore. It's also hard with this trope to form it in a way that reveals his feelings without it being too fast and wishy washy but I'll see.