Gentiana watch the blonde deaf girl for a while. She is curious. After a bit Gentiana saw why. She is very kind. She also doesn't let her disability pull her back, as much as she can. She is strong but gently.

She's almost the same as Luna but different. The oracle princess is kind and thoughtful to everyone but she still doesn't truly understand the hardships of some people. Like lower class and people that are different than the normal populace. But how could a princess who has everything understand the struggle of someone who has nothing? She can't but she tries and that's what makes her amazing.

The blonde deaf girl, like Luna, is thoughtful but with more understanding of others hardships because she's gone through some of them. She doesn't have everything, but she still has some things, nothing extravagant like a castle and maids. But she has more than most people. It's always heartwarming to see someone who doesn't have much give what little they have. The blonde is like that. Her soul is kind. Gentiana finds that amazing. She couldn't stop herself from watching the blonde. She wanted to help the girl but the blonde doesn't need it or want her help. Gentiana can see that. So she stays away, watching from a distance.

Noctis feels like it's his fault they weren't blessed.

He knows he isn't in love with Luna. He cares for her but he doesn't love her like that. And something must be wrong with him. It's been a couple month since then, he's back in Insomnia, and he doesn't know what to do.

"Are you excited?" Ignis asks, looking behind to Noctis in the back seat of the Regalia.

"Mmmh." Noctis grunts as he leans against the car window. No one is showing it but he can see that everyone is upset with him, with them. Never in history has a royal couple been not blessed by the Astrals. Of course it's Noct that it happens too. Luna seem to not care, she's very calm about it but Noctis can't help but think he did something wrong and he's sure it's because he's not in love with the oracle.

"It's your first day of highschool. Are you not excited?" Ignis asks, looking forward, focusing on the road to drive them to school. Ignis feels happy to see Noctis finally in school. It feels like a long time coming. He knows not to mention the blessing ceremony that happened several months ago.

"It's school." Noctis says. Knowing his father only let him attend so he can get some sense of normalcy but it will never truly be normal. If it's anything like middle school then it's going to be annoying and almost isolating. Normal students get in trouble if they sneak out of school or skip classes, but he never does, he doesn't get repercussions for skipping. He sort of wish he did, that would make skipping class actually exciting. But everyday is rather dull.

"Aren't you excited about making friends, having fun with your classmates?" Ignis asks as they drive through the streets. Noctis lets out a hum. Not answering that question. He can already see how the rest of his school life is going to go. Silent and lonely. Maybe have some persistent classmates pretending to be friendly but really wanting to use the prince as a way to better their image. It might be worse now that they are in high school. At least in middle school they only asked him what having servants is like, or if he dresses by himself. He can imagine it being worse now that they are all older. He has no plans to make friends with anyone in school.

The rest of the ride is silent. Until he gets to school. Ignis, being the mother hen he is, tells Noct about his lunch. Warning him to eat everything which means there's vegetables in it. Ignis telling him to be good and have a good day. Noct nods. Turning to join the other students. He makes his way to the desk to get to his class. Ignoring the stares he's getting from everyone, even the staff. He goes to the classroom to see the teacher already there assigning seats. The students there all stop to stare at him. The teacher tells him what is going on and to pick a paper from the bucket with a number, though, they said it nervously. Noct follows along. Sitting in his seat. Once everyone is seated they all go to the auditorium.

Noct doesn't pay attention to what is being said but what does catch his attention is the person to the side who wave their arms around. Noct is sure he's never seen someone do that before. Noct looks down at his lap, closing his eyes to take a nap. Noct wakes up when it's over.

The first half of the day is boring. The class introducing themselves. Everyone looking at him when he talk, he decided to keep quiet about his interests knowing some will lie about liking the same thing. During class breaks Noct rest his head.

School days continue like that. He should feel use to it but he's not. How mundane everything is. The days repeating, almost blurring together.

Though he did overhear some girls talking about romance. He then thought about it, what is romance? What's it feel like? So he search it up on his phone. Reading article after article talking about it. They all explain it the same way; strong feelings of attraction, excitement, dedication to a person of the opposite sex but to some the same sex or unidentified. The prince can say he's never felt that way once, especially not towards Luna. Also reading that people in love often think about their crushes or partners. He doesn't think about Luna if he doesn't have to. He's read that his body will react to them whether that mean sexually aroused or his heart beats wildly in his chest. Again nope, to both of those. He comes across articles talking about love language. He doesn't know what his is.

He slightly panics when he learns they will try the blessing again. He really thought his father will forget about that but they really are going to do it again but this time in Insomnia.

He is resting his head on his desk panicking about what to do, when he hears some girls talking about trying to force him to fall in love with them which gave him an idea. Why doesn't he try to force himself to fall in love with Luna? Back to the Internet. Searching on his phone about how to fall in love with someone. He finds one way: by having a 90 minute intimate conversation. For him it won't be 90 minutes but it'll have to do. When Umbra came with the notebook Noct took his chance to be more intimate.

He and Luna began taking more than before. But Noct still didn't feel anything. Nothing changed after two months of it. Finally Luna got curious and asked what he's doing. He knew she would so he comes clean. Apologizing that he doesn't love her. He hope she isn't upset about it. When Umbra came back he takes a moment to gather his courage to read the notebook. He feels relieved. Not only does Luna accept his lack of feelings towards her but she also has none towards him.

So it wasn't only him. She also mention that she saw Noct as a younger brother and that's it.

But what are they going to do? They are going to get a second blessing. And soon. It's almost been a year. It's been at least six months.