the blonde guy Arron likes alice (Yee she dyed her hair before) but because the oath he gave her and because he knew her under different last name and he himself was disguised (as the brown haired guy in alice memory) he probably is hesitant to meet her with his true identity cauz he doesn’t know how she will react (Yee Arron is a coward chicken) , on the other hand, Nocton thinks Ruoa is under his spell to be his friend so he thinks that if not for the spell she would hate him, he also thinks that because the spell is only to be his friend, she won’t love him (Yee he have zero self confidence cauz his abusive mother)