melodrama, the manga~
just go with the yuri already, it's so clear the author is writing Nozomi and Shino as having some sort of feelings for each other (Shino clearly and Nozomi feeling guilty here, wanting to monopolise Shino and so on). There needs to be some sort of progress or at least talk about it between the two. Please no more stupid fcking "can't talk cause gotta have drama" -_-
also, this whole... w.e with Heidi better be just friendship and Nozomi opening up to non-family people. It'd be really stupid that while Nozomi is unable to even open up and connect with other people, as well as clearly not over her husband, yet she'd suddenly fall in love or something with this rando out of nowhere... especially with her current feelings/emotions around Shino :/
also, Heidi seems to have his own issues with dead lover, so it doesn't make sense for him to fall in love either seeing as how it's clear he hasn't moved on. Friendship would actually be a good thing for both of em as they can talk to each other about losing their partner