After that day, the externals began. Then the semester-end exams arrived like an avalanche.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaDf2nxMqg
January became a blur of tension and ticking clocks — PDFs flooding WhatsApp, people panicking over units they hadn’t touched, doubt circling like vultures.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjTbHk1s03
It was the busiest I’d ever seen our campus.
And in that chaos, I tried. I gave it what I could.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8Tl9WtlOV
Some nights I stared blankly at notes, hoping something would stick. Some days, I simply trusted intuition, muscle memory, or fate.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNs4kCoYMi
I did what I could — the rest, I left to whatever force governs unfair results and late realizations.
Then February breezed in, bringing a short, scattered week of holidays. A blink. A breath. And just like that, the second semester began.
Five months.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOOomw67Jh
That’s how long the first semester lasted.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5tiNPwbQY
Five months — that's what the calendar says. But to me, it didn’t feel like months.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1shshsWbX
It felt like moments — raw, unfinished, incomplete. Like scribbles in a notebook I never meant to show anyone.
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Something in the air.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpo8YOTba21
Something in her.
Seren.
I don’t remember the exact moment I realized it. Maybe it wasn’t a moment — maybe it was a slow unraveling.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXL5IuQDXtQ
Our evening talks behind the buses — stopped.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KhUuF5I1g
Her presence, once familiar like a hum at the back of my mind — faded.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2LVm6QmKsu
I kept telling myself it was nothing. Just timing. Just routine.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMW8lS7oRB
But the truth has a way of finding you… when you least want it.
One day, I was with Simon. Just a regular day.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmyMaPFMH7
And that’s when I saw them.
Her.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgSBNQrT7t
Smiling. Laughing. Walking.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡus9ARARt0R
And Ren.
He walked beside her — like he belonged there.
Time slowed.
She approached like everything was normal. Like my world hadn’t cracked open a little.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsec6EDelc
I smiled, because what else could I do?70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquy26Q1PAr
But deep inside, I was quiet. Frozen. Trying to act okay, because that’s what we do, right?
Later that day, I asked her.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGaS3sR2FV
“How do you know Ren?”
She said — that,70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcKlZupa2m
“Oh… we met online,”.
Simple. Innocent. Coincidence.
That word hit harder than I expected.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUY2c4X09r
Coincidence.
It echoed in my mind, looping like a cruel joke.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8L5xcJW59J
Because that’s how she and I started too.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBeXNJ9JAX
A coincidence.
Only this time, it wasn’t mine.
And in that moment, I realized something no one prepares you for —70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYCABu5r2s
Sometimes, people slip away. Not because they mean to. Not because of a fight. But because fate hands them a different coincidence.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOMP6wVCzq
A different thread.70Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgYvPWzVus
And you’re left holding the memory of what could’ve been.
and then Add to home screen.