After that day, the externals began. Then the semester-end exams arrived like an avalanche.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qwNoLz9tE
January became a blur of tension and ticking clocks — PDFs flooding WhatsApp, people panicking over units they hadn’t touched, doubt circling like vultures.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fUcUzePIo
It was the busiest I’d ever seen our campus.
And in that chaos, I tried. I gave it what I could.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGXToR2Qds
Some nights I stared blankly at notes, hoping something would stick. Some days, I simply trusted intuition, muscle memory, or fate.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAilgWo5QRr
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.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFMIY9HgHK
That’s how long the first semester lasted.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEffM70M2io
Five months — that's what the calendar says. But to me, it didn’t feel like months.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyjb0GewDt
It felt like moments — raw, unfinished, incomplete. Like scribbles in a notebook I never meant to show anyone.
And then… something shifted.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbYwvJv0ZC
Something in the air.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWBbXmPtod
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.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttLVaQuhWA
Our evening talks behind the buses — stopped.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9BxqEz1ha9
Her presence, once familiar like a hum at the back of my mind — faded.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWpHtuvGD6
I kept telling myself it was nothing. Just timing. Just routine.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxEyibqM3C
But the truth has a way of finding you… when you least want it.
One day, I was with Simon. Just a regular day.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG7OioKlNNg
And that’s when I saw them.
Her.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9K5OQPEMFs
Smiling. Laughing. Walking.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdx2XDNVe4a
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.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nlVlD9BRH
I smiled, because what else could I do?461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWrFwMmNOg
But deep inside, I was quiet. Frozen. Trying to act okay, because that’s what we do, right?
Later that day, I asked her.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFM41qqTfT
“How do you know Ren?”
She said — that,461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNE0oBpgFO
“Oh… we met online,”.
Simple. Innocent. Coincidence.
That word hit harder than I expected.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKTq9RPvvg
Coincidence.
It echoed in my mind, looping like a cruel joke.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGkIoUQfVR
Because that’s how she and I started too.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaFLHOrghB
A coincidence.
Only this time, it wasn’t mine.
And in that moment, I realized something no one prepares you for —461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMIhmsJWTo
Sometimes, people slip away. Not because they mean to. Not because of a fight. But because fate hands them a different coincidence.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvvKoILGmm
A different thread.461Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7sYdTYMlk
And you’re left holding the memory of what could’ve been.
and then Add to home screen.