I was going steady.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLNrbJTEh0P
Nothing too grand, nothing too heavy.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1ai5X0mYu
Just... life. With a little joy stitched into the seams.
Academics, Thub, labs, scattered exams —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUaQkT8h4ng
it was all a beautiful mess.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjmCPDUjcJ
Filled with tension, doubts, and the classic "why should I care" moments.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhhETyQn7F
A delicate dance between chaos and comfort.
And somewhere in between,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqduKVuO0M6
there was her.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYrURdqeLm
Forevermore.
There were small fights —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbvHgMXDpU
misunderstandings, moments of silence that felt longer than they should.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rZaR7qYSv
But I had my way of patching things up.
I would just go near her.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbFYlsSPQF
Stand beside her.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCWHAoWn5o8
Not a single word. No explanations. No apologies.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXh8vHHR90O
Just presence.
It was my little way of saying,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0o01Nnv1lR
"I’m here. Still here. Through everything. Even if you forget, I won’t."
Maybe she never noticed it.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVrXu1l0f3
Maybe she did.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHleNKVvWD
But I never waited to know.
I did things for her —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2QimQSRjW
small, silly things that would go unnoticed.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSozoB89nKQ
Sometimes even the big things,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mWGmZg7R9
the kind that pull pieces out of your soul when no one’s watching.
And all the while, I wondered:53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcidubekqr
What even is the line between selfishness and selflessness?
Isn’t wanting to be selfless...53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XQmziusBA
a kind of selfishness too?
Was I helping her because I cared?53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthUT5MRE4d
Or because I wanted her to see that I cared?
Was I doing it all for her happiness?53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYaVAMtveV
Or for that brief warmth I felt when she smiled because of me?
I guess I’ll never really know.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZaSu11LRw2
Maybe the heart doesn’t divide its reasons.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwstCDRgxx
Maybe it just does what it does.
Meanwhile, preparations for Code Engine had begun.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wotcEKWZq
And to me, skipping academics was the biggest motivator of all.
Making stalls, designing banners, running around with duct tape and dreams —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQWOMtV831
it wasn’t my thing.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjwR62XZtm
But it was fun.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12ALdl3tih
Mostly because it pulled me away from the routine.
We went class to class,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ku3MQZuk2
all three campuses, handing out invitations like salesmen of curiosity.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7pb6f2OjL
I stood awkwardly outside classrooms while seniors did the talking.
I didn’t mind.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAjT8IAktL
The wind was cooler outside.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckWchtJ80U
And I was invisible — the way I liked it.
But then... something changed.
People started recognizing me.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEb18TLLyP
They’d point, whisper, wave.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyEQFPf10v
"Hey, you're Nova, right?"
It was surreal.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKaVL3lSAd1
But I didn’t let it get to my head.
Funny thing is, I only ever found out about most of it53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC27U3jy9YU
from her.
From Forevermore.
Somehow, slowly,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4IDQciF9f
Rudeus became someone.
Someone important.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZghIW8kFq
Someone known.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYnnQ0KGxg
Someone respected in Thub for his coding skills, for his brain, for the myth others saw in him.
But not many knew about the boy behind Rudeus —53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWQxTWjbe8
the one who stood in silence beside the person he cherished,53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4boU87H0g
because that was the only language he knew.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQNKUgrCAQ
The boy who questioned every emotion he ever felt.53Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ538heN6aHy
The boy who just wanted to be a friend who stays.
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