I was going steady.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJGIXGhhxu
Nothing too grand, nothing too heavy.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITfj4Rnqhx
Just... life. With a little joy stitched into the seams.
Academics, Thub, labs, scattered exams —48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dhXvqCjlG
it was all a beautiful mess.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5lWEQQHO8
Filled with tension, doubts, and the classic "why should I care" moments.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MNIXKh5mk
A delicate dance between chaos and comfort.
And somewhere in between,48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtN5UTczhv
there was her.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1lE3Q4bKb
Forevermore.
There were small fights —48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ581IoxdceQ
misunderstandings, moments of silence that felt longer than they should.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXKJoF0zx2
But I had my way of patching things up.
I would just go near her.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFK2IE51DnM
Stand beside her.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKpnUTMnEj
Not a single word. No explanations. No apologies.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYSYblolpF
Just presence.
It was my little way of saying,48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjH8L5A2fw
"I’m here. Still here. Through everything. Even if you forget, I won’t."
Maybe she never noticed it.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofF5wmmC9l
Maybe she did.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NjWjc2bft
But I never waited to know.
I did things for her —48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnF5Oak7ZTP
small, silly things that would go unnoticed.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpMioYsMuA
Sometimes even the big things,48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRSHGRuM8S
the kind that pull pieces out of your soul when no one’s watching.
And all the while, I wondered:48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPKsmbR3Vv
What even is the line between selfishness and selflessness?
Isn’t wanting to be selfless...48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXuiNG2fnF
a kind of selfishness too?
Was I helping her because I cared?48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRo0xpA1yI
Or because I wanted her to see that I cared?
Was I doing it all for her happiness?48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCluhtsUPe
Or for that brief warmth I felt when she smiled because of me?
I guess I’ll never really know.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJct6x7QdL0
Maybe the heart doesn’t divide its reasons.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyMcohgQ6e
Maybe it just does what it does.
Meanwhile, preparations for Code Engine had begun.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQ8uXBMs1f
And to me, skipping academics was the biggest motivator of all.
Making stalls, designing banners, running around with duct tape and dreams —48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmh7070Knl
it wasn’t my thing.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUt2UUx0Ulf
But it was fun.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmOs03muQR
Mostly because it pulled me away from the routine.
We went class to class,48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnsAVgTBGj
all three campuses, handing out invitations like salesmen of curiosity.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAp3um4uAv
I stood awkwardly outside classrooms while seniors did the talking.
I didn’t mind.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQ6yW8Sb3q
The wind was cooler outside.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBhVegLWvs
And I was invisible — the way I liked it.
But then... something changed.
People started recognizing me.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCzHcJ4L7H
They’d point, whisper, wave.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9t7FBm7Mn
"Hey, you're Nova, right?"
It was surreal.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJNaWBsNrn
But I didn’t let it get to my head.
Funny thing is, I only ever found out about most of it48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSaLadSIdt
from her.
From Forevermore.
Somehow, slowly,48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKbnzg5LPx
Rudeus became someone.
Someone important.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTFHpGeKzG
Someone known.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6u9kyWZNh
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 —48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WLPCxRgqj
the one who stood in silence beside the person he cherished,48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡls1bPvgd2L
because that was the only language he knew.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAqA353Vqi
The boy who questioned every emotion he ever felt.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjs28VUxn1t
The boy who just wanted to be a friend who stays.
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