This semester was…66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMx46BJd0FB
different.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TcL1k7KfP
Special, maybe.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpt4pvNyvw
Not because of what was taught —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbHoHyBcjv
but because of how we lived it.
They filtered out a handful of us —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVHYugJbIZ
called us the Bamboo Coders.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHirUY1bgeL
A name that felt funny at first,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlIE5seDAN
but later —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrTEYbFqye
it became a badge of sorts.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXfkAp9ylc
A sign that we were the ones chosen,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOiC9Rt9Fr
to be sharpened.
We were given three days in the week,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznSVH7S8GV
and half of the rest —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyiBihPB7Gq
to lose ourselves in Java, Python,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3MXzFoi1d
and Advanced Data Structures66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDOqGqfkJn
in the walls of Technical Hub.
And she was there too.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jPHqwWr6H
Forevermore.
So were Ramu, Richard, Ren, Krish,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMBmoLBQiz
Andrew, Simon, Harry —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoxlN7T1xs
a mix of voices, minds, and laughter.
It became our world.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RSs9gHavj
A bubble made of keyboard clicks,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iAD6iUlzG
mugged-up syntax, half-finished jokes,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66aae2xxz7
and dreams stitched in code.
In the middle of all the laughter,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE34tRXcNrH
battles of logic,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1NCiCH7cB
and the warmth of friendship —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwd7kHO045
there stood someone we all admired66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycFb9aTk3o
but hardly spoke about.
Ashok sir.
He wasn’t just a teacher.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJBVpexag0
He was a man with a gaze full of distant fires,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuc6c1U7I67
a quiet dreamer who hid oceans behind his silence.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMBgYgq8XU
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He taught us Advanced Data Structure. While Pavan Sir, taught us the remaining.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWrg58wKHP
Java and Python.
He was, to me,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcbIwFfUN7
a dream flower —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjG3kKQ2VzT
blooming with brilliance,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyC9bkKnYvM
but rooted too deep in a soil that wouldn’t let him move.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQECWvXYDx
He wanted to do something.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxsvPARviY
You could feel it.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCpVH4iN9D
But something always held him back.
Maybe responsibilities.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppki4JCbNg
Maybe fear.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtaj00frqF
Maybe time had just moved too fast66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvawsFEhaY
before he could catch it.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgULyw6e4l
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He always say:
“Hard work doesn’t guarantee success…66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MYfIjJsbk
but it always leaves behind a version of you66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3z8rT2xv73
that deserved it.”
Because Ashok sir may have not reached where he once dreamed of…66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ac3qh1fo4
but he will make sure we do.
With Ravikanth and other seniors guiding us,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8ANi9KtIv
it became my playground.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ172J3uc7eU
There, I was free.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3542GKSTl2
Playing, laughing, coding, dancing —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4ahPpoAyq
No one could stop me.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNHzgro9yu
Especially not when I had Richard beside me.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKLQFNuGzW
We were fire and wind —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUuLSWjNeC
Unstoppable.
But with Forevermore —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8ChfDlPf6
ghosting and misunderstandings came like clouds after sunshine.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokbyb09QHM
Random, uninvited…66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnaXMHctnVc
but somehow familiar.
Still, every evening,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANcF425pzJ
me, her, and Ren66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdsex4vxNC
would meet near her bus66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsR6woOijq
and talk until the engines hummed and the wheels turned.
Then one day,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDKfYoLvMD
she asked me something.
Something simple —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrRqGFo9JK
about Japanese placements.
And I told her everything I knew.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTtKoKl4ZN
And when I said I was preparing too,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZe5QsopOo
she smiled —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRgtidDy7O
a kind of silent joy,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROOAQTNuNg
and said,
"We could do this together...66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjd9T7aeZ3N
Same boat, right?66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84Ns7wBdSA
Even if I stop, you’ll keep going."
And there, in that one moment,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVdpnkxgnA
I felt it.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJMYyxhIiQ
That I had become someone66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjQG6ac7Sz
she could lean on.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESelLrocfo
Someone she believed in.
It meant everything.
But a thought floated quietly behind that smile…
“If we weren’t in the same boat,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOKOOXI9TU
would she still think of me?”
Would she still see me,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJhsQoj5Tl
or would I be ghosted — again, unknowingly —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZv6sEH9s3
like she once said she does?
But I let that thought dissolve.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsigZH7fzlb
Because this was a moment worth keeping.
We began learning together.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wc2F9Oqqv
Late nights, whispering over calls,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡen79JpPhVZ
solving Java problems,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXP3vmouyE
sharing notes,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUt0pK8e19e
and pretending it was a “revision” for me66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOIoCuFDmL
— just so she wouldn’t feel guilty.
She didn’t know66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBzVPO2QVw
how much I had pushed myself66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7fPM53FlZ
to catch up,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCpEf78jkb
to be useful.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfncRERrRA
To be… enough.
But that was okay.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtzZnCbi5R
Because I wasn’t doing it for recognition.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7vf9XiMV2
I was doing it for her.
Mornings were Technical Hub.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRMAhBpj6y
Evenings — I’d walk her to the bus.
Her bus was parked in the middle of the college ground.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ30VTPOkdy
Mine was to the right.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDzw83QW41
Ren’s to the left.
Like a reflection of where we all stood.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBh70UelAj
Her — at the center.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCg7SBM3WT
Me — watching from a distance.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5m2zo9dYrf
Ren — never too far.
And in between all this,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiW018WN33
her birthday came.
I wanted to give her something…66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvH4wQG4iM
something that wouldn’t fade,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEnFghtPNr
even if I did.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCWLT9F1bY
A piece of me she could keep,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGqibzVwDS
even if I someday became66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAMVAz6jiE
just another name in her memories.
I thought of what she loved most —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aTuXQSKfK
Harry Potter.
Seven books.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Au0Fp66KW
Seven stories that shaped her.
One of many that she holds the closest.
I wanted to give her all of them.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8PKnJEk6f
Not at once — It would be a overkill,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXWlg8ks9g
but over time.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyw6DZqROK
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Over three years.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8Ez5Xn2Qm
Because that’s how long we’d get to see each other,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fzGwqni2O
in this college, in this life.
A slow gift.66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MX29mFBbJ
A promise across seasons.
Not just a present —66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lVg3roD7a
but a quiet wish.
ns216.73.216.30da2That maybe even if I couldn’t stay in her story forever,66Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2OGKRFwVv
I’d be a chapter worth rereading.
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