After that day, the externals began. Then the semester-end exams arrived like an avalanche.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzeY5eDB0g
January became a blur of tension and ticking clocks — PDFs flooding WhatsApp, people panicking over units they hadn’t touched, doubt circling like vultures.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OJ5aGSaR4
It was the busiest I’d ever seen our campus.
And in that chaos, I tried. I gave it what I could.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvljdcaS2Hv
Some nights I stared blankly at notes, hoping something would stick. Some days, I simply trusted intuition, muscle memory, or fate.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyp0xS7iE8V
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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgAemb4NmV
That’s how long the first semester lasted.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFGQa4cwGZ
Five months — that's what the calendar says. But to me, it didn’t feel like months.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FxPpg7AKd
It felt like moments — raw, unfinished, incomplete. Like scribbles in a notebook I never meant to show anyone.
And then… something shifted.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94v1G2BfXa
Something in the air.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu39uDux5dE
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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlJ0x0BzSE
Our evening talks behind the buses — stopped.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJNSnOK1CF
Her presence, once familiar like a hum at the back of my mind — faded.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXIFah0ajc
I kept telling myself it was nothing. Just timing. Just routine.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUdbsubbW0
But the truth has a way of finding you… when you least want it.
One day, I was with Simon. Just a regular day.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0jTWWPubW
And that’s when I saw them.
Her.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WaL69U4c4
Smiling. Laughing. Walking.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoVRTDsDWG
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.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65kSX2dPSO
I smiled, because what else could I do?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbTMsNsQKX
But deep inside, I was quiet. Frozen. Trying to act okay, because that’s what we do, right?
Later that day, I asked her.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCJj1lKY5R
“How do you know Ren?”
She said — that,118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9czei0MBhj
“Oh… we met online,”.
Simple. Innocent. Coincidence.
That word hit harder than I expected.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhHuub03xk
Coincidence.
It echoed in my mind, looping like a cruel joke.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEHRJdmspp
Because that’s how she and I started too.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPNfbE7KOd
A coincidence.
Only this time, it wasn’t mine.
And in that moment, I realized something no one prepares you for —118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkeuTfInYi
Sometimes, people slip away. Not because they mean to. Not because of a fight. But because fate hands them a different coincidence.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEPhvAVXeh
A different thread.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOV2hEHeWBp
And you’re left holding the memory of what could’ve been.
and then Add to home screen.