I was going steady.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjUhAaQ4b2
Nothing too grand, nothing too heavy.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6M01CXqDh
Just... life. With a little joy stitched into the seams.
Academics, Thub, labs, scattered exams —132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2OBUV1SZt
it was all a beautiful mess.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmp5IEdzuN
Filled with tension, doubts, and the classic "why should I care" moments.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeM6PgqTuLL
A delicate dance between chaos and comfort.
And somewhere in between,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfNOZNY0ue
there was her.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BB4X7p2Eg
Forevermore.
There were small fights —132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLZqpmst7y
misunderstandings, moments of silence that felt longer than they should.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqCqsdt3g9
But I had my way of patching things up.
I would just go near her.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5u1AAzfHP
Stand beside her.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUmmmEsekW
Not a single word. No explanations. No apologies.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wKSYFWEqP
Just presence.
It was my little way of saying,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTso1bhbnk
"I’m here. Still here. Through everything. Even if you forget, I won’t."
Maybe she never noticed it.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNKL5Em9lV
Maybe she did.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lZmZx66p7
But I never waited to know.
I did things for her —132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVnMbwby9B
small, silly things that would go unnoticed.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRpNRo8z7D
Sometimes even the big things,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZfxLoKYlo
the kind that pull pieces out of your soul when no one’s watching.
And all the while, I wondered:132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNvlCEiN7D
What even is the line between selfishness and selflessness?
Isn’t wanting to be selfless...132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjejjBnShlR
a kind of selfishness too?
Was I helping her because I cared?132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfaSvF7nFk
Or because I wanted her to see that I cared?
Was I doing it all for her happiness?132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0qqxIGaxc
Or for that brief warmth I felt when she smiled because of me?
I guess I’ll never really know.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pw37i2rDa
Maybe the heart doesn’t divide its reasons.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmhjK1lmmG
Maybe it just does what it does.
Meanwhile, preparations for Code Engine had begun.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnk53qUp9Z
And to me, skipping academics was the biggest motivator of all.
Making stalls, designing banners, running around with duct tape and dreams —132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRc1CoZJ1LM
it wasn’t my thing.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgpHIhaxoa
But it was fun.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTXk1f2ogj
Mostly because it pulled me away from the routine.
We went class to class,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhHCLt3of6
all three campuses, handing out invitations like salesmen of curiosity.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylG4TfvPI6
I stood awkwardly outside classrooms while seniors did the talking.
I didn’t mind.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVhnSD7Cek
The wind was cooler outside.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmhaTD77VJ
And I was invisible — the way I liked it.
But then... something changed.
People started recognizing me.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNtYwIF0Kb
They’d point, whisper, wave.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPpQms6CZe
"Hey, you're Nova, right?"
It was surreal.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8bbGNyq57
But I didn’t let it get to my head.
Funny thing is, I only ever found out about most of it132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFP3BwdMjBM
from her.
From Forevermore.
Somehow, slowly,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhxhlyqewr
Rudeus became someone.
Someone important.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4YS0D2njB
Someone known.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYc3vyvgRIJ
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 —132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQv3SYmN1mD
the one who stood in silence beside the person he cherished,132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptPti8pT0E
because that was the only language he knew.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Z2aaJtMyh
The boy who questioned every emotion he ever felt.132Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcR58o9kq5t
The boy who just wanted to be a friend who stays.
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