This semester was…64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhh52iKadIn
different.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3yvc2m6S1
Special, maybe.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjmwzYu17R
Not because of what was taught —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnE9aq0Y9ho
but because of how we lived it.
They filtered out a handful of us —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXdXXd9JY9
called us the Bamboo Coders.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrEzN1aasr
A name that felt funny at first,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNNnFbP2JV
but later —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVjA0frmRP
it became a badge of sorts.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwbdPvJ3XQ
A sign that we were the ones chosen,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwey2latHs
to be sharpened.
We were given three days in the week,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbScJNXRMo
and half of the rest —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fqLaExRjM
to lose ourselves in Java, Python,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsJAl5WVhf
and Advanced Data Structures64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlImvbNKvM
in the walls of Technical Hub.
And she was there too.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1V6PuKr2O
Forevermore.
So were Ramu, Richard, Ren, Krish,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUORvLnsBJy
Andrew, Simon, Harry —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5su5T7hg2U
a mix of voices, minds, and laughter.
It became our world.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlE1tYYgfmc
A bubble made of keyboard clicks,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzGnOr1hJ4
mugged-up syntax, half-finished jokes,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NlIexevpx
and dreams stitched in code.
In the middle of all the laughter,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqqP7LZnLy
battles of logic,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡky9QexSZCg
and the warmth of friendship —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpFbDUMc98
there stood someone we all admired64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiaefpvvWG
but hardly spoke about.
Ashok sir.
He wasn’t just a teacher.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEFCURvTPw
He was a man with a gaze full of distant fires,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfbt62BXen
a quiet dreamer who hid oceans behind his silence.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7KE2AtoPj
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He taught us Advanced Data Structure. While Pavan Sir, taught us the remaining.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsDiPbbO7y
Java and Python.
He was, to me,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnRbKvZW3A
a dream flower —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQ2PH2fcfO
blooming with brilliance,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW94Acq3Btz
but rooted too deep in a soil that wouldn’t let him move.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgqced2EQu
He wanted to do something.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29Yszo4YGI
You could feel it.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrOkXlwQWe
But something always held him back.
Maybe responsibilities.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMm1uZIu0F
Maybe fear.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH98QcyP2pW
Maybe time had just moved too fast64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK31bdNXdzf
before he could catch it.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstucW7ugdZ
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He always say:
“Hard work doesn’t guarantee success…64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpRqp1pt52
but it always leaves behind a version of you64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgVQajeXrV
that deserved it.”
Because Ashok sir may have not reached where he once dreamed of…64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fv3ewMqex
but he will make sure we do.
With Ravikanth and other seniors guiding us,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJEo5IeTIz
it became my playground.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlaRVERqRT
There, I was free.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUyZVzryoe
Playing, laughing, coding, dancing —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsmQbsUDzv
No one could stop me.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBG2RkMA3d
Especially not when I had Richard beside me.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopAMhC40aT
We were fire and wind —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡir1wMNB1Xe
Unstoppable.
But with Forevermore —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mT3MqdQ1O
ghosting and misunderstandings came like clouds after sunshine.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsE8jxEAO3x
Random, uninvited…64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡirclCz4hAj
but somehow familiar.
Still, every evening,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0wP9d34um
me, her, and Ren64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8RNMRckkE
would meet near her bus64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPM9hyloPO
and talk until the engines hummed and the wheels turned.
Then one day,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNq9KAUDiti
she asked me something.
Something simple —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKB7gJD4H7
about Japanese placements.
And I told her everything I knew.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJT8U8EvrM4
And when I said I was preparing too,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3IKpjBxgR
she smiled —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOF2wVdion
a kind of silent joy,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1iFGZ4nPe
and said,
"We could do this together...64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqTA1GnGaJ
Same boat, right?64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKH1dbIJuNL
Even if I stop, you’ll keep going."
And there, in that one moment,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0thueYM04S
I felt it.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCECzEw1Tz
That I had become someone64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzoY4l6ynv
she could lean on.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLql7aNjQo
Someone she believed in.
It meant everything.
But a thought floated quietly behind that smile…
“If we weren’t in the same boat,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkM0RdLIKI
would she still think of me?”
Would she still see me,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTOeSU0tG2
or would I be ghosted — again, unknowingly —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYvp7a2lfh
like she once said she does?
But I let that thought dissolve.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOYbZdOd2n
Because this was a moment worth keeping.
We began learning together.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxqcqeHZKH
Late nights, whispering over calls,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGurAxaDFY
solving Java problems,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMd0IEuQHM
sharing notes,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0DdcpVwvg
and pretending it was a “revision” for me64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZLiRzsCRE
— just so she wouldn’t feel guilty.
She didn’t know64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua1ywTBHc1
how much I had pushed myself64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowdggAtrQ9
to catch up,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMc4qAzk5Qs
to be useful.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90uREvcAoX
To be… enough.
But that was okay.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVfeeFWqSw
Because I wasn’t doing it for recognition.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pnpVgAW0c
I was doing it for her.
Mornings were Technical Hub.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7oBFoa52b
Evenings — I’d walk her to the bus.
Her bus was parked in the middle of the college ground.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIlal2ym8O
Mine was to the right.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMHyEiWG1z
Ren’s to the left.
Like a reflection of where we all stood.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0XNxkbTUn
Her — at the center.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0F4OSyuiO
Me — watching from a distance.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl01QMaCuX3
Ren — never too far.
And in between all this,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbt9fgzCHTA
her birthday came.
I wanted to give her something…64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsB5jYMCKH
something that wouldn’t fade,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVkPBroHxK
even if I did.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIRlkiO5RL
A piece of me she could keep,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpBLSNHqOf
even if I someday became64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjkkQWPsJ7
just another name in her memories.
I thought of what she loved most —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡao7RPI1Yuw
Harry Potter.
Seven books.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWsNdJkjUN
Seven stories that shaped her.
One of many that she holds the closest.
I wanted to give her all of them.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22rXGwmSPB
Not at once — It would be a overkill,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgi8Gr3Kjm7
but over time.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSHJvsVNUW
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Over three years.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8pX8DszWN
Because that’s how long we’d get to see each other,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgLfax0urN
in this college, in this life.
A slow gift.64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXivNw2TZrc
A promise across seasons.
Not just a present —64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7BRrwUK09
but a quiet wish.
ns216.73.216.30da2That maybe even if I couldn’t stay in her story forever,64Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtarH9olZ0I
I’d be a chapter worth rereading.
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