November faded.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatYvr4mP4N
December froze.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0bbsOorSs
January drifted by in silence.
Three months passed, and with every day, I kept asking myself the same questions.
What happened?135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKVKmCky50
Why the sudden change?135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gxrfMcSdB
What about everything we planned for — the little things, the big things, the quiet promises, the late-night talks, the classes?
Had it all meant nothing?
While I kept overthinking and pretending to be okay, the third semester slipped by.
And the fourth began.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVJLz1EOa5
At the end of January.
Still no response from her.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhAF76gMbT
No message.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVU2VT6agmg
No eye contact.
I told myself — maybe she’s just thinking about her future.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLfwSj9xd3
Maybe it’s a phase.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkROocZs76
Maybe she’ll return when she's ready.
That’s when I got selected into Owl Coder. along with some other second years.
One of the most prestigious training programs our college had.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWp4fA143LX
It was meant for the third years.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ddz7Mxscv
But I got in — in my second year.
It should’ve felt like a crown.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rlI3dR2Dh
But all I felt was the hollow absence of someone to place it on my head.
She wasn’t there to hear the news.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhqj1DnaQg
To congratulate me.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvDFmysPiq
To tease me.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ022XkKh3rz
To be proud.
And that silence made the success… feel like ash.
The Owl Coder program was intense.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uYsb107TM
It started at 5 PM and ended at midnight — with just a dinner break in between.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUw39bWovte
We were expected to stay in the hostel throughout.
No sunlight.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r7VfjkpT2
No sleep.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19fxFFtL11
No time.
I was running on caffeine, coping with cold metal bunk beds and the constant hum of exhausted ambition.
So during the day’s technical hub sessions…135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkn97NVZFZh
I slept.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNupAq6pG5U
An excuse disguised as exhaustion.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpBHzpDulO
A mask for what I couldn’t confess — that I just didn’t have it in me anymore.
This semester's subjects were Operating Systems and DBMS.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY41tv0LbQy
Three days a week in Thub, threee days in regular classes.
There went my attendance…135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡba37g8jcvW
Flying out the window like a bird that no longer cared to return.
Inside Owl Coder, I got to know how selections happened.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfshCEiLyJi
How people were noticed.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGouDlkxles
How chances bloomed and vanished in a blink.
All I wanted to do was explain it all to her.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6lA9FEMNV
To help her — even if I could no longer be near her.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamrMqeXfcC
Even if I was just a background character now.
I texted her.
Asked if she could meet in the library — just for a moment.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nTb5NH1X2
I waited.
She replied:
“I’ll be late. I have class.”
That was it.
A sentence.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MEv6G98g8
A dagger.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk96bLYDQ9O
A quiet way of saying, You’re not important enough to wait for.
And yet I still hoped.
Then one evening, everything cracked.
I was walking toward the hostel.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnJNEcyOvC
From the buses, through the mango gardens — one of the quietest, most serene places in our campus.
I saw her.
Sitting under the trees.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpjTclgE3e
With Ren.
Talking.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkwCheW3xl
Smiling.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXAGne2mxT
Laughing.
I couldn’t stop.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzP2Esip1lL
I couldn’t go back.
I ran past them — like a ghost of someone who once mattered.
My heart screamed:
“Why… can you talk to him, but not to me?”135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROZ4ypv301
“What did I do… that made me forgettable?”135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeC4df2QKNq
Or its just maybe me, who is overthinking.
The following days blurred.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZS3demNGRr
I wasn’t myself.
A haunted version of who I once was —135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP22IbaWJlX
Lost in old texts, lost in memories.
I texted her again.
This time, everything I had.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcmrvMUV33
Every unspoken word.
She replied.
It was reassuring.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqniEBwSYG4
Warm, maybe.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhOKLilpzEt
But it felt forced — like something written more out of duty than care.
And that’s when it happened.
She became a stranger.
The third name I gave her.
She said:
“I have a lot going on. I don’t want to get involved. I care for you…”
Then why did I feel like I only existed in her joy?
Was I meant to only be her comfort, her tutor, her support —135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10y8vKT5mV
and when the storms came, someone to lock away?
Was I disposable when I hurt, but valuable when she smiled?
Then the final blow.
I heard she wouldn’t be continuing in Technical Hub anymore.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfMR8daVkG
That she was stepping away from the journey we once shared.
My chest sank.
It was true.
She was walking a road I would never again walk beside her.
Still… I wrote to her.
One heartfelt message.
Encouraging her.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84hUV9pl8l
Reminding her of how much potential she had.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5k6VZzhKoG
That the world still waited for her — even if I no longer did.
She replied:
“That made my day…”
And maybe that was enough.
Maybe, sometimes, we don't get closure.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewZKOwN74n
We just get moments like this —135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVGEiRREmm
A soft echo that reminds us it was real… once.
Even if now, all that remains is a ghost, a third name, and a message.
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