Seven Years Ago
375 Words
That night…
Rain poured endlessly against Elena’s apartment window.
She couldn’t stop thinking about Victoria.
Future Mrs. Blackwood.
Why did those words bother her so much?
She barely knew Adrian.
So why did her chest ache?
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Across the city…
Adrian stood alone in his office long after everyone had gone home.
In his hand was the same old bus ticket he had kept for seven years.
His thumb brushed across the faded paper.
“I finally found you…”
he whispered.
A knock interrupted his thoughts.
“Come in.”
His longtime friend and company lawyer, Daniel, entered.
“Victoria’s visit wasn’t planned.”
“I know.”
“Your family is pushing the engagement again.”
Silence.
Daniel sighed.
“You can’t keep avoiding it forever.”
Adrian stared out the window.
“I’m not marrying someone I don’t love.”
“And the girl?”
Adrian looked down at the ticket again.
“I’ve already found her.”
Daniel frowned.
“The café girl?”
Adrian nodded.
“She doesn’t remember me.”
“Will you tell her?”
“Not yet.”
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Seven Years Earlier…
Rain poured over the crowded streets.
A sixteen-year-old Adrian sat alone at a deserted bus stop.
His clothes were soaked.
His face bruised after running away from another argument at home.
People walked past without looking twice.
Until…
A teenage girl stopped.
She opened her small blue umbrella above him.
“You’ll get sick.”
He looked up.
She smiled warmly.
“I don’t have much…”
“But we can share.”
She handed him a warm meat pie and half of her bottled water.
He stared at her.
“No one had ever been that kind to him.”
“What’s your name?” he asked.
She smiled.
“Elena.”
A bus arrived moments later.
She climbed aboard before he could say another word.
As the bus drove away, Adrian held tightly onto the ticket she had accidentally dropped.
From that day forward…
He never forgot the girl who had shared her umbrella with a lonely stranger.
And now…
She was working only a few steps away from him.
Without realizing…
She was the girl who had quietly changed his life forever.
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