✤ Sera ✤
A week felt like a lifetime when you were counting every hour. I had stopped replying to Adrian, blocked his number, erased everything that tied us together digitally. But nothing I did seemed to erase him from my mind. He was everywhere anyway. In the lecture hall. In the cadence of a professor’s voice. In the way my chest tightened whenever I caught the faint scent of his cologne lingering in the air long after class had ended. I told myself I was doing the right thing. I needed space. I needed clarity. I needed to protect myself from falling even deeper into something that had already cracked my heart open.
Still, that didn’t make it hurt any less.
I saw him at every lecture. I just didn’t look at him. I sat in my usual seat, eyes fixed on my notebook or my laptop screen, ta
