✤ Adrian ✤
I hadn’t felt this light in a long time. For years, my life had been made of routines, predictable, silent, orderly routines. Wake up, shower, teach, grade, sleep, repeat. There were good days and tolerable days, but rarely anything that broke through the dullness. And then Sera had arrived in my world like a spark hitting dry leaves. Everything shifted, quietly but undeniably. I hadn’t expected whatever this was between us. I hadn’t planned for it. But I couldn’t deny what it was doing to me.
It made me feel alive.
The morning passed in a blur of lectures and short discussions with students who lingered behind to ask about essays or concepts they didn’t understand. My thoughts drifted a few times, little moments when I had to pull myself back to reality because my mind wand
