✤ Sera ✤
Living in the in-between was harder than I had expected. On the surface, everything looked the same. I went to class. I worked my shifts at the library. I laughed with Lina, studied too late, drank too much coffee, and pretended my world had not been quietly split down the middle. On campus, Adrian and I were careful. Painfully so. No lingering glances. No private smiles. No accidental touches in hallways. If anyone watched us, they would see nothing more than a professor and a student who barely acknowledged each other.
But behind closed doors, everything was still there.
While I didn’t go to his house, we talked constantly. The new phone barely left my hand. Messages filled the spaces between lectures and study sessions, late nights and early mornings. Short check-ins. Long c
