The semester had begun slipping through their fingers far more quickly than any of them had expected.
Assignments had gradually replaced introductions, lecture halls no longer felt unfamiliar, and the once intimidating campus had settled into something that resembled home. The corridors that had been filled with nervous first-year students only a few months earlier were now alive with familiar faces, shared laughter, and the comfortable rhythm of people who had finally found where they belonged.
With summer break quietly approaching, conversations had slowly begun drifting away from deadlines and examinations toward plans for the weeks waiting beyond the university gates.
That afternoon, after their final lecture, the four of them wandered toward one of the oldest corners of campus wher
