The Girl Who Never Asked to Be Loved

Every story begins somewhere. Some begin with a hello. Others begin with a goodbye. Ours began on an ordinary Monday morning. No fireworks. No dramatic first meeting. No love at first sight. Just two strangers, walking toward the same campus, completely unaware that their lives were about to cross. Back then, I thought love had to be extraordinary. Something loud. Something unforgettable. Something people wrote poems about. I was wrong. Because the most beautiful things rarely arrive with a warning. Sometimes, they come disguised as ordinary days. A familiar smile. A simple conversation. A quiet presence that slowly becomes your favorite part of every day. You never notice the exact moment someone starts feeling like home. One day... You just realize they do. Looking back now, I often ask myself the same question. If I had known how much that ordinary Monday would change my life... Would I have walked the same path? Would I have smiled the same way? Would I have let my heart choose the same person? ... I don't know. Maybe some questions aren't meant to be answered. Maybe they're simply meant to be lived. My name is Arielle Noelle Vergara. And this is the story of how one ordinary Monday quietly changed everything.