Life after college was… different. No more early morning lectures or last-minute assignments. No more spontaneous campus hangouts or running into friends at the café. The structured world of university was gone, replaced by something much less predictable, adulthood. I had moved into an apartment with Favour and Gift. We had joked about it back in school, swearing we’d stick together even after graduation, but now, it was real. Our schedules didn’t always align, but the familiarity of having them around kept me grounded. Favour, ever the tech-savvy one, was now freelancing from home, taking on projects that let her work in her pajamas. Gift, on the other hand, had landed a corporate job and left early most mornings, coming home exhausted but still full of dramatic office gossip. And then

