LOGINThe silence didn’t feel the same anymore. It wasn’t peaceful like before. It wasn’t comfortable or familiar. It just… stayed. Lingering in the spaces where something used to exist so easily between us. The hospital felt the same. People moved the same way , conversations happened around me like they always did, but something in me was slightly off. Slightly distracted and slightly aware of something missing. Him. Not completely. He was still around. I saw him. We crossed paths. There were moments when our eyes met briefly before one of us looked away, like neither of us knew exactly how to step back into what we had without acknowledging what had happened. And maybe that was the problem. We hadn’t fixed it. We had just… paused it. I told myself it wasn’t a big deal. That it was a small argument. That things like that happened. But every time I saw him and didn’t speak, or when he passed by without stopping like he usually did, it felt bigger than I wanted it to be. I
It didn’t feel like it was going to turn into anything. That was the strange part. There was no warning, no obvious shift, nothing that clearly signaled that something was about to go wrong. It started like any other moment,quiet, normal, and easy in the way we had become used to. And maybe that was why it hit harder. We were walking side by side down the corridor, the hospital unusually calm for that hour. My shift had been long, but not exhausting enough to explain the weight I was already carrying. He had come by like he usually did, had no announcement, no need for one, and just fell into step beside me like it was the most natural thing in the world. “You’re quiet today,” he said after a while. “I’m always quiet,” I replied. “Not like this.” I glanced at him briefly. “You say that a lot.” “Because it’s true.” I let out a small breath, looking ahead again. “I’m fine.” There it was again. That same answer. And I knew he noticed. We walked a few more steps in silen
The calm didn’t last. It lingered at first, quietly, like something I could hold onto if I didn’t think too much about it. The night we spent under the stars stayed with me longer than I expected,not in a loud way, not in something I could easily explain, but in the way everything felt… settled. Too settled. And that was the problem. The next day, everything looked normal. I woke up, got ready, and went about my routine like nothing had changed. My movements were the same, my expressions controlled, my voice steady whenever I spoke to anyone. Even with him. “You look tired,” he said casually when he saw me. “I’m fine,” I replied. “You said that yesterday.” “And I meant it.” He gave me that look again. The one that lingered a second too long. Like he knew something I hadn’t said. But I didn’t let it show. I smiled slightly. Changed the subject. Moved on. From the outside, everything was exactly how it had been,easy,comfortable, and normal. But inside,nothing felt the
It just… happened. We had both stayed later than usual, the kind of quiet extension that didn’t need explanation. The hospital had settled into that familiar night rhythm slower, softer, almost like everything was moving in low sound. When I finally stepped outside for a breath of fresh air, I didn’t expect to see him there. But he was. Leaning lightly against the car, his head tilted slightly upward, like he had been standing there for a while already. “You’re still here?” I asked, my voice softer than usual. He turned his head just enough to look at me. “You are too.” I walked a little closer, stopping a short distance from him. “I had things to finish.” “So did I,” he replied. A small pause followed, but it wasn’t uncomfortable. Just… there. Then, without saying anything else, he looked back up. I followed his gaze. The sky was clearer than I expected. Dark, wide, stretched endlessly above us, with small scattered stars that didn’t demand attention, but onc
It started small, like most things with us did,not planned, not intentional, just something that slipped in quietly and stayed. We were sitting together again, the tension from the other day long gone, at least on the surface. Things felt normal, easy, like we had both silently agreed not to let something small linger longer than it should. And somehow, that made everything lighter. “You overthink too much,” he said casually, glancing at me. I looked at him immediately. “Again with this?” “It’s true.” “You say that like it’s a bad thing.” “It depends.” “On what?” “On how much you’re overthinking.” I narrowed my eyes slightly. “So now you’re measuring it?” “I don’t have to,” he said. “It’s obvious.” I let out a small scoff, shaking my head. “You think you know everything.” “I don’t think,” he replied calmly. “I know.” That made me pause, then smile. “You’re actually serious.” “I always am.” “That’s your problem.” “It’s not a problem.” “It is,” I insisted. “Y
The message came late ,so late that I had already stopped checking. After everything I had told myself the day before ,after convincing myself not to overthink, not to expect too much, not to read into the quiet . I had gone to bed with a kind of quiet acceptance. Not upset. I wasn’t exactly disappointed. Just… aware. I was aware that I had spent a whole day noticing his absence, aware that I didn’t like how much I noticed it, aware that I needed to let it go. So when my phone lit up the next morning, I didn’t rush to pick it up immediately. I looked at it from where it lay beside me, the screen glowing against the bedsheets. His name. There was a small pause because part of me was still bracing for nothing. Then I reached for it. Sorry, yesterday was busy. That was it. No “good morning.” No “I missed you too.” No follow-up. Just that one line. I stared at the message a little longer than necessary. Not because it was confusing. I understood the words. But because it
The next day didn’t go the way I expected. We had planned to go to the beach. It was simple. Clear. And for once, I didn’t overthink it. But somehow… it didn’t happen. He changed the plan, with no real explanation. Just a quiet shift, like moving a piece on a board. miss P p
After that conversation, I expected something to change. I didn’t know exactly what… but something. Maybe he would act differently. Maybe things would become awkward, the way people get when they’ve said too much. Maybe we would both become more careful and measuring words. But again… n
The next time I saw him, something felt different. Not in a way I could point at immediately, not something I could name out loud. Everything looked the same. He was the same. I was the same. The place, the light, even the way we said hello. But underneath it, something had shifted, l
After that day at his family house, things between us slowly became more natural, like we had found an easy rhythm ,talking almost all the time on the phone . We started seeing each other more often, not at the hospital anymore, but outside, in normal places. Sometimes, he would invite m







