In the Time of Us -COMPLETED

She was the quiet girl who sat in the second row, secretly watching the smartest boy in class, admiring him from afar, laughing at his jokes even when he didn't know she was listening. What began as a harmless crush slowly bloomed into her first love-silent, soft, and sacred.

But she never confessed.

As high school days passed like turning pages, their paths often crossed-study groups, shared laughter, late-night messages that felt like the beginning of something more. Yet the words she most wanted to say stayed locked inside her.
Years later, she looks back not with bitterness, but with a kind of wistful acceptance. Because in the time of them, even without a love story, there was something beautiful.

Sometimes, the heart remembers even the stories left untold.

Single POV.
Taglish