When Stars Align

Love doesn't rush. It grows quietly, steadily, patiently, in the spaces where life is heaviest. Like stars drifting alone in a vast sky, taking their time to align.

Seraphine Estelle Villafuerte had always been the kind of girl who knew the shape of her fitire long before she reached it. Medical Laboratory Science now, Medical School soon. Her days were measure with lectures, laboratories, and the sharp scent of ethanol. Every sleepless night spent reviewing slides was another step toward the life she had sworn to earn. One that came with a white coat, quiet excellence, and a name she refused the world to forget.

Theodore Samuel Gonzales moved through life with a purpose. His hands sketched blueprints of the future, each line precise, each plan deliberate. He built not just structures, but visions that could endure, foundations steady enough to carry anything. Methodical, patient, grounded-he was a presence that demanded attention without asking for it.

Their orbits brushed, then drifted apart again. Soft flaiting touches of fate that never stayed long enough to mean anything. Moments so small they should have dissolved into insignificance, and yet... they lingered.

Like faint stars you only notice when the night grows quiet. But the universe has always been patient with the things it intends to keep.

And somewhere between Estelle's relentless pursuit of medicine and Theodore's quiet devotion to engineering, something unspoken began to take shape.

Because some love- like stars, only shines its brightest when the universe finally decides the time has come for two wandering lights to align again.