|| Author POV ||Rosalie had joined the new café. Mira was really helpful. The new manager was polite, and though the pay was modest, it gave Rosa a way to stand on her own.Sometimes Aria came to pick her up after work, knowing Rosa was still too paranoid and afraid to walk home alone.Exams crept closer.Rosa tried to study but the words on the pages slipped through her mind like sand through her fingers. Then, at last, the day arrived.She stepped into the same corridor where she once flinched under his scolding if she was late.Max froze when he saw her. After so many days, her sudden presence caught him off guard. He knew she belonged to someone else but that didn’t stop the quiet longing in his chest. His eyes fixated on her pale face.He wondered what had happened to her.The exam began soon after, yet the classroom itself felt suffocating to Rosa, it reminded her of him.And so her days passed: silence clinging to her withered soul and fear shadowing her steps, nightmares haun
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