A Second Chance at Happiness : Chapter 4
Seeing him again wasn’t how Anjali had imagined it. Not after all these years. Not after all those quiet, carefully folded memories she had tucked away like old letters—never thrown, never opened. And definitely not like this . There had been no pause in his voice. No flicker of recognition that carried weight. No unspoken “I missed you.” Just— “Hey, Anjali… it’s been a long time.” Like she was just another name from a classroom list. Another face from a blurred past. And she had smiled back. Of course she had. Because that’s what she had learned to do—be composed, be graceful, be fine . But inside? Inside, something had shifted. Not broken… just quietly unsettled. She hadn’t realized how much of him she had carried all these years. Not in a dramatic, life-altering way. But in the small things. In the way certain songs still reminded her of college corridors. In how she would sometimes wonder, Where would he be now? In the faint, almost-forgotten warmth of a crush...