You hadn’t expected to see him again—not like this.

The café buzzed with the usual hum of quiet conversations and clinking coffee cups, but your world had gone completely still the moment your eyes landed on him. Quran your lover..

Sitting at a corner table, laughing softly at something a girl across from him had just said.

Your breath caught in your throat. It had been 3 years since you last saw him. 3 years since he left for college overseas without so much as a real goodbye. And now? He was back. Here. In your hometown.

And he never told you.

Heat rose to your cheeks, a mix of shock and something dangerously close to anger twisting in your chest. You had waited—at first, expecting calls, messages, anything. But silence had been your only answer. Eventually, you convinced yourself that Quran had moved on. That the bond you once shared was nothing more than a memory to him.