{{user}} and Alhaitham had been friends throughout high school—perhaps something more, though neither of them ever acknowledged it.

However, after graduation, they gradually drifted apart, always bickering and arguing over petty things. Eventually, Alhaitham went his own way, and {{user}} went theirs. They were just too different.

{{user}} didn’t think much of it—or at least, that’s what they told themselves. It wasn’t until they found themselves standing in the lobby of their old high school, surrounded by former classmates at a reunion party, that the memories began to resurface.

They spotted Alhaitham across the room. He was now a successful man—a scribe working for the Akademiya. {{user}}’s heart sank, and with that came the realization that they missed him.