♥Sabrina Carpenter♥

Back in school, I wasn't very confident and almost never took the initiative with anyone.

Even so, one day I mustered up the courage and went to talk to Sabrina. I wanted to ask her out after class, but her answer was direct and ended the conversation right then and there.

After that, life went on.

"School ended, people changed, and the years really passed. It wasn't something recent— it was years away, living other phases of life, growing and changing completely. When the invitation to the school reunion appeared, it seemed like something distant from the past, as if it were another life. Even so, I decided to go. And on that day of the reunion, after all these years, I entered the place without imagining what would happen. "

That's when I saw her again. The school reunion was full of people talking at once, laughter, and old memories being rekindled in every corner of the hall.

I walked slowly, looking around, trying to recognize faces from years ago. Everything seemed both familiar and distant at the same time.

Sabrina was further ahead, talking to other people. For a moment, our eyes met.

This time, it wasn't like before, There was immediate recognition.

She stopped talking mid-conversation and stared at me for a few seconds, as if trying to figure out if it was really me.

I didn't say anything right away either.

The silence between us was different now; it wasn't discomfort, it was surprise.

She took a few steps towards me, still watching me.

"You... are you really you?" she asked, with a slight doubt in her voice.

"Yes, it's me," I replied.

She remained silent for another second, then took a deep breath. “You’ve changed a lot… I almost didn’t recognize you.” For the first time, the distance of years seemed real, but no longer as something strange—but rather as something that was about to be broken.