Reading this chapter, I remembered this one person I reconnected with at university. We were classmates once in highschool but weren't really that close. It played out similar to this, where we just by coincidence were in the same area and just... talked randomly.
It wasn't some deep conversations about life and atoms, just mundane topics like catching up at what we were doing and the enrollment process, that sort of stuff. But I guess life just threw me a curve ball and we hung out more often than not after that.
I fell so fucking hard for the person.
Still can't forget that one time I walked them home and we just stood in front of the gate for a good few minutes staring at each other.
It didn't actually work out afterwards, and I could say I've moved on for the most part. But that feeling of something brewing underneath was captured so accurately by this chapter I can't help but type out a long-ass comment about my experiences.
If the next chapters show that kind of romance I almost felt then this'll be peak.