Dad even let him use the car for the day, but Nina insisted she wanted to take the train. Something about sentimentality.
When his Nina stepped out the door, looking captivating in a long-sleeved beige dress, he couldn’t believe that she was real. And that she was nowhis.
Maybe it was poetic.
Meeting her again, after all these years, at the train station.
Where many go, to reach a certain destination. Where lines converge, intertwine, run parallel and in opposite directions.
As if their futures couldn’t resist intertwining with each other.
And so, when their train arrived, the doors falling to a stop right where they stood on the platform, they made certain that this time, neither of them was going to miss it.
Epilogue
6 years later
When you’re not watching it, time can escape you.
10 years had passed since Seth graduated from Brookmond West High School.
It came as no surprise when he got an invite on Facebook for the official 10-year-reunion, which was to be held at the school itself.
At first, Seth was hesitant. Did he want to return to the place where he’d plastered a mask that almost stripped him of his true self?
Until he reminded himself that if it weren’t for high school, he would never have met the love of his life.
Nina.
She was more sentimental. She wanted to see the locker bays that she’d walked with her friends, to see the classrooms where she’d try to sneak glances at him.
High school was where the first chapters of their love story was born.
The two of them arrived right on time, along with Nina’s best friends Veronica and Celine, with their respective partners.
Seth always loved seeing Nina with her girlfriends. Together, they’d somehow bottled this immortal innocence that girlhood brings, where they still spent sleepovers binging on Barbie movies, giggling over regency men and listening to Nina gush about her latest fictional obsession.
Or rather, more lately, they’d begun to gush to Nina about her own original fictional characters.
Nina was a published author now, having secured a three-book deal with a well renowned publishing house. She was also slowly climbing the ladder at a literary agency, representing voices just like hers, as she’s always wanted.
As for Seth, being around Nina just made him a better creative. A better dreamer.
After graduating from UTS, he and Jae got to developing a little game themselves. One that combined their favourite genres: horror, action and a good story.
Soon, interest started to grow once they started posting on social media. They had a dedicated fanbase now, with almost half a million players, after only releasing the game a year ago.
Adulthood really unfolded with surprises that Seth never expected.
The same went for Seth and Nina’s friends.
Veronica and her partner of six years, Mateo, were getting married, with their wedding coming up in a couple of months or so.
Celine’s long-distance doctor boyfriend from Singapore was finally making the trek to Australia, to commit entirely to their relationship.
Jae and Anya were engaged, and planning to tie the knot, at a destination wedding in Korea.
When Nina found that out, she’d already started listing all the places she wanted to eat at, and compiling a wishlist of kpop albums she wanted to purchase.
