The One Who Stayed
The one who stayed
Thakshan 🖤
I had stopped expecting people to stay.
Promises had always been fragile things in his life—beautiful at first, but destined to crack. Each time i trusted, someone left. Each time i hoped, something broke. Eventually, i decided it was safer not to let anyone close.
So i built walls. Cold, tall, and quiet.
Thakshan 🖤
Like regularly, got ready and went to college, but didn't knew that on that day, that day would change my life completely.
As after classes I'm in canteen while scrolling through social media and then heard a voice, i lifted my head from mobile to look at the voice.
And then… there she's .
Thakshan 🖤
(her voice carrying the kind of brightness that felt out of place in my gray world)
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*I gave a quick nod and walked away from canteen*
The next morning, she said it again.
And the day after.
And the day after that.
Finally, his patience snapped.
Thakshan 🖤
“Why do you keep doing that?” His voice was sharper than he intended.
shiny ✨
She tilted her head. “Doing what?”
Thakshan 🖤
“Talking to me. Smiling at me. Don’t you get tired of wasting your time?”
shiny ✨
For a moment, she seemed to think. Then she simply shrugged.
“Not if it’s with you.”
Her words didn’t make sense. People didn’t stay just because. Yet somehow, she did. He was confused, why ? What's the reason for staying?
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The walls
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It's just based on real life incidents and little bit of imagination
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Anyways, here's the update
Until now it's his pov, now let's see her pov
shiny ✨
Everyone else avoided him, said he was distant, difficult, cold. But i lingered. I've seen what others didn’t—the sadness tucked beneath his silence, the storms hiding behind his eyes.
shiny ✨
When he ignored me, i waited.
When he told me to leave him alone, i returned the next day.
When his words were harsh, i didn’t flinch.
Sometimes, not everyone says i will stay but they will prove it by their actions.
Thakshan tried avoiding her in every way, but shiny stayed even while ignored, said harsh words.
Still, she didn't leave him, she stayed and on one evening while returning to home from college, he couldn't take it anymore.
Thakshan 🖤
“Don’t you get tired?” he asked , unable to mask the bitterness in his tone.
shiny ✨
“Of what?” she asked gently.
Thakshan 🖤
“Of me. Of trying.”
shiny ✨
She smiled softly. “No. I’m not here because it’s easy. I’m here because I want to be.”
He didn’t know how to respond. But her answer… it stayed with him.
Slowly by unknowingly, There were small moments when he began to notice her presence in ways he couldn’t ignore.
Like the day a couple of boys made jokes at his expense. He usually endured it in silence, but this time she stepped in. Calm, firm, unshakable—she shut them down without raising her voice.
Thakshan 🖤
Later, he asked quietly, “Why did you do that?”
She didn't answer first, instead She gave him a look as if the answer were obvious.
shiny ✨
“Because friends don’t let friends fight alone.”
Friends. The word was foreign, almost fragile, but it warmed something inside him.
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The cracks
He had learned to expect departures. People came with smiles, promises, and warm words—but they always left when the silence got heavy. So he stopped waiting, stopped hoping. Until she showed up. She said “hi” like it was the simplest thing in the world, and when he ignored her, she said it again the next day. And the next. She wasn’t a storm or a sudden spark—she was persistence, gentle and steady.
Friends.
The word sat strange in his chest. Fragile. Warm.
It had been so long since anyone used it for him that he almost didn’t know how to react.
Thakshan 🖤
“I didn’t ask you to,” he muttered, his walls instinctively rising again.
shiny ✨
“I know,” she said simply. “But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t.”
And then she smiled, as though the whole thing was settled.
That night, lying awake, he thought about it again.
Friends.
The word didn’t sting.
It didn’t ache.
It… fit.
And that was when he realized—his walls weren’t unbreakable after all. She wasn’t tearing them down; she was finding the cracks, seeping through in the quietest, gentlest ways.
Trust doesn’t shatter at once—it seeps in slowly.
It happened in moments so small, he almost didn’t notice them.
The way she sat near him in the canteen—not too close, not too far, just enough to remind him she was there. The way she filled silence without forcing conversation, humming quietly to herself or tapping her pen against her notebook.
And sometimes… the way she defended him.
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