Chapter 1: “I Didn’t Know My Life Was Changing That Day”
First day of college.
Outside the Civil Engineering Block. Mid-morning sun. Light wind.
Hope and heartbreak waiting at the gate.
Zaria
(They say the first day of college changes everything)
Zaria
(But no one says how quietly it begins.
Not with fireworks. Not with a twist of fate.
Just a girl walking through a gate with a nervous smile...
and a storm she hasn’t met yet)
She fixed her scarf again — third time that morning.
Not because it was out of place. But because she was.
New city. New walls.
New version of her that she was still stitching together.
As she walked into the department corridor, heart thudding for reasons unknown —
her eyes landed on someone leaning against the far pillar.
A guy. Tall. Casual. A file in hand. Earphones in.
Looking at no one — until he looked up at her.
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