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<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>The car was full of laughter.</p><p><br/></p><p>Voices overlapping. Someone arguing about music. Someone else laughing too loudly at a joke that wasnโt even that funny. Outside, the night kept moving, streetlights passing like quiet witnesses.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was sitting in the back seat, somewhere between the noise and my own thoughts.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then I lifted my head.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I saw the mirror.</p><p><br/></p><p>At first it was just a reflectionโฆ the road stretching behind us, the faint glow of passing lights.</p><p><br/></p><p>But then I saw your eyes.</p><p><br/></p><p>You were already looking at me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not briefly.</p><p>Not by accident.</p><p><br/></p><p>The kind of gaze that feels like it had been waiting for the exact moment I would notice.</p><p><br/></p><p>For a second I thought you would look away.</p><p><br/></p><p>You didnโt.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your eyes held mine through that small square of glass, as if the distance between the driverโs seat and the back seat meant nothing at all.</p><p><br/></p><p>And when our eyes finally locked, something quiet and beautiful happened.</p><p><br/></p><p>Time slowed.</p><p><br/></p><p>The laughter around us softened into a distant echo. The music faded into the background. Even the world outside the windows seemed to blur into passing light.</p><p><br/></p><p>All I could hear was my heart.</p><p><br/></p><p>You kept driving, one hand steady on the wheel, but your eyes kept returning to mine in the mirrorโฆ again and again.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not boldly.</p><p><br/></p><p>Gently.</p><p><br/></p><p>Like someone discovering a feeling they werenโt ready to speak about yet.</p><p><br/></p><p>And in that fragile silence between us, something unspoken bloomed.</p><p><br/></p><p>Two hearts pretending to belong to the noise of the carโฆ</p><p><br/></p><p>while quietly meeting</p><p><br/></p><p>in the mirror.</p>
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