<p><br/></p><p>You people asked for the story. So here it is.</p><p><br/></p><p>Okay.</p><p><br/></p><p>First of all, let me just say,</p><p><br/></p><p>I did not plan this.</p><p><br/></p><p>If somebody had told me a few months ago that I would be writing this, I would have laughed.</p><p><br/></p><p>Me?</p><p><br/></p><p>Writing about a man?</p><p><br/></p><p>On Two Cents?</p><p><br/></p><p>Please. 😂</p><p><br/></p><p>But life has a funny way of embarrassing you with the exact thing you once said would never happen.</p><p><br/></p><p>It started innocently enough.</p><p><br/></p><p>A conversation.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nothing serious.</p><p><br/></p><p>The kind where you say something, he replies, you laugh, he says something else, and before you know it, you're wondering why you've been holding your phone for thirty minutes.</p><p><br/></p><p>I noticed he had a way of talking to me that was different.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not loud.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not forced.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just… intentional.</p><p><br/></p><p>He'd check in.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes casually.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes right when I needed it.</p><p><br/></p><p>“How are you doing?”</p><p><br/></p><p>And because I didn't want him to know I liked the attention, I'd give him the most unserious answer possible.</p><p><br/></p><p>“I'm fine.”</p><p><br/></p><p>He never believed me.</p><p><br/></p><p>“That's not an answer.”</p><p><br/></p><p>I'd roll my eyes at my phone.</p><p><br/></p><p>Who gave this man permission to know when I'm lying? 😭</p><p><br/></p><p>We started talking more.</p><p><br/></p><p>And the funny thing about talking to someone you like is that eventually, the conversations stop needing an excuse.</p><p><br/></p><p>You don't need:</p><p><br/></p><p>“I wanted to ask you something.”</p><p><br/></p><p>You just appear.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Have you eaten?”</p><p><br/></p><p>“What are you doing?”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Guess what happened today.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Are you still awake?”</p><p><br/></p><p>And somehow, “goodnight” started becoming a negotiation.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Goodnight.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Goodnight.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Two minutes later:</p><p><br/></p><p>“Wait, one more thing…”</p><p><br/></p><p>😂</p><p><br/></p><p>There were days he made me laugh when I was genuinely having a terrible day.</p><p><br/></p><p>There were days I wanted to tell him something before I even remembered that I hadn't told anybody else.</p><p><br/></p><p>And there were days when he annoyed me so badly that I would put my phone down and say,</p><p><br/></p><p>“I'm not replying this boy again.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Twenty minutes later:</p><p><br/></p><p>typing…</p><p><br/></p><p>😭</p><p><br/></p><p>Don't judge me.</p><p><br/></p><p>We had our little quarrels too.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nothing dramatic.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just those stupid disagreements that begin with something tiny and somehow become:</p><p><br/></p><p>“So that's what you think about me?”</p><p><br/></p><p>Then silence.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then pride.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then more silence.</p><p><br/></p><p>Until one of us finally said:</p><p><br/></p><p>“Are you still angry?”</p><p><br/></p><p>And the other would reply:</p><p><br/></p><p>“No.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Liar.</p><p><br/></p><p>😂</p><p><br/></p><p>But somehow, we always found our way back.</p><p><br/></p><p>I began noticing things.</p><p><br/></p><p>He remembered what I said.</p><p><br/></p><p>He remembered things I didn't expect him to remember.</p><p><br/></p><p>If I mentioned something once, he could bring it up weeks later like he'd filed it somewhere.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes he'd even notice when my energy changed before I said anything.</p><p><br/></p><p>And that one?</p><p><br/></p><p>That one got me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because there's something about being noticed without having to ask to be noticed.</p><p><br/></p><p>You start wondering:</p><p><br/></p><p>“When did you start paying this much attention?”</p><p><br/></p><p>I never asked.</p><p><br/></p><p>He never explained.</p><p><br/></p><p>We just kept going.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then one evening, we had one of those conversations that starts with absolute nonsense and somehow becomes deep.</p><p><br/></p><p>We laughed.</p><p><br/></p><p>We argued.</p><p><br/></p><p>We talked about life.</p><p><br/></p><p>We talked about people.</p><p><br/></p><p>We talked about things we wanted.</p><p><br/></p><p>Things we feared.</p><p><br/></p><p>Things we probably shouldn't have admitted that early.</p><p><br/></p><p>And somewhere in the middle of all of it, he said something that stayed with me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because it was romantic.</p><p><br/></p><p>Actually, it wasn't romantic at all.</p><p><br/></p><p>It was just…</p><p><br/></p><p>true.</p><p><br/></p><p>I went quiet for a moment.</p><p><br/></p><p>He noticed.</p><p><br/></p><p>“What?”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Nothing.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“You're thinking.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Maybe.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“About me?”</p><p><br/></p><p>I laughed.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Don't flatter yourself.”</p><p><br/></p><p>He laughed too.</p><p><br/></p><p>And that was the problem.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was beginning to enjoy this man.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because he was perfect.</p><p><br/></p><p>But because around him, even ordinary things had a way of becoming memorable.</p><p><br/></p><p>A random conversation.</p><p><br/></p><p>A stupid joke.</p><p><br/></p><p>A disagreement.</p><p><br/></p><p>A quiet moment.</p><p><br/></p><p>A simple check-in.</p><p><br/></p><p>They started becoming ours.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then something happened that I didn't expect.</p><p><br/></p><p>I disappeared.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because I was angry.</p><p><br/></p><p>Life just happened.</p><p><br/></p><p>School.</p><p><br/></p><p>Work.</p><p><br/></p><p>Family.</p><p><br/></p><p>The usual madness.</p><p><br/></p><p>I wasn't around as much.</p><p><br/></p><p>And when I finally returned, there was a message waiting for me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nothing dramatic.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just:</p><p><br/></p><p>“You disappeared.”</p><p><br/></p><p>I stared at it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then smiled.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because apparently…</p><p><br/></p><p>somebody had noticed.</p><p><br/></p><p>I replied:</p><p><br/></p><p>“I was busy.”</p><p><br/></p><p>The response came almost immediately.</p><p><br/></p><p>“I know. I still noticed.”</p><p><br/></p><p>…</p><p><br/></p><p>Yeah.</p><p><br/></p><p>That one entered somewhere it had no business entering. 😭</p><p><br/></p><p>And that's when I realized this thing had moved beyond casual.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because I wasn't just enjoying his company anymore.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was becoming attached to the feeling of being known by him.</p><p><br/></p><p>And then came the moment that changed everything.</p><p><br/></p><p>The moment I discovered something about him that I had never considered.</p><p><br/></p><p>Something so ordinary.</p><p><br/></p><p>So obvious.</p><p><br/></p><p>That I genuinely don't know how I missed it.</p><p><br/></p><p>And when I finally noticed it, I sat there for a while and thought:</p><p><br/></p><p>“Wait…”</p><p><br/></p><p>Because suddenly, all those little things started making sense.</p><p><br/></p><p>The way he talked.</p><p><br/></p><p>The way he showed up.</p><p><br/></p><p>The way he remembered.</p><p><br/></p><p>The way he always seemed to know exactly when to appear.</p><p><br/></p><p>Everything.</p><p><br/></p><p>And no, I'm not telling you yet. 😂</p><p><br/></p><p>Because after all this suspense, I refuse to let you people solve the case before I'm ready.</p><p><br/></p><p>Let's just say…</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought I had met a man.</p><p><br/></p><p>I didn't know I had met something......</p><p><br/></p><p>👀</p><p><br/></p><p>Part 3.</p>
At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
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