Pen with white barrel. A note that read "You've been acting like a frightened cat lately." The scent of jasmine lingers on a school uniform jacket.
Song Xi kept these things in his drawer from the age of seventeen to twenty-seven.
Zhou Yutang is her high school classmate. They ran the 800 meters together, had lunch together, and walked the playground together many times that autumn.
Then I changed seats. Then graduated. Then Song Xi saw Zhou Yutang getting engaged in his circle of friends.
She didn't cry. She just looked at the contents of the drawer again and then closed the drawer.
For some secret loves, you don't need to admit, confess, or even have a result. It's just there, like an old object in a drawer, occasionally opened, looked at, and closed again.
Intent: Self-awareness has a lag