He Says He Remembers Me

He says he remembers me.

But all I remember is how I hid myself away.

When Chen Yu said, "I think I remember you," his tone was mild, as if he were confirming an unimportant fact.

Lin Zhiwei froze for a moment. She didn't remember him at all. They went to the same high school, but were in different classes on different floors. Back then, she kept her head down and hurried everywhere, zipped her uniform up to her chin, and always sat at the table in the farthest corner of the cafeteria. She thought she had been invisible for those three years.

He said he remembered her. She had no idea what he remembered. Was it the way she apologized too quickly in the hallway? The way she waited ten minutes outside the office, then left her homework on the floor and walked away? Or some other moment when she hadn't even realized anyone was watching?

What she knew even less was that the person he remembered and the person she had worked so hard to become were nothing alike.