18/09/2025
A SECRET CRUSH
I Didn't Know He Loves Me
Final Episode
We met in the university, two young souls bound by laughter, friendship, and endless late night talks. He carried my worries, held up my stumble, who loved me in silence while I mistook it for simple kindness.
After reading his letter, I wept that night, clutching the paper as if my tears could rewrite time but Life went on, though my heart carried an ache I could never confess.
Years later, fate played its cruel game. I saw him again at a conference, dressed in a simple suit, older but still carrying that same calm presence. His smile froze the moment our eyes met.
We talked, politely, like two old friends. But when our hands brushed while reaching for a book, something felt like a electric surge through me. I felt uncontrollable chemistry in in. His eyes softened, just like before, but now filled with a sorrow I finally understood.
He whispered quietly, almost too soft to hear:
“If only you knew back then.”
My lips trembled, my heart raced as if I ran for an hour, but I forced a smile. The words pressed against my chest, desperate to escape“I love you too.” But I swallowed them, because they had no place in the life I had chosen.
When he turned to leave, I watched him walk away, carrying with him the piece of my heart I had only just discovered.
And under my breath, tears threatening to fall, I whispered one last time:
“I didn’t know he loves me… until it was far too late.”
To even breath and take a step, I sang to the air
"We met again, but time was cruel,
A broken heart obeying rules.
The love we lost was never gone,
Yet bound by vows, I must move on.
If fate rewrote the page for me,
I’d choose the love I failed to see.
But now our story fades to night,
Two souls apart, though hearts unite
End.
© Onyebuchi Eucharia Ogili (Eurony).
