Chapter 5 — The Little Things That Made Me Believe Again ❤️

After all that silence, anger, and distance, we finally met again.
And somehow, that one meeting brought us back to each other.
He held my hand and made me a promise.
I don't know if he realized how much that moment meant to me, but after that, I started noticing little changes in him.
He stopped smoking. He stopped drinking. Even when we fought, he would try to sort things out instead of letting the fight continue.He started telling me where he was going—for work, to meet his friends, or even asking me, “Can I go?”
Slowly, the relationship started feeling peaceful again.
I had finished my studies and started working in the digital marketing field. I was earning by then, and life was moving forward.
Then one day, he asked me to buy him a little car toy.
He could have easily bought it himself.
But honestly, the fact that he asked me made me happy.
Usually, we have that little feeling of “My boyfriend should buy something for me.” But with him, it was the opposite. He wanted me to buy something for him.
And somehow, that made the little car feel much more special. ❤️
So I bought it and sent it directly to him through Zepto.
He was so happy.
He even posted a Snap saying something like “girlfriend gifted.”
He carried that little car everywhere, played with it, and proudly told people,
“My girlfriend gave me.”
It was just a little toy.
But sometimes, love hides inside the smallest things.
Later, my cousin's sister asked me about a vacancy in my company. I referred her, and I also told her about my love story.
A few times, he came to see me, and one day we went to a mandi restaurant. We took pictures together.
And even there, he brought that little car with him. 🥹❤️
He posted our pictures on his public Instagram story—his normal picture beside my cartoon-style picture, a picture of my eyes, and later the pictures we took at the restaurant.
I looked at everything happening around me and thought,
“Maybe… maybe things are finally going to be normal.”
For a little while, I allowed myself to believe that the hardest parts of our story were behind us.
I didn't know that the next chapter would bring something neither of us was ready for.
To be continued… ❤️