Chapter 33

I felt a kind of emptiness. As if someone shot a hole through me. I felt that I had to fill this void with something, but I didn't know what exactly. Walking around the university, I looked into the faces of the boys, and I didn't see what I was looking for in any of them. They were the rain while I was looking for the sun. They were a voice while I sought silence. They were the sea while I was looking for the mountains.

I wandered the corridors in search of something that would fill my lungs with air, but at the same time make me suffocate from the lack of it. I was looking for someone who would make my heart skip a beat, but jump out of my chest the next second. I was looking for someone, afraid to admit to myself that I had found him a few months ago.

In fact, I wandered the corridors not in search of someone, but in search of him. I wanted to make sure that my heart still reacted to him that way. I wanted to make sure I wasn't making this up.

But Danylo was nowhere to be found.

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