"Everyone, can I get your attention?" A teacher clapped her hands, a gracious smile on her face. "Please welcome our new teacher, Anuradha Anand. She's an alumni of our school and here to replace Jyothi ma'am, who has left due to her pregnancy. She's going to be teaching English for the 9th and 10th graders."

Anuradha Anand?

A man with slightly tousled, black hair looked up from his books to meet the eyes, which had been his light in the last year of his youth. The same pair of eyes from the photo he would look at to cheer himself up. The same pair of eyes always appearing in his dreams. The same pair of eyes he could never regret.

It was her. It was always only her.

The first and only girl he had ever liked.