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00:00It had been five years since I last saw him.
00:02Back then, I was just Miss Rachel Summers,
00:05the no-nonsense high school English teacher who preferred literature over hallway drama.
00:11I'd taught hundreds of students, but there were a few who stuck with me,
00:14not for what they said, but for the way they carried themselves.
00:18Ethan Walker was one of those students.
00:20He was quiet, intelligent, and always observant.
00:24I remember him sitting in the back of my class,
00:27scribbling poetry in the margins of his notebooks,
00:29when he thought I wasn't looking.
00:32He was 17 then, tall for his age, a little lanky,
00:35and awkward like most boys in their final year of high school.
00:38But there was something about him, even then, that felt older than the others,
00:42like he understood people better than he let on.
00:45When he graduated, I never expected to hear from him again.
00:49But life is unpredictable.
00:51Five years later, I was 35, recently divorced,
00:55and had just moved into a small townhome in Oak Ridge,
00:58a quiet suburban area just far enough from my old life.
01:02I had taken a semester off from teaching to reset, as my therapist called it.
01:07My mornings were filled with walks, books, and the occasional visit to the community library.
01:12It was during one of these lazy afternoons that I first saw him again.
01:15I was walking out of the local coffee shop, holding an iced latte in one hand,
01:20and fumbling with my keys in the other, when a deep voice called out,
01:24Miss Summers?
01:25I turned around, confused, and then startled.
01:28Ethan?
01:29He smiled, and I swear I didn't recognize him at first.
01:33Gone was the thin boy with overgrown hair and hesitant eyes.
01:37In his place stood a man, broad-shouldered, confident,
01:41taller than I remembered, and unmistakably sure of himself.
01:45Wow, I said, shaking my head with a laugh.
01:49You look different.
01:51He chuckled.
01:52It's been five years.
01:53I hope I do.
01:55We sat down at one of the outdoor benches.
01:58He told me he had just graduated from college with a degree in creative writing.
02:03I wasn't surprised his poetry always had weight.
02:06He had moved back into town temporarily while applying for grad school and was working part-time
02:12at a nearby bookstore.
02:13I always wanted to thank you, he said suddenly, for encouraging me to write.
02:18You probably didn't think I noticed, but I saw the comments you left on my journal assignments.
02:23I smiled, touched.
02:25You had talent.
02:26You still do, I'm sure.
02:28That conversation lasted almost an hour, and when we finally parted ways,
02:33I found myself thinking about him the rest of the evening.
02:36A few days later, I ran into him again, this time at the bookstore.
02:41He waved me over with that same confident ease and handed me a novel.
02:46You like this one, he said.
02:47It's about a woman who tries to start over, but ends up confronting her past in unexpected ways.
02:54I raised an eyebrow.
02:55Is this your subtle way of telling me something?
02:58Maybe, he said with a half-smile.
03:00We kept bumping into each other, at the library, the farmer's market, the park.
03:05Each time, the conversations got longer.
03:08I started to look forward to them, even plan my walks around when I thought he might be around.
03:13One rainy afternoon, I was curled up at home reading when my power went out.
03:18I groaned, realizing I hadn't charged my phone and couldn't even heat water for tea.
03:23Just as I was pulling on my coat to head out and find somewhere dry, there was a knock at the door.
03:29It was Ethan, holding two cups of coffee.
03:32Thought you might be bored with the outage.
03:34I laughed.
03:35You always show up at the right time.
03:37He shrugged, stepping inside.
03:40Maybe I just know you better than you think.
03:42We sat in the living room, candles flickering around us, the sound of the storm making the atmosphere feel more intimate than it should have.
03:51We talked about life, about writing, about failed relationships, about the strange way time can fold in on itself.
03:58And then there was a pause.
04:00A heavy, meaningful silence.
04:03I used to have a crush on you, he said quietly, back in high school.
04:07I raised an eyebrow, heart-skipping.
04:10You and half the senior class.
04:13No, he said seriously.
04:15Not like that.
04:16I didn't just think you were pretty.
04:18I admired you.
04:20You had presence.
04:21You made me want to be better.
04:23I didn't know what to say.
04:25It was flattering and disarming.
04:27You're not a kid anymore, I said softly.
04:30I know, he replied, eyes meeting mine.
04:33That's what I've been trying to show you.
04:35It would be a lie to say I hadn't felt the tension building over the last few weeks.
04:39But there's something dangerous about crossing certain lines, even when both people are adults.
04:45I was afraid of the judgment, the speculation.
04:49But Ethan wasn't just a former student anymore.
04:51He was a grown man, thoughtful, grounded, and surprisingly in tune with himself.
04:58And maybe, just maybe, I needed someone who could see me not as damaged goods, but as a whole person again.
05:04We didn't do anything impulsive that night.
05:07Just talked.
05:08But that conversation changed everything.
05:11In the following weeks, we grew closer, more deliberately this time.
05:15We took long drives, shared our writing, read each other's favorite books aloud on lazy afternoons.
05:21It wasn't a storybook romance.
05:24It was tentative, cautious, but real.
05:27People in town started to notice.
05:29Whispers came, as they always do.
05:32But Ethan stood by me, unashamed.
05:35Let them talk, he said.
05:37They don't know our story.
05:38The day he got his acceptance letter to Columbia's writing program, he called me first.
05:43I was proud and terrified.
05:45You should go, I told him.
05:48You've earned this.
05:49I will, he said.
05:51But I'm not leaving without asking.
05:54What happens to us?
05:55I looked at him, this bold, bigger-than-life version of the boy I once knew, and I realized
06:01I didn't want to live small anymore.
06:04Let's find out, I said.
06:06It's been two years now.
06:08Ethan lives in New York.
06:10I still teach, but I also spend weekends in the city, sometimes months at a time.
06:14We're taking it slow, building something rooted in friendship, mutual respect, and genuine
06:20affection.
06:21He still writes me poetry, though now it's published.
06:23And every time someone asks me how we met, I smile and say, he used to be my student,
06:29but he became so much more than I ever expected.