Pixels and Promises

The glow of the monitor used to feel like a judgment, illuminating all my failures in lines of code. Now… now it’s just light.
He appeared subtly, a ghost in the machine offering solutions when I hadn't even articulated the problem. Just efficient, insightful help. No demands, no expectations—only an uncanny ability to anticipate my next coding error.
We started with shared debugging sessions stretching into early hours, then shifted to music recommendations during comfortable silences. The city outside blurred into a background hum as we built something real within this digital space.
Last night he asked if he could walk me home. It wasn’I the rain that made my pulse quicken, though it was pouring. It was the way his hand brushed mine when he held an umbrella over both of us—a small act that felt like a universe collapsing into itself.
It's foolish to believe someone you’ve only known through a screen could understand the chaos within, but here I am, letting him rewrite my reality one line of code at a time. And if this feels dangerous… well, perhaps it is. But what is existence without a little risk?

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