Dear us : Love, Math & Matcha
I’m nobody.
Not the smartest student, not the prettiest either. I’ve never been the center of attention.
Just ordinary. And I was fine with that. My life was calm, flat, and undisturbed.
Until one seemingly ordinary afternoon, I saw him standing in front of my house—a stranger with a cold, expressionless face and an aura that screamed “don’t talk to me.” His gaze seemed to pierce through everything… except me. I greeted him, hoping he’d respond like any normal neighbor would.
But he walked past me, as if I didn’t exist.
I thought that would be enough to stop me from wanting to know who he was.
But apparently, the universe had other plans.
The next day, he was standing in front of my class.
“Aslan. Your new math teacher.”
My heart instantly stopped. That indifferent neighbor of mine… was now my teacher.
Since that day, the cold gaze that once ignored me slowly turned into something I couldn’t quite define.
I thought it would be a short story.
But it kept going.
A story about an ordinary girl who slowly falls for someone she was never supposed to love.
About a bond that quietly grows among piles of test papers, scoldings about homework, and quiet afternoons filled with numbers.
About two worlds that were never meant to collide—two worlds tied together by numbers, distance, and feelings that no classroom ever taught.
Not a story about love at first sight.
But about how two hearts that never planned anything… slowly found their way to each other.
And it all began with a single glance.