Somewhere Between Ordinary and You

I didn’t fall for you all at once.

It wasn’t a dramatic moment,

no music playing in the background,

no sudden realization under a perfect sky.

It was quieter than that.

It was in the way I started noticing things—

how your laugh stayed with me

long after the conversation ended,

how your name felt familiar

even before I said it out loud.

Somewhere between “just talking”

and “I hope you’re okay,”

you became important.

Not loudly.

Not all at once.

But deeply.

You became the reason

I check my phone a little too often,

the reason ordinary days

don’t feel so ordinary anymore.

And it’s strange, isn’t it?

How one person

can walk into your life so casually

and suddenly

everything starts to feel a little more alive.

I don’t know what this is becoming—

I don’t need to name it yet.

All I know is:

when I think about the future,

even in the smallest, simplest ways…

you’re there.