Electra's POV
It had been days since I last spoke to Seraphina, and the silence was starting to gnaw at me. At first, I thought it was just coincidence—her being busy, our schedules misaligned—but as the days turned into a week, it became glaringly obvious. Seraphina was avoiding me.
I'd catch glimpses of her around campus, always surrounded by my group of friends—Irina, Roxana, Pen, and Deena. She suddenly looked so natural with them, laughing and chatting as though this was her real life, as though we weren't stuck in some fabricated alternate reality.
Every time I tried to approach, she either walked off or pretended not to see me.
At first, I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I told myself that maybe it was all just a coincidence, and I was overthinking things for no reason, but as her avoidance became more deliberate, I couldn't help but feel irritated.