When you like someone since you can remember, do you call them your childhood crush or your first love?

How do you know you like them and start to admire them from afar?

Do you feel how slowly unusual, beautiful feelings start creeping in? Or did you wake up one day and find that you had already fallen?

In my case, I just woke up one day and realized that I liked him.

It all started when I was nine and he was fifteen. As they said, I was too young; I'd eventually move on and like another guy after a while.

When I was 11 and he was 17, he graduated and left our school. I only saw him once when he visited the academy after a year.

Then I turned 16 and chose to enter the same university as him. He looked good at 22.

Time passed by until I was 17 and he was 23. I confessed my feelings before graduating from senior high. And though he rejected me because I was too young for him, I only fell for him once more.

I thought it was a common childhood crush until he became my first love, and I could never like anyone else but him.

Until there is no other space in my heart for no one but him.

Because if it's not him, then it's no one else.

But when will our gaps ever meet?

"Or… will you ever cross the gap to meet me?"

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Author's Note:

Before anything else, please consider that the main protagonist is nine years old at the beginning of the story. Any childishness, immature actions, and unacceptable judgments made by the female lead are part of the story and the character's development.

Any flaws (e.g., grammar, typos, etc.) in the book are subject to editing for your convenience and enjoyment. Thank you, and happy reading!

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