Part 2-The days after the picnic felt unusually quiet.Meera walked into school the next morning with a small, unspoken excitement, hoping to see Aarav again—maybe near the corridor, maybe in the playground, or even just a quick glance from across the classroom blocks. But he wasn’t there.She told herself it was nothing. “Maybe he’s just late,” she thought.But he didn’t come that day.Or the next.By the second day, the absence started to feel heavier. The places where they used to meet—the corner near the water cooler, the bench near the ground—felt strangely empty. Meera found herself looking around more often