Title: “The Distance Between Us” A girl quietly harbors feelings for her close male friend, a secret she has kept for a long time. He treats her like any other friend, unaware of the love growing silently in her heart. In her private world, she treasures him deeply—keeping stolen photos of him hidden in her room, filling her space with memories he doesn’t even know exist. Everything changes when another girl enters their lives. Slowly, the dynamic shifts. The boy’s attention drifts toward the newcomer, and the girl who once stood beside him begins to feel invisible—like an extra in a story that was never meant to be hers. Even when they go out together, she finds herself walking behind them, watching as they laugh and talk, sharing moments she once dreamed of having. The pain becomes too heavy to ignore. In the end, she makes a quiet but heartbreaking decision: to lock away her feelings and distance herself. Not because she stopped loving him—but because loving him from so close has become too painful. Sometimes, the hardest thing isn’t loving someone… It’s learning to let them go in silence.