When I was in college, I had to leave my home city and study in a different one, away from my friends and family. It gave me a certain feeling of freedom that I could not get back home, but also brought some loneliness with it and it was particularly evident when my first birthday away came.
The only good thing, at that time, was that my birthday came at a time when we had to deliver various projects, so I could focus on work and not on being alone. Most of these projects were with teams, so I would be with someone almost all the time, so I had no time to be alone really.
One of these teams was with only one other classmate, a cute girl named Ali. She was a nice girl, almost always smiling and the kind of person that is always trying to make small talk. She was cute, as mentioned earlier, but not really that beautiful. She looked nerdy with her glasses and was always wearing “extra clothes” even though the city we were in was really hot most of the time. Body wise, she was not chubby, definitely, but with the way she dressed you couldn’t really tell if she had a nice body or not.