3) We still didn't talk, each being busy with our own stuff.
And that's all the encounters we had. One semester later I went overseas.
Nothing much had happened between us.
But she'd occasionally pop up in my mind, as I went through schools, started working, got married and divorced, changed careers...
I'd wonder what had become of her, what's she like, her whereabouts. A housewife? A professor? Happily married? Bright and good-looking as before or turned into an average person?
A few years ago, in an Oprah show they were discussing relations exactly like that of ours.
That is, someone of opposite sex that you knew from early childhood, had paid attention to, but had minimum interaction with, who later was out of your life but would be on your mind in all the years to follow.