Ash is perfectly normal. At least medically. He has decent social skills, a functioning personality, and enough common sense to survive small talk .....yet somehow, connecting with people feels like trying to assemble furniture without the instructions. Or the screws. Determined not to waste another year watching life happen to other people, Ash decides this will be his adventure year: new experiences, new people, questionable decisions, and maybe even happiness if he can find where it's being sold. Then he meets Malik. Cold, stubborn, and annoyingly hard to read, Malik seems to dislike Ash on principle, mostly because Ash is dating Nala, Malik's best friend. But somewhere between awkward encounters, accidental honesty, and the strange comfort of being understood by the last person you expected, the distance between them starts to disappear. Now Ash is left trying to figure out what's more terrifying: finally learning how to connect with someone... or realizing he may have connected with the wrong person at exactly the right time. A funny, tender story about loneliness, self-discovery, and the terrifying inconvenience of falling for someone you absolutely were not supposed to fall for.