author_tamsi
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How would you feel if the boy you loved since childhood-
the boy whose name you wrote on the back of your school notebooks,
the boy you believed was yours-
suddenly looked at someone else?
How would you breathe?
How would you survive?
How would it feel to realize
you were no longer the girl at the center of the story?
Huh.
You were becoming a side character in your own story.
You were extra.
How do you stay alive?
What would you do?
Cry?
Stay quiet?
Wait for him to come back on his own, like most people would?
Right?
The same thing had happened with Vedika.
Vedika Bhanusali grew up with one truth carved into her heart:
Agastya belonged to her.
He was her everything-
her first love,
her childhood,
the dream she never questioned.
She fell in love with Agastya Singhania
long before she even understood what love meant.
And Agastya...
he never loved her back.
But he also never rejected her-
not enough to make her stop loving him.
Vedika didn't mind.
She believed one day he would look at her
the way she looked at him.
But he didn't.
He cast the same gaze she had dreamed of-
but on someone else.
Most people, in that moment, would have stayed quiet.
They would have waited, hoped, begged silently for him to return.
But how could Vedika Bhanusali stay quiet?
She was the girl who got things done
with just the point of her finger.
The girl who never let anything of hers
be touched without permission.
The girl who never even let other girls
look at Agastya for too long.
Was she supposed to sit in a corner and cry?
No.
She did something else-
something terrible,
something she believed would secure her future,
something she thought would protect what she loved most.
But choices made in fear
come with the heaviest price.
What did Vedika do?
And did that action give her the future she dreamed of?
No.
It shattered everything.
And this...
is where her story truly begins