Pastxpresent Stories

Two strangers meet in an anonymous group chat made for people who love books. They don't know each other's names, faces, or where they live. Yet, somewhere between conversations about books and late-night messages, they begin sharing the parts of themselves they never show anyone else. Their dreams. Their fears. Their failures. Their secrets. For two years, they become an important part of each other's lives-without ever knowing who is behind the screen. Until one day, he disappears. Meanwhile, somewhere else, Saira Vaghel starts a new job in a new city. She meets her coworkers-including Chirag Nayar, a quiet man who feels strangely familiar. She's never met him before. She's sure of it. But his laugh. His words. The way he looks at her like he's searching for something. She can't explain why he feels like home. He can't explain why she feels like a memory he can't place. Two stories. Two strangers. Two connections that begin in completely different ways. Sometimes, you can know someone's soul without ever knowing their face.

-On Pause- "If we ever break up," he once said, "it'll be because you walked away. Because I could never imagine a life without you." She waited under that banyan tree. But he never came. Saanvi Oberoi and Advik Shikhawat were the kind of love people noticed - quiet, unshakable, and heartbreakingly real. But as high school neared its end, so did their words. One waited for the other to stay. The other stayed silent. When she left the country, she didn't look back. He didn't run after her. And just like that, the perfect love story unraveled - not with a fight, but with things left unsaid. Seven years later, Saanvi returns to Mumbai. She's built a new life, far from the boy who once held her world in his hands. But a photograph in a quiet art gallery - a familiar tree, a familiar ache - pulls her back into a love she thought she'd buried. The artist? A.S. The title? Where We Parted. And suddenly, the past doesn't feel so far away anymore. ✨ A story about the words we never say, the people we never forget, and the love that never truly leaves.

What will happen if Byun Baekhyun, a person from the present, travels 300 years back in time and meets the King Chanyeol? [SOON] Cover by: firelightus ❤