𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧
⋆.𐙚 ̊ 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑜 .✦ ݁˖
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
Valarmathi Madhavan was never the topper.
She was the girl with neat handwriting, unfinished potential, and a sunshine smile that hid how easily her focus drifted. Teachers knew she could do better. She knew it too. She just never found a reason to try.
Until Adhithya Vikraman Nair walked into her classroom.
Calm. Disciplined. Logically wired. The kind of student who managed time like a spreadsheet and still had space in his life for anime and devotional hymns. He wasn't loud. He wasn't charming. He was simply... steady.
At first, she dismissed him as the class head-nodder.
Then she began noticing.
The way he answered without hesitation.
The way he used every free minute.
The way he sang along to morning prayers without embarrassment.
Somewhere between Accounts problems and echoing hymns from a cracked wall speaker, something shifted.
Valarmathi began raising her hand in class.
She started solving instead of postponing.
She listened more. Tried more. Became more.
What began as casual acquaintance slowly grew into friendship - quiet, comfortable, and entirely platonic. Silent study sessions. Shared glances during prayer. Conversations that never crossed lines.
He was logical. She was creative.
He was calm. She was chaos-personified.
He followed Shaivism. She found herself drawn to Vaishnavism.
Two different philosophies. Two different temperaments. One classroom.
And somewhere along the way, admiration blurred into something softer. Something she never confessed.
Because some bonds are too precious to risk.
"Sunshine that Lit the Moon" is a gentle coming-of-age story about inspiration disguised as love, about growth sparked by presence, and about the kind of feelings that change you even if they are never spoken aloud.
