A story of a girl who had been working without any break since she turned 18. She was not a workaholic, but she was intended to work, to not pressurize her parents.
"Hey! Can we become more than friends?" he said catching me up from behind as I walk through the hallway, back to my locker.
"Oh! Boyfriend! Sorry, I wasn't knowing that." He said as he saw me looking down at the ring I had on my finger, fidgeting it and giving him a small smile.
"Hey! No! I'm not committed or something!" I said reluctantly correcting him, as he mistook me with the ring.
"Oh! So, is it a YES?" he asks with sparkles in his eyes.
"Sorry! But I don't want to get into these stuffs... at least right now!" I said, knowing it'll hurt him. "But don't you worry! We'll be good friends!" I told him to cheer him up. He passed me a weak smile and went to his locker, as I went to mine.
Sammie, a 23-year-old girl, currently doing her graduation at Ohio University with Computer Science major and Music as minor. She was well-known girl in her college for her great performance in academics and in co-curricular activities as well. She always used to be in teachers' sight. She had half-back length hair, average height, and a not-so-skinny physique with a friendly, helpful and kind nature always had a ring on her finger.
Having a friendly nature with everyone, she still had no 'best-friend' to share her daily life, though she was close to one friend Ally. She was from Los Angles, having a tall, skinny figure, she had shoulder length golden hair, and was so pretty. She would call her mother keep a check on her family living far away in India and would pay a visit to them once in a year or so.
What will happen when the secrets of the ring be spilled? What happened in her past? Why did she say no to the commitments?
"You also think you know my 'type', do you?" I raised my fingers above my head gesturing for quotation marks. "Well then, let's hear it. What's my type?" He didn't say anything, just stared me down. I continued. "Say it. Is he smart, or funny, or romantic? You don't know anything about the kind of guy I'd want, Jai!"
"Would you want a guy like me, Anaya? Would you?"
"So what if I did?"
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When Jai and Anaya, two perfect strangers, meet on a college tour, it's clear that Anaya wants nothing to do with him. After all, they didn't meet before this and they would never meet after. But then, they do meet again. And again. And again. Sometimes, two people don't work together on paper. If they're like Jai and Anaya, they don't seem to work in real life either. But no matter how hard two people push away from each other, the universe has a funny way of pushing them back.
Inspired by Hum Tum and When Harry Met Sally 😁