Beneath the Smile

Story Summary :

Meet Shez, a book-loving daydreamer from a small town in Kashmir. Her life is filled with mundane routines of existence, but her heart yearns for the love she's only ever found in fictional tales. With a heart full of longing, she's trapped in a world of daydreams until one day fate decides to intervene.
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I jolted awake in the middle of the night, my body drenched in sweat and my heart racing. I sat up in my bed and held my chest, my breath coming in rapid gasps. My gaze wandered aimlessly through the inky darkness of my room.

A soft smile tugged at my lips as I watched her serene expression. With a sigh, I gathered my damp hair and hastily twisted it into a bun, annoyed by the discomfort of it being soaked with sweat.

I reached for a bottle of water on my nightstand, then settled by the small window overlooking the night sky. The time read 2 AM on the clock, but the world outside was a tranquil sanctuary. The moon hung in the sky, a perfect, luminescent orb, and the stars adorned the darkness, each one distant yet distinct as if they had found their ideal places in the vast expanse.
A thought crossed my mind, wondering if this celestial view would lose its allure if the stars were closer to the moon. It was a moment of serene beauty that soothed my racing heart and regenerated a sense of calm in my restless soul.

But little did I know that this night, this moon, and these stars held a secret I was about to discover-an extraordinary connection to another dreamer, a soulmate, who, like me, shared the same inexplicable obsession with the night sky. Unbeknownst to us, once in a hundred years, a pair of kindred spirits experience the same vivid nightmares and an insatiable yearning for the stars. The mystery of our connection was about to lead us on an extraordinary journey of love, destiny, and celestial wonder.

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