Academic Rivals to lovers📚📒🎀✨✨
From Teenage to Adulthood🎇
Multi-couple💗💗
"You're insufferable, Kushal!" Sana fumed, arms crossed.
"And you're obsessed with me, admit it," Kushal shot back with a smug grin.
"In your dreams!" she retorted.
"Funny," he said, leaning closer. "You're in mine every night."
At Emerald Crest Academy, where grades, pranks, and egos reign supreme, Sana Mehra and Kushal Malhotra are locked in an eternal battle of wits and wills. She's the perfectionist who won't back down. He's the charmer who lives to drive her mad.
"Armaan," Sniti groaned, "stop eating my lunch!"
"It's a trade, Snitz! I give you jokes, you gimme food," Armaan replied, grinning.
Rishabh rolled his eyes. "Some of us don't need to steal food for attention."
Sniti smirked. "True. You're busy stealing hearts instead, right, Mr. Popular?"
But life outside the classroom isn't as simple. Secrets from the past, heartbreaks that never healed, and the weight of choices linger just beneath the surface.
"Do you even remember me?" Sana whispered, her voice trembling.
Kushal looked at her, guilt and longing in his eyes. "I remember... I remember everything but the parts I wish I could...."
With friendships tested, love complicated, and rivalry giving way to something much deeper, Rivals at Heart is a rollercoaster of emotions. Add in a crew of friends whose antics guarantee chaos and comedy at every turn, and this story proves that sometimes, the best rivalries make for the greatest love stories.
"Sniti," Rishabh said softly, his voice cracking. "I've waited years to say this."
"Waited years to annoy me again?" she teased, though her smile faltered as his eyes stayed serious.
"I waited years to come back to you."
*cries dramatically, putting a hand on his forehead* "Oh, my lover, where are you? Why must I suffer alone in this sea of emotions?" - Armaan.
Laughter, drama, and unexpected twists-this is not just a rivalry; it's a journey through love, loss, and r
He brushed his lips against my jaw, his dark hair falling over his brow. "Open your eyes," he commanded. "Look at me."
I followed his orders and looked into the raven-black depths before me. I saw my entranced gaze reflected in his glaring one. "Tell me what you see."
I kept on looking at him, searching for something, anything, that remained of the person he used to be.
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. But his eyes were so dark, so empty . . .
"Nothing. I see nothing," I whispered.
He smirked, his gaze still on me. He pulled away, leaving me feeling cold.
"Exactly. You see nothing - that's because there's nothing there."
**
How much can a person change in just three years?
Short and full of fiery spirit, Hanna Jordan is a gifted college student who is enrolled in one of the most prestigious culinary programs in the country. She's just returned from three years of study in France and is anxious to reconnect with her longtime friend, Rian Aronhalt.
However, when she does finally see him, she's startled to find that he's become an entirely different person. Cold, ill-tempered, and exceptionally attractive, Rian is absolutely nothing like his old self. Worst of all, he claims he doesn't even remember her.
Despite their differences, both are haunted by dark memories of the past, which form a poisonous bond between Hanna and Rian that neither can escape from.
Can they both heal from the scars time left behind, and find love in the process?