What Growing Up Feels Like..
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Last published Fri, Apr 3, 2026
To the students at Eastfield University, Naveen is the golden boy-rich, popular, and completely untouchable. But behind closed doors, his world is shattering. With a abusive father and a mother fighting for her life, Naveen is wearing a mask just to survive the day.
Far away from the safety of home, Bliss is fighting her own quiet wars. Between drowning in financial stress, enduring ruthless campus bullying, her life plunges into absolute chaos when her loved one is kidnapped by the very same monsters from her past.
Both are drowning. Both are pretending they are perfectly fine.
When their broken worlds collide on campus, they find a dangerous, beautiful comfort in each other's arms. Can love save them from the secrets threatening to tear them apart, or is this just what growing up really feels like?
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