The World Between Anya & Zayed : Lawrence Academy

"Anya do you think I'm weird?"
"You're weird, Zayed. But you're also wonderful. You're weirful."

They were eleven when they first saved each other.
They were seventeen when they destroyed each other.

🏫 BOARDING SCHOOL ROMANCE 🏫
💔 CHILDHOOD FRIENDS → LOVERS 💔
🖋️ POETRY & PAIN 🖋️

ANYA ARORA doesn't belong at Lawrence Academy.
She's the scholarship girl with a dead mother and a broken father who loved her too much to keep her.
No friends. No safety net. Just an outcast -
until a quiet boy with haunted eyes hands her his test tube in chemistry... and takes the failing grade that should've been hers.

ZAYED KHAN doesn't belong either.
He's the illegitimate prince-raised in silence, suffocating under the weight of a family that can't decide if he's a blessing or a curse.
Until a fierce girl saves him from a beating with nothing but garden rocks and raw audacity.

What begins with stolen test tubes and rescued kittens becomes everything:
late-night terrace meetings, secret poems, and two misfits building a world that's only theirs.

But when summer ends, Zayed returns changed-
and the walls between them start to rise higher than the hills that hide their school.
Years later, a forced project brings them back together.
Will their friendship find its way home?
Or will resentment, love, and memory burn it all down again?

A story about friendship, growing pains, unspoken desires, and the kind of love we spend our whole lives running from.