𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠

𝑨𝒚𝒂𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒊

The kind of girl who turns frustration into determination and sarcasm into a second language.

A hardworking topper who carries the weight of her parents' expectations, even when they never asked her to. Beneath her confident exterior is a girl who overthinks every mistake and tries too hard to make everyone proud.

She's stubborn, quick-tempered, fiercely independent, and absolutely refuses to let Asrar Syed win an argument.

Especially not an argument she's already lost.

She calls him a rotten potato.

He calls her bhindi.

And somewhere between all those arguments, she begins to realize that the person she's spent years trying to hate might be the person she understands the most.

𝑨𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒓 𝑺𝒚𝒆𝒅

The boy who can turn every argument into a game and somehow always knows exactly which button to press.

Confident, teasing, competitive, and annoyingly calm, Asrar has spent years irritating Ayat simply because he knows she'll never let him have the last word.

But beneath the lazy smirks and endless teasing is someone who notices far more than he ever admits.

He remembers the little things.

He notices when Ayat is pretending to be okay.

And when it comes to protecting the people he loves, he's willing to keep even the hardest truths to himself.

Sometimes, loving someone means staying beside them.

And sometimes, Asrar believes it means letting them hate you instead.