The Margin Between Us

In Hyderabad, rivalries are serious business.

Especially when it's between Jubilee Hills International's new Head Girl and Head Boy.

Chahat Zareen Khan and Kriday Reddy are complete opposites.
She's loud, emotional, stubborn, surviving on chai, last-minute studying, and pure hatred for Maths.
He's calm, disciplined, annoyingly intelligent, and somehow always one step ahead.

A seven-mark difference puts them on the same stage, in the same assemblies, and unfortunately, in each other's lives.

What starts with arguments in classrooms, taunts in Dakhni and Telugu, lunchbox exchanges, bruised egos, and constant competition slowly turns into something much more dangerous.

Because Hyderabad is full of stories.
Of old cities and new dreams.
Of temples beside masjids.
Of families with expectations heavier than love.

And somewhere between pressure, percentages, growing up, and feelings they refuse to name -

a Telugu abbaayi and a Muslim ammayi forget how to stay just rivals.

They were never simple enough to be just rivals.