Little Things We Promised

At seventeen, friendship still feels immortal.

Nayra, Arisya, Balqis, and Suraya have spent almost their entire lives together, growing up between school corridors, tuition classes, messy sleepovers, and late-night phone calls that always somehow lasted until morning. Known among everyone as the girls who are never apart, the four best friends enter their final year of high school believing nothing could ever change between them.

But while SPM approaches and adulthood quietly waits beyond graduation, each girl begins carrying burdens she doesn't fully know how to talk about.

Nayra struggles beneath the exhausting pressure of being the eldest daughter in a house full of brothers, constantly expected to hold everything together no matter how tired she feels. Arisya grows up surrounded by luxury and prestige, yet returns every night to a home that never truly feels warm. Balqis hides her fears and insecurities behind loud laughter, even when family expectations begin weighing heavier than she admits. And Suraya, the quietest among them, slowly starts feeling invisible inside her own crowded home.

Between family problems, first love, friendship fights, unspoken feelings, and the bittersweet fear of growing up, the girls slowly discover that some promises are easier made at seventeen than kept forever.

Little Things We Promised is a nostalgic coming-of-age novel about girlhood, loneliness, and the people who become home before life teaches them how temporary everything can be.