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Story Description - The Things We Never Confess
Some families don't fight.
They don't scream.
They don't break things.
They just... hide everything inside silence.
Ishaan Verma was only seventeen when his father died suddenly-leaving behind a house full of rituals, condolences, and fake sympathy. Everyone expected Ishaan to cry. Everyone expected him to be weak.
But Ishaan didn't cry.
He became quiet.
Not because he was strong... but because something inside him stopped feeling normal.
Grief turned into anger.
Anger turned into emptiness.
And emptiness turned into a dangerous question:
"What if my father didn't die the way everyone says he did?"
One night, Ishaan receives an anonymous message that shatters his world:
"Your father didn't die the way you think."
That single line changes everything.
Now Ishaan is trapped between two wars:
one outside, where he searches for the truth
and one inside, where he battles guilt, rage, and the fear of becoming someone he won't recognize
As he gets closer to the truth, he meets Anaya-a girl who isn't soft, isn't sweet, and doesn't pretend life is fair. She doesn't comfort him. She doesn't lie to him.
She sees the darkness in him... and doesn't look away.
But the more Ishaan digs, the more he realizes: his father's death is connected to secrets buried deep inside his family-secrets that were never meant to surface.
And soon, Ishaan learns the scariest truth of all:
> Sometimes the truth doesn't save you.
Sometimes it changes you.
Because in some stories...
the villain isn't a stranger.
It's the version of you that is born
when the truth finally comes out.
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