Chapter Twelve

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:13:59 +0000

Aryansh met Kiara long before love learned how to complicate breathing, long before memories gained edges sharp enough to hurt. It happened on an afternoon swollen with noise and beginnings, the kind that smells faintly of cardboard and unsettled lives. The apartment complex hummed with arrival,voices overlapping, boxes scraping against tile, the lift groaning as if irritated by the burden of change. Everything felt temporary, in motion, as though no one had fully arrived yet, not even the walls.