The Idea Description:
She’s been in love with the unreachable
Football Star of the school since she was thirteen. But school is over now, but
Priya still thinks that he was her soulmate.
Nirav’s been in a relationship, if that’s
what you want to call it. It did entail a particularly entertaining chat on MSN
messenger and a very long phone call, in his defence.
When Priya and Nirav are teased mercilessly
by their friends so that they forget their past, will they succumb to the
attraction building up between them?
Or will they decide to cling on to their
past?
What Makes This Story ‘Real’:
This is a story of my
best friend and I was a witness to her struggle to give up her infatuation and
to enter a real relationship.
Most teenagers believe in love at first sight and are quite dramatic
about it, but they must realise that they don’t really know the person.
Extract from the story:
Priya, I kow thid is late at night. But I kuv you.
“He sounds drunk,” observes Sonal from where she is
perched on my beige living room sofa.
She
breathes a sigh of relief. Surely he wouldn’t be serious about it then.
“People say
the truth when they’re drunk, Priya.”
And the
dread fills her again.
“What time did he message?”
“Around
two. I think. I was sleeping,” she mumbles desolately.
“Definitely
drunk,” She says. “I don’t understand why you are so upset about this. He seems
like such a nice guy.”
“Yes but I
am interested in—“
“Don’t even
say his name,” Sonal warns. “You’ve never even spoken to Ronak and you think
you already think you’re in love— ”
“I don’t
think I’m in love with him. I know so.”
“Shut up.
Get to know this guy. He’s so nice and he looks good.”
She stares
at her vine coloured rug, “He is very nice to me,” she agrees.
“Great!
Now, about your reply to his message….”
This is my entry for the HarperCollins–IndiBlogger Get Published contest, which is run with inputs fromYashodhara Lal and HarperCollins India.
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