TRAILER
She Came Back As His Best Friend's Fiancee But She Belonged To Him First.
I met him for the first time when I introduced myself to the entire class.
Teen Nia
Hey everyone. This is Nia Asthana. My father is a doctor. We used to live in the States, but our family recently moved to India.
Everyone looked amused with me being a New Yorker, but there was this one guy who was strange and aloof. It was like he didn't even notice that I was there.
Which is exactly why I decided to take the empty seat beside him.
Crushes are weird. The boys in the entire school roamed around me and the only boy who didn't, I wanted him.
He was cold and so, I was attracted to him.
Teen Nia
What's his problem?
Teen Diksha
You don't know? A month ago, his girlfriend died.
Teen Diksha
Some sort of cancer I guess.
Teen Nia
He must love her so much to turn so cold after her death...
Teen Diksha
Yeah, they were the best together.
Ever since then, my huge crush on Aks Prajapati turned into true love.
I found out who his friends were and entered his friend circle by first befriending his best friend's girlfriend and then his best friend and then... Aks.
Teen Aks
Listen to me Nia, I can't love anyone else because I still love Varsha. So just... Stop trying to get me.
Teen Nia
I respect your love for her Aks which is why I know you will respect my feelings as well. I don't want to replace Varsha in your heart, just want you to know that she would have wanted you to move on as well.
When she said that, something inside me flipped. Nia was different and not like other girls who thought it was a chance for them now that Varsha was dead.
I don't know how, but I decided to date her, out of respecting her feelings and then, her love and care for me and the way she respected Varsha so much... I fell for her as well.
Teen Aks
Nia where are you taking me?
Teen Nia
*laughing** To a secret place! *winks**
Teen Aks
What secret place?
And we were inside an abandoned building.
Teen Aks
*coughs** What is this? Dusty and broken?
Teen Nia
This place is abandoned, and it has all the furniture.
Teen Aks
Broken... Furniture? *touches one of the furniture and hands turn all dirty**
Teen Nia
Stop complaining. We're still kids. If we want to do it, we have to do it here.
Teen Aks
Do... What-? *surprised and unsure if she was suggesting what he was thinking**
Teen Nia
*smirks biting her lips and pushes him in the dusty bed behind him**
Teen Aks
Nia *coughs-coughs**
Teen Nia
*pulls him closer from his school tie** I want you to make me yours.
Teen Aks
Are you sure? We're still seventeen. I don't want you to regret anything later.
Teen Nia
I trust you, Aks.
And just like that Nia lost her virginity to me.
Fooling around, both of us were about to graduate from High school. Twelfth boards were around the corner.
Teen Nia
I am super stressed about exams.
Teen Aks
Don't worry about it so much.
Teen Nia
Aren't you stressed?
Teen Aks
Talking to you makes me stress-free.
Teen Nia
But I need you here to blow my stress away.
Teen Aks
What, like right now?
Teen Nia
Dad and Ruth aren't home. You can come over.
And I went over to her house.
We were having sex when her father caught us in action. Dr. Shankar Asthana. This very dangerous man who was perhaps in his fifties.
Nia's Dad
NIA?! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING UNDER HIM?!
We both covered up, but before I could put on my clothes, that man dragged me from my hair and threw me in his car and drove me back to my home.
Aks's Mom
P-professor Shankar? What are you-?
Mom opened the door and saw me there with him in that state.
Nia's Dad
Anjali Prajapati, tell this to your son very carefully to stay the fuck away from my daughter. I would never let your filthy Prajapati bloodline touch my daughters, do you get it?
Aks's Mom
*confused, she just grabbed Aks's arms and asked him to go inside and get dressed.**
I don't know what happened after that. Dad got really mad at me.
Aks's Dad
I can't believe that fucking Asthana dragged my son naked from his house to here! I will never forgive that son of a bitch!! And YOU, STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM HIS FILTHY DAUGHTER!!
Aks's Mom
Ajay calm down... Aks was just-
Aks's Dad
JUST WHAT?! He had fucking boards around the corner and this is how he is preparing for exams?! Your parents are doctors what are you planning to become? A man whore?!
I didn't know what to do. Dad had never yelled at me like that before. After that night I didn't get to see Nia ever again. She didn't even come to school to give her boards while I failed all of my exams.
But then again, my dad wasn't angry at me, they were mad at Asthana and so, I was allowed to reappear next year and joined med school the year after that.
Time is thought to be the best healer. It healed everything, every wound. I no longer loved Aks Prajapati... Even if I did, time had made those feelings fade away.
I am a doctor now, just like my dad. Just joined my dream hospital in Mumbai, 'LIFE BEAT'
On my way to the first day at work my car crashed into someone. And that someone, was going to become the person I was going to get married to.
Rishi Pradhan: A software engineer.
What I didn't know was that fate hadn't yet closed the chapter of Aks in my life
Rishi
Man, Aks, I want you to meet the love of my life, Dr. Nia Asthana. She's a cardiologist.
Rishi
*wraps his arms around Nia* And this is my brother aka my best friend, Dr. Aks Prajapati. MD Surgeon.
And that was exactly when I realized, how much he hated me for what my father did to him. When I realized, how much I fucking missed him all these years.
This book includes themes of generational trauma, emotional manipulation, toxic love triangles, identity crises, and complex family dysfunctions.
For mature audiences (18+). Reader discretion is advised.
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