Ahaan Malhotra
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1Ahaan Malhotra and shivangi Singhania had grown up together — neighbors, playmates, the kind of childhood duo everyone teased would end up together someday. But life wasn’t that simple. By the time they entered college, Ahaan had become the most popular guy on campus: captain of the basketball team, charming smile, a crowd always around him. And naturally, he had Maya — the college diva — as his girlfriend.
What no one knew was that shivangi had loved him long before the popularity, the trophies, the charm — since those silly childhood days when he would protect her from bullies, or sneak mangoes from her garden. But she never confessed, because being his best friend felt safer than risking everything.
Things shattered one night when Ahaan discovered Maya cheating on him. But instead of owning up, Maya played her last card — she blamed shivangi.
**“Of course I drifted, Ahaan! She’s always been after you. Everyone knows she’s in love with you. Maybe you should ask her why she never wanted us together!”**
The words hit like a storm. Suddenly, years of friendship felt tainted. Ahaan looked at shivangi not with the trust of a friend, but with suspicion, betrayal, and anger. And for the first time, shivangi felt like she had truly lost him.
That's how a beautiful friendship was ruined.
Where once they shared secrets, now they shared silence.
The tension carried all the way to the **college farewell night** — glittering lights, last dances, memories being packed away. Ahaan saw her, dressed simply but glowing in a way Maya never did. And for the first time, his heart ached not from betrayal, but from the realization that maybe, just maybe, he’d been blind all along.
Because no matter how much they fought, no matter how much he tried to push her away, it was always shivangi who had stood by him.
Not Maya.
Not anyone els
And at the farewell, when everyone was saying goodbye, Ahaan finally turned to her and whispered,
“Tell me one thing, you love me?
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