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Between Us: A Story in Three Names
He had always been good at pretending.
Ayaan has loved his best friend Rohan for six years. Rohan doesn't know. Rohan has just asked if Ayaan's sister is seeing anyone.
So begins a slow unraveling. Study sessions become triangles. The roof becomes a confessional. And Maya—perceptive, steady, impossible to fool—becomes the person who sees what Ayaan has been hiding all along.
Set in the salt-edged evenings of Kozhikode, Between Us is a quiet, aching short story about the particular loneliness of loving someone who doesn't know. About the weight of "sure" and "okay" and all the small words we use to surrender. About the courage it takes to stop pretending—and the people who love us enough to make space for the truth.
For the ones who loved quietly.
Between Us. A story in three names.
Ayaan has loved his best friend Rohan for six years. Rohan doesn't know. Rohan has just asked if Ayaan's sister is seeing anyone.
So begins a slow unraveling. Study sessions become triangles. The roof becomes a confessional. And Maya—perceptive, steady, impossible to fool—becomes the person who sees what Ayaan has been hiding all along.
Set in the salt-edged evenings of Kozhikode, Between Us is a quiet, aching short story about the particular loneliness of loving someone who doesn't know. About the weight of "sure" and "okay" and all the small words we use to surrender. About the courage it takes to stop pretending—and the people who love us enough to make space for the truth.
For the ones who loved quietly.
Between Us. A story in three names.
73 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 2, 2026
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