When the lights go down

Arya Bedi—the easygoing girl who spent her whole life pleasing everyone else. But when she learns she only has a year left to live, she moves back to her hometown, choosing—for the first time—to live for herself. "There’s something about the way time moves when you know it’s slipping away. It doesn’t announce itself with a grand countdown or flashing signs. No, it lingers in the quiet moments—the way the evening sun hesitates before sinking, the way I found myself standing in that convenience store just a little longer. And I’m glad I did, because that’s the day I met him." Vihaan Kapoor—the golden boy, the star athlete, the captain of his school’s football team. But one accident changed everything, leaving him in a wheelchair and rewriting the future he had planned. "Some choices in life are never really ours to make. I lost my dream, then fell for the girl I once let slip away—only to learn she was slipping away from me, too. A cruel irony of fate. But when the lights go down, you don’t get to choose who stays."