A Love Written In Silence
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Alora(Author)
This is my very first story, so please be kind if you find any mistakes.
Alora(Author)
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Westbridge International University 🎓
Less college, more billionaire playground.Imported cars line the drive; designer perfume mixes with café espresso 😀
Vihaan Sharma, pulls up on a black bike Helmet off, jawline sharp, forearms veiny he looks permanently annoyed and dangerously attractive 👀🔥
Aarav Maheshwari
Bro should pay luxury taxes for looking like that 😭.(Sipping iced coffee)
Varun Singhania
Forget taxes. Girls literally forget their names around him.🤦♂️
Aarav Maheshwari
Facts. Yesterday, a girl walked into a glass door just because he looked at her for two seconds.😒
Siddharth Thakur
Don't ruin the vibe, Aarav ! Yaar... my bro walks like he owns pain itself. He's Shah Rukh Khan in a tragic romance—just poorer and angrier 😤.
Aarav Maheshwari
If he's Shah Rukh Khan, you're the background dancer trying way too hard, Sid.😒
Dhruv walks up, ice-cold. He snatches Sid’s coffee, takes a sip, and stares at the building.
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
Attendance?
Varun Singhania
Great entry, hero. The professor is already inside, and unlike your fan club, she actually expects you to be on time.
Siddharth Thakur
Well, Good morning to you too my sunshine 😘🌞
Vihaan sits alone, typing furiously on his laptop, completely ignoring the buzzing campus around him.
Aarav Maheshwari
Aarav: (Whispering to Sid) Look at Vihaan . He literally never speaks unless a professor asks a question, or someone makes him mad. 🤫
Siddharth Thakur
He's a total enigma. He tops every single exam on a full scholarship, but works crazy part-time shifts.
Aarav Maheshwari
Yeah, the rumors are wild. Some say he’s secretly rich, some say he has major anger issues, and others think he does underground street fighting for cash!
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
[Thought, sighing: If only they knew the truth. Just a stressful middle-class home, endless shouting from toxic parents, morning shifts, night shifts, and freelance coding to survive. Money rules everything.(Closes laptop)
Siddharth Thakur
(Suddenly jumps onto a bench like a politician) Okay, IMPORTANT NEWS, everyone! 📣
Aarav Maheshwari
Oh god, he's starting... 🤦♂️
Siddharth Thakur
The billionaire Oberoi heiress is joining our college! Hotels, luxury tech, private jets... That Oberoi And she is drop-dead gorgeous! 😍
Varun Singhania
Bro, you say that about every girl with working eyesight. 🙄
Siddharth Thakur
Hey, I have standards! 😤
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Standing up) Class is starting. I'm out.
Siddharth Thakur
(Grabs his arm) Wait, look! The finance boys are already running early. Rich, pretty girls always have that effect.
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Scoffs) Rich girls usually come with arrogance, loud voices, and designer bags as personality traits. No thanks. 🥱
Siddharth Thakur
(Smirks) Don't judge too fast. She’s actually sweet, talks to everyone, and... she’s been my best friend for 15 years. 😉
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Pauses, blinking) Wait... really? 😳
Suddenly, a massive commotion erupts near the entrance lobby. Whispers start, and everyone pulls out their phones.
Aarav Maheshwari
Oh god... 😲
She’s unreal...✨
Varun Singhania
(Clutches chest dramatically) I suddenly understand poetry. ❤️
Rhea Oberoi walk in looking around with wide, curious eyes like a kid at a carnival
Siddharth Thakur
(Gaps his chest out) Told ya! 😎
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Vihaan watches closely as Rhea stops to smile and greet the guards, the receptionist, and even bends down to happily help a nervous fresher pick up his dropped notebooks 💞
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
Huh... a billionaire who actually helps the staff? Weird. 🤔
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Thought) Wow... he’s the only boy not drooling over me. He looks completely cold and uninterested. Which makes him... very interesting. 😏✨ (Smiles directly at him)
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Instantly looks away, trying to act dismissive) 🧊🙈
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Giggles softly, thought) Cold and untouchable? Challenge accepted. For the first time in years, I really want to know someone badly. 🤭🔥
Three hours at Westbridge International University
Rhea has learned three things:
1. The food is good
2. Rich boys fall in love every twelve seconds
3. Vihaan Sharma is absolutely impossible.
Aarav Maheshwari
(Smirking) Why are you staring at him like he’s the final episode of a Netflix series?🤨
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Blushing, looking away) I’m not staring! 🙈
Siddharth Thakur
Girl, you've looked at him seventeen times. 👀
Varun Singhania
Eighteen. I counted. 🙃
Aarav Maheshwari
You’re insane if you think he’s approachable. Look at him over there—shirt sleeves rolled up, typing away, completely ignoring everyone. 🖤
Siddharth Thakur
(Whispering) He's the emotionally unavailable final boss.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Stands up resolutely) I’m just going to go say hi
Varun Singhania
(Gasping) May God rest your soul. 💀🙏
Rhea walks over, her heartbeat hammering. Six whole years... and she is finally standing this close to him again. Vihaan slowly removes one earphone
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Giving her sweetest smile) Hi! I’m Rhea. 😊👋
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Blank stare) Okay. 😐
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Blinks) Okay? That’s it? 😲
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Looks back at his laptop) What else? 💻🤷♂️
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Trying again) You’re Vihaan Sharma, right? The class topper? You’re... really quiet. I was just trying to be friends. 🥺💕
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Stares with cold, unreadable eyes) I’m not. 🧊
Vihaan puts his earphones back in, leaving Rhea frozen as the surrounding students start whispering and smirking.
Varun Singhania
(Watching from afar) Oh no... poor girl. 😢
Aarav Maheshwari
She looks totally heartbroken. 💔
Instantly,Vihaan looks up, and his cold expression completely softens. A girl in glasses stands there, holding two books. It's Isha Gupta—a fellow scholarship student and topper.
Aarav Maheshwari
(Dramatically whispering) Well, well, well. The only woman this man actually acknowledges. 😲
Isha Gupta
(Sits right next to him comfortably) You skipped breakfast again? 🤦♀️
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Quietly looks away) ... 👀
Isha Gupta
(Sighs, pulling a homemade sandwich from her bag) That means yes. Here, eat.
Rhea watches silently from a distance, completely stunned as Isha fits perfectly into Vihaan's guarded world.
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Isha pulls a sandwich from her bag and places it firmly down on the table in front of Vihaan
Vihaan Sharma(Ml)
(Without looking up) I'm not hungry.
Isha Gupta
(Sighs, crossing her arms) You said that yesterday too.
Vihaan pauses, staring at her for a second, before finally reaching out and taking the sandwich quietly. From a distance, Rhea's chest tightens painfully as she watches him actually talking to her.
Siddharth Thakur
(Appearing right beside Rhea) Don't overthink it.
Siddharth Thakur
You are.🤨
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
I'm literally not.🙂
Siddharth Thakur
You have the expression of a tragic heroine standing in rain.😒
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
Who is she?🙂
Siddharth Thakur
Isha Gupta. His childhood best friend. They understand each other both scholarship kids, both toppers. Both had to struggle for everything.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
Right. Of course.😞
A few minutes later, Vihaan stands up, and together they walk away down the corridor without him glancing back even once. Rhea watches until they disappear, her heart breaking
Siddharth Thakur
(Noticing Rhea watching the empty corridor) You're still staring at the doorway like he's going to magically turn around and look for you.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Quietly, her voice tight) He didn't even glance back once, Sid. It's just... seeing him like that with her. Human. Warmer. It hurts more than his coldness ever did.
Siddharth Thakur
Rhea, girls like Isha fit into his world perfectly. They’re both fighting the same battle on scholarship. Vihaan doesn't know how to handle billionaire daughters or crowds of people trailing after someone. He doesn't handle girls like you.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
(Trimming her fingers over her bag) You think this is just some sudden, shallow university crush, don't you?
Siddharth Thakur
I know it's not.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
It started five years ago. Back when I was fifteen at St. Aurora Elite Academy. The school was suffocating nothing but politicians' kids, celebrity children, and billionaire heirs flaunting their wealth.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
And then there was Vihaan Sharma. The lone scholarship student.
Siddharth Thakur
He was just as invisible back then, wasn't he?
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
He was exactly the same. Quiet, distant, always carrying a tower of books and studying alone. Nobody even bothered to notice his existence until exam rankings came out and his name was at the absolute top, every single time.
Siddharth Thakur
But you noticed him before the grades came out.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
Because of one rainy afternoon near the library staircase. It was slippery, my heel got completely stuck, and I entirely lost my balance. I braced myself to hit the floor, but suddenly these strong hands caught me right before I fell. My books and papers went scattering everywhere through the rainwater dripping from the windows.
Siddharth Thakur
Let me guess. He gave a grand speech?
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
No. No flirting, no dramatic hero routine, no trying to impress the "Oberoi daughter". He didn't even look at my face properly. He just knelt down quietly, collected my papers before they got ruined by the rain, handed them back, and said, "You should be careful." Then he just walked off to class like nothing happened.
Siddharth Thakur
And that was the moment?
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
I stood there completely stunned. For the first time in my entire life, someone treated me like a completely normal person. Not a prize, not an heiress. Just Rhea. After that day, I couldn't stop tracking him. I noticed how he always skipped lunch, how he stayed late for extra work, and the absolute exhaustion hidden under his eyes. I saw his loneliness.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
I fell first, Sid, and I fell so incredibly hard.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
Five years, Rhea. You watched him from the shadows for five years without saying a single word.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
Because he never looks at anyone around him, especially girls. He never noticed me then, and he has absolutely no idea now. He doesn't know we went to the same school, he doesn't know I've loved him for years, and he definitely doesn't know he's the sole reason I chose this university. Nobody in the world knows.
Siddharth Thakur
(Sighs, nudging her shoulder) Except me. Because you left your old school diary lying around, and it had pages and pages completely filled with just one name: Vihaan
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
Haq nahi hai mera tum par, yeh jaanti hoon main,
Phir bhi duaon mein sirf tumhein maangti hoon main.
Naseeb mein nahi ho tum mere, shayad,
Par is ek-tarfa mohabbat ko hi apni kaaynaat maanti hoon main.
Rhea Oberoi(Fl)
[I know I have no right over you,
Yet, in every prayer, you are the only one I ask for.
Perhaps you aren't written in my destiny,
But I consider this one-sided love to be my entire universe.]
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