I Could Never Be The Same Again

She hated him because he left her.
He left because he loved her.
Zoya Salman Idrees
I hated him for what he had done-leaving me, humiliating me, vanishing without a word. The pain was bad, but the emptiness and loneliness that followed were worse. I used to be carefree and a hopeless romantic, but after him, I had become someone I didn't recognize-depressed and emotionally unavailable.

When my family moved to a new house, I thought I could escape the past. But fate had other plans. The house I moved into stood across from Ali Ahmed Khan, the one person I never wanted to see again.

Now, there he was-the boy who had shattered me. Why did it hurt so much to see him? I should've hated him. I did. But part of me still wished for the boy I had once loved. Could I trust him again? Could I ever forgive him? Or was this just another cruel twist of fate, bringing us together to tear us apart once more?
Ali Ahmed Khan
I made a mistake, one I'd been paying for every day since I walked away from her. Zoya was everything to me-my best friend, my first love. I thought leaving her was the right thing to do, to protect her from a truth that could've destroyed us both. But I wasn't protecting her-I was protecting myself. Four years later, all I could think about was how I ruined everything. How I shattered her heart and left her to pick up the pieces alone.

I promised I would never return to this city, but I couldn't stay away. I couldn't live with the guilt. I came back to fix what I had broken. Zoya had changed-stronger, colder, angrier-but I wasn't giving up on her. I had come to prove my love hadn't faded.

But what if the truth was too much for her? Could she forgive me? Could we ever be the same again? I had come to find out, and I'd do whatever it took, even if it meant losing everything. Because deep down, I'd never stop loving her.