One can never really be prepared for the surprises life throws at you. It’s almost funny how things that you never thought possible just happen and you are left wondering, what hit you! At times you meet people whom you want to forget instantly like a bad dream. However when your paths cross again under different circumstances, you tend to realize that “Hey! There is something so special about…” This is what happened when she met him again ‘That Boy in the blue shirt’
In school they had common friends, moved in the same circles but were never friends. Actually it’s hard to explain what they were. She was the “Ms Popular”, always excelling in all she did. He was a charmer, a brat who was used to getting what he wanted without working too hard for it, a careless air about him at all times. Always ready to fight for anyone, with anyone, for any cause. Each was aware of the other but had nothing in common. Their paths never crossed till one incident brought them face to face in a head on fight. Both stood their grounds, friends chose sides and teachers had to mediate. They never spoke again, until a decade later when fate brought them together.
Siddhant Singh, now a young captain in the Indian Army, is as charming and carefree as he was in school. Aria Mathur a level-headed, smart and independent young woman believes in taking life seriously. One fateful evening their paths cross again, and they did not realize that, life would never be the same.
As the story unfolds, the two discover themselves and each other. In the age where mobile phones and emails were unheard of, the letters that they write to each other help them discover true friendship. Before the relationship moves to the next level, the Kargil conflict breaks out and Siddhant moves with his battalion to the front. Aria’s letters give him hope, an inspiration and the will to make it back alive. Aria realizes how deeply she feels for him but never truly admits that she is in love with “that boy in the blue shirt”, who made her cry in school. Siddhant is gravely injured in the war. Will the two now best friends confront their true feelings for each other? Will the letters that bound them in friendship also show them the path towards true love? This is a heart warming love story between two very distinct individuals who became the most unlikely of friends, but will that lay the foundation of an everlasting love.
What makes the story real
The story draws inspiration from the writer’s own experience of how two very different people forged a lasting relationship, despite a seemingly impossible distance to cover, threaded together with letters and thoughts which kept each of them focused on their own lives while they kept getting closer to each others.
This is my entry for the HarperCollins–IndiBlogger Get Published contest, which is run with inputs from Yashodhara Lal and HarperCollins India.
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