Halfway by Saher Abidi

Some loves don’t begin with fireworks. Some start with a small smile across a crowded office. A kindness so rare you almost don’t trust it.



After feeling invisible—trapped in a half-relationship with someone who never chose her—Noor begins a new job, hoping for a clean slate. But the past has a way of echoing, and the heart doesn’t move on just because you tell it to.



She expects polite camaraderie, the careful distance she’s learned to keep. Then she meets Ayaan.



At first, he’s just a face on a screen—broad-shouldered, aloof, easy to dismiss as arrogant. But when he returns from abroad, every assumption unravels. He’s patient in ways she never imagined. Gentle in ways she doesn’t know how to receive. And even though he belongs to someone else, she feels herself falling.



Halfway is a quietly aching story of longing—the kind that wonders if it’s better to love from afar than never love at all. It’s about the moments in between: the half-smiles, the stolen glances, the unspoken knowing that sometimes, the person you feel most at home with will only ever meet you halfway.