Pranav_Kumar_Sappa

Surya is just a regular middle-class guy with small dreams and a soft heart. In school, he falls for Chandu a rowdy, bold girl who saves him once and steals his heart forever. But just when he gathers the courage to confess, she disappears. Later, he learns she died. His world falls apart. Years pass. In college, just when he begins to heal, he meets a girl who reminds him exactly of Chandu the way she walks, talks, even the attitude. For a moment, he thinks fate has given him a second chance. He falls again. But things don’t go as planned. That girl isn’t Chandu. And she’s hiding fears of her own. Caught between the memories of his past and the mess of his present, Surya decides to stop chasing love — and chase meaning instead. He takes the pain, the people, and the pieces of his life… and turns them into stories. Stories that one day make him the director he always dreamed of becoming.
This is a journey of first love, loss, and rediscovery — where not every goodbye is final, and not every love ends in heartbreak.

I Loved. I Lost. I Directed.

Thunder struck, literally and inside me.That flash of lightning lit up half her face, and I froze.

The eyes.Those same unforgettable, stubbornly unforgettable, annoyingly beautiful eyes from the fest.

"Is this real?" my inner voice whispered.I didn't even blink. Just kept staring like a fool.

What the hell, bro?I searched for her like a madman for five days checking departments, canteens, even girl's cultural clubs!

And now, when I gave up... she appears. Just like that.

Like a dramatic heroine entry from a Telugu movie. Thunder included.

She tapped my hand again, breaking my trance."Can you help me with this?"

"Y-Yeah, sure," I stuttered. I was a walking glitch.

I leaned over to see her screen. It was just a simple font alignment thing on MS Word.

My brain screamed, "This? What a dumb? She couldn't figure out this?!"But my mouth stayed shut.

I calmly fixed it and nodded. "Done."

I turned back to my screen and pretended to be super busy.But I couldn't concentrate. Not when she was beside me.

Not when I was finally breathing the same air as that thunder girl again.

"Umm… actually… can you tell me how it works?"

She was pointing to the screen with a confused look, biting her lower lip slightly.My inner self exploded. Control your brain, idiot. Focus on the question!

She nodded with an "Okay…" and got back to work.

I tried not to look again. I really did.

I was like a bit of happy and bit of sad.

She packed her bag and left quietly.And me?I just sat there, smiling at my keyboard like a lunatic.

"Why today… why now?" I whispered.

And for the first time, I wasn't waiting to talk to the moon.I was waiting for the next computer lab.

The Eyes Again...