Story
# The Beginning
## Genre
School, Slice of Life, Romance, Comedy, Coming of Age
## Setting
A modern school in Nepal. The story begins when the main character joins a new school and continues through Grade 10.
## Main Character
A quiet student who doesn't talk to many people. He is somewhat shy and tends to overthink things, especially when it comes to the girl he likes.
## The Girl
A quiet and kind girl from his class. She is beautiful, doesn't talk to many people, and has an interest in drawing.
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# Chapter 1 — A New School
I was a quiet student who only talked to a few people.
When I joined a new school, I expected to see nothing but unfamiliar faces. I thought I would have to spend the year making completely new friends.
But I was wrong.
Among the students was my old best friend, who had moved to Pokhara two years earlier. I also found a few of my old friends there.
So, instead of being completely alone, I already had people I knew.
The entire year passed normally.
Classes. Friends. School days.
Nothing particularly special happened.
Except for one girl.
She was quiet and rarely talked to many people. She was also beautiful.
At first, she was simply another beautiful girl in my class.
I didn't know that she would eventually become someone very important to me.
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# Chapter 2 — The Artist and Satapdi Ghar
One day, a popular artist visited our school.
He announced that students who were interested in drawing could visit a place called Satapdi Ghar, a more than 100-year-old historic house.
The girl and her best friend decided to go.
I didn't.
I wasn't very good at drawing, so I didn't think I had any reason to go.
But later, I found out that she actually liked drawing.
For some reason, that made me want to know more about her.
I eventually decided to send her a friend request on Facebook.
Then I waited.
After a few days, she accepted it.
That small notification made me happy, even though I tried not to think too much about it.
Everything continued normally after that.
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# Chapter 3 — Truth or Dare
My first terminal examination ended, and I went to my hometown for vacation.
One day, while playing a game with my friends, one of them suggested a new rule.
Anyone who lost would have to complete a dare.
Everyone agreed.
I lost the first match.
Luckily, the first dare was simple, so I completed it easily.
After a few more rounds, I lost again.
This time, my cousin looked at me and asked:
"Truth or dare?"
I chose truth.
He asked me if I liked someone.
My genuine answer was yes.
Then another person asked me:
"Truth or dare?"
This time, I became nervous.
I was afraid they might ask me who the girl was.
So I chose dare.
The dare was simple:
"Show us her picture."
She was already on my Facebook friends list.
I opened her profile, hid her name, and showed them her picture.
Everyone laughed and started teasing me.
At first, I didn't mind.
Almost everyone had a crush on someone anyway.
But my cousin didn't have one, and he started teasing me more than everyone else.
Then the other two joined him.
Soon, all three of them were teasing me.
And somehow, I made things worse.
I started showing them her pictures almost every day, joking around as if she were already my girlfriend.
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# Chapter 4 — They Found Her Name
One day, one of my friends decided to check my Facebook account to see whether she was actually my friend.
Around the same time, I found her TikTok account.
I showed it to my cousin.
He suddenly grabbed the phone from my hand.
He read her name.
They knew.
The secret was gone.
And there was still almost half of the vacation left.
From that day onward, they started teasing me using her actual name.
I told them to stop.
They didn't.
The entire rest of the vacation passed with them teasing me about her.
Eventually, my cousin returned to his school.
I thought the teasing would finally stop.
It didn't.
Every Friday, I visited my hometown, and my friends there continued saying her name in front of me.
I became genuinely annoyed.
But I kept thinking that eventually they would get bored and forget about her.
Days became weeks.
Weeks became months.
They never forgot.
The entire year passed like that.
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# Chapter 5 — Grade 10
Grade 10 began normally.
But this time, I decided to do something I had been too nervous to do before.
I messaged her.
I opened Facebook Messenger.
I typed:
"hello"
She replied:
"hi"
It was only two words.
But I was extremely nervous.
The next day at school, I was scared that she might react differently after our conversation.
But she didn't.
She acted completely normal.
After that, I started noticing her more.
She was kind.
She was quiet.
She didn't talk to many people.
And I found myself becoming more interested in her.
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# Chapter 6 — The Drawing
It was around the end of Baisakh.
I remembered that she liked drawing.
So I decided to draw her.
I wasn't a very good artist.
I tried making a proper sketch of her.
When I finished, I looked at it.
It was terrible.
I couldn't help laughing at myself.
But I didn't give up.
Instead, I tried making a simple outline drawing.
Somehow, it actually looked like her.
I was surprised that I had managed to make something recognizable.
Now there was only one problem.
I had to send it to her.
I stared at the drawing for a while.
I thought about sending it.
Then I became nervous.
I waited for a few hours, thinking about what I should do.
Finally, I opened Messenger.
I typed:
"Do you like drawing?"
I sent the message.
A few moments later, she replied:
"yup!"
I stared at the message.
It was a tiny conversation.
But to me, it felt like the beginning of something.
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