Aditi Sharma

Drama Romance

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Aditi Sharma

Drama Romance

Strangers To Lovers

Strangers To Lovers

11 mins
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"Wake up, Fiona! It's already 12 pm and you are going to be late again for your college."

"Yes mom, give me 5 minutes.", Fiona said.

Mom having the concerned gesture on her face, "What's wrong? Is there something bothering you? You've been so low lately, you are not doing anything these days, you just sleep and you just stay so quiet."


"Mom, give me some time. You know I can't function properly when anxiety kicks in. This shall too pass." Fiona said and covered her face with pillow.


Mom left the room after saying "Go out, Make friends, Live your life, It's hard to see you suffer you like this."


As the mom left the room, Fiona started thinking about all the things that has ever happened to her, from making friends to losing them, from trusting people so much to losing herself in the process, from all the heart she poured in her previous romantic relationships to being single now, and from having anxiety disorder then and now.


Fiona was a bright kid academically and still is. The only thing is she has lost her confidence in last few years. And she's no one to blame for that. Such situations popped up which forced her to question everything in her life.


After loving someone so much in past and wanting to have happily ever after' with him,in present she's here with lost faith in love and wanting never to get married.


And added, she has anxiety issues since long and she thinks whatever bad things have happened in her life is due to anxiety, and she has this irrational thought of someone never loving her because of the same.


Whatever hardships Fiona faced, made her isolate herself in a web, her own little world, where there were only lost hopes, broken dreams and loneliness.


But as they say, "There's always light at the end of this tunnel."

Fiona was not aware of the coming bright future romantically.


Good things take time and happen at the right time too.

And that's what happened!


She usually got so many messages on facebook from guys, but she never paid heed, either she blocked them or never replied to them.

It kept happening for a long time until one day when she couldn't stop herself from texting back to that one person who was a complete stranger to her.


Chris: Hey

Fiona (after thinking so much and finally decided to reply) : Hi

And then the random conversation started and it turned out that Chris and fiona studied in same junior school but never talked to each other and Fiona never noticed Chris but he did. And both of them stay in different cities now.


Fiona felt a different vibe while talking to Chris and so did he - a different connection that can't be explained in words.


Everyday conversations started happening. From random chit chats to asking each other about their lives, they were starting to become from strangers to friends.


Fiona was becoming more and more comfortable talking to him every day, though she kept fearing deep inside "What if the past repeats?"

But something within her kept telling her to trust and go with the flow.


They became each other's favourite habit.

From good morning wishes to good night tales, they used to share each and everything they did in their whole day and waited desperately to receive each other's texts.


And as time went by, they became best friends knowing each other completely, perfections and flaws, fears and strengths, achievements and failures.


Fiona shared her past traumatic experiences romantically and how her anxiety issues affect her as an individual.

And she was startled when he didn't react the way she always wondered, he listened to her being so calm, gentle and understanding, and also assured her that the past won't repeat itself this time.

Chris : "I am with you no matter what, you are never alone now onwards. We'll go through all of this together."


These words made fiona cry with happiness,and she couldn't believe that good things were actually happening, someone is finally understanding her and accepting her the way she is, not judging her,not asking her to change and not disrespecting her.


It was unbelievable for her!

Chris had a hard past too, his 5 year long term relationship ended, his girl left him.

So he was also having a hard time to trust someone again. He decided never to get married just like fiona.


But good things started happening.

Number of texts per day increased, waiting for texts was getting difficult day by day.

Fiona's heart started fluttering from him, she was actually falling for him.


They started talking on calls gradually.

Sharing stories with each other, laughing way too hard and feeling were growing more strong in both the hearts.


On the heavy nights, when fiona couldn't sleep, Chris decided to stay awake with her so that she doesn't feel alone.

When she couldn't stop crying due to anxiety issues, he would call her, assured her that everything's gonna be okay and she's not alone in this, he would make her sleep by just being there on call.


And sleeping over calls while talking to each other became their habit. She used to sing lullabies for him and made him sleep on call and while he slept peacefully like a child, she never cut the call, she just stayed there listening to his breaths and it always felt like they were physically together in that very moment.


They both were already head over heels in love with each other, but the surprising thing was they didn't confess that to each other in words, though their actions did!


Both of them respected each other, loved each other, accepted each other's flaws and strengths. It was something beyond physical looks, attraction, caste, color and religion, it was something beyond distance. It was utter love, that was flowing in their veins now.


Fiona understood the timing and working of life with the help of Chris. All the past traumatic relationships made her learn to know her worth, what she really deserved, and being with Chris was making sense after all!


She didn't feel inferior anymore, she stopped blaming herself for everything bad ever happened in her life, Chris made her believe Anxiety issues doesn't make her less of anything, and motivated her to keep going and believed in her that she can conquer it.

Chris always wanted someone to listen to him, support him in every life aspect, and someone he could trust and someone who could love him with all her heart being selfless.


Both of them got everything in each other what they were looking for since long!

And finally, they exchanged those three golden words! And it was all magic! Magic in their hearts, magic in their lives. Everything started falling in place.


They couldn't believe all of it was actually happening.

It was like a fairy tale coming true!


Their personal lives were blossoming too with the help of each other's love and support. Both of them were never this much happy before!


And one day they decided to meet, and it was something they were really so excited about!

Fiona was visiting Chris. Tickets got booked. Everything was prepared.

While travelling in flight, fiona was thinking of all the good things that's gonna happen after meeting him, she was imagining his face, their first touch, their first hug.

Chris was also imagining Fiona in her arms, kissing her forehead and cuddling her.


They both were excited and nervous at the same time.

When Fiona landed on airport, she saw missed calls from Chris and immediately called him, " Hey I've reached her, I'll be out soon."


Fiona started running fastly towards the exit gate with the whole bunch of butterflies in her stomach and love in her.


While Chris was finding a way out to park his car in that whole jammed traffic, he couldn't believe that she's finally gonna see her lady love!

Fiona called Chris after standing at the exit gate, " Hey I'm here, where are you?"


Chris was still stuck in the jam of traffic, " I'm here in one of the cars you see outside the exit gate. Wait let me look for you and I'll wave hand, then you come and sit in car, we'll ride away."


Fiona was so inquistively looking for the face of Chris in all those unknown faces around her. And then she saw him waving his hand outside the car, something bloomed in her heart in that very moment, and she took no time to rush towards the car, he opened the door hastily for her and she sat down. They said Hii to each other.


They both were so shy, nervous, happy at that time. Mixed feelings altogether!

So many cars were around them, while Chris was finding a way out through the traffic, Fiona was looking at his face so lovingly.


Chris noticed and blushed, "What? What are you looking at?"

Fiona blushing and giggling, "Ah, nothing. There's so much traffic here. (But the attempt of changing the topic miserably failed)


Both of them were so quiet and smiling, though they said nothing, but it felt like everything !

Millions of thoughts were running inside their heads, and love hormones were rushing through their cells while Chris was driving to the destination, and Fiona was looking outside the window.


After reaching the destination, they started talking to each other, shyness was fading away, and they hugged each other so tight. They were longing for this hug, warmth, closeness and there it was! They were together there physically!


They showered each other with endless kisses and unconditional love in those few days.

Fiona fell in love with him a little more whenever he kissed her forehead and wrapped his arms around her, making her comfortable and telling her "I love you"

while Chris' love for fiona grew more stronger whenever she cuddled him, played with his hair, fed him food with her hands, made him sleep in her lap at nights singing lullabies.


They did everything together!

From trying each other's favourite food to going on long drives together.

From listening to each other's favourite songs to listening each other's life stories.

She adored him while he slept peacefully like a child, and he was learning how to apply eye liner.


He dried her strangled wet hair after shower while she used to curl herself up on him and sleeping on him, keeping her head on her chest listening to his heart beats.

He kissed her more when she talked in gibberish voice being sleepy, and she loved whenever he complimented her for being cute!


How fast time flew, and she had to go back home.

Saying goodbye was the hardest part for both of them.

But they told each other that they'll meet up soon!


A night before her leave, both of them shed tears wrapped up in each other's arms at bedtime, cuddling and kissing each other so much, depicting their love for each other.


On the day of departure, while he was driving her to airport with heavy heart, she was trying to hold her emotions inside and act normal.

They didn't speak much on the way.

While she was about to go in queue at airport, he hugged him so tightly and kissed her forehead and she could see the tears in his eyes. In that very moment, fiona held her emotions back as she didn't want to break down.


And she left, went for security check, was waiting for flight at the gate.

And there came the moment when he couldn't hold back her emotions anymore, she called him up and started crying, and told him she didn't want to leave.


Chris started crying too, as he also wanted her to stay so badly.


As she kept on crying, Chris told her to come outside the airport or else he would come inside and take her away from there.

They both were so emotional in that very moment.

He didn't want her to go, and she wanted to stay there with him.

Fiona wanted to run away and hug him, and stay and so did Chris !


But they had to separate anyway for the time being.

Chris handled his emotions and told her that they'll meet very soon, and encouraged her not to feel upset, because he's always here, they're gonna be in touch on texts and calls.

His words pushed her to keep going, with teary eyes, red cheeks trembling hands, and unwilling heart to go, she boarded on flight.

Chris kept talking to her, telling her funny stories to make her laugh and cheering her up until the call got disconnected on it's own when the flight took off.


Chris handled himself, drove back his home, waiting for fiona's call.

While, Fiona closed her eyes, imagining Chris by his side, and trying to sleep.


As she came back home, he called up Chris and it seemed like he was waiting for her call desperately.

They handled each other by reassuring each other and themselves that they're gonna meet soon, and they'll be regularly calling each other now onwards.


And now three months has been passed since their first meet.

And they're planning for the other meet up.

Their love for each other has deepened now. They do text and call each other frequently.


Turning from strangers to lovers, from losing their faith in love to getting themselves back with the help of love,

from never wanting to get married in past to getting married to each other in future, everything has been changed.


Everything has been changed for good.

Those who are meant to be together will be together no matter what happens!

Nothing can stop two lovers from loving each other, be it caste, religion and distance.

Because true love is something that is beyond all the materialistic stuff, caste and religious differences, and beyond the distance.


Nothing can separate two lovers apart who are so determined to be together - Now and forever.



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