After that day, they started meeting almost every day.
Study became coffee.
Coffee became conversations.
Conversations became friendship.
Isra started trusting Laksh.
She told him about her exams.
Her dreams.
Her stress.
Her family pressure.
Laksh listened to everything.
He helped her with notes.
Assignments.
Projects.
He even completed her work sometimes so she wouldn't get scolded.
One day she said,
"I don't know what I would do without you."
Laksh smiled and said,
"You won't have to find out."
But what she meant was friendship.
What he felt was love.