They had exactly 17 minutes of collective silence together every day—the time between the last bell and the school bus departure. During those 17 minutes, they didn't talk about love. They talked about the Pythagorean theorem, the chemical formula for rust (Fe₂O₃·xH₂O), and the dates of the Mughal Empire.

And below that, written in a new ink, a different shade of pink, a handwriting he would recognize anywhere, dated last year:

"A bag contains 5 red balls and 3 green balls. Two balls are drawn at random. Find the probability that both are red."

The incident happened on a Thursday. Kavya’s mathematics notebook fell out of her bag. Aryan picked it up. Inside, hidden between a chapter on Trigonometry and a chapter on Statistics, was a single line written in pink gel pen:

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But for Aryan and Kavya, the numbers were crueler. Their probability of survival as a couple, according to every cynical senior and every Bollywood movie downloaded from sites like FilmyHunk , was

If you survive, you have a story that no Bollywood script can write. If you don't survive, you have a scar that teaches you what love actually costs.