It’s funny how a single moment can change everything. Or in other cases it’s a set of seemingly random coincidences that allow two people to become the closest individuals to each other. Three short stories with two couples that attempt to tackle realistic issues and ideas, while being filled with cute moments of fluffiness.
Arc 1 – You Are My Protagonist (chapters 1-17)
Twenty two year old Ram has got it all, he’s intelligent, athletic, social, and he’s just been hired by a well known consulting firm. Life would be perfect…if his grandmother weren’t ill and if his mother didn’t think she’d be miraculously cured by him getting an Indian girlfriend on the premise of marriage. Still, Ram trudges on…until he meets Chen. Whimsical, openly gay, and following his dreams of being a novelist, Chen is the complete opposite of Ram. Yet, he has nothing to do with Ram until a sudden accident brings them together.
Arc 2 – I’ll Be Your Eyes (chapters 18+)
“I’ll be your eyes.” Ever since elementary school when the soft spoken dark haired little boy said that to him, looking very like the model of a superhero in a comic book, Jason hasn’t been able to forget it. And as the seasons changed and everyone faced the inevitable phenomenon of “growing up” Jason kept his slowly failing eyes desperately trained on his hero, following him through high school and onto college. Now, a senior about to graduate, will Jason possibly be noticed by his hero? Or will his love life fail just like his eyes slowly turning blind…
Arc 3 – Will You Be My North Star
Chen isn’t crazy. At least he doesn’t think he is. But he considers the characters he writes about real, very much so. He wants his boyfriend to understand this but it’s harder than he expects until he and Ram join the literary club for their annual camping trip and…he, Ram, Jason, and Arev are sucked into the world of his books.
(First and second arcs are separate slice of life stories in the same world and third arc changes to fantasy and involves both couples).
