It's a story about a girl named Shifa who just arrived in London a few weeks for her master's degree and coincidentally crossed paths with a guy who is an aspiring actor and an alumnus of her university. It's an emotional journey of their love.

It's the first day of university tomorrow and Shifa was as nervous as she was on the day she gave her boards exams or the day she started her bachelor's degree or when she started her first job or maybe more because this time she is alone in a foreign city with foreign people and this is giving her anxiety. She doesn't even want to share these feelings with someone back home because more than her they will get stressed.

She decided to share her thoughts with the almighty and after a session with her Allah she decided to call her family and then call it a day as tomorrow a new journey starts and in this new phase, all she wishes for is happiness and success.

The next morning she was ready to face this new world. It won't be very hectic today since its only orientation today and her classes start two days later but she needs to apply for on-campus jobs and apprenticeships. The moment she reached the campus and was done with orientation she was exploring campus when a familiar face caught her sight but she didn't get time to ponder upon it and went to attend that alumni get-together the university has organized to guide freshers.

There was a very familiar face in the meet, a face she could do anything to meet till last year but it's a reality now and even though she kept glancing his way to confirm it, it's the same actor she crushed hard a year ago. She was happy and very excited to share this news with her friends back home. She wanted to go and talk to him but her introverted self is asking her not to and she decided to go with the latter feeling. As she was about to exit the hall she got called by one of her supervisors.

"Hi Shifa, the subjects you talked about and wanted to work upon you can consult Mr Hamza Sohail. He studied the same during his masters" This moment was a weird one for her as she was getting introduced to someone she already knew by her professor what a filmy situation this is. You can have a word with him and see what's his take, unfortunately, I have to leave as my presence is required in a meeting. He left after sharing his greetings with Hamza while now it was more awkward for her and she didn't have an idea how to break ice.

"So I will start by introducing myself. I am Hamza Sohail. I completed my masters from this university two years back since I loved what I did and I was quite good at it. I have been helping students with their course."

Listening to the things she already knew about him from himself was quite interesting so without wasting her time she decided to introduce herself as well.

" I am Shifa I completed my bachelor's a few years back and worked in corporate for 2yrs and then I wanted to pursue master's so here I am trying to figure out what I want"

"Its nice to meet you, Miss Shifa"

"Same here."

"If any help is needed you can communicate with me on the portal I guess I am added there"

"Yeah, sure. thanks for the guidance"

"I didn't do anything yet, let's save thanks for later"(Smilingly)

"Sure, bye"

"Bye"

It's been few days since their encounter and yet it was memorable for them. One was giddy as she did meet a famous person in her life and the other was just amused.

Days went by and when one day she was working on her project she need some help and she was really contemplating if she should text him for guidance but since its related to her studies, she decided to go for it. And went for a really formal msg.

"Hello Hamza, I hope this msg finds you well. I have shared my papers with you can you please go through them and share your input whenever you have time? Thank you"

In just 30 mins she got a reply from him

"And I thought you will never contact, sure I will be happy to help Shifa. I will go through it and we can discuss it when I visit University tomorrow. Bas aap time bata dein kab free hongi classes se?"

After looking at the message and thinking that if she should just go with it, she decided to meet him at the university.

"Sure, I am free post 4pm we can connect at 4:30. Agar aapko suit kare timing"

"Ok, will see you tomorrow. Good night "

"Good night "

The next day Shifa was waiting for Hamza in the cafe near the university and to her surprise he was on time. He entered the cafe and looked for her and easily spotted her as she was constantly waving her hand.

"Assalamualaikum Miss Shifa"

"Walaikumasslam sir"

"Please Hamza is just fine, to kya lengi aap"

"Coffee will be fine"

As they waited for coffee they decide to discuss the issues she was facing in her studies after a good 1hour they were finally done with all the doubts, suggestions and discussions.

And now when they both started talking about their lives and interests. The conversation was so smooth and interesting it included politics, economics and this new world we are living in that they didn't realize that it was around 7PM now. They realized how late it is when Shifa's phone rang and it was her roommate asking if she will have dinner outside or if she should wait for her.

Kafi time ho gaya.

Han baat karte karte time ka ehsaas hi nahi hua.

Yeah, it was my roommate asking for dinner.

Ohh

Shifa really didn't want to go home yet now she has started feeling a little comfortable around him and she is loving the conversation they are having.

Aapka dinner ka kya plan hai. She asked trying to act cool.

Plan to nahi kuch lekin agar aap apne sath dinner k lie puch rahi hain to I would love to join you.

Ab aisa nahi hai just asking you if you have plan.

No I don't ab chalein dinner karne.

The dinner went smoothly and now they were standing in front of her building saying bye to each other. When Hamza said,

ab to kafi jaan penchan ho gai hai humari aap chahen to phone number le sakti hain.

Phone number.

Han doubts puchna aasan rahega na.

Yeah sure.

Once they were done with exchanging numbers they decided to call it a day and went to their own homes.

Shifa was going to bed when her phone beeped she was surprised as at this hour no one actually messages her she checked her phone it was from Hamza.

Had a great evening today. Good night 😴

She smiled looking at the message, her inner self shouted and warned her not to get affected by this but a girl's heart is the stupidest organ and she replied

Mee too, good night :) 🌙

That excitement and happiness you feel when you have just started talking to each other is so pure that you want to talk to them every day but you also don't want to act too clingy. And from here this phase starts for them.