EP09: Wired Earphones
In a world obsessed with cutting wires, Meera chose to stay tangled. It wasn’t rebellion. She wasn’t trying to be different. She simply believed that some things were meant to take efforts like untying knots, like keeping relationships alive, like LOVE. Her wired earphones were more than plastic and copper; they were a philosophy she wore in her pocket. Chapter 1 The library that day was quieter than usual, the silence that amplifies the smallest sounds. Pages turning, pens tapping, chairs dragging. Meera sat in her usual corner seat, hunched over a notebook. Her bag was kept on the table in which her earphones looked like a stubborn plant, vines wrapped around themselves. She sighed, running her fingers through the mess. Across the table sat a boy she hadn’t really noticed before. Aarav. He was a boy you would pass by a hundred times without remembering, always tucked behind a book, his presence blending with the smell of paper and ink. But today, he noticed her. “Those things ha...