The Last Bench
Chapter 1
Every school has a last bench. Ours just happened to hold a promise….
I still remember my first day of school. All the front benches were full, and neither of us wanted to squeeze into the middle. So, with our bags in hand, we ran to the last bench and unknowingly chose the place that would change our lives… forever.
My name was Vihaan.
I don’t remember what I studied on my first day.
I don’t remember what the teacher taught.
But I remember the girl who ran with me to the only empty bench in the classroom.
Her name was Anika.
It started with sharing lunch, notebooks, terrible exam jokes, and countless detentions for talking too much. Somewhere between all of that, we became best friends—each other’s favourite person.
But neither of us realised that one day, the hardest part wouldn’t be leaving school.
It would be keeping a promise we made on The Last Bench.
