THE LONG WAY TO YES: An Indian School & College Love Story

The Long Way to Yes is an Indian school and college love story about patience, courage, and the quiet work of staying. Aarav Malhotra and Aarohi Sharma meet at Saint Xavier School over falling books and shared corridors. Friendship becomes love through notes, an Annual Day dance, stolen hours, rain-soaked confession, poetry, and Holi colours — always under the fear of being found too soon.
This is not a story of destiny alone. It is a story of choices. Through family pressure, biodata talk, marks, money, misunderstanding, and a long winter of silence, Aarav and Aarohi learn that yes is not one moment. It is many small permissions — given by themselves, by each other, and finally by their families.
Warm, emotional, lightly comic, and rooted in ordinary Indian life, this novel is for anyone who has loved carefully and still chosen to stay.
Some loves do not arrive all at once. They take the long way to yes.