Is This What Love Looks Like?

They met as patients. Fell in love like they had forever. But only one of them was truly running out of time. Ajay and Geeta were young and afraid — brought together by a hospital corridor and a word no one wants to hear: cancer. Their quiet bond became something deeper. Something real. But when the misdiagnosis was revealed only one of them still had to fight. And what followed broke more than just hearts — it fractured everything. Years later one unexpected night changes everything. Memories resurface. Guilt lingers. And love somehow remains. This isn’t just a love story. It’s about regret. Redemption. And the kind of love we never really leave behind.I’m Perarasi Radja — a writer and someone who learned what absence feels like early on. I first lost my father and everything after that shifted. He was an architect and I chose to study architecture to feel closer to him. But grief is heavy and I couldn’t carry it through a path that didn’t feel like my own. I dropped out. In the quiet that followed I found expression — not in buildings but in words and visuals. I chose Visual Communication where I could begin again. Today I’m a student I run my own clothing brand and I’ve written Is This What Love Looks Like? — a novel born from everything I never said out loud. It’s about heartbreak memory and the kind of love that stays even after someone’s gone. If this story makes you feel something — anything — then maybe this is what love looks like after all.