My First Crush: The First Person Who Made My Heart Feel Different

Classes. The library. Photography. Her best friend Meher. Her chaotic friend Dev. Family calls. Ordinary university days that feel safe because they are predictable.

Then she meets Kabir Rathore.

He's a mechanical engineering student, a guitarist, and someone Aanya has technically seen countless times without ever really noticing. But a chance conversation about one of her photographs changes something.

It isn't love at first sight.

It isn't dramatic.

It's smaller than that.

A conversation she can't stop replaying. A familiar face she suddenly starts noticing everywhere. A longer route to class for no particular reason. A phone checked far too often. A smile remembered long after the person has left.

And slowly, Aanya realizes something she has never experienced before:

She has her first crush.

MY FIRST CRUSH is a warm, heartfelt contemporary college romance about first feelings, quiet moments, friendship, photography, nervous excitement, and the strange, beautiful experience of discovering what it means to like someone for the very first time.

Sometimes the biggest changes in our lives begin with something that feels completely ordinary.