The Best Friend

✍ Scribed by Akash Verma

• Book ID: 111648600
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 99 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B08GJNVV4P

✦ Synopsis

I was his best friend. He became my worst enemy. Nakul met Samir, three years his junior in school in the year 1985. Samir looked up to Nakul, his best friend. Samir showered all that he had over Nakul: his comics, chocolates, gifts, and all of his innocent love. Nakul used the little kid, manipulated him the way it suited him. The gullible Samir did everything that his elder friend asked from him, even ferrying letters on the sly for Nakul’s girlfriend Ginny. This, enraged a group of rogue students in the school, who started intimidating Samir. It happened then, an ugly incident, that broke Samir’s heart and the unflinching trust that he had, in his only friend. Nakul manipulated Samir and stranded him when he needed his best friend the most. That horrible incident changed Samir’s life and their friendship. The two friends separated. Many years later, a student is found dead in a school, where Nakul’s’ daughter Anna studies. Anna, a promising musician is embroiled in this incident, which doesn’t appear like an accident as it is made it out to be. It looks like a murder. Samir enters Nakul’s life yet again. Not as a friend anymore but as an enemy who would go to any length to destroy his best friend’s life. The two friends are no more on the same side but pitted against each other. The sides have changed. Samir is not the gullible puny boy he used to be and Nakul isn’t the one who can control him any further. This is a fight to the finish. Only one of them can survive. The Best Friend, is a dark and edgy thriller where everyone hides a deadly secret. It is a journey inside the deep crevices of the human heart that rests those wounds which lie dormant. These wounds don’t cause you pain anymore but are a ticking reminder of your past. All the wrongs you’ve done. And at such times, how you wish you could turn back the clock and undo those things that you shouldn’t have ever done..M.f