Fantasy Fiction Romance

The Space Between Us

In a monsoon morning on the last day at school in the field, two figures break up after dating each other for almost 6 years. This is a shock to the entire class of last year's students. The girl runs away, and the boy gets tremendously angry with the decision the girl makes. Many years passed after this incident. Sophia was in a hurry to work, but her breakfast was not yet done. She became very panicked as it was her first day at work. Sophia Collen belongs to an upper-middle-class family. After a few hours, she reached the office. All became friends with her. But she becomes stunned when she sees their senior data analysis. She pretends not to didn’t recognise him and greets him as sir, like the rest of the employees. After the office finishes, everyone heads home, and suddenly Sophie bumps into a guy with fair skin. Both of them talk rudely to each other and go away. Surprisingly, the next day she again saw the guy who happened to be her neighbour. The whole day in the office went worse than that day on one side, her ex was her senior, and on the other hand, the guy that bumped into her yesterday became her neighbour. That night, after heading home, Sophie was lost in her thoughts about the past. Roger and Sophie used to be neighbours back in San Frensisco. Both families used to be friends with each other. However, as soon as they reached the 11th standard, Roger proposed to Sophie, and she accepted. Soon, Sophie caught Roger cheating on her. But Roger apologised to her and they had an off-relationship till the last day of college. Although they broke up at school, he won her back in college again. However, Roger cheats on her in college once again, after which she officially breaks up with him. But fate has some other plan, and today she meets him again in the office as her senior. The next day, when she reached the office, another shock was waiting for her. Robert Cooper from New Zealand moved here in search of a job after completing his school. But as soon as he reached the office, he saw Sophie, and he became frustrated. Again, he gets another shock that Sophie and Robert were teammates. Days went like this, but soon Robert and Sophie became friends and then lovers. But these things didn’t go well with Roger. He starts threatening Sophie that he will open up about them in front of Robert. Scared about what Roger might do to her future one day in the autumn months, Sophie calls Robert and says about herself. Roger was her ex-husband. 16 years ago, Roger and Sophie eloped from their homes and got married. Initially, everything was good between them, but things started to deteriorate slowly. In the meantime, Sophie becomes pregnant with their first child. But Roger abducts that child and tries to kill her. Without getting any option, she runs away, but today he again showed up at her. However, Robert didn’t believe her and broke his engagement with Sophie immediately. That day it was raining. Suddenly, Sophie woke up from her nightmare and looked here and there and saw Robert sleeping peacefully beside her. Sophie jumped out of bed and got ready for her office, and also woke Robert up as he too was late for the office. Daksh was getting ready for school. Sophie adores her and Robert's son. Roger takes the car, and all of them head to their respective work. But it was foggy everywhere. They were in an accident where Sophie and Robert died on the spot. Daksh completes his story to Sarah, his fiancée, about his mother and father. But Daksh plans to teach Roger a lesson, so he joins the company of his mother and father. Roger has two daughters, Hazal and Carolin. Eventually, Daksh traps Hazal in his love. As Hazal was studying in college, she easily fell for him. One day, Daksh threw her from a height. This comes as a shock to Carolin, who has just returned from her aunt's house. Carolin too falls in love with Daksh, but Sarah, who was Carolin’s aunt, knows something fishy about Daksh traps him to confess his truth, but Daksh already knew about Sarah, so he takes a wire and kills Sarah with it. But eventually, Carolin, who now knows everything, asks Daksh the truth and promises to stay by his side forever if he tells her the real truth. Then he revealed. The day Sophie confessed everything to Robert about her past, Robert accepted her, and they got married. But Roger becomes jealous and tries to find opportunities to kill them. But soon Daksh was born, and so eventually Robert and Sophie moved to a different city for the safety of their child. But as soon as Daksh becomes able to go to school, they again come back, and that day, Roger makes the tire and breaks fail. But unfortunately, Daksh survives. So he kills Hazal, and as Sarah traps him, he has to kill her too. Carolin ends her relationship with her father and sends him to bars. Both Daksh and Carolin opened a school in the name of Robert and Sophie, and always went to their cemetery to pay tribute to their love for each other. Today, Daksh and Carloin are blessed with a daughter and a son. They kept their name after their grandparents, Robert and the girl named Sophie. They also published a book and produced a film regarding the story of their parents. Sophie and Robert also read about their grandparents. One day, news came that Roger had died in prison suddenly. It is believed that the spirits of Sophie and Robert used to haunted him after he was imprisoned. Out of duty soon Roger’s body was buried, but the couple never visited his grave. They always pray for Robert and Sophie, but never pray for evil Roger. Sophie again wakes up from her dream, and this time things are the same, where Robert and she were fighting, sitting in the office, and Roger is married who was trying to wake her up after lunch. Roger and Sophie always behave as strangers with each other, and all these things were the imagination of Sophie. And Robert and Sophie are still neighbours, and Roger and Sophie were an ex-couple but not married.

Posted Jul 04, 2025
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