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The Boy I Kinda Never Maybe Considered
Paperback
Series: Kinda Maybe, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 9 2025
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She never let herself want him. Not really.
Nahima is in her late twenties, laser-focused on her career, and firmly of the opinion that office crushes are for people with too much time on their hands. Rakim was just the cute colleague down the hall, a passing thought she never let herself finish.
Until he wasn't.
Friendship crept in where a crush used to live. Then silence. Then, somehow, they found their way back to each other, except this time it doesn't feel like friendship and it doesn't feel like nothing either. It feels like the messy, undefined space in between, the kind where you're always waiting to be noticed, always reading into a text that took too long to come, always asking yourself if you're imagining the whole thing.
Nahima knows what a situationship costs. She's spent her twenties building a version of herself that doesn't need anyone's validation to feel whole. But Rakim makes her want things she swore she'd stopped wanting, and wanting him back feels a lot like losing ground she worked hard to gain.
This isn't a clean love story. It's the real one, the one where you fall for someone slowly, quietly, and against your own better judgment, while trying to hold onto yourself in the process.
What readers can expect:
- A slow-building friends to lovers to strangers arc
- The ache of an office crush you can't shake
- A realistic, messy situationship with real stakes
- Honest mental health representation woven through the story
- A heroine finding herself again, on her own terms
If you've ever loved someone you weren't sure loved you back, this one's for you. Read The Boy I Kinda Never Maybe Considered today, the story that started it all.
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