After the Storm Clears

Written in response to: "Write about a second chance or a fresh start."

Drama Happy Romance

Max was shattered after the incident happened in front of his eyes. The girl he loves the most is having sex with some random guys like a slurt. The rains were falling, hiding his tears from his eyes. Far away, a shadow was watching these and crying involuntarily along with Max. She didn’t know why the guy who had been her enemy for the past four years suddenly made her feel hurt when she saw him in this state. The next day, as expected, Lisa was cuddling with Peter, her ex-boyfriend, during school hours. She groaned seeing them. Viviane Salvator was an upper-middle-class girl. She lives with her mother, dad, and brother. However, her brother recently moved to Mumbai. After he moved, Viviane became independent when she met Peter. Peter and Vivaine were childhood friends. She becomes happy after meeting Peter after so many years. Unaware of the relationship that will shape the friendship. Meanwhile, on the other side, Max Steward lives in a penthouse. He was a millionaire. He was dating Victoria for several years, who was just behind him in money. She was fixed by Max’s mother to inherit more money. He was an only child. But today he discovered the horrible circumstances. Viviane meets Max in the office, where even Peter was also working and was engaged with Lisa. Max and Vivaine don’t have a good encounter with each other. Seeing the fight, Peter was happy because he just wanted to see Viviane hurt. But after the incident the next day, things changed slowly. As the morning creeps, all people come to the office. As expected, Peter and Lisa were clinging to each other, which irritates me. Max was a person with whom she felt engaged, whether fighting with him. But that day, unfortunately, Max didn’t come to the office. I don’t know why I feel lonely without fighting with him. Irritated by my ex in his wife’s fakeness and not the presence of Max Viviane, she took leave and went to her home. This action shocks Lisa and Peter because they don’t know the reason for Viviane’s sudden action. After coming home involuntarily, Viviane calls Max. Surprisingly, he picks up the call at once. He asked if he was coming to her home. She is shocked, but as she was about to say something, Max cut the call. Viviane becomes anxious. After a while, she hears the bell ring at her home. She opens the door. But the sight in front of her was horrifying. Max's eyes were red due to his crying, and today he was also drunk. Also, outside, it was raining heavily. Viviane immediately took Max’s hand and pulled him inside. She makes him sit and gives him lemon juice to drink. He was not willing to drink, but drank it. Then he left without saying a word to his home. The next day, she reached early, thinking about Max and the night they spent. But surprisingly, Max came to the office, but he was behaving more coldly than before. Neither was he fighting with her nor was he talking to anyone. Vivaine shakes her thinking and begins her work. But surprisingly, that day, Max sits beside her silently and starts working. After a while, during a lunch break, she received a text from Max: “Thank you for yesterday”. She sheepishly smiled slightly, but soon hid her smile as she spotted her ex and that irritating Lisa. She focused again on her food. Something has changed between Viviane and Max, and it was even noticed by Lisa and Peter, which shocks them. But as soon as Max was about to confess his feelings to Viviane, suddenly Victoria arrived in their life like a storm. She blackmails Max, saying that she will expose his being a millionaire to Viviane, who is unaware of his wealth. She also claims to sign a paper and lose all his wealth to her if he wants to stay with Viviane. But, unfortunately, Viviane hears everything. She becomes really angry at Max for not telling her about his wealth, but decides to help him. But before she could do anything a news came that Max had sold all his luxury items to Victoria to stay with Viviane. But eventually, this decision created chaos among Lisa and Peter, too. As an opportunist, Peter starts having an affair with Victoria. In the meantime, Max took Viviane and moved away to a suburban area away from city life. But even Viviane was in tension, was trying to find a solution to bring back Max’s wealth, as she couldn’t see his struggle leading a normal life. But one day, suddenly, Lisa calls Viviane. Although Lisa hates her but now that Peter is cheating on her, she needs Viviane. Although Viviane knew Lisa was selfish, she was still in with the plan. Both the ladies start digging about Victoria. Soon they find out that Victoria has an asset in the hands of the rival company, which she didn’t pay them and also cheats the rival by taking the entire company to herself. They disguised themselves as some other ladies to the rival company and informed them about Victoria. The next day, the police arrested Victoria as the evidence provided by the rival company. But the police also arrest the rival company. So, Max was stunned when he learns that Viviane fought for his wealth. Also, Lisa divorced Peter and apologized to Viviane for insulting her in previous influenced by Peter. And as for Peter, he was fired from the office and now works as Vivaine’s driver. One evening, while sitting in the garden of the panthhouse, while the wind was howling, Max suddenly knelt on his knees and proposed to Viviane. Later, after three weeks, Viviane became Max's wife while expecting their first child. Lisa becomes their loyal worker. She meets one of her colleagues, who replaces Peter and gets married. One day, Max was standing on the porch, lost in his thoughts, when a tiny hand wrapped around his arms. He turned and smiled and took his daughter in his arms. Vivaine was watching all this from a distance and smiled with tears and thought about the irony of why she cried that night when Max was heartbroken seeing Victoria’s disloyalty. Then she thought of her and Max's rollercoaster story of how, after lots of struggle, they ended up with each other finally.

Posted Aug 15, 2025
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