‘Oh really, can you give me a time in the future when we can talk about the
future?’
I kept quiet.
‘Forget it, I’m leaving,’ she said and made for the door.
‘I need time to think,’ I said.
‘Two years are not enough?’
I kept quiet.
‘You know it baffles me,’ Ananya said, ‘how you men need so much time to
think about commitment, but how you need no time at all to decide when you
have to sleep with the girl.’
‘Ananya,’ I began only to hear the door slam shut.
‘You’ll be fine,’ she told me for the fifth time. We took a four-kilometre walk
outside campus to reach Navrangpura. I wanted to be as far from the madness as
possible. Day Zero, or the first day of placement, had ended and I hadn’t got a
job.
‘I thought with my grades I will crack Day Zero,’ I said.
‘Who cares? There’re six more days left for placements,’ she said.
We stopped at a roadside vendor for pao-bhaji. She ordered two plates with
less butter. ‘You will be fine. See, marketing companies don’t even start until
tomorrow. I have my big HLL interview. I’m not stressed.’
‘You’ll get in. I can’t think of a single company who can say no to you,’ I said.
She looked at me and smiled. ‘You do realize that not everyone is in love with
me.’