Half Girlfriend

The hands-on-hips pose meant no further questions. In the three months I had known her, I knew she hated being pushed. I thought ...

‘What?’ she said, surprised. ‘About placing my hand on yours,’ I said. I didn’t want my stupid move to backfire. ‘When?’ ‘During ...

is bothering you. And, if something is bothering you, it bothers me. I want to know things about you, okay? But getting you to t ...

‘You seem upset. Did something happen today?’ ‘I told them I want to study music after college. They want me to marry into some ...

Police guards tell you to stop and turn around. She continued to tell me about her New York trip. ‘In fact, I took up basketball ...

5 Alter our movie date, we started to spend even more time together. During lunch break, we would sit on the college lawns and e ...

‘Even though you eat all my lunch,’ she said and smacked the side of my head. ‘Do you like me?’ I said. She had heard this too m ...

I placed the sweater over my head. It hid my face. ‘What?’ she said. I said nothing. ‘Are you sulking, my tall tree?’ she said. ...

me. ‘Madhav, please understand, I’m not comfortable with all this,’ ‘I really like you, Riya. You mean so much to me. You are th ...

her. She spoke from behind me. 'Okay, I get it. I'm a girl. I’m allowed some drama sometimes.’ ‘Really?' ‘Well, I said sorry, to ...

6 She entered my room and I slammed the door shut behind us. My room was furnished with the bare necessities—a bed, a desk, an e ...

want a scene like last time. I let her have the picture and stepped aside. She looked at it and began to laugh. 'How old are you ...

‘Good observation.’ I looked straight into her eyes. She did not look away. Even though I had zero experience with girls, I coul ...

‘Yeah, why? There are going to be loads of people there. It’s a party' ‘Oh, what is the occasion?’ I said, back to spinning the ...

'No woman has ever meant more to me than you.’ She laughed. ‘What?’ ‘That could mean two things. I am really special, or there’s ...

7 'A girl in the hostel?’ Ashu slapped my back.‘What a stud.’ My hostel mates had come to my room. Fat Ashu sat on my bed, makin ...

Shailesh said. 'What?’ I said. Ashu laughed. ‘He’s fucking with you,’ Raman said. He had just learnt the F- word. He liked using ...

‘You know who her father is?’ Shailesh said, adjusting his glass. ‘Some big-shot Marwari businessman?’ I said. ‘Somani Infrastru ...

‘Shut up, fatso,’ Shailesh said. ‘Listen, you have to go. If you want to get close to this girl, you have to meet these people o ...

8 I took two buses to get to Aurangzeb Road. I couldn’t find any regular houses there, only massive mansions. Each building look ...