Half Girlfriend

secretary must have asked a hotel in Delhi to send them.’ I remained silent. I had no idea. Maybe rich people found it normal to ...

called me home. Or how she sits in her night clothes in front of me. I don’t know. It means something, right?’ ‘What is your gut ...

11 We had practised for less than ten minutes when she got a stomach cramp. She held her stomach and gestured to stop the game. ...

‘It’s a room in my father’s house. How I wish I could stay in a hostel like you.’ ‘Hey, would you like to change?’ I said, switc ...

I went back to my book. ‘What do you want to do after graduation?’ she said. Girls cannot stand being ignored, that too for a te ...

hand down her back and moved her closer towards me. She continued to sleep, or continued to pretend to sleep. I placed my leg ov ...

‘What is your problem? I’m not a release for your horniness.’ ‘I didn’t say you were.’ ‘So why can’t you just stick to what we d ...

even that sounds way better than how I said it. I don’t know what came over me that day. Maybe I just couldn’t wait anymore. Per ...

She stood up to change her seat. ‘Two minutes, I beg you,’ i said. She ignored me. She moved to another table full of students. ...

you think of me in your mind.’ ‘I wanted to be close to you. Never let you go.’ ‘You said “deti hai to de, varna kat le”. Does t ...

12 Six months later After my break-up, or half-break-up, with Riya, my personality changed. People in college started to call me ...

the room’s wall back and forth until the student in the adjacent room shouted curses. I studied my course books to distract myse ...

asshole doing here? It's amazing how quickly the mind switches from figuring out a situation to commenting on it. I had no idea ...

emanates from nature. It is stuff that sounds profound when you hear it but is total bullshit when you look back and think about ...

brisk steps away from me. ‘Riya,’ I said. She stopped. However, she didn’t turn towards me. Her hands froze, as if uncomfortable ...

‘Yeah. The driver will be there, right?’ ‘I’ll send him away. Actually, let’s go to the car. I need to give you something, too.’ ...

13 We walked out to her car. She handed her driver a fifty-rupee note. ‘Driver bhaiya, can you go and buy a few packets of Parle ...

Did she miss nothing about me or what we had? Because l miss you, damn it! I wanted to scream at the top of my voice. Of course, ...

Our eyes met. Maybe it was my imagination but, for a moment, I felt the same connection to her as I had in the past. ‘I don’t th ...

‘What?’ I turned to Riya. ‘I told you, you don’t want to know.’ I composed myself and summoned the resolve to read the full card ...