‘Yeah, but I can’t tell him exactly. How would he feel? My boyfriend sat with me
when he came to see me.’
‘Imagine how I felt. Anyway, what did you tell him?’
‘He asked me, rather hinted, about my virginity.’
‘He did not! I will kill that bastard,’ I said, my face red.
Ananya laughed. ‘Jealousy is rather enjoyable emotion to watch,’ she
observed.
‘Funny.’
‘He just said ... wait let me remember. Yes, he said, are you still pure or
something,’ she giggled.
‘What a loser. What is he looking for – ghee?’ I asked.
Ananya laughed uncontrollably. She held her stomach as she spoke. ‘Wait,
you’ll die if I told you my response.’
‘And that is?’
‘I told him – Harish, if there is an entrance exam for virginity, you can be sure I
won’t top it,’ Ananya said.
‘You did not! And then?’
‘And then the Cisco guy hung up the phone. No more Harish, finite. Radha
aunty said now Harish also doesn’t like me. Yipee!’
The waiter brought us our drinks. The contents looked like water after you’ve
dipped several paintbrushes in it. The jamun tea tasted different, though different
doesn’t translate into nice. Amethyst is about ambience, not nourishment.
‘Ananya, we need to bring this to closure. I’m not getting traction with your
parents. Manju maybe, but others barely acknowledge me.’
‘You will. In fact, that’s why I called you here today. You have a chance to
score with dad.’
‘I can’t. I told you he folded his hands at me.’
‘He is dying doing his presentation. No one in Bank of Baroda has ever made a
business plan. He doesn’t know computers. It is crazy.’
nora
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