‘It’s over,’ Ananya clarified, ‘between you and me.’
‘Are you breaking up with me? What? Ananya, are you crazy? I was
manipulating her so she’d calm down.’
‘I hate manipulations, Krish, and I hate manipulators even more,’ Ananya said
and broke into tears.
Ananya’s father came towards us and held Ananya’s hand. ‘It’s not about
communities. It’s about the kind of people we want to be with,’ he said.
I stood alone in the corridor as Ananya’s family walked away and the ground
tilted around my feet.
Needless to say, Operation Beach Passion was not executed that night.
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