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‘Nothing?’
‘Well, if there’s something between Dhruv and me its unbridled hatred, anger,
and related synonyms. I would happily see his body in a blender.’

‘But I just can’t let go of whatever happened that day,’ said Ritika and started
to cry like a child again.
‘Ritika. You need to get your shit together.’

‘And you need to keep your hands off my boyfriend’s crotch!’ retorted Ritika.
‘I would rather dip my hands in acid.’
‘I don’t want to talk to you.’

‘What do you want to do then, Ritika? Quite frankly, I’m starting to feel guilty
about what I did and I want to apologize and get it over with. And I need you to
look at me and say that it’s okay,’ said Aranya.

And then, just like that, without warning, a hand came rushing to meet her
face, and her fat cheeks reverberated with the impact and her teeth clattered. The
slap reminded her of her father, who’s favourite pastime was hitting her.

Aranya gathered herself, clenched her fingers into a fist to hit the bitch’s face,
but then thought she probably deserved the slap and took a deep breath and said,
‘Okay, maybe I deserved that. But you need to move on from here now. Or I

could slap you and it would go on and then I will win when I sit on your face.’
Ritika didn’t reply. Aranya thought to sweeten the deal. ‘Fine. This is the most

I can do. You don’t have to submit the next five assignments.’ Yes, now the
dumb bitch was listening. Ritika nodded and wiped her tears.
‘I don’t know if I can forgive him.’
‘That’s a call you have to take, but don’t send me down another guilt trip.’

She ran an awkward hand over her head, looked at her like she gave a shit,
and walked back to class. Ritika followed soon after and took a seat at the last

bench of the class. Aranya could now go on with her life without a twinge of
guilt or remorse.
A little later Raghuvir walked in in all his splendour, well not really, because
he wore a tattered T-shirt from the technical fest last year, trackpants and

slippers, but yeah, still too much gorgeousness. He had shaved so his smooth
baby skin was glistening.

‘Today we are going to study Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle in detail.
You might have studied it in school but we will go down the nitty-gritties of it
today. So brace yourself because this is tough and boring and I will make sure I