Page 301 - The World's Best Boyfriend

Meeting him in college and getting to know him was a dream come true. They
didn’t get to work together a lot but the time she spent with him in the
laboratories was invaluable. She would cherish it for the rest of her life.

Then as if she had all the luck in the world, Raghuvir wanted to be with her.
Why her? Was it because she was smart? Was it because finally he found
someone intelligent? She always felt uncomfortable with these questions.

For the first few days that she was with him, she was quite suspicious, like a
woman married to a star. But slowly, she started to feel at home with the
knowledge of him just liking her. After all, he was a changed man. There were a

trillion girls in AMTECH, Bangalore, but he had eyes only for her.
Raghuvir was proving to be the perfect ladder out of the pit Dhruv had pushed
her into and not reached out for. But her goddamn luck!

She couldn’t push the thought of Dhruv out of her head. Why did she need the
thing she knew would destroy her? The choice was so simple. A second grader
could have made it. But why? She had grappled with the question long and hard

and hit a blank. There was no reason to love Dhruv and yet she did.
The guilt of being with Raghuvir and yet not being in love with him, free
riding on him, trying to find the way out of the labyrinth using him, started to eat

her up. The burden was too heavy to carry and she would have to carry it for the
rest of her life.

But she had no other choice! Either it was Dhruv and his mad love or
Raghuvir and the comfort of a routine life. She would have picked the former a
million times over. But for that she had to get rid of Raghuvir somehow and not
offend her parents for whom he was a living God.

It was easier said than done. Raghuvir was fucking perfect.
She had to find a chink in Raghuvir’s armour.

And that’s when Sanchit came to her rescue and told her. ‘Temptation!
Raghuvir might be a saint but temptation can take any man down. Raghuvir has
always been like that! People change but people don’t really change. All you
have to do is lay down the perfect trap, Aranya. If Raghuvir falters, that’s your

exit strategy. Neither him nor your parents would be able to blame you!
Paraphrasing Godfather, give him a girl he can’t refuse.’

‘I don’t think it will work. Raghuvir puts a lot into this relationship. He
doesn’t even look at other girls! He wouldn’t be easy to mislead.’