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Six years later . . . Dhruv, eighteen, sat in his ex-girlfriend’s house, staring at his

dirty Converse shoes, worn beyond their years, a fake tear streaking down his
face. He could barely suppress the chuckle that threatened to escape any
moment.
No words had been exchanged for the last twenty minutes. Satvika’s father

was furious, his face paralysed, lower lip quivering, his frail heart giving up. ‘It
can’t be true. My daughter can’t do that,’ her father muttered under his breath.

‘I’m afraid she did, Sir. We did it here. In the bedrooms. On the balcony. Even
on the kitchen slab, I’m afraid. I’m extremely sorry to tell you this. I never
intended to. But I hope you understand what position I am in.’
Rajat, the girl’s brother, wanted to box Dhruv in his face. Satvika’s mother,

whom he had seen in pictures earlier, looked suicidal at the news of her daughter
no longer being a virgin. What could be worse for an Indian mother than

knowing that her eighteen-year-old daughter had had premartial sex on the
kitchen slab and enjoyed it?
Dhruv chose his words carefully to make himself the victim. ‘She was my
world. I really loved Satvika, Sir. If I had thought she would leave me I would

have never done it. Here. Nor in the bedrooms. Nor on the balcony, or on the
kitchen slab. I really thought she was serious about me. God knows I was . . . in

love and she . . . sh . . . she . . . she cheated on me, in the same house with
another boy!’ said Dhruv, as his voice trembled and he broke down in little sobs.
He should try theatre sometime.

Dhruv had narrated the length of his rather sexual relationship with Satvika in
as much detail as her parents could digest, without them wanting to set Satvika,
and then themselves, on fire.

He told her parents they had been dating for the past two months, right from
the time Satvika had taken admission at a local institute to prepare for the
engineering entrance examinations. He ran through the rest of the story quickly,

only highlighting the portions he thought were most damaging to Satvika’s life
thereafter.
They say, the day you fall in love changes your life, but they are wrong. It’s

actually the day your ex-boyfriend walks through the door and tells your parents