Chapter 19

After I left the Nav booth, I spent the rest of the night tossing and turning in the

my narrow bed. Outside, the sky was clear, showing the moon and stars. It was beautiful.

Romantic. And it made me feel desperately lonely.

On the way to my little sister's wedding, I hadn't just lost mine.

escort to the ceremony, I might have lost my best friend.

I thought I knew Nav, but now I felt like I didn't know anything about him.

Or maybe I knew him better.

Even though I had talked like Dhiraj or Pritam, he had told me things that I never

knew. About his family, his past lovers.

And I had opened up to him more than ever. Partly because of the effect of the train, which

lowered inhibitions. But it was also the strange combination of having him as a friend, in whom

I could trust, and a stranger who didn't really exist. For a stranger I've never

would see again, I could tell anything.

But the person I'd been talking to was Nav, and of course I knew that. I should be

unconsciously looking for an e