Chapter 60

Shanaya was halfway to Dhruv’s new house when she received a call from Kabir. He asked her to pick him and his wife from their house. With a sigh, Shanaya turned the car around and picked up speed. She liked that Kabir’s house was in the isolated part of the town. She did not like driving much, but she liked passing through the roads that led to his house.

She thought of how this would be the first time all of them would be together in one place after so many years. Everyone except Ahail. The reunion she had joked about planning had become a reality. She knew it was a recipe for disaster, but somehow it felt like watching a car wreck — she could not take her eyes away.

She, Kabir and Dhruv had been that iconic trio everyone else at school was jealous of. Dhruv was shy, reserved — always reading something, his head immersed into a book. She had never expected to fall for him, just like she had never expected him to leave her. Kabir was notorious, always attracting trouble like a magn