Chapter 20

He had been miserable for the past four days since Maahi had walked out of Rizwan's flat. Angry and miserable, sad and miserable, guilty and miserable, defensive and miserable. In a nutshell, miserable.

Maahi was the only girl in his life since forever. She was his only reference point when it came to female kind. Except for his mother he had never been that personally involved in any other female's life and that was a different kind of a relationship, very long ago. In his adulthood, Maahi had been a benchmark for the whole womankind for him. It was difficult for him to imagine a female who did not dress high fashion, who did not spend away money like empty shells of peanuts, who did not treat him different from all others in a special manner, or who did not love her useless brother with all her heart. Because that was what Maahi was. For him, the word female was synonymous with Maahi. To add to all of it, she wa