Cycle of Cliches
To cover things up, I had to cook up a long, logically progressing, believable tale of an after-college revelry with classmates (which included an anecdote on female classmates wearing gaudy, nauseated perfumes and shamelessly tripping over boys).
On the fourth date, amid a mistimed February rain, the following year, as we stood under the road-side tea-stall, on our way up the Sarania Hills to Gandhi Mandap, shivering deep down our spines, with our cold and greasy, skin-drenched bodies, she was scared. Scared to think of an explanation to feed her mother’s ears with, for the mistimed wetness she had subjected herself to! Completely soaked to the skin, and perhaps mildly titillated from the c