Club You to Death by Anuja Chauhan

Author:Anuja Chauhan [Chauhan, Anuja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9789354223198
Google: ZFUSEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 9354223192
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2021-02-25T18:30:00+00:00

Bambi Todi, very buzzed from all the bubbly she has consumed, rushes into the Ladies to wash out the red wine somebody has sloshed onto her white jumper. She whips it off and lays it under the running tap in the wash basin. Wearing just a skimpy lace bra and jeans, she stares slightly unfocusedly into the mirror and smiles – a smile that Nattu would no doubt have called a chutiya smile.

Three times, she thinks dreamily. After ignoring me completely for three whole years, Kashi Dogra has managed to bump into me three whole times within a week! Sunday, at the Bumper Tambola, could’ve been a coincidence. Monday – okay so the cops called him in. But today? First at the memorial service, and now he’s hanging around at Cookie auntie’s penis exhibition! And he says he wants to be friends!

I can do friends, she thinks seriously, as she finger-combs her damp hair. I can totally do friends. I need a friend – especially with things so fucked up at home, and Leo dead, and the cops sniffing after poor Ganga and everything! And of course he has a girlfriend and shit, but I won’t intrude on the GF’s space – I will fully respect her superior claim on him. I’m more than happy with just friendship …

Because if they’re friends, then even boring conversations at the DTC become fun because they can both look up to meet each other’s eyes across the room in silent, shared laughter … They can redeem shitty web series by ranting against them together late in the night … She can reach across the table and pick up food from his plate and pop it into her mouth … She can fiercely contest points on a game of tennis and watch him throw down his racquet and lose his shit … She can edit his Instagram DPs for him so he looks hotter – not that he needs help looking hot any more given how lithe and muscly he is, with the shock of unruly black hair that falls onto his broad forehead, blatantly soliciting a pushback from female fingers …

It’s like a part of her had fallen asleep once she let Kashi Dogra leave her life and now that he’s back, he’s casually flicked on a switch – and all the old connections and emotions are flickering back to life. Memories she’d suppressed, jokes she’d forgotten, smells, songs, feelings, sensations, even the noise the rain makes when it comes pelting down on the roof seems hyper-real now!

This is how paralysed people must feel when they start walking again, she thinks. Walking, then running, then dancing, then kissing … No! No kissing. Strictly no kissing. There’s the GF in Kalahandi and Bambi will be a good friend and not intrude on the GFs space … no, kabhi nahi, never.

She raises cool, wet fingers to her hot cheeks, shakes her head at herself sternly in the mirror, then bends down to see if the stain has washed out from her sweater, when a sudden sound makes her whirl around.

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