Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana

Author:Aditi Khorana
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-05-18T16:56:28+00:00

Amit unlocked the door for us, looking frazzled and annoyed. “You know we’re not open yet, right?” The radio was blasting loud gangsta rap.

I shrugged. “We were hungry,” I said, adopting that same indifference to other people I had seen in Halle and Veronica at times.

“Okay, just go sit over there,” he said to us like we were a bunch of recalcitrant kindergartners. “I’ll see what we have ready. Your dad’s not here yet.”

“Could you maybe bring us some of those really delicious lassis?” Halle looked at Amit wide-eyed, a smile on her face. “They’re my favorite.”

Amit looked back at her, disarmed by her charm. “Sweet, plain, or mango?” he asked.

“What do you think? I think maybe mango? I’m Halle, by the way.”

“Amit.” He smiled, reaching for her extended hand. “Mango’s my favorite,” he said with a smile that made me cringe.

“Mango for everyone then, I guess,” Halle told him.

“I’ll do a plain,” said Alexa.

Amit turned down the radio. “Oh . . . don’t tell your dad, okay? We were just . . . prepping.”

We sat down at a corner table by the window, and Halle sighed, looking nervously at her phone.

“What?” Veronica impatiently remarked, spreading mint chutney on a papad.

“Hypothetically speaking . . . it’s normal to kind of get bored after a while in a relationship, right?”

“Are you saying you’re bored?” Veronica asked.

“It’s just that . . . Nick is so . . . happy all the time,” Halle said.

“He’s a happy guy,” Veronica said.

“And why wouldn’t he be? He’s cute and smart and president of the student council and a star soccer player and everyone likes him . . .” I cut myself off, realizing that I was getting weird.

“You’re exactly right, Tara. Everyone does like him.” Then she looked around at us and shrugged. “It’s like that story with Socrates and Plato . . .”

“Do tell.” Veronica’s eyes widened, and she mockingly leaned her chin on her fist.

Halle rolled her eyes. “Plato asks Socrates, ‘What’s love?’ So Socrates sends Plato out into a field of wheat and says, ‘Find the best stalk you can, the most magnificent stalk, but you’re not allowed to turn back and get one you saw earlier, you have to keep walking forward, and if you find the best stalk, you’ve found love.’ So Plato goes, and he comes back empty-handed. Socrates asks, ‘Why didn’t you bring anything back?’ and Plato says, ‘I saw some awesome stalks in the beginning, but then I thought there might be better ones up ahead, so I kept going, but turns out the early stalks were the best ones,’ and Socrates says, ‘Yup, that’s love.’”

“That’s your story?” Alexa raised an eyebrow.

“There’s more, Alexa,” Halle responded with irritation in her tone. “So then Plato asks Socrates, ‘What’s marriage?’ and so Socrates sends Plato out into the woods and says, ‘Find the tallest, most beautiful tree, chop it down, and bring it on home.’”

At this point, Amit, carrying plates of food in his hands, interjected. “And then Plato

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