A Touch of Eternity: (Penguin Petit)

Everything in this world is a matter of perspective.

Hope gives us a reason to live.’

Sometimes hope was more demanding than an inevitable defeat.

Desperation makes you believe the most nonsensical of things,

It’s easier to hunt for solutions that don’t exist than face emotional upheaval.

How could a thing be simultaneously so delicate and intimidating?

‘ Bas class 10 and then two years, and it’s over. We will go to the same college. I can’t wait for our college friends to go like, how did this guy get this girl? And then you will flutter your eyelids and will be like, we are soulmates.’
‘I have a question, Druvan.’
‘The answer is yes. They will all make fun of us.’

Anvesha had decided it was time to plan the next step of our relationship— the kiss.

‘I think you can upload them right away. The platform is going to ban you because you’re going to crash the server.’

‘All rich boys are handsome,’ I said, tears welling up in my eyes. ‘How will you not kiss them? I don’t think that’s possible. A Modern School boy will be your first kiss.’
‘STOP.’
She held my face. ‘I can fix that,’ she said and kissed my lips lightly.
Her lips against mine.
A moment in history.