American Born Indian - Part 9
The penultimate chapters have arrived! Here is part 9 of American Born Indian. Love is in the air on Valentines’ Day, Jay prepares a special gift for Aravind while someone sends Ruchi a mystery love poem. Dive right in! Chapter 38 Paper Planes It’s now a few days before the fourteenth of February—Valentine’s Day. Nobody here exactly celebrates it—students start preparing for the finals during this time. But it’s not like a few people don’t have plans. Currently, it’s chemistry class. We’re supposed to be doing a worksheet on balancing equations as Madhura Ma’am grades our notebooks. In reality, though, my classmates are goofing off and have totally forgotten about it. The shifting atmosphere is unnoticed, until someone flings a paper plane and hits our class cupboard, next to Ma’am. “Hello! What is this, rocket science? Who threw this?” She yells. Funny enough, no one answers. No one tells on anyone, either. We all saw the paper plane—but not the person who set i...