Fall“Another thing I’m doing for the first time,” Zahi said. She was sitting on the top of the driver’s cab of a truck, and squeezed beside her were Priya, Vivek and Rahul.
“Another?” queried Priya. “What’s the first?”
“Oh, so many things,” Zahi said. “Getting into medical college, of course. Dissecting dead bodies. Flunking tests,” she added with a laugh.
“You’ve never flunked a test before?” asked Rahul, looking at her quizzically.
“Well…no,” admitted Zahi with a wry smile. “Not that I can remember, anyway.”
“And this one doesn’t count, really,” Rahul said. “Madam Hema Shah sprang a surprise on us, didn’t she? Nobody was expecting it!—more like a shock, it was. Everyone flunked except that tall bawi—sorry, I mean Parsee girl. What’s her name? Behroze Sethna. She cried because she on
