Chapter 6O stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
‘With your crooked heart.”
‘As I Wandered Out One ‘Evening.’ by “W. H. Auden.
Had it been possible for the Sun to get besotted by a girl’s beauty, he might have considered himself lucky that day to see Aashi welcoming him from her window. It was after all, quite a rarity for her to be up so early. Not even her aunt’s ranting admonitions had ever succeeded in getting Aashi out of bed before she herself found it absolutely necessary to do so.
But that day Aashi was up before even her mother had stirred and without having any reason to excuse this sudden aberration. Surely, the incident with Abhi was too trivial to keep her awake so.
It must have been the rain and thunderstorm that had ke
