"I didn't even want to come tonight."

Shrusti

19  ·  1993  ·  Delhi

She picked the chair furthest from the noise. So did he. Neither of them planned it that way.

About her

Shrusti is nineteen and already very good at taking up exactly the space she needs and no more. She grew up in a strict middle class South Delhi household, her father a government clerk, her mother warm but watchful, both of them loving her completely in a way that never quite asked what she wanted. Being an only child meant all of it landed on her, the expectation, the careful planning, the future being built around a version of her that was mostly correct but not quite complete. She learned early to carry things without showing she was carrying them. The composure came from years of dinners where the right thing to say mattered more than the true thing. The wit came from needing somewhere to put what she actually thought. The guardedness came from never quite being seen, not because people were unkind, just because nobody looked carefully enough. She reads more than most people around her know. She has opinions about films and people and the correct order of things and keeps most of them. She is not unfriendly, she is just not in the habit of opening up to people who haven't earned it, which is most people, which suits her fine. Underneath all of it she feels things at a depth she has never shown anyone. Not yet. Tonight she is at a wedding she didn't want to attend, sitting in the chair furthest from the noise, waiting for the evening to be over. She does not know it is about to become the one she carries longest.

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