Pulling the plug
Today didn’t start heavy. I just saw a photo on Instagram. Prachi had posted something from a puja.For a second I thought—did they buy a new house? But then it clicked. Bonnie had already told me he had bought one. So that means… they’ve moved out. And that one thought was enough to set everything off in my head. My mind immediately went back to something he had once said— that maybe he would move out because it felt like the right thing to do after everything. At that time, I didn’t really get it. Now I think maybe I do. Maybe it’s about not wanting to feel like an extra. Maybe it’s about space. Maybe it’s just what people do when things change. Maybe it’s how Nikhil processes his emotions, I don’t know. I just know that this wasn’t sudden for him. He must have been thinking about it for a while. I congratulated them and they sounded happy. Everything seemed normal until he mentioned that Prachi had been crying— that it felt like her bidai had happened a...
