Arnav Foster can corner me on a mountain and scare me like that anytime, just saying! 😉
But I understand Khushi's predicament all too well. When everything seems to crash down on you all at once, the slightest provocation releases this barrage of pent up fears, frustration and melancholy. I'm glad she's letting it all out. Crying is indeed cathartic. I wonder what Arnav truly feels about her. He's favourite hobby seems to be sending mixed signals to the poor girl and to poor me. 😕
One moment he's igniting her with his smouldering intensity and the next he's nonchalant and cool as though nothing means anything to him after all.
Sometimes he seems to care over much and sometimes he is brutally careless.
I have a feeling it isn't just Khushi (and me) who is suffering in this conflict but Arnav as well. Maybe he just doesn't know how to deal with the suddenly confusing feelings on top of everything else that has gone wrong in his life recently.
I can't remotely find it in my heart to blame him for his aloof and cynical nature, OR his insolence. His 17 year old self has just been moulded as such by society. The same society that now despairs of him-- the hypocrites.
But is this was the farewell party, and Arnav is going to University of Michigan, when do Arnav and Khushi get a chance for things to develop between them? Because in the prologue it seemed as though they have some amount of shared history, when they meet all those years later complete with a son and a girlfriend!