It is rare that fanfiction makes you relook at a section of your life and evaluate it all over again.
This chapter brought back so many memories of my own middle school/high school days, and not all were the nicest.
What can I say except you have a talent for making all the characters seem so real and easily imaginable.
Yes, what Arnav, Payal and the others did was nasty and uncalled for. But at 15, you do a lot of things you heartily wish you hadn't done when you're older.
And Arnav perhaps even felt justified. He wasn't correct, but with his best friend attempting suicide, maybe he needed a scapegoat which he found in Khushi. I mean, adolescent boys really aren't the most mature/bravest. Khushi was the easy target because she stood out and brought conflict into his previously comfortable world of privilege and blind class consciousness.
Poor Khushi. Man, I'd be scarred for life by what she goes through in thees two years.
Fickle friends aside, being interrogated by the cops for a classmate's attempted suicide? Therapy for years.
So Lavanya and Khushi were never really as thick as Arnav and Payal think they were, after all. Okay theory time. Lavanya seems to be fine with Khushi as long as she isn't directly competing with her. And she likes imagining romantic interest where none probably exists. MAYBE Lavanya liked a guy in college (Arnav?) who payed more attention to Khushi and Lavanya perceived it as a slight while Khushi was all 'IDGAF, you rich kids are nuts.'
It ties Lavanya's animosity, Arnav's discomfort, and Khushi's indifference together neatly. So it's probably not the right answer. *sigh*
Khushi may have had a hard life of it, but I get the impression that she's come out stronger and more emotionally stable than the others.
I hope Aman comes back some time. I'd like to see what he's made of his life. And it would be an interesting facet to the Arnav-Khushi equation.
P.S. This comment is also signed by a friend who is on an IF-vrat, but loves your story-- LooneyLuna.
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