Romance fiction: Can Sana fall in love ‘again’ after an accident changes the course of her life?

An excerpt from ‘Fool Me Twice,’ by Nona Uppal.

Feb 14, 2024 - 09:00
Romance fiction: Can Sana fall in love ‘again’ after an accident changes the course of her life?

After that day at Adventure Island, I was mildly heartbroken when Ashish pretended nothing had happened, despite the fact that I made several not-so-subtle nods that I had a crush on him. Eventually, I retreated too, and the remaining months of tenth grade passed with both of us pretending we were friends. He no longer seemed interested in anything more and I did not want to run after attention when he had put it directly on my lap. Well, before snatching it away too.

“He’s not doing anything because he’s scared about not getting head boy,” Bani said as she joined me in the canteen for lunch. Ashish had been away for the last week for all our lunches, busy campaigning for the elections. While Ashish, if elected, would only formally be the head boy two months later, when we went on to the eleventh grade, the elections were conducted a few months prior to give the new batch of Student Council members a chance to test the waters in the presence of their senior mentors.

I looked up from my food. “Huh?” I asked.

“About the fact that he likes you,” she announced. Bani knew? “He’s not doing anything because he thinks it’ll lower his...

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