Krish wasn’t happy with how his plans for the day were unravelling. It must have been rotten luck following him like it was the love of his life or it must be his horrible choice of friends. All he’d done was ask Vijay if he wanted to accompany him to the book fair. Now, somehow, he was walking in the company of five noisy people, amongst who were two I-can’t-keep-my-hands-off-you couples and one demon witch. He had clung to a little hope when he heard that Maya, a fellow book nerd, was joining them, but she seemed to have switched sides from indulging in overly sweet romance books to overly sweet romance, now that she had a boyfriend hanging off her arm.

Krish had never imagined he’d feel this terrible walking in a giant hall filled with books. It was the saddest thing in his life.