A Boy Named Khwahish

By Dee Aditya

The last year of school was supposed to be a stressful mess, but Sathya never expected it would get this stressful or this messy. He’s pissed off with his parents, his best friend is convinced something is wrong with him, and there’s a new guy with a pretty face and dazzling eyes, and Sathya just can’t seem to ignore him.

Or rather, Sathya doesn’t want to ignore him.

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Part of Take a Chance Anthology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beaten Track Publishing
• Release date: Dec 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781786451057

Dee Aditya

Dee Aditya likes M/M, and loves romance, so that's what she writes. Her stories tend to be funny, sweet, angsty, cheesy, fluffy, or some combination of those.

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Take a Chance Anthology

A Boy Named Khwahish

by

Dee Aditya

SMASHWORDS EDITION

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This story is a work of fiction and the characters and events in it exist only in its pages and in the author’s imagination.

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The last year of school was supposed to be a stressful mess, but Sathya never expected it would get this stressful or this messy. He’s pissed off with his parents, his best friend is convinced something is wrong with him, and there’s a new guy with a pretty face and dazzling eyes, and Sathya just can’t seem to ignore him.

Or rather, Sathya doesn’t want to ignore him.

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Part of Take a Chance Anthology.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

New Day, Old Blues

The New Boy

Sociology

Secret Places

Closets

Monsoon

Rainbow

The Beginning and the End

Take a Chance Anthology

About the Author

By the Author

Beaten Track Publishing

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The ignorant think love only helps the virtuous

They know not that it is also the reason for bravery.

—Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural (Chapter 8, Kural 76)

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Acknowledgements

Acerbus, thank you for all the insightful comments you never fail to make. And Al, thanks for your comments and the reassurance that what I wrote wasn’t crap! Finally, thank you, Debbie, for telling me about this anthology in the first place.

Also thank you, high school, for not not sucking and giving me some really inspiring material for this story.

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New Day, Old Blues

A whole new day, a whole new school year, whole new experiences…not.

After two months of falling asleep at two a.m. and waking up at noon, Sathya was struggling to keep his eyes open enough to make the journey from his dorm room to the quadrangle for morning assembly. The first day of Class 12 was the same as the first day of any other grade: assembly was extra long, the principal addressing the students with a rambling speech about motivation and doing better and blah, blah, blah. Except today, when she delivered her spiel about working hard and aiming high for the public exams, she was looking at Sathya’s class. That was new.

Around him, his classmates stood taller, tightening their neckties and lifting their chins, galvanised by the inspirational words about those high achievers who had been products of the school. Sathya had a feeling the high spirits would last a month