Book excerpt: ‘Listen; Michael. This is serious. This is your best chance to help me ...us. If you waste this; it’s all over.’ ‘What’s all over?’ ‘Everything. Between us.’ ‘Naina?’ ‘Five minutes; that’s all you have. I kid you not.’ First-year student Naina is utterly smitten by her senior; Michael; acknowledged genius and resident rebel of the Fine Arts College; Mumbai. So when he proposes that they drop out of college and live-in; she readily agrees. But life with Michael soon turns into an emotional rollercoaster. Temperamental; opinionated and incredibly selfish; he expects Naina to run the household so that he is free to paint. Naina tries her hand at several odd jobs; but when an accident leaves Michael blind; their life together begins to come undone as she can only helplessly watch. And in trying to pull it together; Naina is driven to being what she has never been—a liar and a cheat. Will Michael forgive her when he learns the truth? Will she forgive him for what he has done to her?