Luv Shuv In New York: An Opposites Attract, Interracial Romance by N. M. Patel

Author:N. M. Patel [Patel, N. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2023-02-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Sam

Akira loved me.

Hours passed.

And she loved me.

Days passed.

And she loved me.

We told our friends about us. I told Luke. Akira told her roommates and her friends in the university.

We all started hanging out together.

Luke and I occasionally had dinners at Akira’s place with her roommates.

Our worlds came together.

And Akira still loved me.

Together, we celebrated Diwali. Akira described it as a festival where friends and families come together, have dinner, enjoy fireworks, and make some rangoli—making colorful designs with colored powder at the entrance of the house.

This had been Akira and her roommates’ first Diwali away from home. So, we’d organized our own little Diwali party. Akira had dressed up in a long, backless kurta, tight pants, and her gorgeous, flowy, dupatta that had made me lose my mind.

The girls had decorated their place with lots of lights, candles, and colors. We had invited all our friends. Even my parents had shown up for a while. Akira and her roommates had prepared some homemade delicacies, and we’d ordered some Indian food from Akira’s favorite place.

Akira had video-called her family and shown everyone the festivities. No introductions were made when she had shown the house full of people. All of us were introduced as friends to her family. All fourteen of her family members had been present, and the conversation had been indecipherable on the other side of the phone.

When everyone had left that night, and it was just the two of us in her twin-sized bed, Akira had apologized to me for putting me in the “friends” category when she had introduced us to her family.

“I don’t want you to think that I’m not proud of us. I love us so much,” she’d said, snuggling deeper into my arms.

“There is no need for you to apologize. I understand. I wasn’t expecting you to introduce me as a boyfriend.”

And it was the truth. I hadn’t expected Akira to introduce me as a boyfriend. I’d been prepared, considering our situation. But it had still stung. Not because she had introduced me as a friend. But because she had to introduce me as a friend.

That had been just the first of many more times that Akira had apologized to me for hiding our relationship. Every time one of her family members video-called her, which was every single day, I had to leave her bedroom, or her vicinity, for her to talk. Every time, she hadn’t been able to meet my eyes later.

Hiding us from her family had started to weigh on my girl. And I didn’t know what to do. I would not force her to admit anything before she was ready, and the time was right. But I didn’t even know when that time was.

I was still coming to terms with the fact that I was in love with a girl who wasn’t of my own country. She was from India. A fucking whole new country that I knew nothing about.

Right now, I sat in her living room, while she talked to her mom and younger brother in her bedroom.

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