Chapter 1 “C’mon Micah! It’ll be fun. I swear!” Caleb’s decidedly obnoxious voice echoed through the open doors of my closet as he rummaged somewhere deep inside, no doubt messing up all racks I organized in there just yesterday. He had been inside for little over 5 minutes, and I already have an itch to pull him out of there and put back all the shirts back onto the hangers that he has undoubtedly knocked down by now in his quest to find me something to wear that was my age. Everything that I wore was my age, dammit! But I knew my internal raging was useless. Arguing my fashion choices to him ..read more

Under surveillance By the next morning, I had made up my mind to be an adult and pretend like yesterday never happened. That I never sent the email from Hell to Aquarius and that Mr. Torp- um, Scorpio never saw it. That was the only way I would be able to look at him in the eye, I decided. Taking a deep breath, I entered the office gates, sans coffee today, pasted on a tight smile for virgo and marched to the bank of elevators. As the Red light climbed from the parking lot to ground floor, I mentally started making my to-do list. Just as I had some semblance of control and professionalism, the ..read more

Chapter 1 The class was filled with usual murmured sounds, a whispered conversation here, an occassional sound of laughter there, as I kept my head down, trying to catch-up on my yesterday’s notes. “Hey, Capricorn! Come on here, we are playing spin the pen!”, called out my friends from the bench at the very back of the class. I turned around, and saw a group of 6-8 people gathered together, watching a gel-pen spin feebly in the center. There was a roar of laughter as it stopped on a girl who’s name always escapes me and the guy adjacent to her asked, “truth or dare?” his eyes sparkling mischie ..read more

Chapter 1 “C’mon dude it’ll be fun!” Leo said in a decidedly obnoxious voice that echoed as he rummaged through my closet, no doubt messing up all the organising I did in there just yesterday. He’s been inside for little over 5 minutes and I already have an itch to pull him out of there and put back all the hangers and shirts he’s knocked down in his quest to find me something my age to wear. All that I wore was my age, dammit. But explaining that to him was as easy as pulling him out of my closet right now. “You know I don’t do haunted houses, leo. I’d much rather sit at home and do trick and ..read more

“Stop. Stop! Oh God. We gonna get in so much trouble, Sagi!” Libra hissed at her. Her only response to it was dangling her feet out of the window and bracing my body for the jump. It wasn’t high from where she sat perched on windowsill of her friend, not even one storey really. It was just a very high window that faced back of the house. But she knew it was more to do with balancing the impact than the force of jump itself. Subtle science really. Sagittarius snorted at her own train of thoughts. She was supposed to study physics at Libra’s house, a study sleepover kind. They should know better ..read more

The waiter of her usual morning café wished her good morning to which Capricorn replied, “what’s good about this morning?” But then she smiled to make it a joke. She wasn’t joking though. There really was nothing good about this morning. Why will it be? Whole office was excited to meet the new boss. Well, their department head, at least. Capricorn was less than enthusiastic. Why, you ask? Well for one, she liked her old boss. It was comfortable and coordinated before. This meant uncertainty, not knowing how to behave, what to expect, what to (and more importantly, not to) say, and surprises. S ..read more

The noise coming out of the house sounded wild enough for Sagittarius to crack his neck in anticipation. ‘Atleast the crowd sounds decent’, he thinks as he makes his way into the house that is raging with party. He neither knows who’s party this was, nor did he care. But he does know he’ll be owning this party within 10 minutes of entering it. The inside of the house looked as wild as it sounded from outside. Music pumping, check. Crowd wildly dancing around, check. Mentally ticking off all the must-haves in a party, he made his round of the house like he knew exactly where he was going. It di ..read more

It was a normal evening for Aries to be at the club with music blasting off the speakers and two girls hanging off on either of his arms. Normal. Familiar. Routine. Chore. Boring. He used to love the energy of this place, everyone drinking and dancing, minding their own business. When did this scene get boring? Oh yeah, 2 nights ago, he thought, stifling a yawn. One moment, he was enjoying the place then suddenly looked up and bam! The charm was gone. Damn, now he’ll have to find a new spot to hangout and convince his friends accompany him. Not that they would have much say in it. “Hey, Aries ..read more