Chapter 1: FROM CONSERVATIVE GOOD GIRL TO CLUB SLUT IN ONE NIGHT

I step off the plane into a completely different world, my heart pounding with equal parts fear and forbidden excitement. Back home in India, my life was nothing but rules. Conservative family. Judgmental aunties who watched my every move. “Good girls don’t wear short clothes. Good girls don’t talk to boys. Good girls stay pure.” I was the perfect daughter — always obedient, always quiet, always smiling through the oppression. Never breaking a single rule. Never even letting a boy kiss me properly.

But now I’m here for college. Thousands of miles away from the aunties, the expectations,...