Tia was 18 years old when she had her first sexual experience. It was Summer of 2013. She was done with her entrance exams. She had little confidence that she will get into a college of her choice. The results were still a month away, which meant she had a month of doing nothing in particular. It was a weird kind of peace for her, mixed with the nervousness of failing her expectations.
On that day, It was just her and her 20 year old brother Tanmay. Tanmay was on his college semester break. Since their parents were out for the entire day, Tanmay had called his friend, Rohan, over to hangout. Their ‘hangout’ was playing movies on the living room TV and drinking. He had told Tia about the plan. It wasn’t the first time her brother was organizing a party at 12 PM in their house when her parents were away. Smoking and drinking were the new additions. It was an unspoken rule to not speak of anything that happened in the house to their parents.