My name is Karim, I'm an half-indian teenager living in the London suburb. I have a brother named Allie whose four years younger than me. My father Haroon and mother Margaret don't get along well. I can't wait to leave my family and start my actual life. I'm seventeen and ready to experience anything.
Without noticing it, my all life changed during this meeting. I was too busy flirting with Eva's son, Charlie. Charlie obsessed me and was for me a kind of inspiration model. I admired him so much that I didn't even notice that my father and Eva were having an affair.At one of my father's conferences, I decided to join him. The party took place at Eva's house. She was a woman with whom my father uses to practice meditation.
Soon after the conference, my family split up. My father choose to follow his love affair with Eva. Unlike what I thought was just a crush, my father had real interest in Eva and was in love. I lived with Charlie, but our relationship wasn't going as planned. Charlie was becoming more and more arrogant and wasn't even paying attention to me.
Allie was all alone with my mother. I felt guilty of leaving them and started to ask myself if didn't have made a mistake.
I met Helen at one of my dad conferences. We lived in the same suburbs. Even if I wasn't actually interested in her, I liked to spend time with Helen. Her father wasn't glad of our relationship, one time he even chased me in his garden. It was the first time I was actually rejected because of my Indian origins.
My best friend and part-time lover (not the song) Jamila was forced by her parents to marry an Indian hard worker man, Changez. Jamila's father forced her daughter to marry Changez in starting a hunger strike. My life was going wrong. First my parents get divorced, and then my best friend is trapped in an arranged marriage.
At my 20 my father, Eva and I moved to the south of London. This was a new binging in a brand-new city. I wasn't afraid anymore, London was my opportunity to conquer the city and accomplished my dreams.