Arjun stared at the blinking cursor on his laptop. The screen read: "Cengage Maths PDF Download Quora." It was 2 AM, three weeks before his JEE Advanced exam, and his shelf of brand-new, spine-unbroken Cengage books seemed to mock him. Each volume cost more than his monthly bus pass. He couldn't afford them. But his dreams could.
"Which chapters?" Arjun: "All of them? I'm broke. Really."
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"Because I didn't clear JEE. Not even the mains. The books are just paper now. But the PDFs... maybe they'll help someone who can. I've sent them to 47 people. Two of them are in IIT Bombay now. That’s my rank list."
Arjun felt a cold knot in his stomach. He typed back slowly. Arjun stared at the blinking cursor on his laptop
"I wasn't always a pirate. I bought them. Two years ago. My father sold his watch."
A pause. Three dots appeared, vanished, appeared again. He couldn't afford them
On results day, Arjun’s parents screamed when they saw his All India Rank: 1,492. Enough for a good IIT. He didn't scream. He opened Quora. He went back to that old thread. He typed a new answer beneath Ishita's.