In February 2022, 29-year-old Priya* was working on the shop floor at Hollister on Regent’s Street. Nursing a terrible hangover, she had considered calling in sick, but had made it to the last 20 minutes of her shift, when a guy walked into the shop and asked her where the graphic t-shirts were. “I thought he was cute, but he looked really annoying, like some kind of Drake wannabe”, she says. “Basically, he looked like a f**boy.”
After noticing Priya’s accent, he asked if she was from India, and the pair got talking after he shared that he went to a Hindu school. “He asked for my Instagram, and it was instant after that,” she says. “We spent all our time together. His family even jokingly said ‘has this girl kidnapped you, you’re spending so much time together?’ I would say that it was definitely love at first sight.”
