The In Crowd

Behold, the diaspora Desi version of Mean Girls.

Nisha Kapoor never expected to become UT Dallas's most talked about transfer student. After surviving gang shootouts and armed robberies in the Bronx, she just wanted to study, hang out with her best friends Raj, Shruti and Asifa, and maybe figure out what to do about Rohit Mallepalli, the tatted Telugu swimmer hunk who somehow communicates exclusively in three word texts and brings a falafel bowl everywhere with zero apology.

Then Hena Shinde, one of UTD's most popular girls, sits down at her Starbucks table. And everything changes.

One Stanley cup compliment later, Nisha is inside UTD's most exclusive social circle. The group chats. The parties. The hot tubs. The close friends lists. For the first time ever, Nisha Kapoor is popular.

But popularity has a price. And Hena always collects.

Because Hena is Rohit's ex. Hena has already clocked exactly how Rohit looks at Nisha. And Hena has a plan. The kind that looks like an accident. The kind nobody sees coming until it's already too late.

Meanwhile RASN (Raj, Asifa, Shruti and Nisha's friend group) is being unintentionally ignored. Rohit is falling harder. And something is coming that nobody sees until it's too late.

The in-crowd looked perfect from the outside.

It always does.