Margot Song and Ravi's romantic relationship

Margot Song and Ravi's romantic relationship offers a portrait of young love unfolding alongside the sisters’ departures into adult life. During their six-month relationship, Ravi’s visit to the Covey home makes their intimacy tangible: Margot is animated around him, the two challenge one another in conversation, and Ravi’s consideration for the family earns him a place in Lara Jean’s hopes for the future.

A Relationship Seen from Home

Ravi is Margot’s boyfriend of six months when Lara Jean learns more about him. His parents are from India, but he was born in London, and Lara Jean first meets him over Skype. His accent and family background initially make him seem sophisticated: she imagines him in relation to Prince William, a grand city, theater, and diplomatic company. Margot counters this first impression by describing Ravi as a huge nerd, not especially smooth or princely, and warns Lara Jean not to be misled by his accent. Their different accounts establish an affectionate gap between Lara Jean’s romanticized impression and Margot’s more intimate knowledge of him.

The sisters arrange to visit Stormy together during Margot’s spring break, and Margot wants to introduce Ravi to her. The plan brings the relationship into the family’s orbit rather than keeping it separate from home. Ravi is to spend two nights at the Covey house before flying to Texas to see relatives, while Margot will remain with her family for the rest of the week. Lara Jean looks forward to meeting him in person and imagines the four of them spending time together as couples. Because Margot has come to understand what is special about Peter, Lara Jean feels that the sisters’ simultaneous experience of being in love gives them something intimate to share.

Intimacy and Consideration

Ravi’s arrival exposes a difference between the family’s expectations and the couple’s plans. The guest room has been prepared for him, complete with towels, a robe, and slippers, but Margot announces that she had expected Ravi to stay in her room. The surprise unsettles the household, particularly Dan, who is visibly at a loss. Ravi ultimately carries his suitcase to the guest room, and Margot explains that he does not want to make a bad impression on her father by sharing her room. Although she had told him she considered it acceptable, he remains uncomfortable with the idea.

Lara Jean sees Ravi’s choice as considerate and says privately that it is the right move. The moment does not resolve the family’s differing assumptions about the couple’s boundaries, but it reveals Ravi attending to the people around Margot as well as to their relationship. Margot acknowledges his consideration, even as the separate-room arrangement is not what she initially proposed. For Lara Jean, this practical gesture strengthens her favorable impression of him.

Intellectual Chemistry and Shared Time

At a meal with the family, Ravi’s fondness for random facts becomes a source of teasing; Margot warns that he can launch into obscure subjects, including bonobo mating habits. His playful contribution prompts laughter, while the larger picture emerges through Lara Jean’s attention to how the couple talk. When they discuss politics, both are passionate, and they challenge one another while also conceding points. Their exchanges have the friction of two flints striking, but the friction reads as energy and intellectual engagement rather than hostility.

Lara Jean once imagined Margot and Josh as destined for each other, but Ravi changes the terms of that assumption. She pictures him and Margot as rivals who gradually respect one another and fall in love, whether as hospital colleagues, political aides, or journalists. Ravi studies bioengineering, while Margot studies anthropology; their subjects differ, yet Lara Jean sees them as a strong team. This imagined pairing gives form to what she observes in their lively exchanges: a relationship grounded not in sameness but in reciprocal challenge.

The couple take a day trip to Washington, DC, visiting museums on the Mall, the Lincoln Memorial, and the White House. Margot and Ravi invite Lara Jean and Kitty along, but Lara Jean declines for both sisters, partly to give the couple time alone and partly to stay home and work on a scrapbook for Peter. When Margot and Ravi return, Ravi names the National Museum of African American History and Culture as his favorite stop. Lara Jean regrets missing it, a small consequence of balancing her own plans with her wish to leave the couple space.

That evening, the family watches a BBC show filmed near where Ravi grew up. He points out landmarks connected with his first job and first date, giving the household glimpses of the places that shaped him. They eat ice cream from the cartons, and Dan keeps urging Ravi to have more. Lara Jean reads her father’s hospitality as a sign that he likes him, and believes Ravi’s decision to sleep in the guest room has helped. When Ravi leaves for Texas the next afternoon, Lara Jean is sorry to see him go, though also glad that Margot will have more time at home before leaving again.

Family Belonging and an Open Future

At goodbye, Lara Jean identifies Ravi as a Hufflepuff, and he correctly guesses the same house for her. Their exchange is brief, but its easy, mutual playfulness gives the relationship a place in the family’s shared humor. Lara Jean’s hopes for Ravi and Margot reach further: she can imagine him remaining part of the family, and even pictures a future trip to London with Margot and a stay at his house. These are hopes rather than established outcomes, but they show how readily she has begun to include him in the family’s imagined future.

The relationship develops as Margot and Lara Jean face different educational and personal timelines. Margot is studying away from home and returns for spring break; Ravi’s visit creates a temporary domestic reunion before he travels on to Texas. Lara Jean, meanwhile, is considering her own uncertain college path, while her friend Chris is contemplating a year away from college to work on farms in Costa Rica. Lara Jean reassures Chris that college will remain available whenever she is ready. Against these varied paths, Margot and Ravi’s relationship is one more example of a future taking shape without following a single shared timetable.

Ravi’s visit does not establish the couple’s long-term outcome. Instead, the evidence presents their relationship through the specific signs by which a family comes to know a new partner: Margot’s brightness around him, their spirited disagreements, the room they choose to share or not share, the stories he brings from London, and the welcome Dan extends at dinner. For Lara Jean, these details replace an earlier romantic certainty about Margot and Josh with a more immediate sense that Margot and Ravi have a compelling connection of their own.