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K A I R A

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K A I R A

I peeped inside Sitara's room to find it empty. “Now where this child went ?" I whispered slapping my forehead. I knew where she must be. I made sure to not make any sound while entering in Mr. Shekhawat's room. As I thought, he was sleeping and snoring as well whereas Sitara upon him. He was holding her. I lightly tapped on her shoulder, she flinched and opened her eyes with a smile.

She pointed at him. I carefully unwrapped his arms and took her out. He stirred but didn't wake up. I sighed in relief.

I brought all the grocery bags in kitchen,“Let's prepare the batter first," I said her looking at my phone. After it was done, it was instructed that we have keep it away for few minutes. So we decided to make the dough for cookies, it was Sitara's wish if she could make some cookies too.

After nearly thirty minutes, I asked Sitara to mix the cake batter once again. From the corner of my eyes, I saw she was sliding her finger by the corners of the bowl and licking it. I couldn't help but smiled. In their childhood who hadn't tasted cakes batter ?! We first put the cake into the oven then started our cupcake. She told she want chocolate and strawberries one so I did a thing, I divided the batter and put chocolate in one and sliced strawberries in another. Couldn't make another batter so...I am sorry, I was always too lazy.

“you know, you are my favorite," Sitara squealed, laying the cookie dough on the island, on the already spread flour. I asked her how to use roller. “Here look what I have for you," She grinned as I gave a packet of cookie cutters.

There were for children so they had many shapes like butterfly, star, hearts and many more.

She said,“I wike this buttewfwly, they so pwetty." She showed that to me. I smiled at her, leaning against the freeze. I made the cream or frosting. Thankfully, this time I didn't forget piping bag. Previous time I remembered when it was my parent's aniversary and I decided to bake them a cake. At the end, I realised, I forgot about the frosting completely.

Wow..such a great daughter I was.

Anyways, as if they were very great parents. Hmph.

“Kaiwa, I could smew (*smell) something buwning," I heard Sitara speaking. I realised, the cake must be over cooked. I opened the oven and was about to pull out the tray, but I ended up burning my hand. I wore the gloves, hissing in pain and took out the cake. I instantly washed my hand with water. I then opened the freezer and kept few ice cubes in my hand.

“What happened ?" Sitara asked. “oh nothing. Just a minute I will be back." I went to my room and wore a bandaid around my finger. Luckily, It wasn't that bad.

“Now, it's time for the frosting."

After what felt like decades, we were done. I looked at my phone for time. Oh shit. It was already half past four. We need to decorate his room. I kept everything in the freeze well Aarna maa just then walked in. She was dumbstruck. We then explained her everything,“Oh god, it's risky for both of you. You could have said me."

“You already work all day, we weren't wanting to disturb your, probably, five hour sleeps." I rolled my eyes. “Now Aarna maa, please do me a favour. Please keep them securely in the freeze,we also have to see the decorations." She agreed.

We blew balloons as much as we could. We didn't do that in his room cause one burst of balloon and all plans destroyed. It was 5:30a.m. when we started the decorating part. All were gonna get up at 6 or 6:30 including Mr. Shekhawat so I hoped we could finish everything before six.

Sitara kept bringing balloons and ribbons from upstairs from downstairs whereas I kept decorating them around the room.

It took only twenty five minutes, it was unexpected. We almost thought he will get up before our decoration.

“We did it," Sitara showed her palm. I gave her a high five. Hah..! Thank god. We collapsed on the couch. “I wanna sweep," Sitara murmured snuggling into me. I hummed,“hmm..! Few minutes more, sweetheart." We went downstairs and found Sakshi and John sitting with there laptops.

Sitara wished,“good morning," their heads snapped towards us,“hey, good morning." Sitara said them everything,“Seriously ? You guys did this much. Oh fu-duck." John chuckled.

“Oh then be quick, Boss will get up exactly at 6 as he has a meeting with some other boss at 7:30." Sakshi explained. We rushed upstairs. Sakshi and I were only inside the room others were outside with the cake and other things.

Mr. Shekhawat did movement, he jerked when he kept his hand on his chest. He looked around frowning his eyebrows. He rubbed his eyes again and gasped. His bit lower lips viewing everything. “O fuck." He whispered.

“Happy birwthday, daddy." Sitara shouted holding ballons in her hand. She gave it to him. He picked her and squeezed her tightly,“thank you, my baby." He kissed her cheeks. “There are more." She said. “Bring it inside," I told. They came inside with cakes, cupcakes and cookies.

Mr. Shekhawat kept his hand on his forehead,“oh god. What's this ?" He chuckled. I admitted,“Your daughter made it all night." His expression changed. He took her her and started examining,“What ? Are you alright ? Did you get any hurt, baby ?" She shook her head,“No..! She too helped me." She pointed at me.

“Don't worry. I made sure all the time she don't get any hurt." I assured him with a blink. He sighed and looked at me. I didn't know what's wrong with him. First he gets angry then he gawk me with some different emotions. He was weird.

“Thanks." I just nodded. I wasn't going to talk with him,“Happ birthday." I murmured. He thanked me.

~to be continued~

{A/N}

Words : 1027
Published : 16 Feb 2022

Hey, it is the last update of this week. I will not continue writing for few weeks until my finals ends.

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