AAHARA

SILENT.

"He asked for the address, so I gave it to him." Naana said with the most innocent smile he could give while I just glared at him.

"Really? What happened to killing him?!" I asked and he sheepishly grinned.

I very surely knew that Naana had pulled this stunt intentionally, he wanted to get on the other's nerves and he had been very successful. All the members of the Singh household have very graciously ignored all their work and decided to glare at the very cute and gigantic teddy bear sent for me.

"Princess." Dada said and I felt like smashing his head but knew that I would be highly unsuccessful.

"Yes Dada?" I turned towards him but he didn't move his eyes from the bear and asked the most dreaded question of my day.

"Who sent this?" And I blinked, trying hard to appear as unknown to the fact as possible.

"Don't play around, your conversation with Naana is making it absolutely clear that you know who it is." Kal anything but snarled.

"Baby you said you didn't have a crush." Aadya Di said and she almost sounded hurt and I sighed.

"I don't Di someone else does." I said and saw Naana raise his bow in amusement, sometimes I felt as if he was a still a kid, playing tricks like this. How cute!

"Baby I think you should say yes to him, afterall he won't stop until you accept his date." Naana said putting gasoline to the fire and I felt like crying when I heard a series of  'whats', 'excuse mes' and growls.

"Naana you are gonna get someone killed." I hissed in his direction but he just shugged.

"Love, who is he?" I looked at Mumma to tell her but surprisingly she wasn't looking at me, her eyes were on Dad who was the only one quiet doing something on his phone.

"His name's Arun. Same school as her." He said and my eyes popped out of my socket.

"When you know who he is then why is he still breathing?" Dada asked Dad who just lifted his head to look at his oldest son, one look and Dada bowed his head. Nobody, I mean it, nobody ever talked to Aaditya Singh like that.

"Abhishek took care of him, I didn't think he had the guts to come back." Dad said and I sighed again, it was a shock for me as well I wouldn't have imagined Arun being this courageous.

"Alright we will think about this later, Sahana Di and I have a date! We will talk when I come back." I said as I had already noticed her sad expression having being delayed in her plan. God please keep Arun alive till then!

"Promise you all won't do anything thing!" I said to Dad who looked like he could care less but I didn't let that hurt me, that was his usual expression.

"Sure." Huh?! That was easy.

"Dad!" Aahar went to protest but I ignored him, took Di's hand and went out of the front door and into the car after Naana went to his mansion.

As the car started, Di's phone buzzed she looked at me and I just shugged. She started texting someone and I zoned out while looking outside the car window, Arun's sudden appearance was something that threw me off a bit, especially with the 'gift' it was simply unlike him to send me something like that, he was my bully for crying out loud.

Not to mention, Naana's reaction to the whole situation, I always knew he didn't like Dad that much, well technically he didn't like any of his son-in-laws as he thought that they look away his daughters from him but these days I could clearly notice his distaste for Dad, he didn't hold this big of a grudge against Si Uncle (Sanvi's Husband, Aahara's Maussi), something really bad was between these two, really bad.

Thinking about it, I suddenly realised Naana did hold a similar dislike for Daddu, he had always said that my Daddu was dead and had made sure no news of him ever reached my ears, actually no news of my father's family ever reached me, meeting my Uncles was a new surprise, one that I didn't let show that much.

Naani would always frown at Naana when she said thinks like Daddu is dead and stuff, I should have been more observant I guess, it seems like I am missing a lot of answers and to make it worse I think I don't even know all the questions. It's frustrating and severely disappointing but I have no idea how to deal with it, my family is hiding a lot from me and the most dreaded fact about it that it seems like Naana is giving them all quite a competition.

I sighed, again.

"Why the sigh?" I almost jumped up when Di talked so suddenly, I just shugged and smiled at her.

"Don't be worried, Dad gave you a promise, he won't take it back." She said and u nodded, I knew that already that was the reason why I asked him for a one.

"So excited for school?" Di asked again and I shugged.

"Not really, it's school, nothing new." I said and she frowned.

"Well maybe not the studies but you will get new friends." She said excitedly, capping her hands at the end and I smiled.

"I guess." She seemed satisfied with my answer and then started telling me her plan, apparently we were going to have a picnic.

She seemed way more excited then necessary, I was happy to see her this happy. Once we reached, I realised that we have come to the same beach Ekansh Bhaiya took me to. We got down and went to the spot where everything was already laid out for us, I popped down again while Di took a seat diagonal from me. We stayed silent, but it wasn't awkward I liked it, looking at the beautiful view infront of me, enjoying a nice weather and the water.

"So, how was it? Living with Naana and Naani?" Di asked all of a sudden and I turned to look at her only to see that she was already smiling down at me.

"It was really nice." I said and she nodded, smiling softly.

"You know I missed you a lot." She said and I looked ahead again.

"Me too." Was all I could manage then it was silence again, usually I had billions of things to think about but at that moment I had nothing, absolutely nothing in mind.

"Baby we all missed you so much." She said and I nodded.

"I read your letters." She said suddenly and I almost broke my neck as I turned towards her.

"They were absolutely adorable. I am sorry I couldn't read them before." She said and I just looked at her, soon her expression changed from a soft smile to a deep frown.

"Why are you crying Baby?" She reached her hand for my cheek but I pulled back, I touched it myself and felt the wetness there.

"So, they lied to me." I said in a small voice, all of them lied, it was a lie that they didn't get my letters. They did but they decided to ignore them. I am so stupid.

"What lie? Baby?" Di reached out again but I backed away.

All that was drama, nothing but drama.

"Baby? Aahara?" I looked at her then and suddenly everything flashed infront of me, all the crying all the pain was there. Everything, even looking at her was beyond painful so I got up and ran away, ran until I couldn't hear the screams behind me until I was sure that she wasn't following me. I ran until I saw a tree big enough to hide me, I climbed it and tooka seat while leaning against the trunk and weeped.

All the moments I spent with them, all were nothing but a facade they didn't love me, never did. Never. Suddenly I felt so pathetic for crying, so pathetic for giving in to Dad's warmth, Mumma's eyes and Dada's kisses, everything and that didn't help but made me cry even more.

If they did they would have came to get me, at least visited. If that not then atleast replied to my beggings. I was so stupid to think they cared, they never did, how could I forget that they abandoned me once, they could always do it twice.

Baby Sis we didn't get any letters.

Hey Everybody!

It seems like I am always late these days, please forgive me for that and thank you so much for waiting!

BTW, I love you all so much!