Everything I wish for

Athena's POV

The woman stood in her path and after some seconds smile broke on her face, she walked towards me and pulled me into a tight hug. "Hi," I said softly not hugging her back. She hugged me for a long time than a normal hug I have ever felt before, I felt my t-shirt wet on my shoulders, is she crying? If so then why. After a few sniffs and sobs, she took a step back, cupped my face, and looked at me with eyes that I had forgotten how it looked. She spoke nothing and pulled me to sit on the couch beside she took my both of my hands in hers and proceeded to ask me questions such as "how are you? You have grown so much. How was your journey? Are you hungry? I will cook for you, what do you want to eat? Are you happy to come back home? Did you see your room? As you were not there your room is not decorated, you tell me your preferences I will decorate it according to you." and so on. I didn't feel anything her questions felt just like normal emotionless words to me. I didn't bother answering them cause I didn't know the answer to those questions I just pulled my hands back out of her hand. She looked disappointed but gave an awkward smile and pulled the young boy from earlier and introduced him as my younger sibling Adam Abel. He was 9 years younger than me so that made him up to the age of 12.

"Why is he here? Shouldn't he be in a boarding school? And above all did you miss me or is it all just formalities?" I saw and got up from my seat, the boy grabbed my shirt from behind with the eye I hated mostly the stupid big eyes school mates called it "puppy eyes" it annoys me. "Why the boarding school?" he asked, making him leave my shirt I said "ask your parents" emotionlessly, turned towards the kitchen grabbed my already prepared coffee and went up towards my room where I didn't know what to do. After a few hours of pacing around the room, looking out of the window and reading books that I had brought. I was interrupted by a knock on my door, on opening the door Adam was standing there with a toothy grin on his face "dad has come, he is calling you downstairs" I nodded and step out of the room for my hand to get caught by the little boy and pulling me lightly but I stopped right before the staircase to avoid injuries. Making him leave my hand I said him to walk forward and I will follow after him.

Mother and Father were sitting at the dining table. Dad was sitting on the seat meant for the head of the family and mom was sitting beside him. I just walked forward and took a seat opposite my mom and Adam sat beside me. For some reason this boy following me around and it's kinda annoying. Looking at the food served, I realised there is only one edible that I'm not allergic to fruits. Every food served was either made of seafood or peanuts, and I am diagnosed with a severe allergy to them. Dad proceeds to ask similar questions that my mom had asked me in the afternoon and all of my replies were with a nod or yes, good, okay, nice that's all I spoke. He said that I will have to start learning about the business sooner and suggested I start in 2 to 3 days. My mom was about to interfere but kept shut its nothing unusual. I wanted to ask for more time before joining to adjust to the surroundings as its all very new to me but before I made up my mind dad gave me the news that I could not comprehend. "you will be getting married" it all he spoke and I was still confused. " what, why, with who, but I don't even know anyone here?" but these were all my thought because I didn't know how to start the train of questions in my mind.