Together Forever

Chapter 64: Steady & Ripple

"I won! The ice cream belongs to me now brat."

"Shona!!! It's unfair!"

Mia made a huge fuss. Like how? She always won the Monopoly game when Aditya or Jay played against. But it was the opposite in regard to Swara.

Swara laughed. An evil laughter, it was as her hands got hold of the chocolate ice cream tub. She does not have a big heart as her dear brother and bestie.

The little one's tantrums were an entertaining watch. Not until Mia's protectors (Aditya and Jay) came to the rescue but till then, it was her time.

"Swara? I've got something for you." Reema strode towards them, a flyer in her hand. She just took a spoon of ice cream but paused at Reema's call.

"All okay maasi?" Swara enquired. Reema's tone was not quite normal and she could vouch for it. Taking the chance, Mia snatched the tub away. Sneaky brat!

"I am. You have to see this." A confused Swara took the flyer and in the next few seconds her hazels darted. The flyer was a golden bomb!

"Piano recital competition at Richards in front of Juilliard school's professor as jury, this is my call." The rush of thrill in Swara's veins almost made her squeal. Reema had a soft smile.

Juilliard school, New York has topped the list of best five music schools in the world for years. What a great privilege it would be to showcase her talent under such adept eyes.

"I am doing it maasi." Swara's hold on the flyer stiffened, "I have to make it." A soundless whisper it was. There remained a promise to fulfill and a last battle against demons to be fought.

Challenges; many that may drain her spirits down and nothing about them feared Swara. Indeed, it was a little late yet the time had come and she was ready.

"Pi-aano" Mia spelled the word with a lot of difficulty as she leaned on Swara's arms, "Shona. That big black thing you play?" It should be, the paper had the same picture as one her sister used.

Swara chuckled. She pulled her little one closer, "The very one." With the answer, her thumb wiped off the ice cream traces from her cheeks.

"It is huge." Dramatic eyes and wide arms, that's how Mia animatedly described the piano only to earn laughter from both.

A glance back to the flyer, Swara stood up to face Reema, "I was five when I asked you to teach me piano. You took me under your wings, guided and corrected everytime there was a need."

Reema seemed stunned. To think, Swara barely reached Mia's height when she asked to teach her piano. At the moment, she could still figure out the same gleam on her hazels; just a little older and a lot wiser.

"Now that I stand to face another recital after years, would you be the very piano teacher again for me?" Swara wanted the assurance despite how obvious the answer had been.

"I may not go as easy as you think. Be ready for it." Reema's fake strictness melted the very moment Swara gave a bear hug that made her smile.

"Can I leave?" Swara rolled her eyes. Mia and her drama; this girl would be better off with dramatics and not the fashion company her mother built for her.

"Please do and return the ice cream tub to the one that it belongs to, thanks." She pointed the tub and was back to clinging on to Reema which made Mia whin more.

Reema played the silent spectator throughout the sisters banters and it only made her muse of a thing,

Good days were returning.