Chapter - 1: I can never forget you

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The painting stared back at me intently. The yellow spots seemed like bright eyes of a black cat's, the dark background of black and deep blue.

I never liked cats in the first place.

Chucking cats out of my mind, I grinned at my canvas. It was painted in a perfect night city shot. The shiny white, yellow and red illuminating the dark background admirably.

Perfect.

Unlocking my laptop I compare it with the photo I took as reference. I smiled as I realized canvas was better.

I heard a gasp behind me, turning I see one of the important people in my life staring down at my painting.

"Is that...? Is that...? Oh my..!" Shreya stuttered, her eyes wide open.

"Yes?"

"It's beautiful!" She rasped and I flashed her a grin.

This is Shreya, my elder brother's wife. There isn't much of a difference between our ages, her being 3 years older, I can relate to her a lot. I love her from the day my brother told... wait.

No. He never tells me anything, actually from the day I found out she had confronted my brother twice for stalking her.

Stalking for him meant trying to pursue her in public places, saving cute pictures, smiling at them all day and night. Shreya though was a hot headed and didn't like this type of behavior, yet after she met my brother, she unconsciously started liking him too.

Or so she claims.

Witnessing him falling in love with this packet of a bomb, I decided to help him out a little and somehow after a few months of struggle they got married.

Love stories, I love them. While the nasty little secrets like cheating, fake love and shit like that are at the top in my list of disgust.

"Dad is home early today." She informs snapping me out of my thoughts and I shrug nonchalantly.

So what? It's his house, he can return whenever he sees fit.

"He called mom in for some discussion... I don't think it's going to end well, I have a bad feeling about it." She completed leaning against my desk.

Snorting I asked "When has anything ended well with him in charge? She is his wife anyway, who cares what they talk about?"

This gained me a smack on my shoulder "Kaira! Don't say that! They are your parents, respect."

"Respect has to be earned. They have done a hell lot of things parents do for their children, haven't they?" I scoffed, sarcasm dripping off my voice, looking up at her soft eyes I let it out "You know, we never actually got anything more than a name from them. Okay, mom loves Bhai, so what? He never got anything from dad. And me? Ha! Do they even know I exist other than when I make mistakes?"

Shreya puts a comforting arm around me and squeezed my shoulder.

"Why are we even discussing this again?" I shake my head and smile looking at the canvas "I'm going to put it on the table for 2 days, could you show Arav Bhai this one?"

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