She was walking down the street after a long tiring day at work. It was a very bad day for her. She lost her job, broke her engagement and her house owner asked her to vacate the place within a week. With just a little amount of money left, she deci...
The aeroplane landed with a screeching sound on the field. Annika came out of the plane. Taking a sharp breath, she inhaled the smell of freshly watered grass around her.
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Returning to one where you belong with, feels like a tortoise retracting into her shell. The troubles of the world evaporating. To anyone else this is a house like all the others exactly like it on this street, but to her it is sanctuary, it is cocoon, it is rest. Back to home.
"Welcome Back Home, Annika."
She was shocked for few second.She thought she heard her mother's warm voice. She felt like hearing her sister's giggling along with feeling her mother's warmth. Her eyes welled up with tears.She knew they were around her and with her always.
Clutching her mother's golden heart pendent which was securely wrapped around her neck, she cried a bit. She was missing them each passing day.
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There were plasma screens of arrival and departure times on the wall of the airport. People were lined up at the check in desk with suitcases and baggage. In the center, there was a sculpture of a whale with water cascading from it's mouth and flowing down it's tail flukes. In the background,soft Indian and Western classical music played.They were her mother's favourite songs.
In the arrivals lounge there was a curious mixture of bored and excited people. Some looked like they were waiting for a bus, others like they were children waiting for Santa himself. Some lounged on the low comfy chairs and others bounced on their toes.
She went near the food stall in the airport to have some Indian food.Being a great Indian foodie, she loved food more than anything. Specially South Indian. She went and order Rava Dosa, Dahi Vada, Channa Papad Chat, Gajar Ka Halwa and Lassi.
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