THEIR LITTLE PRINCESS

Home coming

Reyansh's POV.......

Landing in India the first thing I came across were the four over excited faces of my friends. They were at the airport to welcome me with a huge banner of my name which was enough to embarrass the hell out of me.

They were ready to drag me to a welcome party from the airport but after a lot of reasoning and disagreement they decided to postpone the party for a day and I was dropped at my house in Delhi.

It was more like a bungalow,  I have not been here more than a decade,  this place reminds me of my mom it was her favorite of all our houses. When she was alive we used to come here for all our vacations. I have a lot of memories at this place with my parents and yes that includes dad as well.

I know mrs. Sohini , my stepmom has been here many a times , so I expected this place to have changed it's interior according to her taste but I was wrong,  as I moved across the hall observing carefully I noticed everything was same just as mom left it . Honestly for this I'm grateful to my stepmom , I know how much effort mom spent decorating this place as she was an interior designer. Since no one uses this house it was dusty and cob webs hung from each corner of the ceiling.  I saw many workers busy cleaning up the place.

The first room I entered was the one my parents used back then , it had a pink and blue interior with a king size bed and on the wall behind the bed  hung  a portrait of my parents looking at each other with a loving smile.  A tear slid down my eyes . I really miss those days . I immediately got hold of myself and wiped out the tear . I closed the door and went towards my room .

I came across the caretaker of this place  Visu uncle,  he welcomed me with a warm smile and sweet greetings like always then he added "mr. Malhotra, I have cleaned up your room first, you may rest you must be tired after such a long journey. "

I nodded and entered the room before closing the door I called back at him "Visu uncle, I may have grown some beards now but you don't need to remind me of my age , just call me Rey like you always did."

My room was in different shades of blue with a large bed in the middle, photo frames of my childhood covered the maximum portion of the left wall with a little balcony facing the garden.

After such a long flight I didn't bother doing anything I dropped my overcoat on the couch and straight went for the bed.

I woke up with a knock on my door, I heard Visu uncle call my name I checked the time I slept for almost five  hours. I opened the door and came across a worried face of Visu uncle.

"Are you not feeling well?" He asked before I could reply he asked again "are you running a fever? Need some medicine?"

"Calm down uncle,  I just had a jet lag I'm okay." I said.

"Well I called you many times , earlier I left to bring your food and when I returned your room was locked.  You must be hungry dinner is ready hurry up get changed" he left ordering the maids to arrange the table.

I got freshened up and changed into some comfortable clothes and went to the dinning place, but someone unexpected was already waiting for me there.

The dinning area was large with a huge rectangular table in the middle and to the left side of the very end sat a girl of my age , Sally my stepsister.

She looked at me as I entered and after a while of observing said a little "hello" sometimes she could be cute and she doesn't even have to fake it.

I just nodded to the reply and sat opposite to her the maid served our dinner and we started eating. I saw her fidgeting with her spoon and I knew she has something to say . I looked at her after a while she began saying nervously "well you know, I got into the university here and since it was easier to travel from this house Ritesh uncle  (my dad) asked me to stay here but don't worry I have already looked for a place to stay I'll move out tomorrow at the earliest. "