➳You're My Sunshine ✦COMPLETED✦ #Wattys2019

⎟ Chapter I ⎢

A/N : The story is kinda boring in the first chapters with flashbacks as this is my first book and writing but it gets better later than, I promise.

The curtains add an orange glow to the morning light, every morning a perfect sunrise. It reminds Avneet of of the times she slept in a beach hut, watching the ocean emerge under the golden shimmer. For a moment her mind conjures the rhythmic waves, soft on the sandy shore and feels her heart beat to the same slow pace. She breaths in deeply. A new day has begun. She reaches her had out to the fabric, noticing how up close the light pours through every open space between fibres, no different from how it once came through the beach-hut walls, illuminating like brilliant fire-flies each dawn. The material is warm beneath her fingers, and when the sun floods the room, painting the colors anew, she feels a little of those golden rays soak into her skin.

"Avneet." Her mother called for breakfast." I am waiting to have breakfast."
"Jee ammi. (Yes mom) I am coming."

After eating,she went back to her room to dress up.

Pretty luxurious , isn't it? Her mother had it prepared for her even though she said she just wanted a simple bedroom.

Avneet's POV:

Our house- Our house is a share between my mother and my uncle. The upstairs part belong to my mother. Perhaps, my mother had put another staircase in which case, she doesn't have to face her brother. Why? Even I have no idea. Whenever, I try to ask her, she changes the topic. Eventually I have stopped asking her this coz, I don't want to upset her. After all, she means the world to me.

The Downstairs part belong to my uncle. My mama's elder brother. He along with his wife,my aunt, are really nice people. I wonder what must have gone wrong between them. Maybe it was all a misunderstanding.

She cleaned herself, dressed up, creamed her face with some sunblock, and set up to go to Sonu's house. Sonu's her best friend. More like a sister whom she can share anything with. Trustworthy, kind, sympathy, hard working, integrity, determined and the spirit of not giving up is all in her blood, in her soul. Overall, her father,Aatmaraam Tukaraam Bhide, is an honest teacher who teaches students not for money but for the student's future.

Her outfit for today.

Sonu's House

Sonu's house takes five minutes walk.

She rang the bell.
"Oh,Avneet beta. Come in." Ms. Madhavi said.
"Sonu beta, Avneet has come to meet you."
"Jee aayi. I am coming."
"Beta, wait for her in the sofa. What will you like to have? Tea? Coffee?"
"No aunty. I just had break fast ."
"Oh OK beta."
"Arrey, Madhavi, chaii laana".(hey madhavi, bring me tea.) Ordered Bhide.
"Haan... Aati hoon."(OK, I am bringing."
"Namaste, Bhide uncle."
"Namaste beta. Aaj subah subah hamare gaar?" (Today you come to our house early?)
"Haan.... Woh mera thoda kaam hai Sonu se."(I have some work with Sonu. That's why.)
"Achaa beta... Sit for a while until she is coming."
"Chalo Avneet let's go." Sonu said coming from her room.
"OK. Bye Uncle. Bye Aunty."
"Bye beta."
"Saambal key jaana aur saambal key aana. (Go safe and come safe. "
"Jee. "

After they left:
"Aaaho, mujhe laagta hai keh ab Sonu ki shadi kese achaay larkey se karadin.(I feel like we should find a groom for Sonu, and get her married.)
"Haan Madhavi. Mujhe bhi yeh hi sahi laagta hain.( Yes Madhavi, I also feel the same.)

Who will be Sonu's groom?
What is the family conflict about?
Why doesn't her mother tell Avneet anything?

In next chapter,you will learn more about the other characters.
Oh,and one more thing,I am not Indian so bare me if there were wrongs in the dialogue. Hope you enjoyed.

To be continued....