Beneath me was the soft material of the bed that asked me to consume more sleep. But the sun light peaked from the window and warmed my eyes asking me to wake up.
My eyes fluttered open and the sight of Lucky sleeping beside me made my morning more special. Her lips were pursed together and her cheeks were rosy. I brushed her bangs off her eyes and laid a kiss between her eyebrows.
When last night I was bought here by Robbie, everyone were already waiting for me. The dinner was set and a nice movie night was prepared by Ishan. After the movie, Lucky threw a fit of wanting to sleep in my bed. She missed sharing a room with me and so did I.
I shifted on my back and stared up the ceiling. There was no fan. The room had an AC which I wasn't very used to of. I preferred the temperature to be on 24°C. Not too cold, not too warm.
Finally after fifteen minutes of laziness, I decided to get up and walk into the bathroom that was attached to the bedroom. Brushing my teeth and putting my hairs in a bun, I walked off the room and into the kitchen.
Robbie was already there and was making breakfast. " 'morning" I wished with a yawn.
He turned back with a cherry smile "morning, Aana. You took your time to wake up,"
I chuckled, "yeah, I stayed up till late with Ishan, Lucky and Rayan. We watched Maleficent 2"
"I see," Robbie turned back and placed a plate of omlette and a glass of orange juice.
"Thanks, Rob." he smiled. Robbie and Rayan loved when I randomly called them by their nick names. Their reaction was always adorable.
There were soft footsteps behind me. Venky pinched my cheeks together from behind and sat beside me on one of the tables. He was carrying a half asleep Lucky in his arms.
"Good morning," I smiled at him.
"Morning, Slept well?" He asked adjusting Lucky on his lap.
"Yeah, I did,"
Lucky was still in her last night's outfit. Pink underwear and purple tshirt which exposed a cute amount of her belly button.
"Baby, wake up. Go brush your teeth," Venky patted Luck's butt. She mumbled something incoherent and got down from his lap and out of the kitchen.
Robbie too joined us with the breakfast whilst scrolling down his phone and texting someone simultaneously. After sone time, Rayan too joined us. The both of us were talking about the new episode of my favourite reality show. Rayan liked watching TV. It didn't match his personality and that's exactly what I liked about him. Hard from outside and soft from inside.
Then we continued out breakfast in silence until Venky spoke, "so, final exams in 25 days. Gotta work harder, huh?"
I nodded then shrugged, "Poppy said he'll probably take half an hour more every day. That means three hours per day,"
"Let me know if he's putting too much pressure. I'll talk the him. But you'll also have to work harder. The entrance exams also depend on your 12th grade marks"
"Yeah, don't worry," I said.
We suddenly heard a giggling Lucky followed my Ishan who only wearing red boxers. He was carrying Lucky in his arms and smiling at her.
"Good morning, people," Ishan yelled putting Lucky on her feet.
He recieved 'morning' and 'good morning' from us and then he sat beside Robbie. Lucky ran and sat on the baby seat which was especially build for her. It was wooden and had stairs on it so that she could climb on it easily. Then there was also a tray attached to it on which she ate her food.
"You liked the house, Aana?" Ishan asked me.
I nodded, "it's really beautiful."
"I like yowr rowm more then mwne," Lucky said wiggling in her seat.
"Really, Luck?" Rayan asked, amused.
She nodded frantically.
Robbie turned to me, "you shouldn't let her get into your room often, or else she'll settle in,"
I giggled.
"You're mewn!" Lucky pouted, glaring at the twins.
Everyone burst into a fit of laughter.
"No but seriously," Venky said "how did you like the flat?"
"Venky, the flat is awesome. I just fell in love with it."
It indeed was. The walls were all a shade of baby blue and a window was on every three meter. The room was on the thirteenth floor so the view was perfect. There were total ten rooms and not to forget it was only a flat in a building.
"I'm glad you liked it," Venky smiled at me.
After our lovely breakfast, I got dressed up in black and white strip shirt and black jeans and I put my hairs in a pony. A perfect school look.
Usually, I used to walk for school. But now, Venky's flat was at the distance of 30 minutes by walking and there was no chance he would let that happen. So one of my brothers would be always be there to drop me and pick me up. Lucky's school didn't start until 10:30 in the morning so it was just me and one of my brothers in the car.
I realised how I denied to let any of my brothers to give me a ride to school earlier when they came to live with me and our parents. How mean I behaved with them at the beginning. They really proved themselves as the best brothers and gained my trust.
Ashton at school was protective of me. He would sit with me and Lucky in the campus and didn't leave us after school until one of my brothers were there to pick us up. His image infront of my brothers was over the moon.
After school I would rest or spend time with Lucky or one of my brothers or just study.
Again at 6:30pm, Venky's driver would come and pick me up. Poppy would take my tuitions. As days passed. I started feeling more and more uncomfortable with poppy. Why? Let me share my experience with you.
Poppy had just tought me a new method and I was practicing it. I was so uncomfortable because he couldn't stop staring at me. At first, I thought he's looking at my book. The sum I was solving.
But no!
I met his eyes whenever I thought he was looking at my book. And when I'll stare back at him weirded, he would say, "don't stop, continue," his frim voice would make me drop my eyes.
I started wearing clothes which would cover my body more. Why? Because somehow, he would touch me. Putting his hand on my thigh, patting my shoulder or holding my hand unnecessarily.
I was slowly getting fed up of all this. I wanted to tell Venky but I couldn't. He had put efforts to find me a tutor and if I said disturbing things about my him, he would be upset. I didn't wanted to make him unset.
I was anyways scared about someone stalking me and my boyfriend. The police still hadn't found the person and that was only scaring me more.
My life was getting more and more miserable. My mental health was not so good. I just hoped for all of this to finally be over. I just wanted all the pain to be over. Vanished. Disappeared.
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