After Krishika came to our grandma's place within 40 minutes with all the necessary things I changed into my pyjamas and removing my makeup and other accessories and tossed my hair i
n a bun and went to the kitchen.
I plugged my phone with the speaker my sister brought along with her and played music from my JUST playlist which had all the songs I love of Taylor Swift.
It was almost 3:45 and all my cousin's started to come home and by that time I had put the brownie mix in the oven and prepared cookies and kneaded the dough for garlic bread and on the other hand my sister had chopped all the veggies and sautéd them for pasta and she was done with white sauce and steamed the rice for the Thai curry.
Now only we were left with mixing the sauce with the veggies and chopping the veggies for the Thai curry and making of the curry.
The doorbell rang and my grandma attended the door and my youngest cousin whose name was Preeti made her way to kitchen she hugged me tightly and I returned her the hug with the same warmth and than she hugged my sister and after making herself comfortable she came back to kitchen.
"Hey Ms. NYC, how's your packing going and formalities and everything?" She asked.
"They are great I am leaving on 1st November so... and today 28th October so basically I might start packing from tomorrow and we are not going to spend night so I might be packing some of the things tonight". I said with shrug.
"By the way what are you cooking?" She said peeking out from my shoulder.
"Oh nothing much just white sauce pasta with garlic bread and Thai curry with exotic veggies and steamed rice for dessert cookies, brownies and choco lava cakes". I said with a fake American accent and did a little chef kiss at the end.
Looking at my antics my cousin and my sister started laughing but it was cut short when the door bell rang again.
I moved towards the entrance door to open and shouted, "I am getting it".
I was suddenly pushed on the floor by the attack of all my cousins that is my other three brothers eldest one's name is Meet and middle is Yash and also the most youngest one name is Raj they were my eldest aunt's sons and Preeti was my uncle's daughter where my mother is a middle child with Krishika and I.
We are all very close to each other and when we meet it is sort of a big choas and it almost irritates the neighbours and we swear most of the times and God don't start by sharing gossips and secrets with each other.
By the time we all made ourselves comfortable it was almost 5 pm in the evening so we decided to complete the rest of the cooking I put the garlic bread in the oven and made the white sauce pasta and then started upon the Thai curry by the time we were done with everything except the lava cake because it took only 15 minutes and they need to be served hot so I decided to make it after dinner it was almost 7pm and we decided eat after 8:40 pm.
So we decided to play catch up a bit and see our old pictures it actually sort of became a tradition to watch our old pictures and videos and laugh upon them so I told my brother Raj to take out the pendrive from my bag so I can connect it with the TV.
As my grandma and grandpa went for a walk and they would return only after 8pm so the house was totally to ourselves.
I was connecting the wires to the TV so I can connect the pendrive to the TV and suddenly I heard a manly squeal from my brother's mouth and when I looked back he was holding the black rectangular velvet box which Aadil had gifted me today. I mentally facepalmed myself because now they would ask for all the tiny bit of the details not that I mind giving them but they start teasing me and that makes me irritated but I love them way too much to even scold them.
My brother was waving the box in front of me for juicy details and not only him but everyone were copying his reaction. I just rubbed my fingers over the side of my face and groaned.
"It is not what you are thinking, duh". I told him. But by the look they were giving was clear they weren't believing me and that was making me annoyed.
"Okay before jumping to conclusions can you give me chance to explain what it is, bitches". I told them with a fake annoyed look.
"Okay the thing is this is a pendant which is being gifted to me by a friend". I simply told them.
"And may we know who this friend and why did this friend gave you this 'expensive' gift". My brother Yash enquired air quoting the word expensive for emphasis.
"He is a colleague and a very close friend of mine and he gave me as a farewell gift and whereas the question comes to be an 'expensive' gift I told him that there was no need for it but he insisted so I gave in with his request". I told them emphasing the word expensive and shrugged.
"Missy, stop shrugging and tell us everything because we know there is more to the story so spill the beans". Meet said while clicking his tongue.
"Okay so", I dragged the vowel a bit and took a deep breath and said it in a one breath "thispersonlikesmelikealotandgaveitasafar ewellgiftthoughItoldhimnobutheinsisted". And took a breath.
"Happy". I said him with a sarcastic smile and got up by making my way to kitchen because I knew they didn't understand anything and will be asking many questions to me.
As I got up I was again pulled down by my over protective brothers and literally held me by my waist and said, "We ain't over explain us everything". My brother Meet demanded.
"Okay okay but first leave me I will tell you everything". I said with an annoyed expression.
My brother left me and turned my face towards them and took a deep breath and said, "First of all you people are not going to interrupt me in the middle and you can speak at the end okay". I told them sternly. "Actually today was the last day of my job over here and so I just had to go there to complete the last formalities and everything after doing those this guy his name is Aadil he told me that he has feelings for me and he likes me like alot he even said that he didn't tell me because when I returned here after graduation I was devastated and he knew that so he didn't say this to me and pushed his feelings away thinking it was just a crush but they never went away and today was the last day so he told me everything so that he can move and all". I told them everything and at the last I sighed.
"Oh yeah devastated". My sister said under her breath so that everyone can hear with a scoff with the sarcasm which by the way everyone heard and looked at me acussingly knowing I was hiding something from them and now it will be a death of me when they are going to learn about Tyler.
I narrowed my eyes at my sister and she squirmed a bit I just sighed and told, "Okay but don't kill me later on please".
"It is okay, Tina you don't need to tell us". My cousin cut me off.
"No Pri, you all have right to know this". I sighed and continued, and told them everything from the start how we met, how me and him became friends, how we became bestfriends and how I started having feelings for him and than when I was coming back we confessed each other our feelings and how we went on a date the last night of my stay there and by the time I finished my eldest brother Meet hugged me and swiped the tear off my face with the pads of his fingers which I had not notice until he he wiped the tears.
I got up from there and went to kitchen to drink water when I turned my back again towards the drawing room all my cousins gathered me in a hug and consoled me.
After breaking the hug I told them, "You guys are not telling anyone about this I don't want mumma and dad or anyone from our family get hurt".
"Tina, not to push my nose in your business but I guess you should tell them how you feel about him". Preeti told me.
"Pree, it is not about business or anything but they will not accept him and another reason he might have moved on I have cut all the threads from there and you remember I changed my number and discontinued my old Instagram account it was because of the same reason I can't". I told her.
"Tia, you are hurting yourself and why don't you contact him once you reach there". Preeti said.
"Let's see what time holds for me". I told her earnestly.
"C'mon I will heat up the food and call grandma and ask them where are they". I told my cousin with a chuckle.
I was glad no one talked about the topic anymore and it was forgotten.
After grandma and gramps came back home we had our dinner with banter and jokes and all laughter.
"Gramps, your reports are to be collected tomorrow morning by 10 and then I have already booked an appointment with the doctor so you can meet him and at that time I will call you after the appointment." I reminded my gramps.
"What reports?" Raj asked.
I was about to speak but Meet cut me off and said, "Regular checkups, duh". And rolled his eyes.
To which Raj just nodded his head in understanding and glared at Meet for the eye rolls he gave him.
"Okay okay, enough of the banter". I cut both of them.
Remainder of the dinner was just pulling of each other's leg and light chatter. After dinner Krishika and Preeti helped me with the choco lava cakes and Raj, Yash and Meet helped my grandma with the dishes and clearing the table.
After everything was done we were having our dessert and were watching the old pictures and videos and then we all left and said our byes to our grandparents.
They got a bit emotional but they made me a promise that I would call them everyday and the regular stuff like taking care of myself and eating my food on time.
When we reached our home it was around 11:30 pm so I just washed my face and didn't bother to change because I booked a cab so I thought it would be better if I just wore my pyjamas so I directly hit the bed.
As I wasn't in the mood to pack anything so I decided that I would start doing it tomorrow.
I tossed and turned for a bit and tried to sleep and I didn't know when the sleep came to me.
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So, I am back again and yes the previous chapter was almost 3000 words and I didn't wanted to stretch so I broked up into two parts and this is around 1500 words so it is pretty much shorter than the previous one.
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