October 3, 2:57 pm

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October 3, 6:27 pm

Shikha

I slowly twisted the knob to the door that leads to my beautiful sea facing 2 BHK flat where I knew my angry sister was waiting for me impatiently. While all my other family members opted to stay at the hotel itself, my sister chose to stay with me as she always does whenever she's in Mumbai. I tiptoed in so that I could surprise Nalini by bringing a plate of steaming Vada Pavs to her in her room and apologise with the long ass speech I mentally prepared on my way here, but all my plans failed as my dear sister was not in her room but on the bright yellow couch directly facing the door. I scanned her face to figure just how angry she was. If she was glaring at you she's a little angry, if she's screaming at you she wants to kill you and bury you deep in her backyard and grow mint plants on that soil and make a chutney, but if she ignores you completely and act as if you never existed then you my dear friend are better off as a fertilizer for her mint plants. And the way she just spared me a glance and went back to working on her laptop, I just knew how much I've hurt her.

I took a seat beside her on the couch placing the brown paper bag on my walnut finish coffee table. I looked at her for a few seconds hoping she would yell or scream at me but she just continued to ignore me. I sighed and tapped on her shoulder to which she just shook her shoulder off. I continued tapping on her shoulder until she slammed her laptop shut and looked at me with an irritated look on her face.

"What?" She asked calmly, which I could easily recognise as the calm before the storm.

I gave her my best puppy eyes and held both of my ears and apologized, "I'm sorry".

She rolled her eyes and opened her computer back and started typing away on it. I sighed and shut it back.

"Look, I know what I did was terribly wrong. I should've arrived timely and shouldn't have been lazy and I'm really sorry for that. I just had a lot of work to do the night before, and I wanted it all done yesterday itself so that I could be free for your big day. And I promise I didn't stay up last night reading fanfics or watching youtube, that was just a joke. But I completed my homework so late and was incredibly tired that I didn't even know how much I slept in. I know how hurt you are. We always talked about our weddings and how we both would always be there for all those special yet small moments, and it hurts me the most that I wasn't able to make it on time for your engagement, but at least I was there. Today I probably made a world record for getting ready so fast. I didn't even curl or style my hair because I was so late. I promise that this will never happen again. And now that I've submitted all my homework and stuff I'm as free as air until your wedding. So I promise to make all those infinite no.of shopping trips with you and carry your shopping bags for you. So, please forgive me. Pretty please." I completed my long ass speech with puppy eyes.

"Okay, you're forgiven. But that's just because of those vada pavs and not because your speech was so emotional or anything."

I just chuckled and hugged her tight. She's my best friend, best sister and the person who understands me the most, and I don't know what I would do without her but I would do anything for her.

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October 3, 6:58 pm

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October 4, 6:04 pm

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October 4, 8:25 pm

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October 4, 9:06 pm

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October 10, 4:27 pm

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October 10, 5:01 pm

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Author's note:

Because of wattpad's limit of only 20 image insertions in a chapter, I'm now going to make chapter into parts.

And Wattpad spacing sucks. I had to edit this chapter so many times to get the right spacing.