Hello everyone.....this is my first story...And I am not a master in story telling with grammar and punctuation.... so sorry if you find many mistakes of it....give a read to the book......comments are welcome to improve my writing skill... And about the story...

The first few chapters may have some charter description.. Story develops as it moves..

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Thank you so much @arpslovestoread for accepting to edit and editing my story.
Editing credit to Aparana.

The story is not fully edited. First few chapters are edited and under slow editing process.

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CHAPTER-1

KETU

"BYEEE GIRLLSSSS HAPPPYYY HOLIIDAYSS"I wave out to my gang of friends and walk towards my dad who is speaking with somebody on the phone. Upon seeing me approach, he unlocks the car and gestures for me to sit. I sit in the car and my dad started to drive, still talking on his phone. I sighed seeing it and he just chuckled knowing I don't like it and continued to talk.

My name is Ketika Krishnan. I am 19 years old and perusing M.B.B.S. I just finished writing my second year final exams. I am from an upper middle class family. My dad (Krishnan) is a professors in same university. My mom (Lakshmi) is a housewife. My brother (Varun) is doing his MBA in the USA. He is 22 years old. Our parents love both of us a lot, but since I am younger one, they care for me much more. Like when me and my brother fight, my father always supports me. I know that my brother is secretly jealous about me being the apple of my father's eye. Mom supports my brother only when he is right. Mostly she doesn't acknowledge our fights, as she knows that we will eventually turn it down if no one notices us. We are very close to each other and I miss him too much. I didn't get to see him in d past 6 months, but we FaceTime every day. I didn't get to chat with him for the past one month due to my exams. I would get time to speak with him once in a week or two. Oh my god! I miss him too much, and need to speak with him.

"Ketu" my dad snapped me out of my thoughts and asked me about my exams. I told him that I had done well. We kept talking till he pulled onto our drive way.

We live in a two bedroom flat, in the university quarters. It is a very friendly neighborhood to live in. I open our house door and enter inside. As I was slipping off my footwear, I heard a familiar voice greet me.

"Hiii ! Welcome!!" I turned towards the voice to see my brother.

"Hey brother!! What a surprise?!!" I squeal and hug him. My parents laughed at my reaction.

"Liked the surprise?" my brother asked me smirking cockily as we went to the leaving room and sat on the sofa.

Me-"loved it. I missed u."

Bro- "I missed u too"

Me-"Did you both know he was coming home?" I asked my parents.

Mom- "Yes, we knew" all of them were grinning at me. They started laughing at my expression on knowing that I was the only one not told. But its ok, I loved surprises.

Me-"okay brother, what is this sudden surprise for?"

Bro- "I missed my little sis so much. So I came here to surprise her."

mom-"seriously only ur sister and not us?" mom asked gesturing to herself and my dad. My brother was shocked and was unable to speak, like a cat had caught his tongue. Mom tried to keep a blank face, but she burst out laughing. All of us joined her laughter.

Bro-"hmm I missed u all and I got a free ticket to visit you guys. So I took d offer!!"

Me-"what offer ?"

Bro-"Yash asked me to come for his marriage" said as a matter of fact. Oh yash or yashwnt, he is my dad's friend's son. I have met only uncle Ram and the aunty pooja. I had never met their sons. Pooja aunty died six or seven years back. My mom and pooja aunty were also close and it took about two months for mom to move on from pooja aunty's death. Somehow my brother and their sons got close like my dad and uncle. They are rich that's what I heard. Yashwant is the elder one and Sushwant is the younger one. My brother says that both are good and do not boast of their richness. Yash is older than my brother; Sushwant is same age of my brother. If Yash is getting married then why I don't know that?

Me-"I had no idea he was getting married" I was confused.

Dad-"yes ketu! Yash is getting married this week. Ram came here with sushwant and invited us all on the last day of your study holidays. That day you went to library to study and came home late. So, they left as they had to invite many other people. They invited you too (dad said this part smirking as if I would get tensed up that uncle ram didn't invite me). Oh sushwant was very eager to meet you. As you had exam next day, he too went, saying still the time is not meant for him to meet you". This is how I haven't seen them till now. Something or the other will come and I won't be able meet them.

Me-"Oh ok, so u being their good friend, He wanted u to be there for his marriage?" asked looking at my brother

Bro-"yes"

Me-"when is the marriage? When are we going there?"

Bro-"marriage is on January 31st" A week from today.

Mom- "we planned to start tomorrow evening or by day after tomorrow morning. It's upto you two" she looked out and said "ok bye. My walking partner has come." and all of us said her bye as she walked out. My dad saw the time and he also went for a walk with his partner. By evening around 5.30 almost everyone's dad and mom leave to walk around the campus with their gang in this neighborhood, the children play among themselves. I am the only teenager here as all my friends are doing their further studies in universities further away. We meet on some festival or during vacation but we are in regular contact through social media. (perks of having a mobile)

Dad- "bye. One of you should keep villaku (means light the lamp and pray to god in tamil) without fail. Don't forget it in your chatter." Saying this he too left.

It was soon 5.45. I got up and went to change to night pant and shirt from my salwar and my brother went to keep vallaku. And after that we started to catch up with each other's life.

Bro- "ketu. you have grown slim!"

Me- "hmm...that means I won the bet" grinned at him. We had a bet. Before he took off the flight he said that if I was slim by the time he visited next, he would buy me anything that I ask for which is within Rupees 20000.

Bro-"seems like you won." I nodded

me -" seems like you should buy me something"

bro-" ok shoot"

Me-"I want some valuable jewelry of your choice"

Bro-"ok. How much is your weight now?"

me-"56kg and u?" said smilingly and asked him. He too has reduced his weight, but he was already in a good shape. He had many followers for him from a long time.

Bro-"67kg."

When I asked if he liked any girl, he said no. He said it was a little hectic over there with college and work, and he doesn't have free time. He asked about my crush for any boy. I said no, not yet. My brother had crush on his classmate but she was taken by one of his friend. He asked if there were any followers for his now more beautiful and slim sister and I said don't know will say him if I get any. I was an obese girl in the class. so I don't think anybody liked me in that way but, only now I got in to some shape so don't know and that doesn't mean I am a invisible girl either as shape doesn't matter always to be beautiful, Everyone that I came in contact with me, knows me in my college. Practically we can't remember everyone we crossed in our life either, isn't? I wanted to have a healthy life, so to not cheat myself or give up, I made a bet with him, as that's family and friends are for, isn't? They would always help us achieve my goals.

Then we spoke about our family and friends untill mom called us for dinner. We ordered dinner from out because varun wanted to eat parrotta and chicken chettinadu, which he missed a lot.

While having dinner, dad asked when we could start our journey. We decided to start for Chennai by tomorrow evening. The engagement was on Sunday, Jan 26th. Uncle Ram has also invited my close cousins and relatives. While my relatives will be attending only the marriage and engagement, we will be attending all the functions. We would be staying in our house in Chennai for the first time. Usually we stayed in our relatives house when we visited Chennai. Form next month my college would start. That is from Feb 3rd. so, we can stay in the house and enjoy till then. The house was constructed only a month back. I and my brother were excited about staying in our new house. When it was time to sleep, I requested not to be woken up early as I was planning to compensate sleeping to the times I was being an owl to read for the exams at night. My brother requested the same but his reason was due to jet lag.

Next day, mom woke varun and me about 1:00 pm in the afternoon and gave us some delicious food to eat. We ate mutton briyani and fish fry as per my brother's special request. Later we packed our bags for the one week trip.

By evening 5, we started to Chennai, it was a five hour journey. On the way me and my brother called our cousins and planned for tomorrow's hangout. We had dinner in motel and reached home by 11.30 pm due to city traffic. It took us time to arrange belongings and settle down. When I reach the bed it was 2:00 am, sleep took over me as soon as I hit the bed.

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