Hi guys! My name is Tara Sharma, you can also call me Lexi. I’m the female lead of this

novel.

I am basically from India but I left my country after I completed high school and

went to USA for further studies. Yeah, at a very young age of 18, I went to a

place which was totally unknown to me, far from my family and friends. What

could have possibly forced me to do so? OR I went because I wanted to. What do

you think? But anyways, it’s a story for some other day.

I completed my graduation from MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and got a job in

Apple, the leading multinational corporation, in California. My life was set. I

worked there for two years, and I was completely happy in this new world of

mine; I was independent, I had no one to take care of and had a bunch of

friends; everything seemed so perfect, when this storm named “family” came into

my life.

It was just another day; I went to my office in the morning, worked my *** up as usual and

went down to the canteen to have lunch with my friends. There they were, Denver,

Gloria and Sonakshi; sitting at our usual spot, ready with food in their trays.

I had met Denver in MIT; he was my senior, Sonakshi is Denver’s colleague and

Gloria is my colleague; that is how we all met.

I joined them in a while, after getting myself a tray full of the tasty food in our

canteen. As I got into their range of sight, they all start looking at me

hopefully like they wanted me to agree on doing something I’d never want to do.

Pretending to be scared, I ask them, “What is it?”. Before Denver or Gloria

could say something, Sona (nickname for Sonakshi) jumps to hug me and says, “I

finally got my transfer orders. I’m going back to Delhi, to India.” I hug her

back saying, “That’s amazing. You finally got what you wanted.” Looking that

I’m so happy, she says faking a sad dramatic face, “Are you happy now? Now that

I’m leaving?”. “Nooo, that’s not it.”, I say joining her in the drama.

Suddenly, Denver pops between us saying, “Prove it then”. Its too late when I

realize that I’ve fallen into their trap and I’m left with no choice but saying

yes to whatever scheme they’re up to. Tired of extending the drama anymore, I

say giving up, “Okaaayyy, what do you want me to do?”. Excitedly Ria (nickname

for Gloria) takes my hand and drags me to the table to take a seat and starts

explaining me, “We were thinking if we also went to Delhi with her and had some

fun with her before she starts her new life. You know, it’d be a perfect

farewell and we could also relax together; away from all the stressful working

conditions. Soooo, what do you think?”. Before I could even give it a thought,

my phone started to ring, showing up a name which left me totally shocked. I

didn’t understand if I should be happy or sad. It was no one else but my mom,

who had not even texted me for almost five years was calling me out of the

blue.

Here's a quick questionnaire for you.

Why has Lexi and her mother not talked or contacted each other for five years? Why is her mother calling her now? Is her mother in some kind of trouble? Will Lexi go to India with her friends?

Feel free to answer in the comments.

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I was totally nostalgic when I saw my mom’s name on the phone. Distancing myself from

the crowd, I picked up the phone and heard a voice calling my name, it was my

mom. She was weeping, her voice was wavering now and then. She was saying, “Tara,

please comeback. Your dad had brought a mistress back home a few days ago;

with two kids of your age, a girl and a boy (twins). At first, I never thought

it was a problem but now, your dad wants to divorce me, to marry that witch. He

has also tampered with your grandpa’s will, and we will have nothing left to

ourselves according to that will.” Before she could say anything more, I say,

cutting through her words, “You never even thought of me for these many years

and now when you’re in trouble, you want me to help you.” “No! It’s not like

that. Not a single day has gone without me missing you.”, she says. Laughing to

myself, I reply, “You missed me everyday but never even called me or texted me.

Anyways, are you done? I’ve to go.” She says desperately, “I know I was wrong. If

not for me, at least think about Roro.” Listening to that name, I didn’t know

what to do. Frustrated, I hang up the phone without saying a word.

I always remember the day when I met Roro. It was maybe the most beautiful day in my

life. I just couldn’t stop myself from loving him at the first sight.

[Author: It is not exactly what you think. Roro is not her lover or something.]

A few days before I was supposed to leave for USA for my first year in MIT. My grandpa, who was

the most kind and generous man in our family, had brought a new born baby

home and asked my dad to adopt him, that baby was no one else but Roro. My dad

had no choice but to do whatever the old man says. So, he adopted him. The old

man named him Rohan, and I gave him a nickname Roro. In those few days, it

seemed like we had bonded with each other pretty well. Even though he was just

a baby, we were both ATTACHED to each other. Now he must be almost 7 years old.

I always used wonder how he must be, how does he look, etc.

I had finally decided, I’d to go back....... for Roro; after all Roro was innocent. I decided

that I will go back and bring Roro to California with me.

I go back to the table, where me and my friends were sitting in the canteen. They all look

up to me, waiting for an answer and I say, “Yes, of course we are going. I badly

need a holiday from all this work.”, acting as if I’m very tired of work and really

needed a holiday.

Everyone was looking at me, shocked because I never agreed to go to India even while joking.

All of a sudden, they all jump on me, for a group hug and say, “I can’t believe

this. It was so easy to convince you.” Sona whispers in my ear, “Thank you so

much. I know you are doing this for me, even if you didn’t want to. I love you

sooo much.” Confused what to say to this, I reply, “I love you too.”

Today’s questionnaire.

Will Lexi be able to take Roro away from her mother? What all fun and problems are waiting

for Lexi in India? Where is the male lead of this novel? Is he in India?

Please do reply in the comments, even if it is good

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Me and Gloria, we both live together coz Gloria is an orphan and as you know, my

family is in India. So, we both are family for each other. Not only Gloria but

Denver and Sonakshi are also my family.

We all gathered at my place to do some planning for this trip of ours and distributed

work between us. After hours of discussion and argument, we decide that we

won’t schedule our trip and do what that exact moment wants us to do; in short,

we just go with the flow. I’m supposed to book our flight tickets, Denver is

supposed to book hotel rooms and Ria is supposed to apply leave from work for

all us. We didn’t assign any work to Sona because she already had enough of

packing to do.

The night after three days, there we were, at the airport; waiting for Denver who is late as

usual. “Is he a girl? I just don’t understand, if we girls can be here before

time. Why can’t this fool be here?”, says Sonakshi. Just when Denver comes

saying, “Sorry sorry. I’m really sorry. And before you all start lecturing me, I

should tell that we’d better start checking in before it’s too late.” We all

look at him, irritated and comment on he said, together, “Oh yeah?! And that’ll

be our fault. Right?”. Me, Ria and Sona, just start walking towards the

security checking, and don’t listen to what he says coz we knew it’d be some stupid

excuse for him being late. Denver takes a few long steps to catch up to us.

After we complete all the formalities and checking, we finally board the

flight.

It’s a long flight of 17 hours, so I decided I’ll have some fun, watch movies, play games

and then I’ll have long nap because it’ll be morning in India, when we land,

and I won’t have chance to take a rest. I didn’t even know what all problems were

waiting for me, so I’d better enjoy the time I have. After 17 hours, it was

8:30 in the morning when our flight landed.

Sonakshi is busy informing her parents that she has finally landed in Delhi and while utilizing

the time I and Gloria turn to Denver to ask the details about the hotels but he

ignores us and says, “Let’s have breakfast at the airport itself.” I was about

to say something when Sonakshi comes to us, “Done. We are free to do whatever

we want to do for these five days. These days, they belong only to us and one

can dare to take them away from us!!!!!”, she says shouting dramatically and

then there’s suddenly a change in the energy level of her enthusiasm, she says,

“But first, I need to eat something badly.” “I knew you would say that, the

breakfast is on me guys. Eat as much as you want.”, says Denver. I say

sarcastically, “Since Denver is being so nice, I’m gonna eat up all the food at

this airport.” Denver continues, “And if you’re not able to, you are gonna kiss

anyone or anything, I tell you to kiss.” I say, very confidently, “Okaaayy…...”,

everyone looks at me shocked, I complete my sentence, “……I take my words back.”

We all laugh as we head for breakfast.

An hour later, when we were done with all the possible madness we could do, we take a cab

and leave the airport to go to the hotel. Denver gives directions to the cab

driver according to his GPS and instead of reaching a hotel, we had reached a big,

lavish villa.

I was totally shocked but there was one thing which was more shocking, and that is, except

for me everyone looked happy, what I mean is I’m the only one who was confused.

Today’s questionnaire.

Why did Denver lead them to a villa? Why is Lexi the only one who is surprised? Are there

anymore surprises?