Chapter: reunion
The rituals take place in their usual order. We are welcomed by the family with lightening of the lamp. Followed by the aarti shagun. When I stepped in the royal palace memories of my childhood flourished. There was not much of a change from all these years of my absence. Everything seemed ditto as when we were kids. The corridors reminding me the laughter of Manvi, dev, jasmine, deep, Meera, Aanchal, Dhruv, Dhanak, Shatrugan, Heer all of my brothers and sisters. After I met Diya I stopped coming over and my cousins created a wall between them and me. over the years neither I tried nor they. Not that I don’t miss them but Diya’s memories are more than enough for me to live my life in peace. And here what I see leaves me startled. That asshole of a brother I have, touch
