The morning sun is peeking through the small window of the room directly on bed. The birds on the tree branch near the room started their chirpings in a way to wake up the owner of the room. Admist all the chaos, there is a not so petite figure laying on the bed without any concern of surroundings. It is not a very early morning.

Then the door of the room opened slightly and a beautiful two big doe eyes peeked through the door. Those big doe eyes are observing there favorite person in the world sleeping serenly.

The owner of those big doe eyes moved slowly towards the bed maintaining silence. And climbed the bed and moved towards the arms and opened them in a way to hug. And then kissed the person on there cheeks, nose and chin. The person smiled in sleep and opened there beautiful hazel brown eyes and murmered in sleepy voice

"Akhi"

The big doe eyes pouted and said in baby voice

"Akhi noo want mumma wake"

Madira adored her not so correct words and said

"But mumma can't avoid akhi's touch"

Saying madira kissed the nose of akhira.

"Why mumma no seep my loom"

"Mumma came late at night and not wanted to disturb princess's sleep. So tired mumma slept here. " saying this, meera took akhira in her arms.

"Akhi missed mumma aaal nyt" saying this akhira made a cry face.

"Mumma too missed you princess" saying this she took baby akhira to the attached bathroom and together they brushed there teeth. Then madira make her bath and got her ready.

"Akhi baby now go to your nani and get your hair combed mumma will get ready and come to you"

"Yup mumma " Saying akhira went running from there

The smile that was there on madira face till now vanished. And said to herself

"You are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me in my life akhi"

Sighing to herself she went to get fresh.

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In the main hall, a person in his late fifties sitting on the sofa with a newspaper in his hands and spectacles on reading the newspaper with much enthusiasm. He is Vishwanath father of meera. The clinking sound of glass made his attention divert . He moved his eyes towards the sound and saw a hand with a cup of tea . He looked at the owner of the hand and with a small smile said

"Thank you dear"

The person shook her head with a smile starting turning around only to get bumped with a small body. A small shriek left from the small body. The person while shaking head said

"Aksh how many times should I say to you to be careful".

" Sorry mumma" the little 4 year old boy said in his baby voice.

He is aksh nandan and she is his mother aditi who sighed seeing her son being careless.

"Arey leave it daughter" Said vishwanath to his daughter in law.

"Mamayya, come for the breakfast" Saying with a smile aditi went away

"You grandpa why you always trouble your mother" saying this he grabbed his grandchild by  his little hands .

"Me not grandpa you only grandpa see you have white hair" Said aksh with a huff later groaned lightly while a small smack landed on his head by his father arjun.

"Aksh this is not a good manners" said arjun in a fake stern voice and asks

"By the way where is akhi" with a frown not finding his niece like everytime in the morning who comes running to her mama after his gym.

"Princess is with nani baba" saying this aksh runs towards the garden.

"Arjun, go and get ready aditi called for breakfast" saying this vishwanath took the last sip of his morning tea.

"Yes baba" said Arjun and went towards his room to get ready.

After some time everyone gathered in the dining hall including the kids except madira. Soon the twins started their morning banters.

"You potti stop coming to my room at midnights like a thief and snatching my chips. "

(Potti(telugu) -shorty)

"Firstly if you again call me potti i will spank your ass  with peddamma's spatula in a way that your ass stays red till a week"

(Peddamma(telugu) -Mother's elder sister)
(Badi ma)  in hindi

"See peddamma how she is speaking with elder no manners at all"said vedanth

"Elder? Who? You?  You are just 3 minutes elder than me" Says vaahi and scoffs

"Hello, it's 3 minute 3 seconds and even if it is a second it comes under elder only"

This goes on every morning and it has become their routine since their childhood. There banter gets cutoff by one glare from Arjun. Later Vaidehi and Janaki comes out from kitchen and place the dishes on the table. Along with them mithra too comes out of kitchen after making payasam for her sister whom she loves upto core. Then only excited vedanth tries to take the kheer with the spoon but stops immediately after a hit on his hand from mithra.

(Payasam(telugu) -kheer(hindi))

"You duffer this is for madira don't touch it " says mithra

Disappointed vedanth pouts and shouts loudly in whining manner

"Peddamma! Please feed me something these two are eating my head" and glares at mithra and vaahi who roll their eyes saying "drama king"

Then vaahi says to her brother "Ved, don't you know that we won't eat until madiraa akka comes" who nods his head.

(Akka-sister)

Soon their banter gets end and whole dining room becomes silent noticing the person from upstairs and only the footsteps were heard amid the silence.

Everyone took a glance towards the stairs. Vedanth smiles in satisfaction as he gets now what he want. Mithra with a hopeful smile adores her sister. Arjun with adoration and love in his eyes towards his sister looks at her. Aditi looks  with her as usual smile.

The elders except her father vishwanath glance at her with love. While vishwanath keeps remained with his head down. Admist all the love and attention she is getting , madira keeps her emotionless look and gets down.

"Mumma" shouts akhira excitingly and this brings a smile on her emotionless face.

Madira sits in her chair and kisses akhira's cheek lovingly who smiles with happiness.

"Madi"  that's it the smile on her face gets lost and same emotionless face comes up .

In the whole family only one person calls her with this name and that is her father vishwanath. Without looking at her father she says sternly

" My name is Madira, call me with my full name or else stop calling me" saying this she gets up from her place and starts going out.

Like this the dining room becomes dull and all get worried and then mithra with a worry tone calls silently

"Madira"

Madira stops and turns back and says looking at her father

"Madi name died along with madi 9 years back only and she never comes back by calling with her name... Especially when the one who is calling is ONE WHO KILLED HER"

                 Madira's look

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First chapter of the book

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