PrologueDecember 31, 2013 Visakhapatnam ' This is suffocating' Avi thought as he scanned the perfectly arranged hall and perfectly clothed people around him. The walls of the banquet hall of The Gateway Hotel, were covered with golden and silver ...Read Moreand mural paintings which Avi couldn't recognise . And white flowers decorated each and every corner and tables which in turn made the atmosphere ethereal. Soft music was playing in the background which is slowly speeding up to the hip hop songs as the time slowly ticked away and the new year is almost on their Read Less

# Chapter 1 February2019 The day was bright. Warm and sunny like a normal summer day in Hyderabad. The air was still with humidity and the smell of various ...Read Morefood along with the stench of trash, Vinny felt home as she sat down at a food stall near the Char minar bazaar. She had missed the hustle bustle of this city since she left it for good, four years ago. Vinny never thought she would come back here , like this , feeling Read Less

# Chapter 2 Vihani was sitting in the backyard of her home, the huge mansion, which spreads over ...Read Morehuge area. She sighed looking at the huge structure, which was less of a home more of a brick building. Why do people spend so much on a building , when it can't make you feel home at all. Her one room apartment in Mangalore was more lively and cozier than this posh building. She took her eyes Read Less

#Chapter 3 ' The tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it can do ' Sister Lucia's voice ringed in Vinny's ears. She was in sixth grade and sister Lucia was her ...Read Moreteacher. Sister Lucia was teaching them about how their words could affect someone,it has the power to break someone, mend someone and it can cause self damage too. So she was telling her students, to think twice before using their tongues. The sixth graders nodded in response and Vinny did the same, she didn't understand Read Less

# Chapter 4 Vinny was up, again after another restless night, at the same time, the first golden rays of morning sun peeked ...Read Morecurtains of the glass window of her room covering everything in shimmering golden waves. Her bag still sat in the corner of the room, which she got from home immediately after the deal was made. Mr. Rao has asked her to stay away from her home for a day or two till he made Read Less

# Chapter 5 'There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On ...Read Morea full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.' Julius Caesar( Act-IV, Scene-III). Avi loved this quote from the time when he played the part of Brutus in the high school drama. The dialogues were pretty difficult but Read Less

# Chapter 6 A marriage is a choice, you make over and over again. Certainly it was a choice Vihani chose herself under whatever circumstances it ...Read Morebe. But the choice wasn't made out of love, it was made out of desperation to be saved from a whirlwind of troubles, that surrounded her. It's funny, how her status changed from Ms. Reddy to Mrs. Rao in less than thirty minutes. It was a very private affair as both of them wanted, with a very few people to Read Less

# Chapter 7 Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny. ...Read More C. S. Lewis Vihani was away from home again. She had stopped thinking Visakhapatnam as her home long ago. So this change in location can't be considered as a time away from home...not really.... She had forgotten what it's to feel like missing her home. She Read Less