Prologue

AUTHOR'S POV :-

It's Monday morning , where Sunday fantasies comes to an end and people have to return back to their usual robotic weekly routine once again for the next five days . Well it's the same for Yashna too . The alarm that she had set up went off by 7:00 am...she woke up , turned off the alarm promising to herself that she would wake up in another 5 minutes by herself...but guess who didn't .

" 𝙔𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙣𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙪𝙥 , 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙢𝙖 , 𝙔𝘼𝙎𝙃𝙉𝘼...𝙔𝘼𝙎𝙃𝙉𝘼𝘼𝘼𝘼𝘼𝘼" ...Her mother's voice echoed from the kitchen to the inside of her locked room . Yashna groaned and pulled her soft blanket over her head in a futile attempt to stop her mother's early morning archanai (scoldings) and determination to wake her up . "𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗮...𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲" she mumbled to herself barely audible to her , let alone her mother...to sleep again .

"𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝" her mother's voice was heard a bit louder this time which made her to wake up in an instant . Typical Indian kids trying to avoid early morning amma's scoldings . She reluctantly had to wake up given no other choice . She could feel the warmth of the sunlight through the curtains . She threw the blanket off herself and stretched her stiff limbs by twisting in weird positions to wake her body up . She moved towards the window of her room , opened the curtains welcoming the warm light inside , the only thing which made her sane to face the challenges or the happiness that were lining up for her later the same day .

She then noticed the time being almost 8:00 am...she sighed and started to get ready for the day. The struggle of not being a morning person she had to face every other day . She went inside the bathroom and started with her morning routine and came out of the bathroom a brief 30 mintues later . She had worn a neatly ironed beige coloured shirt paired up with a black pant and did her usual daily no-makeup look and a low ponytail .

She made her way towards the dining hall welcomed by her mother's intense stare and she did not have enough time for having her breakfast . Again . A frequent topic which would lead to a quarrel with her mother almost every morning since she developed the habit of skipping breakfast . It started not because she didn't have time , it was solely because of her laziness . Her mother started again , "𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣..?" "𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙢𝙖" she went and opened the door of the fridge and grabbed an apple and found a bottle of smoothie her mom had made because she predicted her daughter would skip her breakfast and mother's intuition is always right . Yashna smiled sheepishly at her mother and her mother patted her head softly "𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝" her mother repeated for the nth time of the day, she smiled and nodded at her . On her way she dropped her younger sister , Yazhini studying architecture final year , at her college and then went to her office by 9:30 am . She reached her desk and quickly had her apple and the smoothie her mom made and went through the events of the day , the deadlines she had to meet today and 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙈𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂 .