Chapter 4
Part I
*Nandu's POV*
After we watched all the season of The Simpsons, I check the time to find its 9:00. I really didn't have the energy to cook, with waking up 3 in the morning and all.
I wearily get up out the bed.
"What are you doing?" Mnk asked, he was always the one to question everything.
"Hopefully try and cook breakfast," I yawned. I put oversized sweater that went over my shorts. As I walkdown the steps, trying not to disturb any of the girls upstairs, when I feel a slight tug on my shoulder.
I turn around and slap the person behind me. It was Navya.
"Oh my god I am soo sorry! It's become a force of habit. Are you okay?" I whisper loudly.
"I'm fine, don't worry about it," she says,
"I wanted to help you make breakfast."
"Oh, uh okay," I like cooking alone, but there was 9 teens in the house, I needed some of the help.
"What are we cooking?" Navya says, she was a curious one.
"French Toast," I say, French toast was the first real food I learned to cook.
I learned from my mom, her cooking made the house smell so good.I crack the eggs and whisk them while Navu cut the baguette.
I put the cooking spray and dipped the baguette in the egg mix then put them on the stove.
We finished in 50 minutes. That was fast and we made a lot, 2 for each person. Wealso made bacon and eggs,because who doesn't want to wake up to the smell of bacon and eggs?
"Perfect" Navu holds her hand up for a high five when Cabir and Manik run down the stairs.
They wake up the boys, all of them slowly get up, one by one. I go to wake the girls up to see that they were already awake.
"Lets go to eat!" I say, as joyfully as I can at 10:00, "We have french toast!" They get up wearily, I went to the rooms to wake up Maddy, Abhi, Mukti, Aliya nd Soha.
I open my cousin's door, walk toward's Dhrv ,and give him a push.
"Wake up guys" I say, when Mukti walks toward the door.
"I smell French toast, so I woke up," she was jokingly devoted to food. I smile.
"It's downstairs,"I say.
I assume Mukti woke Abhi up, so I walk out the room and continue downstairs to help Navya pass out breakfast.
I came downstairs to see almost everyone helping themselves to the food on the table. I sit on the head of the table, when mnk takes the seat to the right of me.
I quietly ate my food, it was actually really good.
"Hey," Mnk says, stuffing his mouth full of bacon.
"You got a little something right there," pointing to my neck.
I look down, attempting to see what was there in the first place.
Mnk hit my nose, which made me smile.
"Good, you look better smiling," he gave a cheesy smile.
He always did that to me when we were in high school. I actually liked my high school years, well until the end of senior year.
Senior Year, filled with regret,sorrow, and a bittersweet happiness. My smile quickly faded, and my thoughts filled with Senior year.
"Did I hurt you?!! Mnk, looked concerned, a little more than he should've been,
"What's wrong?""I'll tell you when nobody's here,
" I was reminded about my darkest days
"Please, just leave me alone, just for right now."
( I didn't want him near me at this point).
Mnk lookedat me confused, I wantd to tell him, but not in front of evrybdy.
He got up and walked away. Navya sat in that seat, she was the one that really only knew everything about me, I was really close to her during high school.
"You okay?" she says.
"I'm fine," I say, dejavu.