Few hours to Christmas, Nikita was packing her luggage, preparing to go spend the rest of the holiday with her family. Inwardly, she felt terrible for the first time during Christmas. Alvin had dropped her off at her house earlier and later gave her a call to ask if she was ready.
"10 minutes.. I'll be ready, ok?" She felt heavy in her heart as she reminisce memories of Janta. Everywhere she looked l, she would see his cute face smiling. Minutes after walking round the whole house, she approached one of her numerous book shelves where she had hidden a camera. Nikita searched the shelf until she saw it.
"Aha! It's been so long. I think I should pack this too" She said. Suddenly, slides of her childhood pictures popped up(some were Alvin's)
"What you looking at?" Alvin asked as he had entered the house quietly and caught Nikita smiling at something. "Oh this! It's our pictures" Nikita replied as she tossed the camera to him. "How'd you get in? I'm sure the door was locked" she continued. "Nikki, you're still as careless as ever" He responded with a chuckle then his eyes widened in shock as a video of Nikita sleeping like a child played. Alvin couldn't help but burst with laughter. "What's so funny?" She asked as she peeked at the face. "Oh my goodness!" She covered her face embarrassed but later brought it to watch along with Alvin.
'Who would have done this to me?' Nikita pondered. Immediately the answer popped right in front of her as she caught a glimpse of another pair of legs walking around in the video. She then let out a sigh of relief seeing that Alvin didn't notice but then he asked, "Who's this?". Janta was staring at the cameras he muttered 'how do l off this thing'. Like a flash bolt, Nikita snatched it and placed it back on the shelf and went to the door with her luggage.
"Let's go! Mum has been calling, I'm sure she's causing a tantrum at home" Nikita said as she walked to the slightly opened door. Meanwhile, Alvin remain where he was, frozen. "I'll tell you everything in the car" Nikita said as she tried coaxing him to drive which was a success. During the drive, she used the best communication skills to avoid the topic of Janta and Alvin forgot or let's say he pretended to and they ended up taking a selfie in front of her house and Alvin posted it on Stargram so as to shoo girls away because speculations went round that he's gay.
"Ahhhh!!!"(Glass broken into pieces). A girl screamed at the top of her lungs as she ran round her house with her phone in her hand. "Honey what's the problem?Why are you screaming like that" A man asked the girl while trying to calm her down. She immediately shoved her phone to his face; it was a picture of a man and a woman.
"So what are you trying to tell me, hon?" "Dad you must be kidding me right now. He's my supposed future husband I told you about" This made her father burst into laughter. "What's the caption on the post?" "Merry Christmas?!" The girl responded almost murmuring. "It could be a friend..." "No dad, see the way he looks at her" "Nothing special about that" "Urgh..Mad cutie come look at this" The girl reckoned a boy who was cleaning and looked a bit older than her.
Just before, Alvin left, he greeted everyone and her parents tried to make him stay but he declined saying he got other plans and will make it up for them during new year. Nikita was shocked at the number of people at her house; almost all relatives were present. She gave her parents a questioning look but they just grinned. Eleanor was super excited to see her big sis again but there was something was missing. She looked around then took one look at Nikita; she didn't look jovial or her normal self. As she was a out to question her, one of their aunt's dragged them to the kitchen to help prepare dinner.
"Goodness me, Nikki how did you become a better cook" her aunt complimented. "Oh that I just practiced more " She responded trying to force a smile as she remembered when Janta and he were cooking.
Dinner was served and everyone all seemed to be in a good mood. It was a lovely Christmas dinner for everyone except Nikita. Her mom noticed it and tried to lit her up. "Nikki heard from Santa this year?" This made her relatives roar inti a long laughter. Nikita stood up about to leave the table. "No darling you know your mum doesn't mean it that way. We're just worried"."thanks for your concern, if you need me, you know where to find me". "Aunt Nikki, please stay. I missed you already" her younger cousin called out to her with lovely puppy eyes. Another memory of Janta flushed in her mind. She let out a genuine smile for the first time in days. "Nikki I saw a video if a girl that looks exactly like you and she was dancing to your favorite holiday song" her uncle commented while keeping an innocent face. "Uncle it's her" Eleanor responded. "Oh! So we have a celebrity in the house" "That's nonsense she's not even married" her mom barged in. The tension at that point rose due to that statement. "But Diane if she could be a celebrity, it will be better than her present Jon" her father interfered . The rest of dinner went in silently, the males decided to play vid game while the ladies binged a Christmas romance series, at a point Nikita excused herself and Eleanor followed afterwards. They both went in to Eleanor's room and Nikita jumped to the bed. "No no no Nikki you're not gonna sleep until you answer my questions" Eleanor dragged her off the bed. "Eleanor?!" "What? Do I look like a ghost?" "Absolutely...not! So what are your questions " "Seriously sis? Stop pretending you who I wanna ask about " Nikita didn't respond.
"Now tell me where is he?"