It was a cold afternoon of December I just had a talk with my Parents who were telling me how everything was great in Daman, my father Raj who was a Commodore in the Indian Navy, asked me what my plans were regarding my future as I was about to graduate in six months, this was my cue to end the call by saying that the network is getting bad as I had no answer for him. After that call my little sister Megha called me to tell me the aftermath of my hanging up the call which was my father disowning me for the hundredth time. Megha asked me why did the great Shreyash leave the cousins just-chat group to which i replied that it was getting boring and predictable just like present conversation Megha laughed at my answer and told me to call my Mother Aasha and tell her to let my Sister leave house for Summer camp at karavali mountain range to which i had to say yes as we had a pact to support one another against Baba for me and Aai for Megha. Megha told me that my Elder cousin Sister was going to get married in December her name was Aparna. My Father has two elder brothers Kanta kaka and Ajay kaka amongst whom Ajay kaka and his wife went missing 15 years ago leaving behind Surbhi Tai and Aparna Tai. My father took in Aparna Tai and Kanta kaka took in Surbhi Tai. Kanta kaka was a very interesting person he was Retired and used to serve in the Special Forces he had trained me and Surbhi Tai in various martial arts during the time i lived with them which was from 8th class to 12th class. Surbhi Tai had also joined Special Forces and was married to her fellow colleague Major Parag. Including me and my above 3 sisters we had 8 cousins totalling to a group of 13 cousins who were called 13 terrors by my Ajoba (Grandfather in Marathi). Presently we had lost touch with the remaining 8 cousins as we all had gone our separate ways, me exiting the just-chat group just highlighted the situation. Thinking about all this just stressed me out so I called my best friends Badri and Ojas to my room to try new cigars we had bought, Badri said he was sleeping and he hates when we smoke so I just asked Ojas to come to my room ASAP. Ojas brought the cigar cutter and I lit the cigar we were discussing what can we do regarding coming End Semester Exams as passing marks were high in National Institute of Legal Studies Mumbai (NILS) and we had already scored bad in Mid Sem. Ojas told me he had good notes but we will have to start studying from tomorrow if we wanted to complete those notes i agreed with him on that point. As we were discussing we felt an Earthquake and heard lightning like never before following which electricity was gone. Before i could react to the present situation I saw a translucent screen in front of my eyes which read-
"Welcome insignificant humans to the Beginning of the Disaster".