Only you

Chapter 24

TW: minor abuse (parent slapping child) brief, only happens twice and isn't very graphic.
Flashback:is in bold and italic

I woke up startled, remembering how bad this day's going to be. Reyna had already left to go visit family in the Philippines for the holidays. This meant that I was alone this whole morning to panic about today, I could already feel it swirling around my stomach.

I started my day at eight in the morning by brushing my teeth and making myself a cup of chai (tea), I wrapped myself up in a blanket with my mug while watching tv. I wanted to calm my nerves before attempting to go to my parents house.

Around nine o'clock my doorbell rang, I didn't really know who'd come here this early, I put on my slippers after getting up and went to answer the door. I was pleasantly surprised by the sight of Ivy holding up a box of pastries with a smile on her face.

"Hi, good morning. Sorry I'm early but I knew you wouldn't eat anything so I came to have breakfast with you." She stepped in to my apartment.

"Hi, thank you. Merry Christmas!" I smiled as we walked back to my living room.

"Oh yeah Merry Christmas." She replied as we sat down on the couch.

We ended up sitting there eating chocolate croissants and cinnamon buns for about half an hour before I decided to go get ready.

I ended up going casual with jeans and a grey sweatshirt before meeting Ivy in the hallway of my apartment near the door. She smiled at me reassuringly and took my hand as I took a deep breath and opened the door.

"Are you sure your okay doing this?" She asked softly.

"Yeah, I need to do this. I never really got closure after I got disowned I just shut them out and so did they so I never really got to know why or if they still love me somewhere deep down." I replied.

"Ok." She gave a small smile.

She came in her motorcycle so the first thing she did was help me put on the helmet, I gave her the address after and we started driving with my arms settled around her waist.

As far as I had known my parents had a house 2 hours away from here in my hometown but this year they were spending Christmas at Aman and Esha's house.

It was about a 20 minute drive from my apartment but I was okay with the distance, I had gotten used to Ivy's motorcycle.

When we got to there driveway I saw that Ravi's car was already here meaning that him and Isaac were here before us. Ivy got off the motorcycle first and extended out a hand towards me to help me get up as well. We took off our helmets and started to walk to the front door.

I took a deep breath as Ivy took a hold of my hand before pressing the doorbell. Esha answered with a big smile on her face before gathering the two of us into a hug. "Merry Christmas!" She squealed.

"Merry Christmas!" We both replied in unison as we all let go of the hug. I had already told Ivy that Esha was one of the nice ones when I gave her a big family history lesson.

"Come in, come in, I don't want to let in the cold." She ushered us in the door.

We took off our shoes and jackets before entering the house, I could already hear people talking.

I assumed that along with my family there would also be my Kanchan Masse (mom's sister), Harveer Massar (mom's sister's husband), Jas, Avran, and my Balvinder Mama (mom's brother), Sona Mami (mom's brother's wife), and their kids Zara, Dilpreet, and Anaya.

Out of my mom's side of the family between my mom and her two siblings Kanchan and Balvinder there were 10 of us cousins. Although Zara, Dilpreet and Anaya were much younger, only being 14, 12 and 10. While Avran was 21 and Jas was 18.