Aahana, Adhira !! My mum shouted from downstairs , I and my twin sister ran downstairs to meet our mum who was pacing around the living room , packing boxes and generally been stressed from moving around . We were moving abroad in a few days , but first I’ll start from the beginning .

Hi I’m Aahana I’m 17 years old and I just finished my second year of senior high school year about a two months ago . I have a fraternal twin sister adhira , she’s the extroverted , bold and more outgoing amongst us two , I on the other hand I’m more of the introverted type who keeps to myself most of the time especially around new people. I’m Indian American .

My dad Mr Rudra veer is a Neurosurgeon who is very conservative and traditional but he gave us some freedom which I’m grateful for . He is a man in his middle 40s but he manages to look fit and handsome by the day. He’s fully Indian with his both parents from rahjastan in northern India. He’s a 5 feet 9 inches man with jet black hair , dark brown skin , with brown eyes and gold orbs swimming in and there’s my ever beautiful mum Mrs Queen Veer shes a fashion designer ,she owns a thriving small company that she runs from home . She’s in her early 40s but like my dad she manages to always look stunning , she’s fully American and is literally pale white . She has blue eyes and long curly Brown hair , she’s 5’4 inches a little woman like my dad calls her. My parents met during one of my mums travels , she was and still is a lover of traveling and going to new places and getting to experience new cultures. My dad helped her from getting cheated by a reckshaw driver when she came to India

Mumbai

and the rest they say is history .

Adhira has most of my mum’s features sometimes I get a bit jealous because I feel she looks prettier . She’s a light brown skin 5 foot 6 inches girl with long brown curly hair , she has blue eyes with specs of gold swimming in it. She’s slim with curves just at the right places .

Then there’s me Aahana I sometimes get called the feminine version of my father , with brown skin , long jet black silky hair and dimples . I’m 5’5 tall and much more curvy than adhi, I remember puberty hitting me so hard I had self esteem issues , until I grew to love myself just the way I am . I still sometimes get intrusive thoughts but I’ve learnt to cope with it better than 2 years ago .

Back to where we were in the beginning , two months ago my dad got promoted and offered a new job in Chicago Illinois with much higher pay and benefits . I was so excited because I wanted to see some other places than Mumbai which I grew up in , although we had been able to travel over the years, but it wasn’t the same as moving . I was elated to move somewhere new and have a fresh start , so was adhi and my parents .

My mum just finished packing the last set of boxes to be sent out to our relatives here cause we weren’t taking any of the old stuff just our clothes and some few stuffs that could fit into our luggage. My parents traveled two weeks ago to finalize some things there and furnish the house and make it livable before we get there which I was very thankful for. Our flight was scheduled for Thursday morning we had just two days more to say our last goodbyes and round up everything that needed to be rounded up before moving to a new place , I could only hope for good things when we get there .

Fast forward to moving day , it’s 4:30 am in the morning and our flight was scheduled for 10:00am in the morning , I woke up about an hour ago and couldn’t go back to sleep anymore due to the excitement of moving , I decided to wait till I as 5 before waking adhi up to get ready . Fast forward to 5:01 I shook adhi and she got up and rubbed her eyes asking what time it was , I showed her the bedside clock we had . She took sometime to get herself fully awake while I went in the bathroom to freshen up and get ready . While I was brushing my teeth adhi came in the bathroom and freshened up too , I was done brushing so I left the bathroom to get dressed in the room . Adhi came out when I was done dressing up and just putting my last few things in my carryon bag .

I could hear my parents moving downstairs, trying to get things into the car so we could drive to the airport in a few hours time to avoid getting stuck in traffic . I decided to go down and join them in preparing the house and loading the last set of luggage in the car .

By the time we were done it was 7:25 my mum had checked up to 15 times to make sure we had our passports and tickets and other documents we would be needing meaning we had about an hour or two to get to the airport in time to check in and get on the plane. My mum called for adhi to come downstairs so we could lock up the house and give the keys to our neighbor Mrs Singh , she’d give the keys to the new owners of the house.

Adhi finally came downstairs after three minutes we were all outside ready to lock up and get in the car and leave . My mum called for Mrs Singh and she came up to us collected the keys and said goodbye to us .

In my heart I told myself this is it , this is beginning of a new and hopefully better start for me .

We got to the airport after experiencing few hassles on the road , by the time we got there it was already 9:00 we ran to the check point stood in line to get checked and went through all the necessary airport protocols or stress like I would call them . We finally got on the plane we were opportune to fly business class cause my parents were well to do , but it was still hell we spent money 16 hours and 45 minutes on air , I dreaded this cause I knew how air sick I got luckily for me my mum had some sleeping pills to help me sleep a bit , meanwhile adhi and my parents on the other hand had a much better time except for the fact they had to take care of me most of the flight .

We finally landed after almost 17 hours and I can’t begin to explain how relieved I was to finally be on ground . Luckily we had a chauffeur waiting for us to pick us up after getting our luggage. The chauffeur looked like a nice man with his white beards and hair , he welcomed us with a very large smile on his face and introduced himself as Charles to us . We got in the car with my dad staying in front so he could give directions to our new house which was located in the suburbs

fancy I thought to myself

. We got to the gated community and I was wowed ,there were so many beautiful houses that screamed money and luxury , I was a bit skeptical cause I’ve read on people been racist and condescending towards people of color living in areas like this , but in any case I was ready for anything like that , my parents worked too hard to get us here so I wouldn’t let any entitled prick make me feel unworthy .

The drive to the house was a 1 hour 30 minutes journey from the airport but we finally got there . The house was beautiful to say the least , it was painted white on the outside , it had a small fence and a garden space in the backyard , a garage and a small family sized pool and it was built with concrete which shocked me cause I thought most American houses were made of wood , I was grateful it was concrete .

We unloaded our stuffs from the car with Charles helping us very nice of him to do . By the time we were done unloading I was tired and spent I couldn’t wait to sleep .

My mum showed us to our rooms I didn’t have the time or energy in me to look around I went straight to bed and dozed off

Same with adhi she was also very spent , we decided to leave the exploring for tomorrow since we weren’t starting school until next week, so we had a lot of time to do that .