Last night I was truly alone…!

The house felt empty,
after my sister’s marriage,
The last person staying with us went home yesterday evening…!

She was the source of chaos,
that brought some noise in our otherwise silent life,
which made me happy,
I hope everyone happy…!

But,
last night staring at her empty room,
with the door open and a single light bulb turned on,
above her bedside table made me cherish that chaos more…!

I FaceTimed her,
and it was at that moment it hit me,
when she didn’t pick my first call up,
but,
a few minutes later she called me back and told me that she was cleaning her bed as they were planning to sleep,
and her phone was charging on the ground floor where her mother in law was…!

It felt weird,
never would I have guessed that I would get an excuse from her,
but,
thinking it was the reality and genuinely what happened I asked her to keep her phone nearby,
and
guess What she did…!

She teased me by saying,
that I was missing her;
someone who I spent my lifetime with and had with me up until this point and I was missing her;

I laughed,
and said,
you live a few hours of drive away,
if I were to miss you I’d come and meet you,
to which she laughed too…!

Maybe it was our way of telling we missed each other,
and,
laughing far away on phone call was the way to go ahead…?

But,
I asked her about her well being and if they got a chance to get the TV hooked up how they wanted..?

To which they said,
they have called the company to send the guy who will do the installing,
Which will arrive within 24-48 hours…!

On hearing that things were going according to how they wanted,
I was at last assured,
and,
asked her,
how she was feeling in a new house,
was she able to set herself like one of the family members…!

To which she said,
she is trying to put a good impression on them,
By agreeing to what they say as they are the adults,
She talks with her mother in law and sister in law and they can’t get enough ever…!

Father in law and grandmother in law are still an uncharted territory because they belong to the old mindset and they force her to conform to those which she can’t…!

All in,
she is living a good,
and,
a well life…!

Out of nowhere she started to say that she misses her sleep;
And I was on the floor laughing,

I used to have a few hours of sleep in the afternoon which I can’t here,
to which I said,
set your schedule in such a way that you don’t feel a need to sleep;

To which she said it’s absolutely mandatory,
the afternoon sleep;

While talking,
Her mother in law shouted her name from the first floor to which she said I’ll see what this is about and I’ll call you later…!

To which I said okay and bye;

After cutting the call,
Everything was the same,
empty room,
empty hall,
it was almost midnight and these thoughts kept me up till 1 in the morning…!

Wondering,
will we ever be the same…?

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍