The Rearranged Life by Annika Sharma

Author:Annika Sharma [Sharma, Annika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620078761
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2015-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

All at once, Christmas morning is here.

“Oh my gosh, Amma! This is perfect!” squeals Anisha when she opens her gift on Christmas morning. It’s a name brand watch all the cool girls have in high school. It glints underneath the lights of the tree and looks comically large on her thin wrist.

“Next is Nithya’s gift!” Amma exclaims.

I wait expectantly, but my parents exchange giddy glances.

“We have to go in the basement for this.” Nanna stands up and offers my mother a hand.

We all parade down the stairs to the basement, like a line of ducks. This is some seriously dramatic buildup for people who don’t celebrate Christmas. I love my family for wholeheartedly going big or going home. My mother covers my eyes as I walk into the wide space of the finished family room.

“Ready? Open!” She whips her hands off my eyes.

In the middle of the floor glistens a beautiful mahogany desk with a credenza on top. A brand new laptop box sits square in the center.

“For medical school,” my dad says, proudly.

“Oh my gosh!” I shriek. “But I haven’t even gotten in yet.”

“We know you will.” My mother pats my back. “We just didn’t want to wait until graduation to tell you how proud we are of you.”

Gratitude floods me. What did I do in my past life to be granted such an amazing family in this incredible turn of karmic payback? How lucky I am to have people who believe in me so much they would celebrate an accomplishment that hasn’t happened yet, spending thousands of dollars during a holiday we don’t even partake in seriously. Tears sting my eyes.

“Thank you,” I manage.

“Don’t cry, kanna. You earned this.” Nanna smiles down at me.

“You deserve it,” Amma says with so much conviction, I believe I do deserve people this wonderful around me. “You bring so much joy to this house.”

I am truly the most blessed girl in the universe.

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