Half sister

"I should get going," Nayera said, she just was not ready to face him just yet.

"Era," Kush held her hand as she turned around to look at him through the veil on her face.

"Yea?" She asked she wanted to avoid everything right now, curl up in her bed, and just... Rest.

"All that you heard—" Kush tried to explain but Nayera shook her head at him.

"Kush, I am really getting late for something, later tonight we need to execute the plan, you chill up okay?" Nayera said.

She was just trying to run away from him, that place, and her memories.

"Era—" Kush tried to stop her but she opened the door and walked out taking her things.

Kush could not understand what just happened to him, the Nayera he knows would have had his head if she would have listened to everything his mother said not run away like that.

"What are you Era?" He asked himself as he stared at her retreating figure.

Kush went back to his work, she told him the plan was going to be executed tonight.

He needs all the lot available very soon.

Kush made a few calls to the warehouses and production department that he needs reports on all the stock available.

" The report will be at your desk in an hour sir," the general manager said as Kush hung up the call.

Nayera closed the door behind her as she looked at the empty home, everyone must have been out.

She can't understand what happened there, suddenly her memories just came up like a tornado and she could not handle herself

She walked to the dining table and held the water bottle with her shaky hands.

She was trying to open the cap but her hands were shaking so badly that she could not even hold it properly.

She swallowed back the tears and tried to calm her hands but it did not help her at all.

The bottle fell on her feet, "ahhh fuck!" She cried looking at her bloodied tone.

Her nail broke.

"Era?" Nihalika came out of her room and looked at Nayera.

Her smile soon changed into a frown when she noticed her bloodied tone.

"Fuck shit Era, why can't you do anything right?" She said helping her sit on the nearby chair and looking at her toe

"Is it paining a lot?" She asked as she helped her put her feet on the table before them.

"No Nihalika, I am fine," she said as she hide behind the smile.

"I will just be back with the first aid box," Nihalika said as Nayera gave her a smile.

Putting the antiseptic liquid on her tow with Cotton Nihalika was observing Nayera.

She was not acting like herself, she can't handle the pain but right now she is acting as if her toe is not paining at all.

" Who said what about maa, era," nayera's eyes widened as she looked at Nihalika.

"What? No nothing, no one said anything about Maa, why are you asking?" She said as Nihalika put the bandage aside and looked at Nayera with a sharp graze.

"You are calling maa 'maa' do you even know what that indicates?" She asked as Nayera gulped her Saliva and changed her expression the next second.

"Nihalika, there can be wrong words spoken for wrong people, don't make an issue of it" Nayera said as Nihalika glared at her.

"Wrong words? Just wrong words? Era, you fucking broke your nail and you were smiling, you have no control over pain and yet you smile whenever you get hurt, isn't it enough proof that you are getting inside and something had happened, I know it very well, I can read your expression, I can feel my sister," Nihalika said as era's tears begged to be surfaced.

She stood up as Nihalika looked at her toe worriedly.

She knew whatever she was about to say would hurt Nihalika like anything but she should not know some things and she would never let her know those things.

"Half-sister" Nayera's one word was enough to still Nihalika's coming arguments or efforts.

"You don't know me Nihalika, " Nayera said as she took the box in her hand.

"How can you say that era?" Nihalika's low voice came when she was walking back to her room like she was not injured at all.

"With my mouth Nihalika, some truths are hard to accept but needed to be accepted, I have you should too," Nayera said as she turned around and walked to her room leaving Nihalika alone with her pain.

Nayera sat on the bed as she closed her eyes for a second.

'you did wrong' her inner self said as he nodded.

'i know,' she replied.

'you hurt her,' it said again.

'she was asking things,' Nayera said in her defense.

'could have handled it better' Nayera knew her inner self was not wrong about that, she could have handled it better, but she did not have emotions.

She is emotionless and that is what she is best at, she does not let her emotions get in her way of protecting her family.

Her family.

Nayera pulled herself out of her thoughts and opened the box, she dipped the cotton into an antiseptic liquid and applied it all over the broken nail.

" I need a doctor for this," she said to herself before wrapping a bandage around her toe in a hassle.

Nayera and care do not go hand in hand, let it be for herself or others.

Her phone went off as she hit the green icon when she saw Kush was calling her.

"Nayera, do I need to pick you up?" He asked as soon as she picked up the call.

"Nope, I will reach in half an hour, text me the places you had the most sales at, and I will handle the rest," Nayera said in a professional tone that would rather sound cold to anyone.

She had her walls up high, no one can break them, no one.

"Okay," he said and hung up, nayera looked at the messed up bandage before she went to change her clothes and put the ones in the machine before she leaves.

Work time starts now.