Chapter 9: Hello family

Snapping back from her slumber she hugged me so tight that I could not breathe.

'nanny please stop squeezing me hard before I lose air completely and drop dead before I could say my thoughts out loud nanny Lin lan released me, I guess she felt my uncomfortable reaction.

"Welcome back home young miss, everyone is having dinner in the family dining hall, so please quick freshen up and come down for dinner I will go and inform them you have arrived " before nanny Lin lan could turn and go a thought flashed through my mind 'why not surprise them instead, yeah I should rather surprise '

"Wait for a minute nanny, why not tell them and surprise them instead," I said with a lot of enthusiasm which left the nanny no other choice but to give in and not say anything to anyone. I ran to my room to freshen up nothing had changed the same purple walls, everything was the same just like how it was five years ago. I freshened up and off I went to the dining hall.

I was so excited, 'had everyone changed, how was everyone these past years.... ooooh how I longed to be home, I bet they will all be soo happy upon seeing me ' little did I know that my existence had long been forgotten even by my mother.

Upon arriving at the dining hall everyone was consumed in talking about my brother's upcoming birthday, well that's how I thought before realizing that they were pretending not to notice my presence.

I decided to make them notice me "Hello family!!!"

I just got cold stares in return and a hush! the signal from my mother. I quietly found a chair beside my second brother and settled myself. My heart was shattered into pieces. 'It been a whole five years, not days nor weeks, even though they never truly appreciated my presence I would understand it if it just came from my father and grandparents but my mother and siblings I could not bring myself together into accepting that hurtful fact.

I could not let them see this state of me and so I composed myself making sure my inner feelings would not show. Since the maid showed any sign of wanting to serve me so I served it its not like I could not do it on my own. Well, at least this kind of treatment I was used to since I stepped foot in the house the others would be served and I would be left to my own fending, and that's the main reason why my mother personally arranged for my nanny. Nanny in lan was the only person with compassion toward me.