A new day

The next morning, when Flora woke up, she smelled a familiar scent of food which she had missed for five years. Even though, Lily was the President of the food company and she herself was a very good cook, she never entered the kitchen in last five years. This was the first time she went inside the kitchen.

"Hey! Why are you standing on the staircase?"

Amelia came out of her room while rubbing her eyes and saw Noah standing stupefied at the last step of staircase.

When she saw the unresponsive Noah, she nudged him, "Hey! What's up with you? Can't you hear me?"

"Shhh! Look", Noah shushed her. Amelia scrunched her brows and followed Noah's finger and when she saw it, she herself was shocked.

Even before she could realise, her eyes watered and Noah heard light sniffling sound. Without a sound, he wrapped his arm around Amelia's waist and took her in his embrace.

Without even looking at her, Noah said,

"It's okay! We will get our Lily back soon!"

"Do you really think so? I think she is just doing it to keep aunt's heart at ease." Amelia replied sniffling. She made herself comfortable in his arms as if she is so used to this.

"I know, she is good at pretending, but even if she is pretending, she has taken her first step towards her happiness and we both should be there for her." Noah replied, steadying her in his arms.

"We will surely be there for her anyway. But I hope this time, she truly finds her happiness. I want to put an end to her horrible past as soon as possible".

"Me too. And our first chance at that is going to be there soon." Noah replied and turned his head to look at her face.

Amelia too turned her head up, feeling his gaze on her. That's when she realised how close she was to him. She could see his jet black eyes with those long lashes.

Noah was stunned due to their proximity and he couldn't look away from her face, looking at her expression. They were both looking at each other in each other's embrace, that's when a loud sound interrupted their train of thoughts.

Thud!

The sound came from the kitchen, and that's when both got out of their stupor and ran towards kitchen and saw Lily picking up the serving spoon and sighed in relief. Then they both looked at each other and the previous scene played in their minds and both of them took one step away from each other being embarrassed.

Noah could see Amelia's cheeks in a shade of pink and a small smile tugged at his lips.

"Oh! You guys got up. Wait a minute. Breakfast will soon be ready", Lily chimed.

A relief washed over Amelia's face and she scurried over to Lily and hugged her, and said, "Hey! What are you cooking? It smells delicious! Mmmm, my mouth is already watering"

Lily laughed at cute antics of her friend and replied, " I am making all your favorite today"

"Really?"

"Yup"

"Hey, that's wrong! What about my favorite dishes then?" Noah whined like a small kid asking for a candy and both the ladies couldn't help but laugh.

Flora was watching all this and felt happy. It's been years since she has heard all three behaving like little kids and today it happened. Even if her daughter is pretending, she won't mind it. That way at least her daughter is trying to come out of her shell.

'I hope you find your happiness, this time around' she thought and left the three musketeers to get ready.

Soon after a sumptuous breakfast was spread on the table with English cake, Beacon with Scrambled eggs, Freshly cut fruits with Fresh fruit juice, Green tea and Black coffee, as all of them had different beverage preferences.

After having a heart breakfast they left for their destinations. Noah took Amelia to her office and Lily took her mother to her university.

After dropping her to her University, Lily drove to her own office. She was quite happy today as today will mark as the first day of her plan. Today is going to be a new day, a fresh start at everything. Everything! where she will make sure not to loose anything like in past. 'Today will mark a new beginning not only in my life but theirs as well', she smirked think this and sped towards her office.