Nikolai

3

Kiara POV

I toss and turn around in my sleep as someone kept knocking on my door. Groaning I open my eyes and get down the bed, wander towards the door in half woken state.

I open the door to see Elora aunty. Sleep vanishes from my eyes.

"Good morning, honey," Elora aunty said.

"Good morning, aunty."

"Sorry to wake you up honey but you need to get ready for your first day."

"Ah, awe thank you for waking me up aunty," I tell her and she chuckles nodding her head.

"Get ready and come down to have breakfast."

"Okay, aunty." She smiles before walking away. I step inside and close the door when my alarm started ringing.

"First day..." I tell myself wandering towards the bed to fold the bedsheet and to stop the ringing alarm clock on my phone. 

Today my classes gonna start, I'm excited and nervous. Excited to see the university and nervous about meeting new people. Thankfully, Kreo is sharing the morning classes with me. I thought he was going to select the afternoon schedule but he selected the morning classes.

I wander into the bathroom to take a leak and to finish my morning business. I take a head shower, dry my body and hair with the towel before stepping out of the bathroom and walking into the closet.

Every room in Knights mansion is like a master bedroom and has a walk-in closet which is super cool. I dry my hair first and dial my dad.

"Kiara!"

"Papa!" I say happily.

"I miss you," dad said. 

"I miss you too," I say keeping the hair drier down.

"Did you wake up and got ready?" he asked.

"I woke up and took a shower."

"Good... Don't go to college without eating anything. Don't be nervous okay?"

I chuckle, "Okay, I will eat something and won't be nervous." 

"Make new friends, don't be shy," mum said.

"Noted." I talk with them as I go through the clothes that I have arranged. I pull out a pair of denim jeans, a white camisole top and the thick brown cardigan.

"I will call you in the night, take care and love you two," I say.

"Love you and take care."

"Love you." I end the call and dress up in my outfit. I leave my hair open, keep my face but apply the lipstick. There was a loud knock on the door before Xahria entered the room wearing a thick black sweater.

"Good morning..." she said.

"Good morning," I reply.

"Are you ready?" she asked sitting on the bed.

"In a minute," I said dashing into my closet to wear my sneakers. I put them on and wander back into the room. I pick my phone, wallet and bag.

"You look lovely," she complimented with a smile on her face. 

I smile back, "Thank you and you look good," I tell her truthfully. Xahria is a very beautiful girl inside and outside.

We go downstairs towards the kitchen. "We are going to eat the special breakfast," Xahria told me.

"Special breakfast?" I ask in confusion.

"Whenever new semester starts, dad and mum together prepare the breakfast. That's why it's known as special breakfast."

"Oh okay."

"Good morning girls," Xavier uncle said when we entered the kitchen.

"Good morning, dad," Xahria said.

"Good morning, uncle," I said. 

"Take your seats, I will serve your plates," Xavier uncle said after we hugged him.

"Yup." I take my seat beside Xahria, saw Elora aunty making the juice.

"What you girls want to drink juice or tea or coffee?" Elora aunty asked as Xavier uncle served the breakfast.

"I will have chai, mum," Xahria said.

"I will have chai too, aunty."

"Okay."

The breakfast was fun with chatter with Xavier uncle, Elora aunty and Xahria. I haven't seen Xaiden as he left for his early morning training. We hardly get to see him as he is busy with his training and schedule. 

"Drive safe," Elora aunty said as we bid our goodbyes.

"Noted." 

Xahria has her own car that she uses for college. Usually, when we all go out we don't use all the cars. Xaiden and Kreo take their cars out and we all get in the two cars.

I open the door of Xahria's BMW, get in and buckle my seatbelt. "Kreo and Aubree started, they will be waiting for us in the parking lot," Xahria said after checking her messages.

"Yup."

Kreo is a very reserved person, he is picky when it comes to people. He was and is a good friend to me and helped me with the morning slot. I have gone out with everyone for sightseeing and the normal lunch dates.

Xahria turned on the radio, we started singing along the lyrics. "We will reach uni in twenty minutes," Xahria said slowing down the car.

I hum looking out of the window, the roads are busy and the traffic is hectic as it is a typical Monday morning in New York City. I have learned that the university which I applied to and got into belongs to the Knights and Mckenzie families.

Xavier uncle's mother is the founder of Greenwood and he is successfully running the university without any fail. The Mckenzies amalgamated Greenwood high and college with the university a few years ago.

The uni is divided into six parts or blocks with different streams. It was only five divisions but later they included the culinary block. Elwen is from the culinary block, Angel is from the fine arts block but right now she is in Spain. Kreo, Aubree, Xahria and I are from the business and commerce block.

"There are many students," I say as we reached the university's gates. Xahria chuckled halting the car as other cars are entering the gates.

"Yeah, now you won't feel the property is too big," she comments and I laugh nodding my head.

We came last week when the whole university was calm. I found the university property is too huge. But now seeing students everywhere and the car's I think the property is perfect. 

Xahria parked the car beside Kreo's. I unbuckle my seatbelt and got out of the car when I saw Kreo and Elwen. Aubree stood beside them. Xahria and I walked towards them.

"Good morning everyone," I greet them with a happy smile.

"Good morning..."

"Good morning..."

"Good morning..." They greeted.

"When will your class starts?" Aubree asked me as I stood beside her.

"In ten minutes and yours?" I answered after looking at my watch.

"Xahria and I have our first class in thirty minutes," she replied.

"What about you Elwen? Where is Kenric? I don't see him," Xahria asked Elwen who is leaning against the car.

"He already went to his class, his class starts in five minutes," Elwen replied.

"We better start moving," Kreo said. I bid my goodbyes before walking with Kreo. People started looking at us, way longer than required making me feel awkward.

"They tend to look at you, don't care about them," Kreo said. I gave him a smile before walking beside him.

"My friend Greg will be joining us in class."

"Okay," I reply looking ahead.

We entered our first class, today we only have two classes to attend. Our first-class is strategy formulation then managerial statistics. Our classes are scheduled from Monday to Thursday. Three classes per day.

I'm very much happy with my schedule, I followed Kreo to the top room. The classroom is wide and big. I love it. I saw a lanky guy who stood up by seeing Kreo, they did a bro-hug. I stood there not knowing what to do.

The students in the class kept looking at Kreo, watching him in awe and wonder.

"Greg, meet Kiara," Kreo introduced.

"Hi, I'm Greg." The Blondie guy said with a huge smile.

"Hi, I'm Kiara," I said shaking his hand. His eyes twinkled before he told me to sit down. Kreo sat in between me and Greg. I looked at a few girls who are snickering at me for an unknown reason.

I don't know what's their problem is. I shrugged off when the professor entered the room. We opened our new notebooks. The professor is an easy-going person. He made jokes first before he started his lesson for the day.

Kreo surprised me by writing notes on everything that the professor had said. While Greg least cared about notes. We got fifteen minutes of break after each class. I got a message from Ishaan asking about my first class.

I messaged that it was good, I checked my other emails I have got before the second period has started. When the classes ended I walked out of the room with Kreo and Greg.

"That was boring," Greg said making me laugh.

"Classes are always boring to you," Kreo replied.

"True, long hour classes aren't my thing. They make me sleepy," Greg said.

"You wanna join lunch with us?" Kreo asked Greg.

"Sure, I don't have much to do." Greg said.

"Did you drive?" Kreo asked Greg.

"Yup, brought my baby."

"Follow my car," Kreo said. We three walked towards the parking lot.

I got into Kreo's car. All these kids drive expensive sports cars but they also work for it. They help their parents in matters of business. We ended up in a nearby restaurant. We ordered our food.

"So Kiara what does your name mean?" Greg asked. Because of his accent, my name rolls so differently on his tongue.

Others have a habit of spelling the Indian names because of Knights family. But Greg calling my name sounds very different.

"Dark, little black one," I said.

"Your roots are from?" I asked Greg.

"I'm from Australia but raised in New York," he replied.

"What about you? When did you shift to New York?" he asked.

"India, I shifted this year for higher education," I tell him.

"She is living with Knights family," Kreo said. We talked while eating our lunch, later Kreo dropped me home at the same time Xahria returned.

"How was your first day?" she asked me swinging her bag.

"Pretty good, how was yours?" I asked her.

"Not bad," she said. Elora aunty came out from the kitchen when she heard our voices.

"How was your day?" she asked with her radiant smile.

"Good." Xahria and I said smiling.

"Are you girls hungry? I prepared lunch," Elora aunty said.

"I ate lunch with Kreo and Greg," I said.

"Serve the food mom, I'm really hungry," Xahria said wandering into the kitchen

"Kiara why don't you eat ice-cream and company Xahria," Elora aunty said.

"Okay," I said making her laugh. Who says no to ice cream. We wander into the kitchen, Xahria already took her seat.

I sat beside Xahria, "You met Greg?" Xahria asked.

"Yes, in the class and Kreo, Greg and I went to lunch."

"Greg is a close friend of Kreo. We all know him, he is a good guy and fun to be around," she said and I nodded my head.

"But the girls in the class didn't stop looking at me. It made me uncomfortable and some of them even glared at me for no reason."

"Ignore them, they are jealous that you are sitting with Kreo. They want attention from Kreo but that guy don't even look at girls," she said and Elora brought her food and my ice cream.

"There is good news," Elora aunty said sitting down with her own ice-cream.

"What's that mom?" Xahria asked.

"Your brother is coming home for a few days." Elora aunty beamed in happiness and excitement.

"That's good, it's been a long time that Nico came home," Xahria said.

"Yeah right, that's why he is coming," Elora said.

I just listened to them while eating my ice cream. Enjoying the chocolate flavour on my taste buds. Their firstborn is coming home, I will be meeting him in a few days then. I saw his photos on i********: and on the walls. Elora decorated photo frames on the walls.

"I'm making Mexican for dinner, be on time," Elora aunty said.

"Okay." I stood up to clean my cup. There is a strict rule in this house, you should wash your own plate. As I'm a part of this home, I wash my own plate even if they told me not to.

"I'll be in my room if you need anything just walk in," Xahria said standing up from her chair.