"Just cage me in your heart, there is no place I could ever be happy than within you."

"Sid... sid... Siddharth, please come and play with me!!" Shiva pestered him when Siddharth was interestingly playing the NFS game in his brand new Apple Macbook that was gifted by Vikranth for getting high marks in his tenth board exams, he just two marks for the perfect score.

"Shiva... I can't, you play with Laksh, okay," he said looking at his laptop.

"Anna(brother) please," he chocked and started crying.

"OK Ok don't cry or else mom will scold me Shiv."

"Then let's play hide and seek Sid, please," he said wiping his tears and his face lit up with a smile.

"Okay!!" Siddharth agreed and stood up closing his laptop. He carried Shiva in his shoulder that he usually does make him laugh and walked to see Lakshmi.

Siddharth is a good brother, who never fight with his cute little brother and cunning little sister. He is just like Vikranth, his face, his physique and the way he thinks are everything similar to him.

Shiva is a cute little boy, but he is a kind hearted person who cries for everything. Even a small scolding will bring the dam of tears from his eyes.

And Lakshmi is a very intelligent and cunning girl. She is kind of a nerd too. But very sweet to her family.

"Hey Laksh, come let's play," Siddharth ordered.

"No I can't, I am going to practice Piano, I am having grade exams next month," she replied and started playing the chords.

Leaving a sigh, Siddharth went near her. He switched off the piano and looked her raising his right eyebrow. For that, she glared.

"Please Laksh, let's play hide and seek, please, please," Shiva started pleasing her and Lakshmi eventually accepted for him, only for him.

Sometimes Lakshmi will fight with Siddharth because of his brotherly attitude, if that fight goes beyond the limit Shiva started to cry seeing them. Then eventually they will stop the fight and started to console him.

They went down to play. Seeing Vikranth an idea popped in Lakshmi's mind. She went near her dad and patted him.

"What?" Vikranth asked seeing the TV and enjoying the Sunday by simply sitting on the couch. Since yesterday night only he came after finishing his business trip.

"We are going to play hide and seek, but we need more people so come and join us," she asked.

"Laksh, dad is very tired and I am having leg pain so you guys play," he replied.

When Lakshmi about to scold her dad,

"Vikranth, just go and play with them, they are asking right!!" Meera came out of the kitchen with juice glasses.

She gave that to everyone and sat beside Lakshmi.

"Ok let's play, and ask mom too if we have more members then it will be interesting right Laksh," Vikranth said mischievously.

"Ok let's play," Meera agreed immediately. Seeing that Siddharth and Shiva smiled.

After drinking their orange juice, Meera asked who is going to be the seeker and Lakshmi immediately said that she is going to be the one.

"No no mom, she will find everyone quickly," Siddharth said and looked his little bro Shiva. For that Lakshmi again glared at him.

"Shiv please, will you be a seeker."

By giving a puppy face, Shiva accepted the offer because he wanted to play the game.

"Rule: 1 No one should go out of this house.

Rule:2 Shiv you have to shout and aware others that you have found someone

Rule: 3 If you can't find anyone you have to shout pause.

Now you go outside of this house and come after counting 100," Lakshmi listed.

Seeing her daughter Vikranth can't believe how grown up she is. The way she commands and taking everything in her hands assured him that she's going to be a great person in the future.

After Shiva left the house, Siddharth ran towards the lawn side and Lakshmi went into her parent's room.

"Meera quickly tell someplace to hide." Vikranth urged.

"Let's go upstairs," she said and held Vikranth's hand.

They went into Siddharth's room, they hide in his small closet. Meera looked nervous and Vikranth smiled seeing her. It has been days since he had a chance to be with Meera alone. He slowly yanked her waist close to him and looked at her with a smirk.

"Vikranth, what you're doing?"

He replied by giving a kiss to her lips. Meera froze and felt that she is trapped.

The kiss turned so passionate when Meera too started kissing him. "Vikranth no, what if they find us," she said pulling out from the kiss.

"They won't," he started kissing all over face and neck. Though Vikranth is forty now he is still looking handsome and muscular. Meera became little fat compared to her older self but she's still beautiful both inside and out.

"I really missed you," Meera said when he was feverishly kissing.

"Me too, Meera," he said and hugged her.

They both stayed like that for some time.

In this rapidly moving life, it is very difficult for them to stay like this. Inside they adore their love for each other but the chance of showing that is very less as they are not a young newly married couple anymore.

They broke from the hug when they heard Shiva shouting. "I think he found someone," Meera whispered.

"Yes." Vikranth grinned.

They came out of the room and Lakshmi too came out. So Siddharth is the next seeker.

When Siddharth went out of the house. Meera went with Lakshmi to hide and Vikranth went with Shiva. They were hidden in the places silently until Siddharth found his dad.

By this way, they played for almost two hours, with a lot of giggles and smiles.

In the evening time, Vikranth ordered Pizza, coke, and burgers. He and Meera waited for their kids to come home because they went for summer classes. Lakshmi for piano class, Shiva for drawing and Siddharth went to practice football since he's very fond of that game like his dad.

"Vikranth your sister is coming India with Seetha ma next month," Meera said.

"Oh... then I will ask servants to arrange dad's house," he replied while preparing coffee for both of them.

Even they are very rich, but Meera wanted to stay in this house than shifting into a very big bungalow. They raised their kids without showering a lot of money and expensive things to them. It is all because of Meera, she never wanted her kids to enjoy the money instead she made them know the value of money.

She won't easily allow Vikranth to buy costly gifts for them. Totally she doesn't want her kids to get spoiled like how Vikranth got spoiled by his dad.

After finishing his practice Siddharth came back to home on his bicycle, when he was entering their compound the delivery guy also entered. So Siddharth bought the food from him and entered the house.

"Look Meera, there's a new delivery guy," Vikranth teased.

"Dad!!" he grinned.

"Just for fun," he smiled and Meera asked him to take shower.

"Vikranth he is looking very similar to you, when he smiles he's exactly like you," Meera said in awe.

"Yeah, he is way more handsome than me."

"And Lakshmi was looking like you Meera," he added.

"Yeah little, but for me, she resembles like my mom," Meera said. The name Lakshmi was chosen because it is her mom's name.

"And Shiva resembles like both of us," Vikranth said.

While they are talking Shiva and Lakshmi entered the house. Meera asked them to get refreshed quickly so that they can have the buffalo chicken Pizza before it gets cold.

When they are all assembled in the living room, they had their Pizza. Vikranth asked how their classes went and their experience. Siddharth had his food in silence by watching TV.

Meera looked at her kids and her husband. A smile eventually spread across her lips. Once she thought there is no one for her.

But now she is having a loving husband who never failed to prove that he's there for her, a supportive son Sid, he won't talk back, a kind fellow.

An intelligent and understanding daughter Lakshmi, Meera feel her mom's vibes in her. And a very cute chubby Shiva, he is similar to Meera, very calm and cries for silly reasons, she doesn't know how he turned into like her but she is trying to make him understand that he should be strong.

Totally she got a wonderful family as a gift. In these ten years, she learned a lot from them, they taught her and made her into a cheerful person.

Life is something very unpredictable, it will lash you badly in a situation and take you to the extreme where you are no longer wanted to live in this world, everyone will experience this, some without having patience and faith will end their life, some will do stupid things that will even worsen their situation and some will remain silent and believe that one day their life will change, and now that is what happened in Meera's life.

Her faith in her life has given a gift that she never dreamt of. Each second she's thanking God for giving this wonderful family.

Looking her smile filled face gave strength to Vikranth, where he doesn't want anything than her happiness. She is his everything, his fortune, his sadness, his fear, his love and his reason for living.

He has surrendered himself to her love, and for her, he will even give his life.

That night after wishing Goodnight to her kids Meera went to her room. She sat on the bed and looked Vikranth who's laid beside her. When he noticed Meera was sitting next to him, he raised and placed his head on her lap.

"I want to stay like this, don't disturb me," he mumbled.

Seeing his actions Meera smiled and started caressing his hair slowly. It felt like heaven for Vikranth, he took her hand in his and by holding that he slept peacefully.

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