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Maahira and Ritik's pov on each other

Maahira

My brother, oh how much I love to annoy him. Although I am always blabbering, everyone's chirpy lil doll, best at giving hugs, making efforts for them, but I prefer doing it quite secretly as I don't go around telling people how much I love them, they would take lightly, and same goes with Ritik. Though all my actions already tell him how much I care about him, I still don't say it aloud like he does. He is exactly like the protective, loving, annoying, always fighting, stealing my parent's love kind of brother who exist in shows. He always fights me but stands by me. Like any other sibling, we pull out stunts to get the other scolded, but we both feel bad when any of our mother's scold our sibling, but we again land back to thinking, 'good that it happened', when they get supported by OUR mothers! Although I am the younger one (that's what the family says, I mean 3 months doesn't count, does it?), that too the sister who apparently needs 'protection' from her brother, an elder male figure who stays with me, but no, not the case here. We both shield each other, protect each other, after all we all need a shoulder to lean on, regardless of our gender and age, and I love the fact that he too thinks the same. My Ritik, he is a pure soul, whose kindness is mistaken to be his weakness, whose silence is thought to be is hesitancy, and even if it is, that would not mean anyone can roll him over or use him. Ritik is someone whose 24 hour arguments keeps me trained to fight, so obviously he is the one for whom I can fight the world. Ritik expresses it, I don't, but Papa and Chachu's, Mumma and Maasi's relation really gets us, isn't it lovely to just spend your whole life with a constant shoulder of support, love and friendship? Ofcourse I want that to be with Ritik, I just won't tell him that, I can't tolerate him teasing me with this anymore (don't think I have lost it, if you got a sibling, you know why I said I want to spend my life with him but also can't take him anymore!). Mumma and Maasi really went through a lot growing up, drifting apart, meeting again, fighting and then reconciling, and that is why they are so emotional about our bond (why do these bade log cry in happy times too? Ya, got that from Maasi too, ofcourse I can, she is my Maasi and only mine!). In school, park, no one dares to mess with the lil Poddars, they know who got our backs, no no its not Maahira for Ritik and Maahira for Maahira, it's Ritik for Maahira! Not that I can't fight for myself, but don't we enjoy someone else fighting and taking stand for us ;) ? Yes, Ritik would stay silent like a sea when it's about him, but be the tornado when it's about his family. Oh! How much I loved it when he said "How dare you hurt my sister, she is the angelic little head who would snap you in a moment and go on smiling, she is my fierce and fairy sister! And trust me, if she doesn't, it's bad news to you, you don't know the love of a brother, that too whose rage is in his silence!", just after fighting me and telling me how useless and a dumbwitt I was XD. His little gestures in the school like leaving his friends for me, making enemies with the ones I do, oh how cute! He's a lil 8 year old kid who holds immense love for us and hates to listen anything that would hurt us, not bragging, but especially when it's me. He got it from Maasi to try to diffuse situations calmly but from Mumma to bang them if they don't listen. We both got ice and fire both, it's on us to decide what to choose and when to choose. He is my brother, my friend and I would do anything to protect and love him.

Ritik

Maahira, my baby sister, yeah I know just 3 months younger and that is why she never accepts that I am the elder one, but once you see us, you'll know why is she my baby sister. People often get annoyed by such children who go around troubling you with their bubbly nature, but ever got a chance to nag these kinda people? I got it, and trust me it's the best thing XD. Okay, lemme tell you, the best one, it's when you catch her expressing how much she loves me, oh her annoyed face is to die for! I might act all calm and quiet, but you see my whole different trouble maker side with her. I love how we both share such a special bond that our best and most different versions come out in front of each other. I know she won't, but I'll openly accept how much I love her in the house, she is actually an angel who lights all of us up. But peep in to know more about her quarrelsome side. Yeah, I want her to be around but NOT at all when my Mumma sides with her, when my Papa makes her his princess, when she gets on my nerves by taking my stuff, disorganizing my nicely setup room and making it into a hazardous area like hers (Mumma says Maasi was the same). But okay, she is a treat to be around, especially when she stands up for me. I am often treated as an easy going boy in school, but she is always there for me, to fight the kids who trouble me, she acts like a rebel as if someone actually tried to kill me or something (yeah she is bit of a drama queen as she watches too much Bollywood with Chachu and Maasi), but not that I am complaining coz of course I love it. Once someone teased me saying that I needed my lil sister's protection to fight and it was surprising that the forever fighting Maahira's face fell at those words, she felt as if it was embarrassing for me to be her brother and that she fought for me, but hell no, that was the best thing! And why do they even need to say that and hurt my, my little sister!?! I obviously shooed them off with my speech on how fortunate it is to be her brother, how loved it feels to have her by my side and I know, Maahira grinned the whole day from happiness. Mumma and Maasi, oh, how blissed they were listening to this incident, they felt happy that their kids were experiencing these things but the other moment they wanted to steal away these moments from us for themselves, like okay I love you both, but not more than Maahira, stop acting like kids who steal! I know, she might show her fierce side to the world, but she is just a caring and loving girl from inside and I love her for keeping that personality, but again, I always say that it's Maasi because of whom she is like that, which irritates her, and becomes a joke on her for me and Maasi again. She hates it when anything bad happens to anyone of us, she is such a true representation of the strong women in our English coursebook poems, flower from inside and fire from outside. Mumma and Maasi are always glad that we are like this, I have heard Mumma thank God for not making me like her, being insecure from your own sister. Maasi also keeps on warding evil eyes off us, thinking it is a blessing that Maahira is not the one to start showing her fighting skills to her sibling also like she did (God what's wrong with them, aren't they the best woman ever?). But okay, whatever it is, I am also very thankful to have Maahira with me. We are literally such opposites, but we both got both fire and ice, and it's on us to choose what we show, and that's what connects us so much. I would do anything and everything to keep her near to me, be it loving her or fighting for her.

hey, m so sorry for almost forgetting about this, but my board and jee dates are here so y'all can imagine my state😭
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