Hi guys, this is my very first story, hope you all like it.

Character's

SR- Sravya

SD- Sudarshan

SO- Sowmya

VS- Sreeram

SA- Sandeep

SW- Swaroop

HB- Bindu

RO- Rohini

TJ- Teja

i'll add the new character's initials as the story goes.

Dear diary,

Thank god that I got some 'me' time to sit and think peacefully of what I'm doing and what I'm supposed to do. You see staying with nearly 6 other people (who are my cousins) has its own advantage and disadvantages. Though I get lots of support, sometimes I just need to be alone to keep my mind at peace. I always thought that having friend is enough to share my feelings and thoughts with, but now I change it. No one keep you sane unless you help yourself.

Things are getting better here in Hyderabad, everyone is getting settled, in job and in this apartment. I believe everyone is enjoying this phase of life where we don't have to answer our parents and taking up our own responsibilities, helping each other in keeping this place neat, sharing experiences happy moments and making memories as a family. Everyone has become a master chef here and our moms are over whelmed that we are coming out of our comfort zones.

Speaking of apartment, we all have named it as 'HOME'. It's a 3BHK with 3.5 bathrooms, open area concept for living and kitchen space with huge balcony on 10th floor bringing us the natural light for most of the day. We all searched for about 3 months to finalize this apartment since security and accessibility is the most imp factor for us.

Shifting from Coimbatore was the toughest decision I took but I'm liking it now, though I miss my friends, I believe I'm making some here as well. Job is going well, though it is a little hectic for me since I'm doing my MBA, I started a you tube channel, and working on my business plans, I have full faith in me that I can do it. When I told my cousins about this, I thought they would laugh at me but I was totally wrong, they are being so supportive in everything and my dreams are coming true.

Tomorrow we all are going to the temple to thank God and this would be our 1st ever weekend together where all of us would sit and enjoy the time rather than arranging furniture or running here or there for things. I'm looking forward for it.

I closed my diary looking at the amazing sunset, a faint smile on my face remembering the past 6 months in my life which was nothing but full of hope, faith, trust and lots of love.

SO- "there you are, how long have u been sitting here?" asked my best friend/cousin Sowmya sitting across from me.

SR- "an hour or so!"

SO- "what do you keep writing in that diary? I've never seen you having the habit of writing the journal before. Then why now?"

SR- "my thoughts, ideas, feelings I guess, this helps me to keep myself together."

SO- "I'll never understand this side of yours. Come let's have some tea."

As we were sitting and chatting at the kitchen island Swaroop asks

SW- "Akka, so what's the video we will be shooting for this week?"

SR- "I'm thinking of doing a 'HOME' tour since we all are settled and we will have ample of time to other things as planned." The rest of the 30 mins I told them how we are gonna do it, they all are ok with it.

Since none of us are very good in editing, all my videos are edited by my friend Abhi. All we have to do is record and send, he will give us the final video and once when all of us are satisfied with it we will upload it. Its quite fun to shoot the videos since all of us will be involved and everyone gives their own input to improvise our channel.

SA- "finally it's the weekend, I can sleep a little extra" he was grinning just by the thought of it.

VS- "aren't we all going to temple tomorrow?", by the speed in which Sandeep turned his head, he would definitely get a whip splash.

SA- "what, when was this decided?"

HM- "today morning, you were in your day dreams btw, why? Do you have any other plans?"

SA- "no, that means we've to wake up early :( "

SR- "yes, so that we can come back and complete the video for YouTube"

SW- "what's for dinner guys! I'm starving?"

All of us were engaged in small talks about work, plans and started preparations for dinner. All the guys were given responsibility of chopping vegetables while we girls took the cooking.

After having dinner, all others sat for the movie night while I sat for making content the videos and making the to do list. It is quite important to have my to do list made well in advance so that i don't forget the tasks I have to complete. Looking at all of them, I feel blessed that I have these people to support me and I would do the same for them too. After completing the movie, we all called the night.

The next morning all of us got ready to go temple, 4 of us took our Mahindra SUV and the other 2 came on their royal Enfield. Boys and their love for bikes, I cannot understand. It took us about 40 mins to reach the temple but the peace you get once we step in there is un-describable. As a youtuber, I have to capture all the moments and that's what I was doing.

After coming to HOME, I started filming the intro and let me show you guys our HOME.

This here would be the entrance for our Home, we were lucky to find it with the wooden flooring and the color scheme were neutrals keeping it calm and simple. Though our parents are super rich, we all took decision not to use their money or name to achieve what we want. Our parents are happy with this decision. When we were searching for the house, one of our fans has suggested this place and we fell in love with it.

Following the entrance is our kitchen/dining/living area, we spent most of our time in this space either cooking, working, or chilling. We don't have TV as our choices for entertainment goes in all directions and we don't want any fights. You can say that I'm a control freak as in I want all the things organized and in designated place no matter what.

And for bedrooms, instead of normal décor, we made it into our own dorm rooms saving most of the space for other things. Sowmya and I share one of the rooms and decorated it with pastel pink and white shades.

Boys share the other room and they chose the dark shades.

And the last bedroom we made it as guest room for any of our parents or friends but most of the time we use it as home office/study.

After completing the home tour, I sent the footage to Abhi for editing and started working on my business ideas, everything is finalized just waiting for the products to be made. Last year had anyone told me that I would do things that I'm doing now, I would have laughed at them but life is totally giving opportunities at unexpected times.