Home

She lay there, staring at the ceiling, while he lay there beside her. The events of the past couple of days had drained them both, but somehow she was unable to sleep while he was snoring. 

Somehow she couldn’t get herself to fall asleep. Some people often find it difficult to fall asleep in a new place. But this wasn’t a new place for her. She spent many many hours with him in this room, but somehow this seemed new to her. They had gone from  boyfriend-girlfriend to Fiancé to husband and wife.

She raised her palms and stared it. The past few days felt like a fairy tale, and she was princess, in the centre of it all. It was perfect, just the was she had envisioned her day would be, but like all princess she had to leave her castle and make home in a faraway kingdom. However, in her case the she didn’t have to go to a land far far away. Could she make this new place her home? 

Her home was her room, the four she felt safe within, that she always looked forward to return to no matter where she was. Alas it was no more hers. Her siblings were already casting lots on who got her room. She had gone from the luxury of her own room to co-inhabiting with someone else, that someone else being her husband (she couldn’t calling him the better half as the wife always the better half).

For her, home was family, your parents, but now his parents were her parents. She had gone from calling them uncle ji and auntie ji to papa ji and mummy ji. But somehow it didn’t feel the same.

What was home, she wondered?

Just then he woke up and realised she was wide  awake. 

“All ok, love?” He groggily asked her.

When he didn’t get an answer, he pulled her close to him, kissing her on her forehead, he cuddled her.

She snuggled next to him and put her head against his chest, she could hear his heart beat as he he held her tight and kissed her.

And in that moment, she realised what was home.

Home wasn’t families and four walls. Home was him, where she felt loved, safe and warm. Home was him.

Knowing this she finally fell asleep in his arms, a place she knew was her own.