The next morning arrived with a strange kind of silence in the Sharma house. Yesterday, the decision to go to Italy had been nothing more than a possibility hanging between fear and uncertainty. But after Arnav's conversation with the girls, it had slowly become a decision they had all accepted. There was still no excitement about leaving. Neither Veda nor Akhila wanted to be separated from the people they loved, and neither of them knew what awaited them in Italy. Yet, somewhere deep inside, both understood why Arnav was asking them to go.