Breaking Free with Sami and Shay

"I don't know what you're waiting for, this is a great deal. It's just a few weeks before your birthday."

"Yeah, I know. It's just that..."

"What? I got it for you for your birthday, but if it's not a good present, then say so right away."

"No! No, it's a really nice gift. It's just... the thing is that I've never flown on a plane that long before."

"Never?"

"Well, once, but I was too young to remember. How long is the flight again?"

"Eighteen hours and four minutes," Hansika replied with the enthusiasm of a kid. "It'll be the longest flight you ever took. And the best."

Sajan shook his head and sighed in defeat. He could never win an argument against Hansika when she was like this. His heart melted every time she smiled at him like this. She had such a playful smile when she wanted something from him. The smile made her eyes glow brightly, as if they were two bright stars shining in the dark sky. Her hair would glisten like gold under moonlight and her cheeks flushed red out of excitement. Sajan didn't have any complaints about being on the receiving end of her smile.

She grabbed him by his arm and tried to pull him through the terminal of Chennai International Airport, but he resisted and turned around to face her. He put his arms around her waist and pulled her towards him. He looked into her eyes and said softly, "You're going to miss your flight if we don't hurry up now."

The flight landed safely in Toronto Pearson International Airport at 6:26 AM EST after eighteen hours and five minutes of flying time from Chennai International Airport in India. Hansika had slept for most of the flight, so she wasn't tired at all when they arrived in Canada. Sajan groaned loudly as he stretched his body out in all directions on their way out of the airport building after collecting their luggage from baggage claim area. They walked out of the airport building together with some other passengers who were also arriving on this day and went outside to find a taxi cab stand to take them to their hotel in downtown Toronto where they would be staying for the next couple of days before flying back home to India on another long-haul flight departing Monday evening headed back to Chennai International Airport again back in India where they lived together with their young daughter named Priya who was only one year old now living with them still in India until their next trip back to Canada some time later this year or early next year was not yet decided yet by them both since there was no real need for them to go back so often anymore now that Priya was already three years old already when they last visited Canada last year together with Priya before returning back home shortly after celebrating New Years Eve together as a family three days ago during Christmas vacation break from work for Sajan until his next work started again after New Years Day where he worked as an engineer mostly designing buildings for tall high-rise buildings usually more than 30 floors high which are usually more than 100 meters tall even though he often designed shorter buildings sometimes less than 30 floors high up to 50 floors high or even more than 50 floors high once or twice already but not more than 60 floors high since he had never designed a building taller than 60 stories so far but he planned design one sometime soon since he wanted to design a building taller than 100 meters tall which he thought might be possible especially maybe bigger than 100 meters tall up to 120 meters tall or even 140 meters tall probably because he wanted to design a building taller than Dubai Tower which was 163 meters tall built in 2010 during his job working as senior engineer at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP back then before moving on starting working at S + P Architects Incorporated where he met Hansika while she herself worked as an architect planning out plans for new buildings during her internship period until she moved on working full-time as an architect at S + P Architects Incorporated until finally three months ago when she moved back India from USA where she worked there at S + P Architects Incorporated along with Sajan himself started working there too working as senior engineer until finally three months ago when Hansika announced that she was pregnant with their first child together Priya whom they decided name Priya because it means lotus flower flower symbolizing beauty & purity which both Hansika & Sajan agreed upon naming their daughter Priya once Hansika became pregnant with Priya shortly afterwards beginning talking about having children together soon after getting married last year making trip visiting family members living overseas earlier this year leaving father Priya living alone here India intended moving abroad themselves prior moving back home India with baby after birth also 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