That night, 2 pairs of eyes were like unstoppable rivers, with continuously flowing tear drops.But these drops were not alone; it carried their emotions, their memories, their pain & most important their LOVE. Love which was something more than a description of Divinity.
As she slept beside dadi, she reminded herself that it was her Mehendi ki rasam the next day.She had had enough with haldi rasam today.Her heart was bleeding by each passing moment thinking of upcoming shaadi.
Anika never knew that love could hurt this much.She was a person who had only her Sahil to love & to be loved in that small life of hers.She also had her chutki , who always came as her nightmare, to love. But the entry of her billuji was so unexpected that it was very much later she realized that she had loved him; he had become a better half of hers in all this time .
Her happiness was boundless when she began feeling how much his love could influence her broken soul.Finally she could believe that she had someone to own & to be owned in this birth, which she had wished a lot for but never thought would happen.
She didn’t even imagine that this same love of hers to him,could tear & separate herself apart from her man; the man of her life.Her love for him was sincere & so deep that she couldn’t bear the thought of him breaking down on knowing the truth of his birth.
Today she realizes, that she had to give a big price to keep him away from shattering in to pieces from knowing his unpleasant past; but she was still disappointed because her decision was never justified, as his destruction was something which was beyond her expectations. Until she entered the mansion after 3 months, she hadn’t thought that she would witness the complete butchering of her beloved Billuji , who was separated from his billi….The very thought of him behaving like a stranger day by day was extremely hard for her to bear.
Whereas , in another room a kanji aankhon wali man was cursing himself for being the wedding planner of his beloved biwi, his ex wife. He was a man who never failed in any of his deals or calculations.But his fate didn’t allow him to win in the deal of his life.He could feel that his own life was a failure as a deal.
He was never a big devotee of any god; but now he’s praying hardly to all powers of this world to give him back his Anika.He hated himself for losing that precious jewel from his hand.Maybe he might not be deserving her, he thought.But this couldn’t calm him down.He wished his wife to disclose those dark secrets to him & pull her back to his own life.
He was so determined & decided never to give up as there is only few time to get back everything….
The next day’s festival is happily celebrated by only 2 people; ragini & pinky.The rest of the family members are not at all happy for Mehendi rasam.But yes,they all are looking forward to the reunion of the most loveliest couple of the Oberoi Mansion.Ragini & pinky wanted media’s presence to totally humiliate Anika but this was stopped by OmRu.
Gauri & Bhavya were always there with Anika to keep her calm & encourage her.They gave her confidence that their bade bhaiyya would never lose her.Somehow this words always made her happy but her mind was like a volcano which was ready to errupt anytime.
Due to the previous experiences with Mehendi, the mix was thoroughly checked to avoid any further drama.The fragrance of the fresh green Mehendi was so much refreshing; as if it wanted to change the now depressed mansion into a happy one.
The Mehendi designer spend quality time in making the hands of the ladies beautiful & enchanting with the Mehendi.The young ladies even made Dadi to adore her hand with Mehendi & wrote Dadaji’s name in it.All had a good time teasing Dadi on her good old times.
Gauri wanted to draw the symbol of Om in her hands, even though she resolved on not showing that to Omkaraji as she came back only as the Bahu of the Mansion.Bhavya had got her name itself to be written on her palm.
Since it was ladies function, all the boys stayed away from the rasam.But shivay’s mind was so much tensed on imagining Anika’s palm adorned with Vikram’s name.He didn’t have the strength to see her asking the designer to write V on her palm.So he decided to stay away from her & execute further plans.
He had to come early to the Mansion due to an upset health.As he entered the Mansion he saw the ladies dancing on various Mehendi songs.There, in the middle, sat Anika on a beautiful flowered swing with a dark green & gold combination lehenga.
It was true that he couldn’t take his eyes off her & badly wanted to walk towards her, slowly catch her by her hand & caress her hair, cheeks then slowly take her hand to adore the Mehendi….but the very thought of Mehendi made him come to reality as he didn’t want to see Vikram’s name in her hand.She was still his own, at least until the marriage.He hastily flipped his hair & rushed into the room.
When he came down in a simple white Kurta, he saw Anika giving her palm to the designer.As he passed by, he heard the designer asking for what to be written in the palm.He stood still there & slowly moved behind one of the pillar to see her face.
Anika almost trembled hearing this, but was distracted by pinky who mockingly asked to write Vikram on her palm.His heart beat skipped for a moment, he cursed himself for asking her to do this shaadi.He didn’t wait to see Anika’s reaction & went away whereas Anika was still sitting with a gloomy face, staring at the name being written on her palm.
All the guests had gone away by the end of the function & Anika was done.She was too tired with all the crowd & stress.She straight away walked to shivay’s room without thinking much & sat on the sofa with closed eyes.One of the staff brought her dinner which was sent by Gouri & Bhavya.That’s when she realized that she need someone’s help to have the dinner.She thought of shifting to Dadi’s room so that she can conveniently do everything, when shivay entered the room.Both of them hadn’t met the whole day in spite of their longing to see each other.
Without saying anything, shivay started to serve the food in the plate & sat near Anika ready to feed her.She couldn’t refuse it & didn’t want to.He had come closer to her after all these day’s drama.She wanted to enjoy his presence now, without thinking anything.
He was lovingly feeding her each spoon, gently in the right amount & right interval.Whenever he took the glass of water to make her drink it, she always thought of her water throwing act to SSO. She was smiling thinking of those days, which was noticed by him.
Anika was being lost in his satrangi eyes.Their eyes & hearts were conveying all the unsaid emotions.They badly wanted to embrace each other tightly to find peace.Both of then expected the other person to talk something, but it didn’t happen.Maybe it might lead to another fight, they thought.Finally, she finished having her dinner.
As shivay came back after sometime, he saw a silently sleeping Anika on the sofa.For a moment, he wanted to become her old SSO.He couldn’t escape from this lady in this birth; he didn’t want to, he thought.
He was confused now.She hadn’t changed all those heavy clothes & ornaments till now.He slowly went to her & tried removing her earrings but it would disturb her sleep , he thought.He decided to carry her to Dadi’s room. He sat on the sofa near her.
She was sleeping with a frowned face.He understood that she might be disturbed in her sleep.He was amazed seeing her wearing mangalsutra in between those heavy jewellery; no one would notice it so soon.He smiled thinking of him making her wear it many times in the room.His eyes became watery seeing the mangalsutra again.
Suddenly his eyes went to her palm.He enjoyed seeing it but felt suffocated thinking of seeing Vikram’s name in it. He slowly took her palm & began searching for the name in it .His heart was racing faster on the thought of seeing V in it.Finally he saw the letter V written in Hindi on her right palm.A tear trickled from his eyes seeing it & he turned his face suddenly.
But something made him to turn & check her palm again. As he closely watched it he found out that it was actually B written in Hindi.The letter Va in Hindi, when being added a small line inside the gap would turn to Ba & there it was exactly B which was written on her hand.He thought, B for…..BILLUJI.
His mind was overwhelmed with emotions.He was sure that it would be Anika herself who would have written this in her hand.It wouldn’t be a coincidence.Some sort of courage & confidence was rushing in to his mind from nowhere.
He made sure that he would somehow bring this woman back to his life by hook or crook.Because he was sure about her sincere love, affection & care towards him.He made a decision that whatever be the reason behind their separation, he didn’t intend to know it further because he knew that each of them couldn’t live without the other.
With this extreme joy, he gently took her in his arms.He began walking to Dadi’s room gently, without disturbing her.As soon as she felt the warmth of his hands, she smiled involuntarily in her sleep.A smile appeared in her billuji’s face too while he mentally made a note to fetch back the love of his life, ready to give any price for it.
He once again adored the letter B written in Hindi on her palm & carefully walked straight without destroying the Mehendi design.
It was for the first time in his life he loved the fresh fragrance of Mehendi; because it had the fragrance of pure love also in it, and of course some tadi too….
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NOTE– THIS ARTICLE IS NOT WRITTEN BY ME. I DO NOT OWN THIS.