A beautiful Distraction – The broken hearts

Laksh was sitting on his bed, holding a photo frame in his hand, weeping silently, “Ragini. I love you. I truly love you Ragini”, he said emotionally, while his eyes welled up in tears. He heard someone calling him far from his room, keeping the photo quickly in the safe place. He stood wiping his tears and tried to smile fake. Anyways it is his brother’s marriage; he is not going to spoil it not because of his love.
Laksh remembered how he was happy with the marriage approach came, he waited for the day to meet his bride, but all changed on the day he met her. He collapsed his mind and made his heart shattered into pieces. He had formed a dream world in him to get married and how they should live all in his life.
While stood before his room, his condition a little more state worse than Laksh was. On one side, he loved another girl and gonna to marry another. There is no way for Sanskar Maheswari to select his love. He stood helplessly as the groom, he have enough gallantry to speak his mind, but if he did. Then it would spoil his family reputation, moreover the girl he is going to marry.
For him, it is not wrong to fall in love; his family would not deny his word. But he had chosen wrong girl, while he was engaged to another. The entire thing happened because of the photo change. He wondered if he had seen the right photo, would he love Ragini. At least, he would have not having broken heart like now, if he seen true girl.
He fell in love with Swara, but he was engaged to Ragini, her elder sister. He took his cell phone, and saw her photo he had hidden in his gallery for the last moment before he was called to mandap, when he will see her directly, she would be not his love but her brother’s love and would his wife sister. He banged his hand in the table in annoyance. It was his fault to fall in wrong girl. So it his punishment to take what the life offers.
He needed to be happy in his life for this, taking a big step in his life. But least was happening he was mourning for his love, what he could not digest is he had to marry a girl in front of his love. How ironic his life was!

“Sanskar”, he heard her mother calling him.
“Haan. Mumma”, he said blinking away the tears forming in his eyes, and deleting her picture from his phone, trying to delete her in his heart.
“Yes. Mom” he opened the door, smilingly masking his face.
“You’re looking handsome Sanskar”, his mother complimented him looking him from head to toe. “But less than the bride”, he heard another voice, his own mother Sujatha tell him, while approached to his room door.
“That’s not fair”, he said pouting, hiding his face in a bright smile that not reached his eyes. Annapurna and Sujatha felt his sadness, but they thought it was because of marriage tension, and commitments that he was gonna to face. Anyways, the girl they had selected had no fault in her; she is pure gold there is nothing for him to worry about her. Only if they thought.

“Swara”, Sharmistha called her younger daughter.
“Ji maa.” She responded, while putting the bindi on her sister head.
Sharmistha who entered the room, saw her elder daughter as bride, see smiled seeing at her in bridal attire. “Bohath khoobsurat lagriyo ap beti(You’re looking more beautiful my daughter)”, she said taking her eye kajal and putting that beside her ear.

“That is because of my sister mom”, Swara said praising herself, and lifting her imaginary collars. Even Swara is not looking lesser than her.
Sharmistha hit her daughter’s arm and asked Ragini to come out as the time came. She lifted her lehenga and walked to the car while her heart pounded fast than it would. She was looking forward for this day since her engagement. She smiled irresistible to see her husband, Sanskar.

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She was taken to the mandap with her sister supporting her beside, whispering some of the teasing comments about how Sanskar gawking at her.
Ragini blushed as she walked to the mandap taking little steps, as the lehenga was too much to carry her. If she was not in her lehenga, she could strode their in five steps but now she could not. Sanskar saw her walking with her sister, his bride. He looked to see both the sisters are beautiful and looked bride, but his eyes are fogged with love for Swara, so he was blind to see Ragini. It would be the last time, he could see her, he want to rip the garland threw it away angrily and run to her, tell her how she love him. But he was hand tied.

“Bhai save something for life”. He heard uttara teasing him, they all thought he was eyeing Ragini, as Swara stood beside her. They didn’t doubt him of seeing Swara. That is what his concern.
She came sat beside him coyly, as the priest started reciting the vows and mantras, he heard her uninterested and followed what they said without any negotiation. At last, the priest asked us to stand and made us take agnipradaksinam, he walked before her in four pheras, and she walked before him three pheras.
The moment arrived, he was asked to tie the mangalsutra around her, he obliged and put that on her neck. And she closed her eyes in anticipation, that when he noticed, she entered his life happily, but he was not in the position to take it. She felt innocent to him, for a moment, it felt like he was betraying him. He saw laksh, he had fell in love with her, Ragini like he did on Swara. He was standing isolated, and looked everywhere but them. His eyes reflected his pain and he felt like he was going to cry in any moment.
He was asked to put Kumkum in her forehead, he took the coin and put the kumkum on her head accepting her as his wife for this world, but his heart, it pained more than it could.
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She sat on the bed nervously waiting for her husband to show up, he had gone to send his friend who had visited India for his marriage. It was 1.00 A.M, she was at the verge of sleeping. But she forced herself to awake, she put her head in between the knees, and rested unknowingly waiting for her.
Sanskar came in, and saw her sleeping peacefully in the awkward position, still a smile adored her face in sleep. He felt pity on her, for ditching her in first night. He knew she had came in his life with dreams, but his heart it still weep for the love he lost. He put his Sherwani coat, she woke hearing him. He looked amused at her.
“You came,” he heard her ask him. He nodded his head and she continued, “Do you had your food?” she asked in concern, in one day how could she care him just because he is her husband.
“Yes”, he replied softly.
“You sleep”, he insisted her, seeing her yawn. “You too please sleep it was midnight”, she said concerning over him, before sleeping in the pillow. He opened the door for Bathroom, and let the shower wash away his sadness, as he remembered the day changed everything in his life.
To be continued,
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NasreenAyesha.