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Aishwarya POV

After a really long and tiring Trek, we reached the entrance of the temple. With an empty stomach but full of contended heart I stepped inside with him.

My gaze stared down at the entrance of the temple and we both bent down to touch our heads to the floor out of devotion.

It was at high altitude and I could feel the winds turning sharper and stronger. They were cold and the smell of the air was very different from what was down below. There was a mild fragrance of nature with the coldness of water running through the mountains. The floor was moist and cold to feel beneath the bare feet. Everything was beautiful. 

The bright sunlight was falling over me and I had never felt this much closer to the sun before. Hukum's face was glowing with the beautiful golden rays and I could not help but stare at him blankly. 

He smiled looking at me and we both stepped inside the temple. The melodious and charismatic voice of the priest reading the prayers was echoing through the old walls of the temple as we walked inside and I could not help but feel a strange sensation in me. My eyes closed and I felt like I was floating across the prayer and its energy. Never have I ever felt this much connected to God and it was all so beautiful.

My heart which had been immensely chaotic ever since I knew I existed was now strangely feeling at peace. 

Hukum rang the bell of the temple and I pulled the veil a little down to my head. Ranaji, Jiji and Devarsa were also with us and we all stepped inside the main prayer hall.

My sight fell on the priest offering prayers and the statue of the deity. I lowered my gaze and stopped there with him.

Ranaji and Jiji walked forward and offered prayers to the deity. I could not hear what the priest was saying but I could see them smiling with the adjoined hands. They both bent low out of respect and devotion and touched the priest's feet. He blessed them and said something. After that, the priest forwarded the plate of offerings to Ranaji. I saw him picking up the vermillion in his finger and putting it in the partition of Jiji's hair. Jiji smiled and I could see her washing a lone tear off her cheek and I felt a slight ache in my heart. They were beautiful together. 

Then she lowered herself to touch his feet Ranaji stopped in between and kissed her forehead.

Oh, so he also kisses Jiji.

That means every couple does that. Strange.

They looked at us and walked towards us.

"We are waiting for you, outside,"

Ranaji said and I just kept my gaze low when the left. Now, we were alone with the priest and he said.

"Come,"

I blinked and we walked towards the priest. My hands were joined and we both first bent down to touch the feet of the deity. Standing up I closed my eyes and tried to say.

'Thank you so much for everything you have done for me. I do not want anything but the courage to live what you have decided for me. Be it the love or the pain, just give me the strength and courage to endure it and bloom it. And, I cannot thank you enough for bringing Hukum into my life but please take care of my sickness. I do not want to feel anything off when I am around him, it makes me feel weak and sick,'

I opened my eyes and looked at the priest. We both bent down to touch his feet and I heard him saying.

"Aapki jodi swayam ishwar ne banayi hai. Apaar prem, samman or ras hai isme. Putravati Bhavah,"

"God himself has made your pair. There is immense love, respect and interest in it. Putrwati Bhava,"

I gulped and tried to not smile. Now, the priest had said it. That means I would be with a child soon and all my sickness would go away.

I looked at him offering the plate of offerings to him too and he also took a pinch of vermillion in his finger and I looked at him when he added it to the partition of my hair. A little bit of it fell on my nose and I felt him gently rubbing my nose with his little finger.

I bent low to touch his feet and he held my shoulder. But, still, I managed to touch his feet and take his blessings. The moment when he touched and kissed my feet blurred my vision and I could not help but smile.

"Me too,"

Suddenly, the voice of Devarsa caught our ears and I looked at Hukum who smiled.

"Yes, come here,"

He came inside with the joined hands. He offered his prayers to the deity as well and touched the priest's feet.

"Ayushman Bhava. Jo agar kabhi aapke man na bhi ho to usse ishwar ki icha samajhkar awashya sweekar karna,"

"May God bless you with long life. If anything happens against your wishes then you must accept it with the thought that it is God's will,"

He said and I looked at him thinning his brows. 

 I did not understand anything and he did not ask anything as well. He just smiled and nodded. After the prayers, he bent low to touch Hukum and my feet. I feel a little odd as he was elder than me but Hukum signalled me to say.

"God Bless You, Devarsa,"

I said.

"May you get all the happiness you deserve, Agastya,"

He added.

We all three moved out of the temple and looked at Ranaji and Jiji waiting for us.

We walked towards them. Hukum and I bent low to touch their feet and Ranaji said.

"God bless you both,"

"Saubhagyavati Bhava,"

Jiji added and held my shoulder to lift me up. She touched my cheek and kissed my forehead lovingly. Hukum and Ranaji hugged each other.

Devarsa also came forward to touch their feet and suddenly Ranaji held his ear.

"Ab aaya oot pahad ke niche,"

"Now the camel has come under the hill,"

"Bhai-saaaaa!,"

He screamed and we laughed.

"God bless you, our naughty Devarsa,"

Jiji said and Ranaji pulled him into a tight hug. 

We all laughed and smiled together and I did not know but my heart was feeling full of happiness and joy with them.

Not even a single week had passed and I was feeling like I belonged here for eternity. It reminded me of my own family that never even considered me even a quarter of how much they were loving me.

I looked at Hukum who was looking at me with a smile. 

I did not know what happened to me suddenly that I could not stop myself from walking closer to him and wrapping my arm around his waist to hug him.

This man had changed my life.

My lashes closed and I felt his arm around me.

"Hey,"

He said and suddenly Jiji asked.

"What happened? Aishwarya,"

I immediately realised that I was with everyone and pulled back. I looked at her and immediately a wave of timidness hit me like an ocean.

I shook my head lightly and I looked at Ranaji who suddenly said.

"Come, let's walk around and go back before it gets dark,"

Jiji looked at him and nodded. She walked to him before smiling at me. 

"Are you okay?"

Hukum asked and I nodded.

"Come,"

He said and slowly pulled me into a hug. I closed my eyes and felt like crying at any moment.

"Is something bothering you?"

He asked and I shook my head. Tears collected in my eyes and I fisted my hand on his kurta. My heartbeats were racing and I could feel my breathing turning heavy. I did not know what was suddenly happening to me.

The memories of my father and my sister started crossing my brain and he tightened the hug. When I felt him caging me tightly, my attention slowly diverted to his heart beats which I could listen while placing my ear against his chest.

I tried to inhale and exhale deeply to bring me back from the old memories to the new reality and slowly broke the hug.

He cupped my cheek and made me look at him.

I gulped nervously and he gently pecked my cheek.

"You only look good when you are... Sick,"

He said and suddenly something twisted in my stomach. What did he mean? How could he say that?

He smiled and held my hand.

"Come, or they will go far,"

He said and I nodded.

We both started walking out of the temple adjoined to a small muddy way. The grass were tall almost of our heights and it was kind of scary to walk between them. I could see down the edge of the mountain and it was horribly scary.

He hand was holding mine and I was walking carefully. It was not the same way we came from.

"Is this a different way? Hukum,"

I asked and he looked at me.

"So, we are talking now,"

He said and I thinned my brows with confusion.

"Yes,"

He answered though.

I nodded and silently kept walking with him.

We passed through the long grasses and my sight fell on Ranaji, Jiji and Devarsa who were ahead of us and waiting for us.

"There they are,"

Devarsa said as I heard his faded, high and echoing voice. I could hear the slight noise of water running nearby and we walked to them.

Just when I walked closer to them, my sight fell on a beautiful waterfall. I looked at the not so small stream running through beside us and falling down. We were at the top of the waterfall.

"Let's go Bhai-sa,"

Devarsa said with excitement and Ranaji looked at him.

"No, Agastya, with Nandani and Aishwarya, we cannot dive. Its too deep,"

He made a face listening to him and suddenly Jiji said.

"I want to dive and I trust you,"

He looked at her.

"Are you mad?"

She chuckled and lifted her skirt up while shaking her head.

"No,"

My heart beats raced insanely as I watched her walking through the running water with Devarsa to reach the middle of the water.

Ranaji looked at Hukum and he looked at him. I did not know what they talked with the eyes.

But, Ranaji smiled and just walked after Jiji.

I looked at Devarsa who walked to the extreme end of the water, where it was falling down. I did not know where it was going.

My heart was beating extremely fast and I was feeling scared.

"Hukum, You should stop them,"

I said to him and he looked at me with serious face.

"Yes, we should stop them together,"

He said and I nodded.

I lifted my lehnga up a little and tried to call.

"Jiji,"

I stepped into the water. It was cold like freezing but soothing and fresh. Dupatta slipped off my head because of the sharp wind, it was all set to fly away.

But, I held it tightly and tried to walk in the between.

Jiji and Ranaji was playing with the water, laughing and giggling.

Devarsa suddenly laughed and screamed.

"Okay, Bhai-sa, see you soon,"

And, suddenly he jumped off the cliff into the running water.

My heart just came out of chest and I looked at everyone who just laughed looking at him.

His loud scream with excitement faded very quickly into the noise of water and winds.

Ranaji looked at Jiji and I tried to call her but before I could say anything. I looked at Ranaji who pulled her closer in a tight hug.

They were looking at each other and suddenly he leaned in to touch her lips with his and in a fraction of moment jumped off too.

OHHHH MYYYY GOD!!!!!!????????????

Jiji screamed and now I was feeling scared the most.

I walked a little closer to the edge and looked down to see nothing but water. I could not see the end of it.

My heartbeats were racing so insanely and my breathing was shaking.

Why did they fall down?

"Huk-,"

I tried to say something but before I could I felt two tight hands around me suddenly pulling me closer to him and in. The next moment I was in air.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,"

I screamed on the top of my lungs. My eyes shut close. The air filled in my chest and my stomach twisted insanely. For a few good moments I felt like dead and there was so much of noise. We both screamed together. My eyes looked at the sky and then the edge of the cliff from where we jumped going leaving far and suddenly a huge splash of water and we drowned deep. All the noise blocked and the coldness made me feel an ache in my chest. Deep, deep and deep and I did not realise how deep we went into until I felt like I could not breath and I would be dead.

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