Shashirekha is sitting in middle of women adorned with yellow saree along with some light jewelries

and her cheeks got smeared with Haldi....

It's her Nalangu function on other side men were applying haldi on karna......

Karna noticed Rekha who drenched into her own trance eventually looking through group of women, she's searching someone....... Karna signed her but she refused as it's nothing.....

Guests are applying haldi on her cheeks, hands and blessed her by showering flower petals.... For karna it's vice versa.......

Shashirekha looked at the person who applied haldi on her with narrowed eyebrows....

Shashirekha: uh, so the king of panchal had time to attending my vivah.... You're too late man.....

Ashwattama: Talking like you don't know about my situation......

Shashirekha: Give these excuses to your friend......

Ashwattama: karna is not like you, he will understand.....

Shashirekha glanced at him making faces.......

The function completed without any impediment leaving rajeshwari sigh in relief, her heart is not in peace and alerting regard anticipation of any problems..... She just wished that function should go on without any commotion......

Shashirekha, came to garden for a stroll and sat on a wooden bench. She heard some footsteps and while turning she saw karna coming towards her....

Shashirekha: Vasusena!!

Karna: yes, what?

Shashirekha: what are you doing here?

Karna: came to meet you....

He came near and sat beside her......

Karna: Tell me the truth, what happened. You seemed to be dull since haldi ceremony........

Shashirekha: what will I say? It's something complicated and I don't know how I'm going to handle it......

Karna: what happened?

Shashirekha told about vanathi's encounter with sikhandini........

Karna: You can't hide the truth for so long, sikhandini came to know about you, it's not something worse......

Shashirekha: It's indeed complicated vasu!!!!!!!! If she confronted me she will drag me infront of mahraj drupad......

Karna: you're thinking that still your siblings are with same charcateristics....... They had grown up and their brains too..... Atleast sikhandini had tendency to handle a situation with maturity......

Shashirekha: seriously...... Maybe you're judging by seeing her cold masked face and uninterested trait..... with reality she is naive in few things and sensitive too..... But stone hearted to express her emotions......

Karna: If you feel like so, Then talk with her. Make her understand.....

Rekha nodded..... Eventually they hear a coughing sound from behind and a hand pulled karna from his place making him stand, rekha jerked and turned to see four members.....

Shashirekha: stupids!!!!!!!!

She shouted at them, who were none other than duryodhan, Aditha, ashwattama and satyajit......

Four of them laughed soundly and aditha dragged karna little away in middle of his laugh session.......

Aditha: I don't know what you both will talk... Huh,

Duryodhan: Even i too thought that, in kalapradhasan, During travel towards panchal and at panchal..... What you guys will talk entire time....

Aditha: Atleast save something to talk tomorrow........

Aditha said to karna with a mischief look.....

Ashwattama: By tomorrow early morning it's muhurtha time, and you both are still wide awake..... Go and sleep, orelse you both need to show up with sleepy face at vivah mandap.....

Aditha: Add some yawnings at that......

Once again they four burtsed into laughter..... Shashirekha snapped at them....

Shashirekha: satyajit, where is sikhandini I didn't met her since haldi........

Satyajit: she's in our room.....

They sat at place and had some chatting for time......

After sometime everyone retired to their chamber. Karna asked satyajit and duryodhan to stay with him.......

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Shashirekha is sitting infront of sikhandini who's in her own trance......

Sikhandini: why did you left us alone.....

She questioned with her broken voice...... Shashirekha looked at her with teared eyes, she kept her hands on her......

Sikhandini: Atleast you didn't mind to say it at panchal..... You should come with us to panchal.... Wait I will tell it to satyajit.......

Sikhandini got up from her place but shashirekha stopped her.....

Shashirekha nodded negativily retreating sikhandini.....

Shashirekha: I'm daughter of King pulivendhan, parashuram shishyaa, that's what my identity is... And I wish to spend my entire life with that......

Sikhandini looked at longingly, shashirekha pulled her into hug, after a quiet struggle shikhandini broke down into her embrace letting her emotions to flow..........

Next:- vivah, chaos.....