• The Widow •

3 months ago

Aditi

@desidillse

The groom was sitting in front of the agnikunda waiting for the bride, when pandit ji called for the bride, when the same time Gauri brought Annika with her to the mandap which mesmerized the groom and he kept glaring her constantly. Rudra noticed it and patted Shivaay's shoulder but he didn't notice it as she was lost in his bride. 

Rudra looked at Omkara and both the brothers bent down and asked, "Don't worry, she is going to be yours in half and hour, phir jitna dekhna hai dekh lena," listening this Shivaay glared them one by one. Simultaneously Omkara's eyes fell at Annika and so Gauri, which shocked him.

The young Gauri chided, "Yes I will marry you!" Omkara, who was huffing was about to kneel down on his toes looked at her. She was too excited and ran from the spot she was an rested in his arms," Omkara looked at them and realised that she can't be his because she was already someone else's.

Omkara came out of his worst memory and when Shivay wiped his moist eyes and asked, "Hey! What happen?" at which he lied white, "Nothing" and acted to be fine as he couldn't express his turmoil with his brother.

He stepped back and realised that Gauri hasn't noticed him yet so he didn't wanted to let her know that he was present there, to his college friend whom he loved a lot, but she loved someone else and married him too, but he died in a plane crash merely after passing a week with her.

"The world is too small Om, dekhna tum bhale hi abroad chale jao aur main sasural, par fir bhi I feel we will meet one day again," the words of Gauri were echoing in Omkara's ears which she said on her reception to him.

"Var Vadhu saath mein bethein," the pandit ji ordered to the groom and bride. Gauri helped Annika in sitting when she noticed Omkara and was astonished.

The thoughts started building in her mind from the past when the same time Pinky objected, "How can a widow be the part of a marriage?"

Omkara realised that Gauri, the girl to whom he has tried to proposed, his eternal love, wasn't the same girl anymore. Neither the best friend to whom he has loved nor the bride he has left ahead, while leaving, in fact she was a widow.

"What are you saying Pinky ji? Gauri is like a sister to Annika, my daughter, not a widow," Arti declared this in tears but Pinky and Tej her brother in law were ready to rebel.

Tej whispered out looking at Rishab, "I think there is a difference between 'like' a sister or in being a sister"

Rishab controlled his angst which he had on Tej and Pinky as in these two years, they never treated Gauri like a "widow", but a princess, "I don't think that in this age we should talk about all these"

"Time passes bhaisaab but not the reality changes," Pinky declared and continued, "Her fate is to not be a part of this wedding, I can't afford to curse my Shivaay!", listening which Annika glared her groom as she couldn't afford to listen all this mud about her sister.

When the same time Dadi looked at Pinky and objected, "Pinky and Tej, I don't believe in all these s**t because my husband never believed all this. This is twenty first century not nineteenth," scolded her son and daughter in law.

But it wasn't enough for Tej, "Ma please all these matters in this age too, if your best friend hasn't been a part of Shakti's birthday, you too wouldn't be a widow too," which shook Kalyani Dadi.

This was enough for Omkara and when he looked at Gauri she was a stone with no expression but had feelings which she was trying to hide, just for Annika. She said, "I request all of you, to not fight, I would be a part...," and she chocked while running from the spot.

Looking at her Omkara was about to rebel but before this Annika declared, "Aap log yahan se ja sakte hain, I don't want to be a 'bride' because my sister has called 'widow' today for the first time," and gasped hard. She even pointed all of them the path to go out, which shivered Shivaay, but Annika shrugged his hand from her shoulder, which didn't went unnoticed by Omkara.