Frolic of Stars

Part 1

Madhu came out holding up her lehenga as she walked towards the source of sound. Not long after she came at the door out of which she saw a man in sherwani. He was sitting beside the pool with music on and he was drinking from a bottle as he stared angrily at the clear water. For a second Madhu was shaken from inside. she had been waiting for her husband in the room since an hour and he was sitting here and drinking. The room was decorated beautifully for their night but she hadnt felt much of it as she waited for the man of her life.

Just then he kept the glass on the floor with a thud and Madhu was shaken back to her senses. She frowned seeing him as anger built up in her. She stomped her feet to him and stood right beside him.

"What are you doing here?" She said tying her hands in front of her chest.

RK who was drenched in alcohol now looked at her feet smeared with colour that were now just beside him. He looked up with a confused expression as his gaze went along all the way to her face. She was shimmering in her bridal lehenga as dim lights reflected through the pearls on her dress. As he saw her face he was awestruck, her whitish colour with shades of red that made her look like she was blushing. He had almost forgot to breathe for a second when he heard her angry voice again.

"I asked what are you doing here? I was waiting for you in the room.." she asked with a frown.

"I am drinking this.." he said with a frown as he showed her the bottle.

"You are so shameless.." Madhu said in disbelief at his audacity.

RK chuckled hearing her.. "What is so shameless..?? Oh.. you want to drink too?" He asked with an innocent frown.

Madhu saw his face and she couldnt help but smile at him. "No.. I dont want to drink..." she said. "But why are you sitting here? You should have been in our room.." she said.

"Sit here.." RK patted beside him.

"No I am fine.." she said not wanting to sit on the floor in her lehenga..

"I said sit.." he demanded authoritatively.

Madhu pursed her lips as she bent herself to sit. She was struggling with her lehenga when RK gave her his hand to support. Madhu looked at his hand and a contended smile crept over her face. She held his hand and sat down.

After a while of silence Madhu decided to speak up "You are not happy with this marriage?" She asked him as she looked at him with a hurt face.

"How do you know?" He asked innocently.

"Amm.. I just know." She said smiling.

"Did mom tell you?" He asked.

"No.. she didnt.." Madhu shook her head. RK breathed in a sigh.

"Do you know your kundali meets mine ideally..." he suddenly said out of the blue.

"What?" Madhu looked at him utterly confused as to what happened to him suddenly.

"Yes.. you should know that.." he said adamantly.

"Okay... you believe in that?" She asked confused as she never expected a man like him to believe in such stuff.

"Mom believes that.. and we should believe it too.." he said whispering the last part.

"Ohh.." she said with a frown as she tried to deciphere what he meant with telling her that.

"You dont know anything.." he said angrily. "Wait I will tell you.." he said as he stood up to go back in the house as Madhu looked at him confused.

He came back with a notepad and a pen. He sat back where he was and started scribbling something.

"See.. there are some geometrical figures drawn on a paper. And you know our solar system has houses in that." He said with a frown. "Now dont ask why planets need these houses and how the hell they stay here.." he said whispering to her as if warning her. Madhu nodded her head in a way as she understood him and kept a finger on her lips in gesture that she would stay quiet about it.

"So.." he said in his normal voice again. "These planets have there homes in here.. but then suddenly one gets nuts and intrudes into other's house. " he said with a frown. "And these two planets fight.. but then while they are fighting.. We! Who have nothing to do with their house fight have to work according to them.. specially Getting Married!" He completed. "Now you understood?"

"Yes I did.." Madhu said with a slight smile as she understood the reasons why he was unhappy with the marriage.

"Do you love someone else?" Madhu asked suddenly worried.

RK looked at her with a frown. "No!" He exclaimed.

Madhu sighed in relief. She couldnt have taken that her husband loved someone else or she came between two people.

"You want to drink?" He asked again.

Madhu opened her mouth to refuse but then something in her clicked and she nodded her head slightly in hesitation. RK gladly poured her a drink and thrust it in her hands.

Madhu looked at the glass and then at him. She tried to clear her mind as she tried to remind herself that she is a new bride and shouldnt be drinking but then that made her pain even more and she just gulped the drink down. As much as even she didn't want this wedding in the start but since last few weeks she had started weaving dreams about her marriage. She was having a lot of expectations from this marriage and here on her first night she hears that it was forced on her husband too but unlike her he hadn't come to terms yet.

"whats your name?" he asked her innocently.

Madhu's jaw dropped. "haw.. you don't know my name?" she said angrily. Alcohol had started taking effect on her.

"I know!" he said adamantly. "but I forgot..."

Madhu gulped in another sip so as not to let that hurt her. "madhubala malik.. Ooops.. "Madhubala Kundra now.." she grinned as she said that.

RK smiled at her. "it sounds cool.. Madhubala Kundra.." he said nodding his head happily.

"Should I hate you?" madhu asked him innocently.

"why?" RK exclaimed not believeing she actually said that.

"Because you are my husband.." she said thinking.

"But wives love their husbands.." RK said to her nodding his head in affirmative as if telling her a new thing.

"I know that! But you are my husband and you don't even know my name.." she said disappointed.

"No.. Madhubala Kundra.. I know your name.. I will never forget now.." he said holding her hand trying to please her.

"give me another sip.." she demanded pointing at the bottle.

RK promptly forwarded the bottle to her.. "Take it Madhubala Kundra.." he said fearing not to upset her again.

"You have a lot of money right?" Madhu said after some time of starng at the water.

"haw.. You married me for money?" RK said with widened eyes.

"No.. Idiot!" she said hitting him on his arm. "tell me you have a lot of money?" she said angrily.

"yes I do.." he said confused.

"Couldn't you have bought a house for that planet?" she asked frowning.

RK burst into laughter hearing her while Madhu looked at him with a frown confused. "we cant buy homes for a planet Madhubala Kundra.." he said as he quited down.

Madhu still stared at him. "They don't take gifts.. They like to conquer other's houses.." he said shaking his head as if telling her a known fact. "Strange hobby you see.." he said looking at her.

Madhu shrugged at that. "I will never do that.." she said displeased at their behavior.

"Madhubala Kundra, You are looking beautiful.." RK said looking at her. He had been controlling himself since long but at last he couldnt.

Madhu blushed hearing him. "Thank you Rishabh..."

"Call me RK.." he said.

"RK.." she said confused.

"Yes.. I am RK.."