The Inseparable Princes

28. The Lizard

"Aaaah! Help! Help me!"

"Urmi, what happened?" asked Bharata, as she pointed at the wall, signalling him that there was something in the room.

"Lizard!" she shrieked, before hiding behind him.

"Lizard? That's not a thing that usually comes in here, is that?" said Bharata confusedly. He'd seen perhaps two lizards in the palace for the last 20ish years.

"I don't know, and neither do I care. All I know is that it shouldn't be here!" she continued shrieking.

"Okay, ma'am! Hold on!" said Bharata, laughing at her tauntingly.

"Why do you laugh?" she asked, frowning.

"Why do you suppose I laugh?" he asked, chuckling again.

"Answer me!" she commanded.

"Because my little sister, the warrior Princess, this little baby Urmi is scared of a lizard!" he said teasingly, before bursting out into laughter, and patting her on the shoulder, before leaving, having removed the lizard.

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"Urmi, you got scared of a lizard! A lizard? Really?" asked Mandavi, her eyes widened.

"I don't see what the big deal is! They're disgusting miniature crocodiles, that do not have half the amount of detail and elegance that a crocodile does. And if their tail gets chopped off, it grows back! That tail has no self-respect!" she explained.

"Woah! Your logic is just unbeatable, Urmi!" cried Mandvi, clapping sarcastically. "But how did that lizard come there?"

"I'm not quite sure. I haven't seen my dear devar and darling husband for long now," she said, smiling falsely.

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"You did it, didn't you?" she asked accusingly.

"I've got other things to do, Mila, than putting a lizard in your room!" he said, rolling his eyes.

"Oh really? What work have you got?" she asked.

"You know, just the affairs of the empire. Helping Ram bhaiya and Pitashree," he said.

"And in between, you also wanted to help that lizard, didn't you, by giving it a home?!"

"What are you speaking about, Urmila!" said Lakshmana.

"You put it there!" she proclaimed.

"Prove it to me!" he challenged.

"Prove it to you? How! You are a cheater! I haaateeeeeee you!" she squeaked wrathfully.

"You hate me, darling?" he asked, winking comically.

"Absolutely!"

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"Shatru, Laksh did it na!"

"Arre bhabhi! For the past hour or so, I've been telling you that Laksh couldn't have done it. Come on! He's having a hard time walking! And the lizard you're talking about, the complicated ones that are found in the forest, that species isn't found anywhere nearby. He needs to go to the jungle to get those, and do you realise how badly injured he is on practically every limb of his? How could he have gone, Bhabhi?" explained Shatrughna.

"Shatru, you are lying!" cried Urmila accusingly.

"Bhabhi, apart from being terribly injured, he's also been stuck to Ram Bhaiya. Ram bhaiya hasn't let him step out, not even to the garden, because he thinks he'll get hurt there, or he'll fall off, or he'll even die! Ram bhaiya is extremely paranoid,"

"Ughh!"

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"Didi,"

"Yeah, Urmi?"

"Didi, who do you think would've put that lizard in my room?" asked Urmila suspiciously.

"Oh Urmi, get over it, please. It's been what, two days since that happened. Did that lizard do anything to you? No! Then why are you so worried about it?" asked Sita exasperatedly.

"Didi, Lakshman must have done it. He must have,"

"Urmi please. He almost requires some support to walk, and you think he'll go to the jungle to get a lizard? He's not that crazy!" said Sita.

"But he cou-"

"No no no! I saw that Raghav and Bharat have literally put him in jail. Just that the handcuffs are missing,"

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'He'll have to tell the truth,' thought Urmila.

"Ram bhaiya, Laksh put a lizard in my room," she said, pouting.

"This is a two day old news that there was a lizards, but no, Laksh didn't put it there. He couldn't have," said Rama.

"He did, Bhaiya. Who else could've?"

"I don't know, and I don't care about it! All I know is that Laksh is physically weak right now, thanks to that battle, so he cannot go to the jungle to get a lizard, the one that you're speaking of!"

"Oh my god, you all say the same thing!" she cried.

"Because that is the truth!"

"No"

"Yes!"

"No,"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Nope!"

"YES!" screamed Rama. "That is the truth!"

'They'll never know!' thought Lakshmana, before bursting out into silent giggles at the success, at the sweet revenge that he'd taken on his dear wife. Her getting scared wasn't exactly what interested him as much, though. It was the fact that everybody was so confident that he couldn't bear the pain, he couldn't take the wounds, he couldn't escape from them. But he really had, and he'd done it too well, for neither did his soul, his Ram Bhaiya find out, nor did his partner in crime, his twin, his baby brother. Neither did his mother, his Maa, his Sita bhabhi find out, and nor did his sweet, yet extremely understanding Bharat Bhaiya.

His revenge had been completed, for what if he would never get another chance to take?

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A/N : Look, this was just a filler types chapter. Supposedly lighthearted. You guys may or may not have liked it, because firstly it was really short, and it also didn't quite have any plot.
The lizard was the main hero in this part, lol😆

Basically this part was almost written completely by Ridhima. Like it was entirely her story because I didn't have any ideas whatsoever for a light-hearted thing. All credits to her for this chapter. Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!💖💞💕

Thank you for reading, and sorry if it wasn't too impressive, because I didn't have any ideas, and as I said, whatever I was able to write in this chapter was thanks to Ridhima. Bye people😁💖