FIVE BASIS OF DHARMA (OOL AU)

CONNECTION

Sagarika took Arjun inside her room and cleans his wound.

"How did you get hurt ?" Sagarika asked putting bandage around his hand.

"That Vrikasur." Arjun gritted his teeth.

"What about him ?" Sagarika asked.

"The way he was looking at you ! The way he wanted a touch of your skin ! The way he wants you !" Arjun said.

"So ?" Sagarika asked.

"He wants to take you away from me, I cannot stand that. You are mine and I am yours, I cannot tolerated his lewd behavior towards you at all." Arjun said.

"You're jealous ?" Sagarika asked.

"No, jealousy is when you want what is someone else's. Protecting the one who belongs to you is not jealousy." Arjun said.

"Why do you think you need to protect me ?" Sagarika asked.

"Because you're my wife, I can't just sit here and watch him make you his." Arjun said.

"So you don't want to lose me." Sagarika said.

"I get scared from a mere thought of you being separated from me." Arjun said.

"You don't trust me ?" Sagarika asked.

"I do." Arjun said.

"Then are you unintelligent !? I would never leave you. You're my husband and I am your wife. I have duties towards you then how can I leave you ?" Sagarika said.

"Is that the only thing ? Why you stay ? You have duties towards me, is that the only reason why you are with me right now ?" Arjun asked.

"What kind of a question is that ?" Sagarika asked.

"Answer me please, you are by my side only because you are bound to ?" Arjun asked.

"No." Sagarika said.

"Then is there something more ? Between us ?" Arjun asked taking her hands in his.

"Between you and I, there lies a connection that is old, a connection that is deep, a connection that was strengthen by sacrifice. I have felt it since the day you held my hand." Sagarika said.

"Really ?" Arjun asked.

"Although I care for all my husbands equally, but there is something more to us than them. And I have been feeling it since the day you held my hand on that first day of Navratri in Saurashtra. It was as if I was yearning to hold this hand since millions of years." Sagarika said.

Both of them were gazing in each other's eyes, staring into each other's soul.

"What is this connection ?" Sagarika asked.

"Love ?" He guessed.

"Something much deeper, something more beautiful." Sagarika said.

"Maybe." Arjun said.

Both were lost in each other's gaze and suddenly Sagarika pulled Arjun in for a kiss. Short it was indeed, just a peck on the lips, but it ended all the insecurities residing in his heart and mind.

At that moment he understood everything he is to her, he understood the connection that was between them.

Arjun looked at Sagarika, her cheeks as red a blood as she realized what she did. She hurriedly got up and was about to leave but he held her hand, stopping her.

She turned around and looked at him nervously, his eyes carried tears. Arjun pulled her into an embrace, as tears streamed down his face.

"Oh Chandrika...." He whispered.