The Power of Love

Beauty

Roop

Age: 19
(Imagine a beautiful slender prince)
Roop knows that kindness is magic that can transform the world, so he is warm and sincere with everyone he meets. He believes in himself and is determined to overcome the adversity he faces. Despite his circumstances, Roop finds the courage to be kind, because he knows that kindness conquers all.

Near the beautiful seven waterfalls there is small town with their beautiful people and their self obsessed King.

King' Samrat
Father of Roop
Samrat is cruel and an angry man who is self obsessed and only care about those who can result him with some benefits. A very greedy, arrogant and possesive ruler. Really a pervert can say.

Roop's POV
Near these beautiful rivers, there's my palace where I live with my family. My family, I have 19 elder sisters and 1 younger brother. My mother and... My father. I love everyone, we believe in the term satisfaction. The much God gifted you is enough, no need to run for more and more.
Well I am Roop, well my full name is Roopeshwar but my family calls me Roop. It's my pet name. I am 19 and really happy, well we can say that.
Today it was the day of Maha Puja (Grand Prayer) and I was really excited. Father only allows us to visit outside on special occasions. And hence it is today, my God Mother's Puja. I worship my heavenly mother. I loved her and have faith in her that one day she will free me from all these caves created by this palace.
I was visiting the temple today with my little brother Megh. He is like my little child, we both were going inside the temple to pray the Almighty Goddess. When we reach there I found people getting scared by our presence, they moved aside to provide us space to walk.
"Megh, everyone is scared again" I told my brother
"As usual brother, because we are from the Royal Family and you are the crown Prince, so obviously they should respect their future King" Megh explains in my ear
"Well I don't like people to get scared of me, they can love me in order to provide with respect" I said with smiling face.
"Oh you are unbelievable my brother" Megh chuckles
We both reach near the idle of the goddess, our Supreme mother. In front of her Idle, prayed some aarti of Matarani and people enjoy when I sing. The time when I pray and people listen is the most precious time for me. I loved it. It felt like people are noticing me, because that rarely happens.
I was praying whole heartedly when I felt something wrong, I turned back to see and found everyone running towards the exit door. I stopped singing and went outside to see what's the issue. There I saw my father arriving to the temple with all my family.
People ran out of scare from them, I felt bad to see my family like this.
I read thousands of books depicting the great Kings and their way of ruling their nation. The great rulers are those who love their subjects, not dominate them.
My father, the King of Seven waterfalls enters the temple. I step aside to give space to my father. We bowed down in respect, all my sisters were accompanying our four mothers I mean our Queens.
"Father should be more late today, we made so efforts to reach the temple before them arriving but we failed" Megh says irritated
"I also wanted to spend some time alone with my town" I sighs
The saint welcomed father with flowers necklace, they all came near the ideal of Maa Durga. I stepped towards the side of my sister in a sad way, now I know I can't sing here because they won't allow me. But to my surprise, father stopped me.
"Roop! Where are you planning to leave?" Fathers asks me
I stopped and hesitated for a moment to speak.
"Uh... I was... Father" I was mixing my words
"You were here to do the prayer right? " He asked and I nodded as response "so come and sing the song, we all are here for this" My father spoke
I was surprised by his lovely and kind tone towards me, father always ignores me and this was one of the rarest moment when he talked me so nicely.
"Wanna sing for your family? " Father asked
"Sure father" I smiled, and went towards the idle. I picked up the Puja thaal and starts singing the aarti with my complete devotion.
"Oh I know Roop always just act to be a devotee, he does this to impress father" Sana, one of my elder sister was saying to the other sister and I heard that but I ignored as I need to focus on my Goddess. I smiled and starts praying with devotion.
For the first time, my whole family listened to my bhakti geet and I was really happy.
We all bowed down in front of the goddess.
"Hey the Almighty Mata, bless us with riches and joys" Fathers says "bless my son Roop with power, your are the goddess of power! Please provide my son some power to rule the nation" He says
I bend my head down, I became nervous whenever he says anything about me becoming the King.
As being the first son in the family of 19 daughters, they made big hopes from me since my birth. They wanted me to be a great warrior, powerful and brave. But in context I grew up being soft spoken and supporter of mercy.
No one is here to accept a soft spoken Prince as their king because everyone assumes a king to be protective, brave to fight, should be very strong and most importantly, be dominating.
And I am the ultimate opposite of this, I never supported the thought that only a man can rule the state. I saw my elder sister Jaya, she is very kind and brave and hence can be a great ruler. She can guide the people well. But my father want me to be his successor because I am his elder son. It's a rule in the 7 waterfalls that the big son will be the next ruler, so willingly or unwillingly I have to be the one. But after not being able to fulfill his requirements father never talks to me properly and behaves weirdly with me. He laughs on my skinny look, he jokes that I look like he has a 20th daughter. Which made me sad, I am boy. Being soft spoken, loving flowers and showing kindness to everyone is not mean to called girl. God made me a boy, and I should be called one!
"Oh Roopa... " Father spoke
I turned back and looked at him
"Yes father? " I asked politely
"You look really handsome today, I rarely saw you like this... Have you done something on your face? " He asked trying to be sweet, but somehow I felt scared
"Uh... I... " I don't know how to answer
"Dear, he has put some make up on his face" My Queen Mother spoke to father.
"Make-up?" Father asked in surprise, I got more scared that my hands starts shaking.
"Yes father, Roop has applied thousands of layers of Make-up to look handsome. Otherwise the pimple spots on his face are really ugly" One of my sister taunts
"Roop is ugly without makeup, it's a fact" Other sister laughs
I bend down my head in humiliation, everyone was laughing at me for my ugliness. Except Megh and Queen Mother.
"That's disgusting Roop, how can you apply these things after being a man? Well till the time you look presentable to 7 waterfalls... It's fine. Don't let anyone know this! " Father said in an angry tone making me scared as hell.
"Hope you got it? " Father asked seriously
"Uh... Yeah... Yes father... " I said without looking into his eyes, I was scared
Megh and Queen mother felt bad for me, Father smirks and left from the temple with his other wives and the princess. My Queen Mother tapped on my shoulder consoling me, "everything will be fine son" She says. I looked at her with my teary eyes, she felt sad for me and then she move towards the exit with father.

"One day when you will be the ruler, just show them their place" Megh says in anger
"I don't want to be a ruler to dominate and to torture other" I says in my sad voice.
As per the tradition, I walked near the river after the puja. I was submitting flowers to the river as worship! When my little brother Megh arrives there.
"So father comes to announce that you soon will be becoming the next ruler" Megh informs
"But I don't want to be a king, I always accept father's every order. But not this, because it can effect the whole kingdom. I want to be a supporter of the King, not king by my own" I says sadly
"You are the first person in my list who wanted to be a King's supporter than to be a King? " Megh says surprised
"Yeah Megh, you know everyone needs support in their life, no one can reach the moon without the support of their loved once" I said with my dreamy eyes
"What do you mean brother? " Megh asks surprised
"I want to be a love support of the person who can rule the nation with kindness, with mercy and love" I smiled "I want to be with the good King, I want to be the reason for a man to be a good king for his kingdom" I smiled happily
I starts looking into the water, my reflection. Though I know nothing could free me from my father's dangerous trap. But still I dream that one day I would be free from all this. All the rules made by the people, all the expectations expected from me to be a representative of masculinity, all myths believed by the people for Love.
Yes, I Roopeshwar. The Prince of seven waterfalls. Will one day change the vision of everyone towards Love. With the man whom I met in my dreams.

The man who feels like a blessing of my Supreme Goddess for me. A great Prince, who will be there to protect me from all the cruelty I am facing since my birth. The Prince who will love my heart and see the beauty in it.
"Don't say you are again thinking about your dream Prince? " Megh chuckles
"I am Megh, it might sound weird for a Prince to feel for a man, but for me it's wonderful... For a man to love another man unconditionally" I said looking to the sky, the beautiful clouds and the wonderful weather.
Yes, I have met a Prince in my dreams. He loves me, cares for me and dance with me. Everytime I sleep, I pray to see him again, he is Prince of my dreams. Whenever I saw him in my Dreamland... There's a song that I sing and he sings with me.

Song that always plays in my head when I dream about that kind Prince;
(Play the song 🎵👆)
🎵I know you
I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you
That look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it's true, that visions are seldom what they seem
But if I know you
I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
The way you did once upon a dream🎶

Don't know that this is just a dream or something coming real. But I have stopped expecting from the world. I have faith, that with kindness I will conquer all the obstacles given by my father, I will see the man who comes in my dream... One day!

Author' note
Please listen to the song🎵 mentioned above
Enjoy

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