The Different Mahabharata

the wedding

Niyati pov

The time has come.
In just a few minutes Draupadi, Bhadre and Mata will be coming to get me.
To take me down, at the mandap.

It was time.

Yash pov

"Please bring the bride to the mandap now," The panditji orders.

Bua Kunti, Sakhi Drupadi and Bhadre go to bring her.

It took only a few minutes, and there she was.
In her red-white lehenga, and jewelry, in which she doesn't look like herself, but she looks so beautiful, my heart aches, the insides of my body ache.

My mind wanders off, thinking about our time together, on Prem lok and on earth.

I am physically unable to think of anything but her.

And the best part?
I was going to be hers.

***

Niyati pov

There he is.
Looking all glorious as if he's a God on earth. He looks as if he was dressed up by the Gods themselves.
With no jewelry, just a simple red angvastra, and his mor mukut.
So beautiful.

Just like his heart.

And here I am.
In just this heavy look, in this heavy lehenga, looking nothing like myself.

I don't deserve him.
But I am selfish, and I love him too much to give him up.

I sit down, beside him, and Panditji starts his mantra.

I am getting married.

As weird as it may sound, but it just hit, that I will have to leave my home.
My family.

Granted I would be leaving to create a new one. But I am not quite done with my family yet.

Subconsciously, I look towards my brothers and mother.

They were smiling at me, my brothers.
Maa was smiling too, but she had tears in her eyes.

My heart pounded in my ears and hands started to shiver.

I was going to leave her alone.
I couldn't do that.

I can't do this.

I hadn't realized I was breathing hard until I heard him.

"You okay, Priye?" He asks softly, his hand creeping up to take mine into his.

When his hands found mine, I grasped it as if my life depended on it.

I look at him.

The comfort and love in his my problems.

Yes, Maa will be left here, but that will happen if we leave without her.

I am sure Yash will want her to accompany us, instead of leaving her here.

I smile at him through my panic/anxiety attack, clenching his hand harder.

It may have hurt him, but he doesn't show it. He simply smiles and lets me know that he's there for me.

God, I don't deserve him. But I must have done something very great to have the opportunity to have him as my husband in this birth.

Then suddenly his smile disappears.

Panditji asks Mata Kunti to tie the knot and then he asks us to stand so we can take the pure Agni-chakkars. (7 rounds around the purified fire which binds the couple for 7 births).

He stands up, and then helps me stand up in my heavy lehenga knowing that I would fall if I tried it on my own.

After standing up, he didn't leave my hand.

We take the rounds.
We make vows.

Our vows.

We shall always stay together in sickness and in difficulties.
We shall respect each other.
We shall trust each other till the end of times.

Yash promises me that there will be no one else in his life other than me. I promise to him that I will never leave his side, no matter what.

We promise to tell each other everything.
We promise to solve all the problems together.

And then, we were done.

We are married now.

We take blessings of our elders, Maa's, Mami Devki's and Mama Vasudev's, Pitahmah's, Vidur Kaka's, Maharaj Dhritarashtra's and Maharani Gandhari's and Mama Shakuni's.

We are married.
We are one, now.

I look towards Yash, smiling.
My happiness knows no bounds right now
I'm feeling as if I am invincible.

***
Yash pov

Oh I don't deserve her.
Time is moving too fast.
Too quick.
As much I wanted to marry her, now I dread it.

Because I am afraid of what's going to go down in the future.

I pity my priye, she had to marry a man like me.

I don't deserve her at all.

***
Niyati pov

I was naive to think he had tears of happiness the night of our wedding.
I should have known, he never truly loved me.
I should have known that those tears were the tears of pity.
Pity he had for me.
But why did he have pity for me?
I still don't know.

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Hey guys, don't beat me up, I'm back lol.

So like, hey?
Man I've been busy, I must confess not that busy that I couldn't write this but just didn't have the inspiration to write. I actually forgot about it (sorryyyy don't beat mee)

But man, I opened Wattpad today after months and just remembered that I have this story going on.
So I wrote.

I don't know when I will write the next chapter.

Could be this very second or maybe after 2 months, but know this, I will complete this story no matter what.

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