The Elite Bride ( I was enchanted to meet you, princess )

《 12. First Date - II 》

Hint : Guys, in the last chapter there is a scene where I described Raghav's room, so I just want you all to remember it's interior. Actually it's a spoiler for something in the future chapters. 😉 (very imp one).

Also, I am not marwari so I don't know it fully or at all, but I would try my best. If any marwaaris out there I am sorry in advance if I blunder up.
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R A G H A V E N D R A

I actually didn't have anything extravagant decided for our first date, not that I didn't want to take her to all such showy places but somewhere I knew it she wouldn't like it. Still I ask her,"Is it too late to inform you that we aren't going to some movie or a restaurant but to the Bikaner market?"

She says,"Why? What's wrong with the market visit?" as we descend the stairs towards the main hall of the palace.

"No I just thought that since the market has a mela (fair) going on, so you would like it there instead of a cliché date at an eatery?"

She makes a thinking face and says," Hmm, let me think about it yes a movie would be cliché but anywhere with food for me is good."

I chuckle filing that info about food for later. She continues,"Also, I don't want to explore places right now, I just want to know you so anywhere less crowded and noisy would have good, you know."

Exactly I wasn't sure of this analogy of ours but thank God I was eight about her preference and I listened to my gut after all first impression is the last impression.

She looked not pretty, not alluring but bewitching yet gracefully radiant in this white saree with golden borders. And oh, her hair was so damn long, thick and shining. It reached below her hips and I just wish no one would look at her, the way I look. Not that I was jealous of anyone but I remember even Maasa had this long hair and she rarely kept them open, and I remember once I had asked her why she never did it that way, she said that hair is the most beautiful thing a woman has so she should take care of them and she loved her hair too much to keep them open and let them shed away. Though I couldn't understand her logic but I acknowledged it anyways.

"Is there something in my hair that you are gawking at it?" She asks sliding her fingers in them.
I shake my head and say,"No, actually they are very pretty."

She blushes and thanks me. And I like the way her cheeks and neck are turning pink.

I put my glares on as we exit the palace as I don't want people to recognize me and we end up on the front page of a gossip magazine.

"The location of the bazaar is a bit far, so I suggest we take chagda ( a local rickshaw) as a car would invite unnecessary attention. I hope you understand."

She stops in her track turns towards me and with a glint of mischief in her eyes she says,"Raghavendra Kunwarsa, you forgot I also am a princess of a reputed kingdom and I know that we exactly are not celebs but I don't fortunately or not, we are viewed under the same spectacle."

"I know to érma mou, I know." She scrunches her cute little nose at the nickname and I smirk.

Walking out of the palace exteriors we are on the main road now and I see a chagda speedingly coming towards us, pulling Janaki to the inside of the road so that she is safe from the rash drivers here.

She looks at me from the side of her eye and I just smile at her and she returns it. I extend my left hand to stop the chagda and it stops I ask the driver,"Bhaisa, mela lekar chalogey."
(Brother, would you take us to the local fair?)
I dont talk in marwari with him as I don't want to give him the impression that I am a local.