Legally Yours (Sartik)

Chapter 1

A normal day in Sara's life seemed like this one. When she completed her weekday works and knew that the next day was going to be weekend, she just wrapped up everything before sunset and spent the evening in a library. The library she often visited was not well furnished and even not many people liked to go there. Though it was not fancy but it had an aura of ancient era which might attract a few from the current generation. An old uncle took care of the library and adored his frequent client a lot.

"Hello uncle" Sara chirped entering the library.

"Kesi ho Sara beta?" the old man smiled without removing his glance from a travel magazine.

"Main badhiya" Sara said moving towards the selves looking for a book she was reading.

"Uncle aap ne kitaabe kahi aur rakhi hain?" 

The old man got up and went towards her

"Nahi to beta"

"Fir maine to yaha rakhi thi kitaab. Koi aya tha yaha?"

"Haan beta ek aya to tha. Waha pe ek kitaab padh raha tha" the old man's gaze turned to the side where the person was reading.

"Mil gayi Uncle" Sara said moving towards and taking a book out.

She sat down and the old man went back to his place.

She opened the book and saw a bookmark alongside hers one. She chuckled thinking that so there was someone else like her in the world.

She was surprised seeing that the quotation that the person had written was kinda response to her writing on her bookmark.

Sara had written, "Fictions can give you the hug of comfort without stabbing you in the back"

The response was "In reality when genuinely in love, getting stabbed is more preferable than stabbing.

Sara turned her bookmark and wrote down

"Reality is a myth as well as the genuine people"

She finished her reading and left the library to take a walk in the cool breeze of evening. It was almost the time when summer was going and winter was coming. With each step, she felt a sense of imaginations stirring within her, as if she were the protagonist of her own story. The cool breeze tousled her hair, and she couldn't help but smile. She was enjoying herself. She was feeling tree leaves touching her skin while falling down.

"Didi ek loge?" A street child asked her showing jasmine gajras. Sara smiled at the innocent query and bought two from her. She wrapped one around her wrist like a bracelet and kept another in the leaf. She kept walking towards her residence but stealing glances of the moon which was following her.

"Sid, Aaj kal Kartik kuch badla badla sa nahi hain?" Varun asked to Sid teasing Kartik.

"Haan main bhi dekh raha hu. Jab se Mumbai lauta hain tabse smile jaa nahi rahi hain chehre se" Sid added.

"Arey yaar ek to main 2 saal Delhi rehke ab jaake finally Mumbai shift ho paya aur tum dono esa kar rahe ho" Kartik tried hiding his blush.

"Varun dekh ladka humara sharma raha hain" Sid laughed out.

"Woh sab chodo mujhe batao ghar kesa laga?" Kartik said.

"Bohot accha. Wese interior kisne decide kiya?" Varun asked.

"Kya puch raha hain Varun? obviously humari vhabi ne" Sid said patting Kartik's back.

"Nahi actually sab interior designer ne hi kiya hain. Unhe abhi tak pata bhi nahi hain ki main wapas aa chuka hu"

"Ohohooo Unheee" Sid and Varun teased in unison.

Kartik rushed to the balcony by making an excuse of getting a call.

"Baas yeh humesha ese hi khush rahe" Sid said smilingly.

"Haan yaar. He deserves all the happinesses" Varun replied.

Kartik tried calling his girlfriend Alina but it was engaged. He decided to surprise her tomorrow by visiting her house. He smiled at the moon thinking finally his life was getting sorted after a long struggle.

He worked so hard for the last few years to establish his construction company. Starting a construction company had been one of the toughest things he had ever done. Purchasing equipment, securing office space, arranging the finance of everything, getting licence, working with people and demonstrate them and so on. When he first started, he had this grand vision of creating beautiful, lasting buildings. But then he learned that it's not just about the final product. There were so many challenges along the way. After hastle bustle of years, he sorted out everything. His company started doing well and he bought an apartment in Mumbai a few months ago. He lived there alone as he grew up in an orphanage after his parents tragic death. He mentioned his two friends cum brothers as his family. He was in Delhi for some works regarding some legal issues of his company. But he came back to Mumbai two days ago and was ready to propose his long distance girlfriend to marry him.

"Vhabiiii" Sara hugged her sister in law from behind as soon as entering the house. Deepika caressed her cheeks.

"Areey aa gayi tu?"

"Yupsieee"

"Kabhi kabhi lagta hain ki tu meri shaali hain" Sara's brother Ranveer said coming from his room.

"Aur woh kiu" Deepika asked with a chuckle.

"Kiuki tum dono mujhe behne lagti ho aur main ek bechara akela" Ranveer pouted.

Sara and Deepika burst into laughter. Sara put the other Jasmine gajra to Deepika's hair and kissed her cheeks.

"Kitni pyaari lag rahi ho aap yaar"

"Gajra!! Thank you baccha"

"Most welcome vhabiii"

"Accha Sara ab jaldi se fresh ho ke aao maine aaj tumhari favourite chole bhature banaye hain"

"Sacchi???" Sara's eyes shone in happiness.

"Haan aaj ghar jaldi aa gayi to socha"

Sara hugged her tight.

"Love you bohot jyaada"

"Love you aur bhi jyada. Ab jaw jaldi" Sara left for her room.

"Aur main?" Ranveer said.

"Love you too vhaiii for giving me my vhabii" and Sara ran to her room.

"Thank you Jaana" Ranveer hugged Deepika chuckling at Sara's playfulness.

"Kiu? kya hua?"

"Kiuki tum baas mujhe hi nahi balki Sara ko bhi humesha pyaar diya. Usse itna shamvhala aur..."

"Kya bol rahe ho yaar? Kya woh meri behen nahi hain?"

"Haan paar fir bhi"

"Ranveer agar meri behen hoti to kya main usse pyaar nahi karta?"

Ranveer nodded.

"To baas Sara bhi meri utni hi ladli hain"

That's all for today guys.

I don’t know if it was way too boring. Actually startings are a bit narrative about the characters. If you are thinking it way too filmy then believe me I am like this. I roam around like I am some kind of main lead in a story book🤭

Btw the digital art attached with the story is made by me🥺

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Signing off🦋💝