MIRAGE OF HEARTSTRINGS

BLOSSOM BETWEEN FLOWERS

The shadow grey eyes one facepalm himself chuckling, remembering how he lost at the first meeting. He truly made an image for the first impression on the first meeting, indeed.

"hey!"

Until a hand came on his shoulder making him turn around to look at the person only to find, it is his friend.

"Ekalavya"

"How are you karna?"

"I am fine but it seems you are not since you were facepalming yourself"

"ah....no, I just..........I have made quite an impression on first meeting" Ekalavya says, chuckling while at the same time swirling his tongue inside as he poke from inside while karna stare at him, confused by the sudden behaviour which says he is feeling embarrassed cause of something but Karna does not know what it is.........................................................or maybe he knows.

"you met Dushala?"

Seeing how ekalavya's ears got red from embarrassment, karna can't help but to chuckle before speaking out "so you made a bad impression on first meeting too"

Sighing ekalavya look away while karna laugh more "good, it is the punishment of all the nagging you have done to me" as ekalavya open his mouth to say something but got stopped by the entry of new voice "it truly did happened good"

"Duryodhana" Ekalavya muttered, hugging him before pulling away as he hug ashwatthama too who came with duryodhana before he asks "you know?" to which duryodhana shrugs saying "Karna does not lie-" followed by ashwatthama "-and him saying half true isn't new to us. We know him very well and his puzzle too unless it is on new topic" and duryodhana again commented in the last "and by the way, that was a quite a little shit behaviour" making ekalavya chuckle while scratching his neck.

Man! He is close friend with brother of the girl he loves and his brother even know that, it seems his day is going to be filled with his continous embarrassment for sure.

"Oh............So I am in a deep hole, huh?" Ekalavya asked muttering to which all of his three friends nod seriously before duryodhana says "you will be more if you didn't win and I am telling you. Favouritism isn't going to work here" to which Ekalavya grin saying "I don't need that to. Just be ready to give the hands of your sister in my hands" as duryodhana raised an eyebrow with same energy at the open challenge of Ekalavya which he even accepted even though here all three are well aware of ekalavya's exceptional skills but it is more fun to have challenge in between beside he knows his sister very goodly, even if Ekalavya win the Swayamvar, in the last he is going to lose.

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The palace gave the rest time to all the participants before the Swayamvar starts with their family members who came together with them as Ekalavya take a look of the palace while walking.

It is his first time coming here even though he is friends with duryodhana from very early but he does not find himself close to Hastinapur, infact none of his friends find themselves close to Hastinapur if not for the fact that they all are close to duryodhana and respects Mata Gandhari.

He walk all the way to garden where he worsened his first impression only to find himself getting another chance when he saw the beautiful enchanting smile that becomes wide everytime when his eagle let himself get pat before the eagle notice his owner, flying up immediately confusing the person who was playing with him before the person also turns towards his owner.

"the owner of eagle?" Ekalavya open his mouth to say something but before he could say anything, he found his ears being filled with the sirene like voice that can make anyone captivated, anytime.

"hey!"

It seems Ekalavya was too much captivated that he didn't silence what the person said before he came out of it.........indeed sirene. Chuckling under his breathe, ekalavya repeated the earlier question in his mind, realising what kind of play is going on here making him grin too. Oh, he can definitely win this one.

"Indeed. I didn't knew he would know you since he is only close to some people except me which are my parents and friends..........."
Ekalavya sees the person in front of him raise an eyebrow, expecting him to join another name but he didn't before the person in front of him huffs, looking away while saying "then there must be a reason he is close to me too"

"hmm, even though it is his first time meeting-" Ekalavya hummed saying but stopped when he sees his eagle lying back to sit on the person's shoulder while nudging against the cheeks of the person gently as the person cares him "hmm, so it is a male?" while he narrows his eyes at his eagle.

The audacity of his eagle. Does he want to become his owner's rival? He bet he has already many rivals roaming around, outside and inside the palace today and having his own buddy betraying him does hurts.

"pal" Ekalavya called as the eagle completely ignore him before the person mutter out "pal, that's a cute name" to which the eagle lean his head to the person's head, close his eyes in satisfaction after causing his owner jealous completely, serves him right for the amount of work his owner has made him do from the past eight months.

"You are going to ruin the hair. Do you even know who this person is? It will-"

"why not? I like him. We are friends but what about you? Who are you, huh? How dare you enter my garden just like that?"

Ekalavya felt his tongue tied by sudden questions as the eagle sitting, tilt his head at his tongue tied owner, as if mocking him before he flew away, leaving the rest of the drama to them.

Taking a deep breathe ekalavya look in front, composing his posture as he asks "what do you mean by your garden? Do you behave like this with everyone?"

"you wish?" The person in front of him glared angrily as he smile internally, feeling himself winning but frowned when he watch the person turning around to leave making him caught the wrist subconsciously before he realised his action while the person ask "don't you have manners of not touching strangers?"

"I don't think you are a stranger for me"

Ekalavya felt his Dam of patience cracking slowly as he stand stilled, still grabbing the wrist before muttering in the silence.

"you are the only Rajkumari of Hastinapur, Rajkumari Dushala"

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