Petrichor - Time Travel To Mahabharat Era

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With the vermillion filling her hair partition and her purple lehenga flowing with the wind adorned with the flowers that showered on them, looking like Mata Parvati herself, Vaishnavi stood in front of the idols, looking at her love, her husband.

Her Husband.

Just the thought of it made her giggle and blush like a red tomato. Arjun, who was praying to the god, turned his head towards her and smiled at his wife.

His Wife.

Oh, how ecstatic that feels for him. He soon finished his prayers and came towards his wife and told her, "Vaishnavi, come with me! Let's go to our house. Mata must be waiting for me. I'll re introduce to her as her Daughter in law. I'm sure she would be-", he trailed off, thinking about something. His face screamed tension and confusion.

With a frown on her forehead, Vaishnavi shook his shoulders to bring him back to reality, "Arjun! Arjun, what happened?". He looked at her and said, "I- Vaishnavi- I-", he couldn't gather up words to say to her. She patted his back and nodded as if asking him to continue, "I did a mistake! I- I married you before my- my Elder brother's marriage! This- this, our marriage should not have happened this way! It-", she immediately covered his mouth with her hand.

"Don't talk negative, Arjun! What do you mean should not have happened? You don't remember that Bheem, your elder brother, got married too, before Bhrata Yudisthir! Right? If he has had any problem, he would have voiced it, am I right? But no, he happily accepted Bheem and Hidimba! He would accept us as well".

Arjun shook his head and said, "No, Priye! That marriage is not considered a normal marriage, you know? Bhabhishree Hidimba is a Rakshasi! That marriage was not human friendly as well! So- I- ugh!", he sighed. She rubbed her hand on his back and said, "It's okay it's okay! Tell me what we can do at this situation right now! Tell me! We will do exactly that!".

Arjun looked up at her and asked with a little fear in his eyes, "Vaishnavi! W- we have to- You will do right?", she just smacked him on his head frustratingly and said, "I will do my husband! I will! Just tell me already!". He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "We have to hide our marriage!". He opened his eyes and looked her to see her reaction, who held a blank face. He tried to speak more but, she cut him off sharply by looking at him, "No!". She told it very clearly to him, as she doesn't want any of this to happen. She just wants to live a happy life, with her husband. She had seen the worst in her life, she is not sure if she would be able to bear anymore of that. She just shook her head with a sad pouty face, tears threatening to spill out of her eyes.

Arjun sighed and kept his hands on her cheeks, "We have to hide this truth, until my elder brothers get married. Once it's done, I will officially come and ask for your hand and talk with Balram dau and with Madhav!", he said in a single breath. She mumbled as her cheeks were basically getting smashed by his hands, "But, what if you get married before you could tell anyone about us -", he didn't want her to tell anything such, so he stopped her talking by locking his lips with hers.

She closed her eyes, with tears smearing down her face and hugged him by his neck while kissing him. They were kissing as if the world was going to end for them. He soon pushed her towards a tree, and locked her between his arms. She did not want to leave him and jumped on him, while he held her legs and locked them to his hips. They soon separated from the kiss and looked at each other with pure love in their eyes. She started to speak while turning her head away from him, "What if, you get married to some other?", she couldn't even complete her sentence.

He soon carried her in bridal style and walked towards the pond nearby and said, "I give you my word, My wife. Even if god comes and tells me to marry, I would never do that, unless you tell me to!". To Which, she smiled broadly and hugged him tightly while he was carrying her. He made her sit down and started to clean her face, which was totally smeared with Kumkum and said, "So, go back to the Palace and stay there for some days! We will be here for some days as well! We will keep on having our secret meetings! Our rendezvous! Once my brothers gets married, I'll marry you right away!", he totally cleaned the mess on her face, leaving a single dot of vermillion, very tiny that no one would notice, on her hair partition.