MIRAGE OF HEARTSTRINGS

BARREN HOPE OF BLOOMING FLOWER

"huh?"

The ladies chuckled seeing duryodhana's confused face before Mata Gandhari clearly speak out.

"putri Draupadi is Pregnant"

Before duryodhana could comprehend the sentence fully, a loud squeal took their attention before they found dushala hugging shy looking draupadi tightly with a huge smile while ekalavya's familiar presence could be felt beside him.

"Where is putri Subhadra, Putra Ekalavya?" Mata Gandhari asked

"She is resting right now" Ekalavya replied.

Yeah,just as duryodhana thought but that is not the matter here. Looking towards draupadi duryodhana felt a need to ask the question but it seems draupadi already understood it "Arya does not know about it yet" It means she wants to surprise Vikarna.

"He is outside right now but soon will be back" Duryodhana said making draupadi brighten up immediately. Hmm, maybe it is not too hard to understand women.

"Congratulations Draupadi"

"Shukriya (Thank you) Bhratashree" Draupadi said as the congratulations soon got followed by Ekalavya, Dushala and Bhanumati.

Since the moment was of the ladies, duryodhana and ekalavya left from there, only for the five Pandavas to come there and getting the same surprise as they also congratulated draupadi who happily accepted it without much awkwardness unlike last time since Vikarna already told her to be comfortable since it is her own home and she does not need be self conscious all the time nor have to be afraid of anyone.

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Both duryodhana and Ekalavya walked towards the garden before halting their steps slowly as the low voice of NishadhaRaj cut through the hushed atmosphere.

"Seems like we are soon about to hear something"

Only to see duryodhana looking at him with done face making ekalavya chuckle a little before he cleared his throat after seeing duryodhana's glare at his chuckle.

"Well.......maybe we should think here first, afterall it is about Hastinapur's future Heir"

Rolling his eyes with a sigh, duryodhana walked back to the corridor making ekalavya confuse until he hears a soft voice from behind.

"Arya"

"Subhadra"

Duryodhana glanced towards the reflection of ekalavya and Subhadra talking in the garden before his mind went towards his own wife making him shake his head as he entered his office.

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AT NIGHT

It wasn't much long until Vikarna got the surprise making him go through so many emotions at the same time before he hugged draupadi out of extreme happiness, fortunately there were not much elders accept Mata Gandhari and Rajmata with no man near, hence it was only ladies (Subhadra, Dushala and Bhanumati) with two elder royal women.

After a small moment of embarrassment, Mata Gandhari asked draupadi about if she wants to tell everyone but she denied saying Mata Gandhari should tell it which the elder royal woman agreed but tomorrow as she would like the soon-to-be-Parents couple to take blessings from Mahadev first.

Tomorrow would be a huge day as tomorrow the news of first Grand son/daughter of Hastinapur will be told to evryone. A huge jovial ocassion will be held tomorrow when every single person of Hastinapur will celebrate about this news.

With these past events and amount of thoughts, bhanumati went inside their room to find it empty, before she went to lay down on the bed properly, lesson from earlier incident before she wrap the blanket around her, just above her waist.

She laid there thinking about her own future here as she go through the past events of her life from the time she came here. It is definitely not as she thought, means it is too good to even imagine, like a fantasy fairytale but here it came out to be reality-

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The door being closed from inside echoed in the pin drop silent room, taking the Maharani of Hastinapur out of her thoughts to find it is her husband who is coming to sleep.

She watches coming out of the bath place after washing his face as he went towards his side of bed before laying down and covering himself with the blanket.

His back is facing her but she knows that he can feel her stare, afterall he is a warrior but it he always act normally as if he doesn't know about the stares on himself.

Today they didn't get to eat with each other as the ladies celebrated this good news together while he men celebrated in their own way and that's the couldn't get time to spend with each other. It might seem like he is ignoring her but it is not and she knows it, he does not ignores her but he does not come to her always too, he stays out of her comfort line and in his comfort limit, he is giving time for both of them.

Sometimes it makes her wonder if their future would be like Vikarna and draupadi or would it be like the scenario she thought before getting married? Would she be able to live a life everyone wanted her to? Might she be happy right now, but would it be same in future too? There are many questions to think and answer, maybe she should stop thinking much about this and should go with the flow, just so her heart would be at peace, even if it would like to herself.

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