NOW THAT I FULFILLED ALL PROMISES I MADE TO YOU, PRINCESS,I'LL PUNISH YOU!

Chapter 3

Six months, two weeks and three days back:

Swara gives a glass of paani to Ragini and helps her drinking as her hands were shaking from anxiety, she puts the cup on table and sits on the ground face to her pressing her hands in hers and assures her:

"- Ragini, don't worry... nothing bad happened to him, I'm sure. Sanskar will bring him home".

Swara's voice was shaking remembering how much her husband was angry with her, she shivers recalling his menace in phone. She was angry with him too... but let's find Lakshey first, then everything will be ok.

Getting up she lost her balance almost fainting, she's supported by bade maa's hand to not fall. Taking a deep breath, she closes her eyes a hand on her belly as she feels unwell. But she composes herself quickly reassuring them with a smile. Ragini frowns wondering:

"- Swara?... are you ok?"

"- ha ha, of course, I'm just... it was a day full of emotions"

Durga Prasad setting on his chair exchanges an eye lock with his wife, she agrees silently and asks Swara:

"- betha... go to your room to fresh up and change your clothes, you seem exhausted"

"- nahi bade ma, I'm really fine"

Ragini scolds her wiping her eyes:

"- please Swara... don't give me more reasons to worry, please... or... or... I'll call maa!"

"- NAHI!..." she remembers what Sanskar told her about her baba and what happened at baadi.

"- I mean... ok... I'm going up"

She hugs Ragini tightly hiding her own tears, looks to her badi maa begging her to take care of her sister then goes up to the room she didn't enter since long weeks now.

Everything was at its place. Smiling at the perspective of the coming days , she passes to the bathroom.

Few minutes later, she returns back to her room feeling better as she finally succeeded washing all the sindoor which was covering her face. She wonders for a moment if it was good or not, all she knows is that what did Adarsh today was wrong and she was happy that nothing happened to Sanskar after the bad omen he predicted to her.

As she takes a saree from the closet, she frowns thinking about Laksh missing... Ragini wasn't touched by sindour so much but then...

She slaps herself saying that she should take a break from her "jasous" outfits... Sanskar was right, Laksh has always done that, if he's upset, he will take his time before returning back home.

She looks at herself in the mirror, with a simple fair blue saree, she was really pale as everybody noticed, but then it's surely something normal in her case.

She puts her hands on her yet flat belly remembering days ago when the doctor confirmed her analysis results, she was pregnant at the second month already.

Her doctor smiled at her blushing face as she was wondering if it was at Maheshwari Mansion or in baadi... but her stupid smile faded when she thinks about her sister's reaction, she remembers the shradh rites.

However, returning home, happiness wins over anything else. After a so long bad time, finally that tiny small life growing inside her will give them a reason to smile... to hope that tomorrow is always better.