A Beautiful Distraction (RagSan FANFICTION)

Prologue

RagSan Short Story: A beautiful Distraction.
Prologue

Laksh was sitting on his bed, holding a photo frame in his hand, weeping silently, “Ragini. I love you. I truly love you Ragini”, he said emotionally, while his eyes welled up in tears. He heard someone calling him far from his room, keeping the photo quickly in the safe place. He stood wiping his tears and tried to smile fake. Anyways it is his brother’s marriage, he is not going to spoil it not because of his love.
While stood before his room, a little more state worse than Laksh was. On one side, he loved another girl and gonna to marry another. There is no way for Sanskar Maheswari to select his love. He stood helplessly as the groom, he have enough gallantry to speak his mind, but if he did. Then it would spoil his family reputation, moreover the girl he is going to marry.
He fell in love with Swara, but he was engaged to Ragini, her elder sister. He took his cell phone, and saw her photo he had hidden in his gallery for the last moment before he was called to mandap, when he will see her directly, she would be not his love but her brother’s love and would his wife sister. He banged his hand in the table in annoyance. It was his fault to fall in wrong girl. So it his punishment to take what the life offers.
“Sanskar”, he heard her mother calling him.
“Haan. Mumma”, he said blinking away the tears forming in his eyes, and deleting her picture from his phone, trying to delete her in his heart.
“Yes. Mom” he opened the door, smilingly masking his face.
“You’re looking handsome Sanskar”, his mother complimented him looking him from head to toe. “But less than the bride”, he heard another voice, his own mother Sujatha tell him, while approached to his room door.
“That’s not fair”, he said pouting.

“Swara”, Sharmistha called her younger daughter.
“Ji maa.” She responsed, while putting the bindi on her sister head.
Sharmistha who entered the room, saw her elder daughter as bride, see smiled seeing at her in bridal attire. “Bohath khoobsurat lagriyo ap beti(You’re looking more beautiful my daughter)”, she said taking her eye kajal and putting that beside her ear.
“That is because of my sister mom”, swara said praising herself, and lifting her imaginary collars. Even swara is not looking lesser than her.
Sharmistha hit her daughter’s arm and asked ragini to come out as the time came. She lifted her lehenga and walked to the car while her heart pounded fast than it would. She was looking forward for this day since her engagement. She smiled irresistible to see her husband