Enchanted Pursual (Complete)

Chapter 25

Shakti and I had met on a chance encounter, I used to love going on camps, and she had just stumbled upon one, while escaping something along with Rey.

In our wee Days when we had met, I had hated him, Shakti wouldn’t even talk to him, they had their own reasons and differences, but I had seen it, the way he cared for Shakti was what Naveen had always done for me.

Hence when one night, I had asked Shakti to give him a chance, I had never known that she would run off from there.

At that time Rey had said to me, “certain things are best to be let the way they are, if you dig in more they tend to hurt you… and I did just that.”
I was just 14, almost to be 15, but Rey, he was like my brother an 18 year old trying to find his sister in the darkness of the unknown jungles at the border of Karnataka and Maharashtra.

That night had given me two set of great friends, a brother had got his sister back, but I never got to know the truth behind their story.
Why did they run off from their place? Why was it that Shakti despised her own brother? What could have possibly gone wrong all the years back?

Their parents were a forbidden subject; their family was a forbidden subject. Everything related to Shakti was a forbidden subject.

And then all of a sudden I get to know, once again the two of them have gone missing, about a month or two later I get to know they are in their home town, the two of them belonged to a royal family and now have lost their dad, according to yet another prince, to a royal political accident.

I never knew I might as well have a dramatic life.

“You okay?” Jai asked as he sat back in his chair. We were seated in his office; a week had surely passed by after that one hell of an evening.

It made me realize how one bad news had an upper hand over countless good news.

“I am. I just wish I could have been able to go and be with Shakti right now.” I folded my hands on the table and then rested my chin on them, my eyes still on Jai as he looked over the files and began packing.

“It won’t be good right now; the officials won’t allow the outsider, these royal decrees, rules and regulations are quite strict.” Jai explained for the thousand times.  His experience with Veer had made him so calm about this stuff, but this was new for me.

“I don’t understand if they are no longer in rule, why follow those stupid practices?”

The way Jai took a deep breath and gave me a small smile… his tired smile, I let out a breath of my own and said,

“I am sorry…”

“There was a time when Veer had to go through worse than this, none of us till date know what it was, we couldn’t break the walls of the palace, we couldn’t entre the security that surrounded him, and at that time I felt the weakest person. I had money, I ruled the markets but when it came to them… they were stronger than I was.”

My ears perked up with each word that he said, stories of their friendship were quite fascinating, and sometimes it made me wonder how did my mediocre brother fit into all these things?

“That time there were a few seconds that we had got to have a word with Veer and he had said that the stories that the world talked about being king and queen and the hardships they go through are all false, this is all a game of prestige, wealth and power. And the years that I have seen him, I do know they are true, over the years I have seen that in Veer.”

He then smiled at me and said, “When you will really meet Rajkumar Veer Pratap Singh you will know the difference yourself, but I only wish you would never meet him.”