Abhigya Stories Collection

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Hello everyone,

I am here with a new one shot... I hope you guys like it as I haven't really gotten back into full swing writing.

This story was originally written with Rikara.

"Pragya...." Sarala calls her as she walked into her room. Then stops in shock seeing Pragya removing her mehendi. "What are you doing?"

"Removing the mehendi." Pragya replies to her confused as she continued to scrub her hand. "Function is over."

"You are not supposed to remove it."

"Why not? I've work."

"Pragya, you were supposed to sleep with it. Don't you want your mehendi to be dark for your wedding?"

"Whatever for?" Pragya asks confused. "What does this have to do with my married life?"

"The darker the mehendi that much your husband would love you."

Pragya turns to her mother in exasperation and asks, "So you mean to say that my husband's love for me would be proportional to my skin cell and lawsone from the mehendi?"

"What?" Sarala asks confused. "Can you stop doing that?" Sarala asks her as she grabbed Pragya's hand to stop her from scrubbing.

"Ma, please... I have important work. The next two days I won't be able to work on my paper. It is very important."

"More important than your marriage?"

"Marriage is happening, Ma. It has nothing to do with my mehendi. But working on my paper, I can't do it with my hands full of mehendi."

"Can you stop that?"

"Rudra has too many relatives. He told me his house would be full of guests. So, I won't be able to work on my paper. You know, every minute is precious."

"Oh, that reminds me, Abhishek is here to see you."

"Abhishek?" Pragya asks confused. "Why does he want to see me? that too this late?"

"He said Rudra sent you something."

"Really?" Pragya asks confused.

"Please don't let him know that you took off the mehendi." Sarala tells her as Pragya walked out.

"They are not going to call off the wedding because of this." Pragya tells her mother as she ran down the stairs.

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"Erm... Hi." Pragya says as she walked into the living room.

Seeing her, Abhishek quickly stands up. "Hi."

Pragya smiles at him as she conversationally asked, "How did you get out of the house?"

"What?" Abhishek asks confused at the strange question.

"I wanted to go to my university, but Ma wouldn't let me step out, saying that it is inauspicious for the bride or groom to go out the day before the wedding." Tomorrow along with Rudra and her, Abhishek was also getting married.

"Oh." Abhishek muses then he looks around to see if they were alone. "Rudra is here."

"Where?" Pragya asks curiously as she looked around.

"Your parents wouldn't let you guys meet the night before the wedding as it is inauspicious." Abhishek tells her.

Pragya chuckles hearing that, "Such madness. So, where is he?"

"Outside. Can you come out?"

Pragya looks around for her parents, and after making sure they were not around, she quickly tells him, "Come."