Rishabala OS : Canvas & Notepad

Canvas & Notepad

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.

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

"Removing the mehendi." Madhu 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."

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

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

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

Madhu 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?" Padmini asks confused. "Can you stop doing that?" Padmini asks her as she grabbed Madhu'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, Rishabh is here to see you."

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

"He said Rudra sent you something."

"Really?" Madhu asks confused.

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

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

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

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

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

"What?" Rishabh 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, Rishabh was also getting married.

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

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

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

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

"Outside. Can you come out?"

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