SAANVI P O V :

After 15h 20m we reach Jaipur station, I still can't believe it.That we have come in Maharaj Express train.At first I had a heart attack wondering why we had come in such an expensive train?Because the last time I checked my bank balance, it was Rs 17000 and if I had booked this train with that amount, I would have spent all my money and why is there a need to waste so much money?We could have come by sleeper train or by bus.Why have we come here?I was thinking all this when grandmother calls me from behind and I come out of my thoughts.

I look back at grandma, she comes towards me with a smile on her face.Thank God she is smiling, otherwise I have been seeing her in tension since yesterday.She comes and stands in front of me and says "Come on, they have come"

Who has come? And why are we here?

Without saying anything, I start following grandma, we come outside the station.some people from the royal family have come, now it is obvious that they would not have come to pick us up But why is grandma looking at those people? Now don't say that you have to go with them only.

Two boys get down from the car and come towards us, both of them must be twenty years old.they comes and stands in front of us, touches grandmother's feet and then says "khamma ghani

Baisa,Khamma ghani dadi sa"

"Khamma ghani" I said, folding my hands with a sweet smile.

Then the one standing on the left looks at grandmother and says "humhe dadi sa ne bheja hai aur unhone kaha hai ki aap pehle palace aayengey ya pehle ghar jaenge"

"I will go home first and then come to the palace tomorrow" Dadi said

Did I hear correctly that they said Palace?

The king and the queen all live in the palace, so why would we all go there?

ayy bhai mujhe toh chakkar aa jaayenge

Dadi and Naksh sit in one car and Tanmay and me sit in the other.Yes, I just got to know the names of both from tanmay both are sweet kids

Then he told me about his family, his siblings and cousins and I also came to know that his brother also studies in the same school where I am going to teach.After some time we reach home and they bids us goodbye and goes away.

Grandma opens the door of the house and we go inside. There are photos of my parents, my grandmother and other photos on the sides But there is not a single photo of mine here

that's strange

When I was twelve years old, my parents died in an accident and I was also in that car due to which all the memories of my twelve years were erased

Because due to the accident, I had suffered a severe head injury and during the surgery, all my memories were erased and after that I only know my grandmother.

Since I haven't seen a single photo of myself here, I ask my grandmother "dadi yaha meri photo kyu nhi hai" {Grandma why isn't my photo here?}

"W-w-woh btaya tha na beta ki yaha se mumbai shift hote huye album kho gyi thi" She says nervously and continues "esliye nhi hai beta"

{beta I told you that album was lost while shifting from here to Mumbai}

I ask this question every time and grandmother gives me the same answer every time, but still my heart does not believe that grandmother is telling the truth But why would she lie to me?

Leaving all these things aside, I start cleaning the house, send grandma to her room and then go to the kitchen to see what we have.

I make a grocery list and call Naksh to ask where the shop is.When they came to drop us here, both of them gived me their numbers so that if I have any need or work, I can call them after a few rings my call picks up and the person in front says hello but this voice is not the naksh.

This is a girl's voice, she speaks again and I say hello and ask is naksh there, so she speaks "we are busy in something call him later" and hung up the call.

I understood what work he was busy with.

Ye bacche

I call Tanmay but someone else picks up his phone but it is not a girl, it is a boy. I say hello, he says hello, then I ask if tanmay is there, then he says "Tanmay Bhaisa has gone out with Naksh Bhaisa"

"Ohh..okkay" I said and was about to hung up the call when he spoke from the front "You can tell me if you have any important work"

I thought I would ask him if he knows where the shops are. I told him that I wanted to buy groceries but I didn't know where to buy it, then he told me all the shops and after thanking him i hung up the call.

I wore a loose green kurti, white palazzo, earrings and a bindi on my forehead.I picked up the bag and came to the place told by him and after purchasing all the things i wanted.I had just left the shop with all the goods, but I collided with a pillar.

I look at that pillar and I have never seen such a beautiful pillar till date, I mean by Man

Really Saanvi, you called a six feet two inches tall man beautiful?

Beautiful??

he is beautiful, just look at his eyes, they are so good, I have never liked hazel eyes as much as I do today. he's looking like a greek god He is wearing a white shirt, black pants and a black coat, it has to be said that he is looking handsome in this colour. From his clothes my eyes again go towards his eyes which have been looking at me for a long time. He doesn't say anything, just keeps looking at me, but his gaze is not making me feel uncomfortable.

Someone honks the horn from behind, he start looking here and there and I bend down and start picking up my stuff. He also bends down and starts picking up the things.While picking up the things, my hand touches his hand and we both look at each other at the same time.

Haayeee yeah to filmy scene ho gyaa

Stop it saanvi

he immediately starts looking the other way

He is feeling more shy than me

We both stand up and he gives me all my stuff. I would have said thanks but he didn't say sorry for bumping into me.

"He didn't bump into you, you bumped into him" my subconscious mind said

both are the same thing

I was about to leave when he called me from behind "suniye"

ABHIRAJ POV:

After breakfast, I was going to office when I got a call from Laksh.(According to him he's my bestfriend) I picked up his call and said hello and he started complaining from the front "I agree brother, you are a king but it does not mean that you will stop meeting me"

"Are you done?" I don't know what obsession he has with me, I have known him since childhood and he does so much drama since childhood

"ok come i'm waiting for you" He said and I hung up the call I sit in the car and ask the driver to take me to the office.

After some time I reach office and go straight to my cabin and as soon as Laksh sees me He gets up from the couch and walks over to me and hugs me. Did I mention I don't like hugs? but my brothers and he never understand this. I move him away from me and he looks at me as if I don't know what I have done.I go and sit on my chair and he sits on the sofa again.I look at him and ask "where you coming from?"

"College" He said and continued "Naksh and Tanmay did not come today"

"Yes, that grandmother's friend and her granddaughter have come, so they went to pick them up" I also came to know about all this in the morning

"everyone is coming" He said

I look at his face and ask "when they are coming?"

"Next week but anya is coming after two days" He says this with a smile but by looking at his face I can tell how much pain is behind this smile.

"are you missing her?" I asked

"yes" He said and continued "I miss her giggle, I used to tease her and she used to cry, I miss that, she also used to share everything with me like anya, I miss that, I miss my laasya, I miss everything about her" While he was saying all this my attention was on his face and while saying all this he had tears in his eyes.

I remember a few things that I spent with her, but I don't remember her face clearly. The last time I saw her was when I was ten years old and she was eight that time.

I immediately get up from my chair and sit near him on the sofa and hug him and he hug me back and said "you hate hug raj"

" I do but not for my family and you are my family" I don't like hugs but if someone close to me needs it badly then I will do that too and he needs it

After this we both talk for a bit and then we both go for our respective meetings.

After my meeting is over, I leave the restaurant and am about to sit in the car when I get a call from my mother.She asks me where am I.

I tell her my location Then she asks me to bring flowers for the Mandir ghar.

"badi maa woh maharaj hai aur aap unhe phul lene bhej rhi hai" {Badi Maa he's the King and you are sending him to pick flowers} naksh says

"hongey raja lakin ussey pehle woh humare bete hai" {He be a king but before that he is my son} maa says and a smile automatically appears on my face.

"Maa hum le aayenge" I said and she hung up the call

I ask the driver where the flower shop is, he tells me to go ahead, so I ask him and the guards to stop there and as I am about to go to the shop, I bump into

someone whatever is in her hand falls, Why do these people walk on the road when they can't walk? I look at her face

No way

what she's doing here??

Anklet girl

I get so lost in looking at her face that I forget everything else. She is so beautiful, I have never looked at any girl till now but I can't take my eyes off her.Those dark brown eyes of hers are killing me the way it's looking into me

Then the horn blows and we both start looking here and there, then she bends down and starts picking up her stuff, I also bend down to help her and start picking up the stuff.

While picking up the things, her hand touches mine and we both look at each other at the same time and then i turn my eyes to the other side.

Because if I had not done it, I would have definitely turned red.

She stands up, I hand her all her stuff and as she starts to leave, I call her from behind "suniye"

She looks back and says"Kahiye"

"You have a lot of stuff in your hand, if you feel comfortable, I can help you" I said to her She thinks for a while and then says yes, I take half the stuff from her and then start walking with her

We walk in silence for a while and then she speaks "Do you live here?"

"Jii" I said and continued "You are probably new here"

"how do you know?" she says smiling at me

Her smile

"after seeing your stuff" Pointing to her stuff I said

"aap toh bohot smart hai" She says while hitting my biceps

Did she hit me?

par maarti bhi kitne pyar se hai

After a while she stops near a house, perhaps it is her house and she takes all the stuff from me and says "Thank you for helping me, that is a different thing, you did not say sorry for bumping with me"

Ohh, madam wants me to say sorry.

"humhe maaf ker dijiye aapse takkrane ke liye" I tell her, she looks at me confused for a while As if she doesn't know what I have said and then she asks "Hum?? Aapke saath koi aur bhi aaya hai kyaa??" she starts looking behind me

{forgive me for bumping on you}

{Hum?? Has anyone else come with you??}

"nahi hamare piche koi nhi hai jaise aap aapne liye mein ka use krti hai" I said and continued "waise hum apne liye hum ka use krte hai"

{no there is no one behind me}

{Just like you use 'I' for you, I use 'we' for myself}

"Okkieeee" she says shaking her head

We both say bye to each other and she goes inside the house and I keep watching her going in from outside.I also leave from there and sit in the car after buying flowers.

"I didn't even ask her name" I murmured to myself and continued "I hope we meet again"I look out the window at the sky

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