Eternity seems has passed for Sanskar before that a beautiful smile stretches his lips wide at the smell of her fragrance announcing her come back… he was standing at the lake’s border seeing in the moon’s face’s refection, Swara’s face… her smiles, her mimics and antics… her manner to smile, to pout to eat her mouth wide opened… tonight he feels seeing that Swara again… happy, carefree and playful… he sees the reflect of a falling star and looks up to the sky, behind him at some steps, she closes her eyes making a wish… a prayer that she’ll always see him like tonight… happy, carefree and playful too!
Not feeling her approaching more, he looks back to her and time seems has stopped all of sudden… she has changed, bartering her blue modern short blue dress with a black veiled sari over a small fine strapped black top and underskirt heavily embroidered with silver pearls matching the handwork decorating her sari’s endings… her hair gathered aside discovering more of her milky skin which is glowering under the surrounding lights and the moon’s rays… she looks so… unreal! Like a vision he’s just having as she starts walking toward him her smile illuminating her perfect round face where the black pearls shaped in her huge almond eyes are looking to him in that manner which makes all the world around him melt away…
Mesmerized by her beauty he’s unable to even focus on what her hands where carrying on a plate… a dancing flame in front of her face was like hypnotizing him as it was playing shades of lights and shadows over her face and when she stands in front of him… he hears a kind of clock… one… two… three… four… five… six… seven… eight… nine… ten… eleven… twelve… it’s midnight!
“- Happy birthday… Sanskar!”
He blinks still focusing on her eyes making her smile, then frowning he slowly lower his gaze to discover a very small heart shaped chocolate cake in her hands, a single candle in the middle and it’s only when her melodious starts singing to him a “happy birthday to you…” that he finally realizes!
He looks up to her his eyes shining with tears as he feels overwhelmed… it’s not like if he never celebrated his birthday or it’s the first time she’s wishing him… but it has never been like that… never in his wild dreams he was thinking about it and when he usually complain about the family party giver for the occasion, he’s stunned that Swara has planned this surprise to him all alone… in their stormed life, she’s taking time to think about it and prepare it when she should be… her asking voice, snatches him from his torpor:
“- challo… make a wish…”
He looks down to the flame then again to her joyful smiling face, anything to see her like this for the eternity… closing his eyes, he takes a deep breath then blows out slowly extinguishing the candle making her giggle in happiness.
She keeps the plate with a hand, the other taking off the candle and holding the sweet in her fingers, she approaches it from his lips smiling but he makes her taste first smiling at her rolling eyes before she stuffs the remaining piece in his mouth before marking his nose with some chocolate laughing heartedly… she screams in horror seeing his menacing whole stained hand approaching her face and starts running from him… he runs after her along the lake border laughing at her childish antics showing him her tongue nagging that he’ll not be able to catch her!
He grips her wrist when they reach a more isolated place surrounded by trees where only the moon’s rays were lightening around… she tries to escape again but he twists it abruptly making her turn back and crash over his chest breathing heavily their hearts pounding at the same rhythm… she wants to escape again but doesn’t allow her to move away… holding her chin he makes her look aside to the lake where a couple of swans are meeting over the moon’s reflect on the water’s face, she smiles seeing them approaching tentatively each other, her arms wraps instinctively around his waist nestling herself more in his warm embrace as he folds her on his arms, the beautiful love birds dances around a bit before forming a perfect heart entwining their long necks… she smiles wider not knowing why tears has escaped her shining with pure happiness eyes… how she wished this moment of peace never ends, he holds her chin egain between his fingers making her look up to him, wiping with his thumb her pearling tears away, he brushes it over her lips soothingly whispering:
“- your lips are always different whenever you cry…”
His concerned yet voice makes tears beam again at her eyes feeling her heart inflated more by the love his eyes were showering her with… he leans toward her slowly not breaking their eye contact, his rough lips brush against hers briefly in their way to their corner where he prints a swift kiss… stroking her jaw slowly with his thumb, he takes her upper lip in an open mouthed deep kiss making her closes her eyes tightening her grip on his shirt in his back, he repeats the gesture on her lower lip sucking it avidly making her moan in pleasure her heart beats racing more as she gapes loudly giving him access to her mouth sealing their lips as their tongues melt in each other’s embrace until their lungs claims for air parting them away… she gulps an amount of needed oxygen looking down her cheeks turning the deepest shade of red making him smile tenderly to her.
She hugs him back hiding herself in his chest breathing his heavenly sweet fragrance letting every spot of her being impregnated by him and feels his arms tighten their hold around her…
“- what have you wished?”
Her innocent question makes him smile taking a heavy breath like in need of more oxygen… she repeats as he remains silent:
“- tell m, please… what have you wished?”
He caresses her hair saying simply:
“- you”
Giggling, she shakes her head in disbelieve saying;
“- just that? I’m already all yours, Mr. Maheshwari!”
She feels his hug loosen a bit around her, his muscles stiffen imperceptibly and his pounding heart beat accelerate… intrigued she parts away looking up to him and asks:
“- kya?”
He smiles shaking his head reassuringly:
“- kuch nahi…”
She frowns asking again:
“- nahi Sanskar… tell me…”
He looks away sighing, then back to her about assuring her that there was absolutely nothing, but she pleads :
“- please?”
Making a step back, he looks for a moment in her questioning eyes before finally replying:
“- it’s just that… it’… it’s so… un-true”
She frowns more not understanding him, he explains:
“- I mean… you’re not ALL mine, princess… it’s not an accusation or a bad thing… just… just that it’s not true… you’re my family’s daughter in law taking care of everyone even risking your life for my bade papa or my younger sister…”
She looks down, not wanting to talk about those things because they’ll finish by fighting… he’s unable to accept that it’s her duty and she’s unable to just keep quite like he wants whenever they need her. He adds looking to the lake were the two swan where moving away…
“- you’re your parents daughter and elder sister for Ragini and Ayush taking care of them even going to extent of harming yourself… again… and again… and again…”
She swallows her tears, his voice had turned so sad suddenly and it chokes her to feel his so affected by her wellbeing… turning toward her, he comes closer caressing the mark of injury on her wrist under her bangels and says:
“- sometimes… no… many times… I wish I could put you inside a high perched fortress without widows or gates so I can protect you from the whole world out…”
She bends her head aside searching his eyes with hers and says on a light tone:
“- you would turn your princess to a slave in your fortress?”
He smiles faintly looking finally in her eyes:
“- kyu nahi? At least I would have the right of life and death over you, princess…”
Her eyes moist at his last words understanding what he’s talking about and before she could say anything it suddenly starts raining surprising them…
They reach a hidden between rosebushes pergola running to not be caught by the rain and finish laying on the cozy bench inside it laughing like teenagers… they both sober at the moment they eyes lock feeling plunged in the conversation they just had, Sanskar tries to say something but Swara leans over him surprisingly a finger over his lips to stop him… she covers his eyes with her hand making him ask worriedly:
“- princess?”
Leaning further pressing his chest with her weight as she whispers in his ear sensually:
“- princess nahi… not tonight… tonight you’re just my prince and I’m the slave you own Mr.Maheshwari… ask all you wants your highness… you’ll be fulfilled ”
Suddenly he doesn’t feel her hands anymore until he feel her put some fabric in his hand and leaning back confusing him… hearing some music notes probably coming from her phone…
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Navatunni aali apsara
Navatunni aali apsara
Aashi sundara saaj sazpunna
Aali aali aali
Aali ho aali..
Jaisa maathi maanla gajra
Dokyecha nazra theel tichyauvar
Aali aali..
Duniya chi pyari tu
Aaga naari harnigey
Aaga raani sundaraa ha ha..
Aali ho aali
Aali ho aali
Aali o aali..
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he opens his eyes to find her standing just in front of him… as music starts, she twirls away fri him unwrapping her sari which extent was hold in his hand… their she was in the middle of this fairy place in barely covered with that tiny small top and her transparent underskirt starting to dance in rhythm with the beautiful yet aching song talking about a woman’s devoting love…
****
Nazar jo teri laagi main deewani ho gayi
Deewani haan deewani, deewani ho gayi
Mash’hoor mere ishq ki kahaani ho gayi
Jo jag ne na maani toh maine bhi thaani
Kahaan thi main dekho kahaan chali aayi..
Kehte hain ye deewani mastani ho gayi
When you saw me I fell in love
Fell in love yes, I fell in love
The story of my ishq got famous
What the world didn’t admit so I’ve also decided
Where was I and where did I reach
They say this crazy girl got dear
Mash’hoor mere ishq ki ye kahani ho gayi
Jo jag ne na maani toh maine bhi thaani
Kahaan thi main dekho kahaan chali aayi..
Kehte hain ye deewani mastani ho gayi
Deewani haan deewani, deewani ho gayi
This story of my love got famous
What the world didn’t admit so I’ve also decided
Where was I and where did I reach
They say this crazy girl got dear
They say this crazy girl got dear
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Her swift movements executing a sensual dance in an attire he would never imagined her in makes him lost in the burning desire she blazes inside him closing his fists tightly stopping himself from just taking her right now every time she approaches him tempting… playing on his feelings and nerves to just twirling away again…
*****
Zakham aisa tune lagaya
Deewani, deewani, deewani, deewani ho gayi
Marham aisa tune lagaya
Ruhaani, ruhaani, ruhaani, ruhaani ho gayi
Pehchaan mere ishq ki ab toh
Pehchaan mere ishq ki ab toh
Rawaani, rawaani, rawaani, rawaani ho gayi
You hurt me in a way that
I fell, fell, fell, fell in love
You did salve me in a way that
I got spiritual, spiritual, spiritual
At least now try to identify my love
At least now try to identify my love
I got flow of waves
Ho.. mash’hoor mere ishq ki kahani ho gayi
Kehte hai yeh deewani, mastani ho gayi
Haan deewani, haan deewani, deewani ho gayi
Mash’hoor mere ishq ki kahani ho gayi
Jo jag ne na maani toh maine bhi thaani
Kahaan thi main dekho kahaan chali aayi
This story of my love got famous
They say this crazy girl got dear
Yes I fell, yes I fell, yes I fell in love
This story of my love got famous
What the world didn’t admit so I’ve also decided
Where was I and where did I reach
Kehte hain ye deewani, mastani ho gayi
Deewani haan deewani, deewani ho gayi
They say this crazy girl got dear
Yes I fell, I fell in love
Sab noor noor sa bikhra hai
Ek tu hi khayalon mein utra hai
Bas jhoom jhoom jhoom jhoom jaata hai dil
Tu mastani hai..
Tu deewani hai..
Paakeza hasti hain teri tu noorani hai..
Everything is spread out like light
Only you I dream about
This heart just begins to dance
You are so dear
You are so dear
Paakeza laughs you’re your noorani
(Noorani – a derivative of Arabic noor ‘light’.)
Sab noor noor sa bikhra hai
Ek tu hi khayaalon mein utra hai
Everything is spread like light
Only you I dream about
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On the last chanted lyrics, she keeps spinning madly until falling at his feet making him gets with a jerk worried…
She just pants heavily catching her breath back still in that position, seeing his feet approaching her she sits back on her heels keeping her head low and gulps hardly before saying :
“- tonight I owe you everything and nothing else exists… asks me whatever you want and I swear on our love that I’ll fulfill it… it’s my birthday present for you!”
She was sincere… at this instant all what she wants is to see him happy again… insouciant and his innocent cute smile lightening his sad face. So she’s able of this, of being just the object of what he wants willingly giving him control over her all being…
She’s startled feeling his hands holding her shoulders forcing her to stand up and she does as he wants, acting like a puppet under his finger which reach her chin making her facing him up, caressing her cheek with the back of them spreading goose bumps all over her skin… his stern voice commands:
“- look at me…”
She does as asked again without a word, her eyes barely crossing his heated gaze over her because somehow she feels heated too… be it because of the dance or his touch… by the desire emanating from him in waves wrapping her… but she’s unable to sustain his darkened and dilated pupils’ eyes… her breath becoming shallower at every instant he’s waiting for her eyes to look straightly in his… he asks again holding her chin up:
“- don’t ever hide your desire from me… I owe it too… so look up to me”
When she finally does, she bits on her lower lip to overcome the urgent need she has to just turn away escaping him… pulling on her still hold chin, he frees her lip from her teeth’s grip smiling… he turns around her undoing the first button of her top before drawing the edge’s line if it with his finger’s tip back in front of her… pulling over the heavy necklace she has, he makes it fall to the ground in a heavy sound startling her, she shivers as he turns around her again caressing his way the second button undoing it before retuning aside caressing her arm down until the colored bagels he breaks one after the other careful to not harm her and enjoying to see her apprehend his next move as there was just one button maintaining her loosened straps’ top but he goes to her other side breaking her other bangels silently… his boths hands caress their way up her arms to her shoulders where he slides the straps down feeling her stiffen under his touch… one hand over her flat spread over her belly holding her back tightly in his embrace so she could feel his desire to her, her cheeks burns blushing as he puts her hair on one shoulder aside taking off her earring, he does the same with the other leaning over her to whistle in her ear huskily:
“- I own this fire burning inside you too…”
Nuzzling her neck deeply, she grips her skirt tightly in need of something to hold on, he caresses its way down to her bare shoulder where he prints a swift kiss enjoying the uncontrolled moan escaping her throat, her legs weakens when he undoes the last buttons daring her natural defenses to stop him from exposing her just like this as she always does… but she says nothing keeping her promise and is relived that he cups her in his arm to make her lay on the fabric of her sari upholstering the fresh natural grass… he takes off his shirt slowly smirking at her staring to his discovered chest then turns away ashamed that he caught her, but he makes her look back to him again saying:
“- did I give you permission to look away?”
She nods in no making him smile wilder as he sees her struggles with her shy nature thinking he’s about to take off the odd material separating him from her skin he’s craving of, but he leans over her face, kissing her eyes one after the other, her nose, under her ear, her neck down to her throat, then back on her jaw up to her lips he claims fiercely enjoying her hungry reply to him and just when he feels her lost in the myriad of sensations their kiss was procuring her, he takes her top off bringing her arms up her head leaning more on her teasing and taunting her own desire to him… she wanted to play as his slave but she doesn’t know that allowing him all commands on herself… she’ll discover that commanding can be about submissing too… and soon… the passion consuming them wrap them away plunging them in world of pleasure and untied love… a world without worry or uncertain future… the future they’re unable to see yet clearly…
*-*-*-* END OF FLASHBACK *-*-*-*
That night’s events were grave in their memories because Swara finished by put down the veil of shyness and her lioness’ nature made her prince discover a side he never imagined in her… a simple glimpse to her blushing cheeks, he knows that she’s recalling it because of his “owner” rights he claimed at the beginning of their dance… he ends their song singing:
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Meri subah ho tumhi
Only you are my morning
Aur tumhi shaam ho
And only you are evening
Tum dard ho, tum hi aaraam ho
You are pain and only you are rest
Meri duaaon se aati hai bas ye sadaa
I always worship that
Meri hoke hamesha hi rehna
Be mine always
Kabhi na kehna alvida
Never say good bye
Aa… alvida..
Aa… good bye
O… na na..
O.. na na
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The music lets place to the standing ovation of all the present persons around them as he puts her down back still sustaining her a protective arm around her waist… she puts her hand over his as she feels him touch her belly again, caress their baby again… she looks to him with sparkle shining in her eyes but turns away feeling him about to tell some other shamelessness in front if everyone…
Her eyes spot something behind one of the pillars, she frowns trying to see clearer and suddenly the vision she has makes her heart skip a beat fearfully… Sanskar feels her sudden change immediately looking down to her and is alarmed at her pale face and scared gaze…
“- Princess!?”
She takes a deep breath trying to say something but dizziness overwhelms her suddenly and just before she falls unconscious, Sanskar’s strong arms cups her in their hold making his way up to their room… he’s welcomed by the medical assistant who has already prepared all the medical needed stuff, he asks her while lying her on the bed:
“- Chanu… call the doctor Sharma…”
“- yes sir!”
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Outside Maheshwari Mansion… Uttara is pushing Shiraz away shouting:
“- I told you, not today!!! What if someone has seen us?… it’s baihya and babhi’s day please try to understand”
“- no Uttara, you try to understand… we don’t have time… I have to go to London at the end of the week… believe me, if you don’t marry me until then, you’ll never see me again!”