𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦

"Bhai, are you hiding something from us?" Vijay questioned Adarsh while Vikram, and Aarav eyed Adarsh with the same question.

Silence pierced every corner of the room.

Adarsh is typing something on his phone like no one has asked anything.

"Bhai, Vijay bhai asked you something." Aarav reiterated to Adarsh who is still ignoring them.

After a few seconds, Adarsh turned off his phone, looked up at his brothers and answered "This is Dadda ji's wish."

"You know what we are referring to," Vikram interjected with an urgent voice, he wants to cancel the marriage of his brother as Adarsh is not heartfully agreed to it.

A knock on the door along with a soft voice filled the room. "Bhai"

All of them know who that voice belonged to.

"Keerthi?" Vijay said absent-mindedly.

Everyone in the room was shocked by her presence.

Keerthi was Chandrika and Yashwanth's daughter.

She was forcefully married to a billionaire by her mother. Keerthi portrays that her husband and she are having a healthy and romantic relationship but in reality, she is facing a tragic situation in her household.

Keerthi rushes to her big brother and hugs him very tightly.

She missed them so much. Everyday. Every second she thought of her brother's care and love.

Despite being their stepmother's daughter, Keerthi was always around her brothers playing, eating, and sleeping in their rooms in the middle of the night.

Keerthi is mostly with Adarsh and Aarav. Adarsh showed care while Aarav played with her most, as they used to be nearly similar ages.

Keerthi slowly loosens herself from the embrace and faces Adarsh.

Keerthi's eyes filled with tears.

It's been almost a year since she last was with them to be specific...Alone.

Whenever she was home her mother used to tie her around and keep her from meeting her brothers.

Keerthi being so close to her brothers was also a reason for Chandrika to hate them so badly.

It's like her bond added more fire to the burning pot.

"I'm sorry bade bhaiya." Keerti murmured while lowering her eyes with guilt.

"Never be," Adarsh said while lifting her chin slowly.

"The Grooms are being called by the priest." A servant called out from the entrance of the room and disappeared.

"Isn't this only bade bhaiya marriage? Why are you also being called Vikram bhaiya?" Keerthi asked with question marks and confused eyes.

"We have known about it, Bhai, so not only you, we too are with you in this together," Vijay answered Adarsh's fiery questionable eyes.

Adarsh knows about his brothers from their childhood so he thinks it's a waste of argument when they have agreed unanimously.

Also, the bomb has already been blasted so it's no use either searching for it or taking precautions.

With a sigh from Adarsh, they all left the room for the procedures, in fact, the rituals for the marriages.

Since the marriage was forceful, Adarsh maintained it in a mansion temple. Simple and Formal. According to Adarsh or his brother the marriage is just a force and an alliance that can be cut once everything is in their hands.

The priest asked to bring the brides and the four beautiful brides came into view of the small audience where the bride's parents and the groom's parents along with some other people, and friends were the only ones present.

As soon as the bride took their place beside their respective groom, the priest started to chant the manta's and gave the nuptial chains to each groom which needed to be tied around the bride's neck with three knots.

Chandrika observed the scene playing before her with a smile tugging on her face as if her dream of taking hold of the brothers was going to be successful soon.

The nuptial chain ritual was over and it was about time to apply the vermillion on the bride's parting line of hairs on their heads —

𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒉 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒀𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒏𝒂'𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔.

Yashna didn't dare to look at Adarsh and kept her eyes on the floor. Pain itched in Adarsh's heart as when he saw the cut on her forehead and bruise on the sides of her neck. Anger flares in Adarsh's veins as he once gets to know who's the person who laid a finger on his wife's body will vanish from the earth without any trace.

He too was new to this kind of feeling and he too isn't getting what's happening to him.

Why he was feeling something he couldn't quite name when seeing her.

What's she doing to him?

𝑽𝒊𝒌𝒓𝒂𝒎 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒗𝒊𝒌𝒂'𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔.

When Vikram saw the emotionless eyes of Avika his heart pringed.

Avika was lost in every way as her parents sold her to Rathore's family.

𝑽𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒂'𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆.

Despite being sold to her husband by her parents, Nainika was staring at Vijay the whole time as he bewitched her to glue her eyes on him.

Vijay too was mesmerised by her eyes as her eyes reminded him of a girl whom he met when he was 10.

Flashback

"Avika and Nainika pack some of your dresses, we need to go somewhere. Also, pack these two dresses too." Their mother shouted from the hall, making Avika and Nainika come out of the bedroom in hasten. They watched each other before Nainika asked her mother, "Maa, where are we going? And where did you get these from?"

"Shut up, don't talk back to me and get ready with your things. Be fast we don't have all day long." Their mother retorted at them, they flinched at her retort and went to their shared room. They packed only a few things thinking that they would return in a day or two again. Unknown to them they were going to be sold to a random household.

Avika, Nainika, their mother, and their father started from the village at night and reached Delhi by morning. Avika and Nainika entered a hall, they saw their parents talking to some lady who handed them a small bag.

Avika and Nainika's parents returned to their side with dull faces however Avika and Nainika caught the glimpse of the hidden happiness written all over their faces. Avika and Nainika peered at one another, "Change into the dresses which I said to pack. On top of that stay in this room unless someone summons you." The girl's mother ordered them for which the confusion only brewed more in them.

"Maa, kya ho raha hai? Yeh jagah kaunsi hai aur un shandaar kapdon mein kyu badalna hai?" Nainika implored her mother, and in response, her mother only glared at them to shut up and do what she said.

[Maa, what's happening? What's this place and why do we need to change into those grand dresses?]

After the girls changed into the attire, "Khush raho, hamari pyari betiyan." The girl's father spoke to them but the girls didn't understand what was going on. The girl's parents bid them goodbye by saying they would come in sometime Soon they vanished from the mansion leaving the girls in the bride's room.

[Be happy, our lovely daughters.]

Later on, a maid came, "The priest is asking for the bride's. Please come." When the maid declared Avika and Nainika got the whole picture and the realization hit them with fierce force that their parents sold them. They have given up their hopes of escape. Combined with their lost souls they attended their unforeseen wedding.

Flashback Ends

𝑨𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒗 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒖'𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔.

Indu's eyes welled with tears as her sister escaped from this marriage and she was forced into this to hold up the reputation of her family in society.

Aarav for the first time in his life was feeling his heart ache for a girl. He was a playboy but his heart never ached for a girl and that too he never expected this strange feeling would dwell in him for a complete stranger.

Flashback

Beginning with the news that Indu's sister was going to marry a person who her sister was obsessed with, Indu felt very happy for her sister. Indu thought that her sister would be happy after marriage albeit her assumptions were left crushed when her bedroom door swung open letting her parents in.

"Indu beta, humko pata hai yeh galat tha, par sirf tum hi humko madad kar sakti ho." Indu's father said while slowly sitting on the edge of her bed.

[Indu beta, we know this was wrong but only you can help us.]

"Kya hua Dad? Aapka matlab kya hai ki sirf mai hi madad kar sakti hu?" Indu asked with masks of confusion in her eyes. She ping-ponged her gaze between her father and mother who was very nervous, not to mention the trembling hands.

[What happened Dad? What do you mean by only I can help?]

"Samyuktha, your sister, she — she eloped." Unknown to her, tears rolled down her cheeks and hit the back of her hands, which were placed on her lap. The tears were warm like fire. Her sister is her half soul yet she eloped leaving her in the worst possible condition ever.

Indu grasped the hidden meaning of her father's words when he said only she could help. With some hesitation, she replied holding back the emotions which were running in her. "I will accept Dad. Don't worry I won't leave like my sister."

In the morning when she was standing in front of Aarav, Indu remembered things like how her sister used to admire him, talk about him non-stop, she used to describe his features.

When Indu met Aarav's eyes at the time of the vermilion ritual, her eyes gave up the urge to hold back the tears despite her fight the tears flowed down pricking her heart that the position belonged to her sister but not hers to be.

Flashback Ends

As the priest started to chant the mantras, the brothers' senses came to reality and they resumed their ritual of applying the vermilion on the parting of the bride's hair on their heads.

As the rituals were completed one by one Yashwanth's happiness was out of bound as if he achieved a medal for his perfect plan of execution.

After all the rituals have been completed, all the people who gathered for the marriages of the Rathore brothers have dispersed from the location only leaving behind the Rathore family along with the brides and bride's families.

Yashna was suddenly dragged by her brother Hriday to the back of the mansion, into the garden where a huge tree was blocking their view. Adarsh was taken aback by the sudden interruption of an unknown person dragging his wife to the side in front of all the families. The most hurtful and confusing thing to Adarsh was that Yashna didn't argue a bit even if she was dragged by force.

"Bhai... Bhabhi?" Vijay left the question open but all the brothers understood the incomplete meaning behind it. Avika, Nainika and Indu were standing aside observing the situation with a semi-conscious state as they were drowning deep in the worries and problems of their own.

As the discussion and silence were heating up among the Rathores, Nandini, Yashna's mother came over to the brothers and said in a sighing manner "Ayaa! The brother and sister never want to be apart. I don't know how they will survive as she is now married." Nandini deliberately slid the words into their ears gaining the attention of all four brothers. She sighed again, heavily and animatedly shaking her head.

When she saw Adarsh and others watching her with suspicious glares, Nandini explained with her hands animatedly by looking at Adarsh, "I'm your mother-in-law, beta." Adarsh felt something was wrong with Nandini and her behaviour added more to that.

Suryakumar, Yashna's father, joined the conversation. "Huh! You never give up on your dear daughter, Biwi. She just got married and you started to wearisome about her." Suryakumar exclaimed while his hand rounded around the shoulders of Nandini. Patting smoothly in a way to comfort her.

"How can I not worry? She is my one and only daughter." Nandini proclaimed as she started to wipe away the tears which were not even rolled down least formed in her eyes.

"Saasu Maa, don't worry we'll take care of Bhabi as you did," Aarav stated when he saw his big brother ignoring their in-law's drama. Aarav words were hiding the fact hinting to disappear from Adarsh's view or else the aftermath would be out of control.

Yashna hurriedly came back looking at the scene be-folding in the wedding hall. Hriday too joined the group right after Yashna. "Moth–Mother what happened?" as Yashna's words left her mouth Nandini hugged her as she spoke to let everyone hear, "My little girl, how can I live after you have gone?" and murmured in Yashna's ears "If you tell anyone then you won't be able to see your brother again." Nandini unfolded her arms around Yashna and took her place beside Suryakumar with her act of crying.

Yashna stood frozen to the ground, her body stiffened due to the words of her mother.

Back in Time

When Yashna was dragged away by Hriday to the garden behind the tree, "Yasha, are you alright? I was locked in the room and by the time I reached everything was done. I'm sorry Yasha, I promised you but I haven't kept my promise." Hriday whispered as his palms held Yashna's palms.

"Bhai you don't need to say sorry to me. I know this marriage is not the one to be escaped. So, don't be sorry." Yashna assured her brother while her palms squeezed softly, a gesture to say that she was fine.

"Promise me that you will let me know everything. If you ever feel sad or if you were wronged in any way just text me or call me, I will be by your side in the next moment." Hriday said as he made her look into his eyes and raised his eyebrows for her unanswered stare.

Yashna's mouth left a soft chuckle for the first time since yesterday and tiny tears formed in her eyes looking at her brother. Her brother is the only person she is going to miss in the whole household of Rajput.

She nodded as a yes and smiled some more when she observed her brother was smiling too.

Hriday took her into a hug and she melted in her brother's arms. When she looked at the scene in the wedding hall, her mother talking to her husband, she unwrapped herself from her brother's arms and ran towards them.

Hriday too caught sight of the scenario in the wedding hall and understood what caused Yashna to be so frightened. He too joined Yashna in the wedding hall.

Back in Time Ends

Adarsh noticed Yashna froze but contrary to his mind racing to unfold the truth, he took strides towards the exit and soon all of them walked in his way.

Soon all of them entered their respective cars, Adarsh and Yashna, Vikram and Avika, Vijay and Nainika, and finally Aarav and Indu. 

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