~Reflections-SFF~ Updated Chapter8 Pg24

Hi everyone, this is going to be a Short FF on ManVeer, I have just taken a cue from the episode where Uday sits in his room looking at his wounded hand. The background is same as DEK but the incidents will be different. This FF is basically the thoughts of the various characters of DEK, the story will progress through the eyes of any one of the characters in each chapter i.e. each chapter will be told through the eyes of one of the characters in the story.

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Reflections

He sat in his rocking chair looking at his self-inflected wounded hand, as the blood trickled from his hand he recapitulated the events of the entire evening. The storm that had started inside his heart a few weeks ago has only intensified over time and tonight, tonight its rage is engulfing his heart, tearing into pieces, it was as if the storm has been taken over by a blazing fire and his heart is now in the burning hands of this fire. As he drank his glass of whiskey, trying to cool his raging heart, he pondered for a moment as to why he was feeling like this, was it because he hated to lose Manyata to that Majnu Akash ? Was it because he simply loathed the sight of Akash, as he reminded of the insults he had to face when time and again Manyata fooled him and went to meet that Majnu? Or was it simply the sight of "his princess" in the arms of Majnu dancing happily ? As he thought of the third option, he clutched at his glass more tightly, when he realised what he was doing he loosened his grip and kept down the glass on the table. He smirked thinking that one broken glass for the evening was enough, he cannot go about breaking glasses just because he feels like strangling Akash. Now the question is why he wants to do that at all? Akash is pretty much harmless, just an average, ordinary guy, there was nothing special about him at all, he was not famous, rich, influential, not any of the things that might pose a threat to Uday, but '.he has Manyata , though its not a threat, but for Uday it was'. like an insult?, "no , not really" Uday waved that thought away, it was more like a challenge, "yeah, I like that, challenge, a challenge to win Manyata for himself, a challenge to make Manyata forget that there ever used to be an Akash in her life, a challenge to make Manyata realize what true love really is "'.."True love?, really I must have drank too much, to think about crappy things like L.O.V.E" sighed Uday. "Now coming to think about it, why do I want Manyata at all? Of course the answer is so easy, I want Devgarh, for that I must marry Manyata and to make Manyata marry me I must see to it that she completely forgets Majnu and concentrate on me, in short I have to win her over in order to make my royal position strong." As Uday very satisfactorily reasoned himself to the fact "why he wants Manyata", he still felt that the reasoning was not completely true, somewhere , something was wrong'"hmmm '.are you sure the reason you gave so confidently for wanting Manyata just now is true ?" his heart seemed to ask slyly'"Off course yes " Uday replied back a bit rudely but firmly, it was as if he wanted to shake off a nagging feeling that was almost unsettling, a feeling which makes him vulnerable, he knew that if he accepts what his heart wants to tell, the wall of protection that he has created around him, which prevents anyone from penetrating into the deepest part of his soul, the soul which is not as strong as how people see him, not as insensitive as everyone knows him of...that very wall will crumble, and the real Uday whom he had kept locked deep inside him will come out, an Uday who can feel, who cares, who is sensitive'in short a Uday with all the qualities he hates, because those very qualities makes a person weak according to him, and he being a Rajwade cannot afford to be a weak emotional fool. "So it's better to keep that person locked inside" Uday said to himself decisively.

But has he really been successful in keeping that person locked up inside him? For nowadays it feels that it is becoming more and more difficult to keep that Uday locked inside him, it is fighting to get out , almost overpowering him'more than once that Uday has peeped out from inside him shocking the people who caught a glimpse of that'.Unnati, his little sister was one of them, she was really surprised when she had caught him smiling away to glory by himself just because he had been out with Manyata all day. She even stated the fact that he is denying vehemently now, that he loves Manyata'."I Love Manyata?, no way"'."Ok now that was second time I have denied the fact " Uday made a mental note''the other person who mistook his concern for Manyata as love was Jay, she had sneered at him while stating the fact and he had as usual scoffed at her. Is this what "being in denial" is called? wondered Uday.

He needed to go out, the turmoil inside him has still not calmed down, as waves of rage, pain and uncertainty lashed inside him, yes he needed to go out to calm himself down, may be fresh air will do him good, will help him think clearly. He took out his car and drove himself to the beach, this was probably the only place where he actually liked to be when he needed to think something, surprisingly or rather coincidentally this was the very place where he had met Manyata for the first time, that time he had thought the girl who was yelling at him for throwing stones at her was just a mad, irritating girl living at the nearby chawl, a girl whose mouth he can shut by thrusting some money in her hand (well it's another story he was wrong and the girl had threw some colourful abuses at him and had walked of), and that was the start of a new story in the life of Prince Udayveer . That day as the girl walked away, he did not know that she is the Princess for whom he had been waiting for 16 years, his friend that he had lost 16 years ago, the only person he had really cared about in his entire life, except perhaps Unnati. It was perhaps their fate, both his and Manyata's that brought them face to face time and again till he found out that she was the princess he had been looking for all this time, the lost princess of Devgarh, to whom he was betrothed. As he thought these all out, Uday closed his eyes for a moment, standing at the very spot where Manyata was standing on the day of their first meeting, that seemed to be a moment that had happened in another life time, now everything is different, everything has changed, including himself. Uday opened his eyes and reasoned himself that he cannot change, he must stop himself from changing, it will be difficult but he will succeed.

The sea looked mysterious and menacing tonight as the full moon shined and the waves tinged with the silver of the moon lashed against the rocks, Uday felt that he was like this sea, calm at the surface but there are deadly secrets locked deep inside, when a storm comes, this very calm sea changes into an angry monster ready to engulf everything and everyone in their way and sometimes during this very rage the deep dark secrets threatens to spill out. Uday thought coming here will help him sort out the confused feelings that he was having, to take a decision as to what he really wants, feels, but he was still confused .The fresh air has done him good though, the turmoil inside him has subsided somewhat, and he felt it was time for him to go back home.

As he entered his room, he caught his reflection in his mirror, he observed carefully, he was looking a bit unkempt, and his eyes had a thoughtful expression, in short he looked nothing like the cruel, charming, calculative, smart and evil Prince Udayveer of Jaigarh , but looked like a sensitive, emotional, and thoughtful man, and he did not at all appreciate what he was looking at. A thought suddenly struck his mind, "Was he really a bad man? An evil one? Like most people thought, like Manyata thinks he is? Yes he uses twisted ways to get what he wants, sometimes he becomes ruthless while doing that, but he has been brought up in a royal family where politics is everything, where there is no place for losers, so of course he has to use these twisted methods to win every game , every challenge he takes up, but does that really make him a bad person?, would Manyata like him more if he stops plotting and scheming? Hell, he have already stopped doing those things at least against Manyata, for nowadays he seems to forget all his plotting the moment he sees her, one thing he cannot deny is the fact that Manyata is having a very strong effect on him, an effect he both likes as well as he hates, he likes the feeling that he gets when he is near Manyata, but again this very feeling makes him aware that he is changing, and that makes him hate that feeling." Uday's train of thoughts was interrupted by a soft knocking on his door, he heard her sister Unnati asking " May I come in Dada?", "Sure Chotti" Uday replied and opened the door. " It's really late Dada and you are still awake? Are you alright?" Unnati looked very concerned.

"Yes, off course I am chotti, why do you ask?"

"Nothing Dada, I have been noticing for some days that you are not your usual self, you have changed, you look more thoughtful somehow"

"I have not changed Unnati, I can never change, I will never allow myself to change"

"You don't always have to fight with your feelings Dada, sometimes just let yourself go, open up your locked self, it won't do any harm, for just by doing that you might find answers to all your questions, sometimes we have to accept facts that we might not like but accepting that will end the turmoil inside us and then the peace that we have been looking for comes to us ultimately."

Unnati kept her hand on Uday's shoulder lightly and whispered " I think its time you let go of yourself, don't fight any more"

She said a bit more loudly, "Goodnight Dada, and sorry for the other day when I told you to accept Monya.. ..sorry Manyata's relationship with Akash, I failed to see that it would disturb you, I am sorry that I hurt you with those words'but please consider what I said tonight, just give it a try"

Uday nodded and said " you don't have to say sorry Chotti, I have already forgiven you"

"By the way Dada, how is your hand ?"

"Its fine, will heal with time"

"Yes Dada, but for that you have to give the time...Good night again"

Uday nodded suddenly understanding what Unnati really meant with those words.

As Unnati went out of his room, Uday felt at peace with himself finally, he looked at his reflection again in the mirror and replayed Unnati's words in his mind " let go of yourself", "accept it", "give time"...Uday said aloud " I love you Manyata and with time you will understand what you mean to me, you will love me one day and I know it will be very soon, I won't force you to fall in love, for tonight I have let myself go, and I will wait for the day when you yourself will realize that you love me , but for now I will always be around you as a friend, as a guide and as an irritating fool that you consider me to be"

P.S : I had also written an OS on ManVeer sometime back, if you want you can read that too 😳

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Thanks Niha 😳...sure will read your FF and comment there 😊

Hi everyone , firstly thanks a lot for all your appreciations 😳. This is the 2nd chapter of the FF hope you will like it, and i hope you wont fall asleep while reading it 😆...please leave your comments , criticisms etc.😃

CHAPTER 2

As she came out of the bathroom drying her hair with the towel, she stood in front of the mirror and looked at herself. It has been three weeks since her rigorous training for becoming a princess has started , the training was gruelling and after the end of each day, she feels so tired that she goes to sleep as soon as she puts her head on the soft pillow." 3 months ...when will it end?" Manyata sighed ...has she changed a bit from her old Moniya self? Hmmm ...if she examines herself in the mirror then may be not...she is still dressed like Moniya, she still looks like Moniya but surprisingly she sometimes felt that her inner self is changing, her thoughts, her feelings...not to mention her walk , her talk has also changed, it has become what everyone is saying more refined...yeah its true, she has learned to control her temper a lot...umm it does come out though sometimes, especially when that idiot Uday comes and teases her , but she does not mind him anymore really, it's really odd, but she actually looks forward to meet him nowadays, she kind of misses him when he is not around, another person who irritates the hell out of her but in a very bad way is her little sister Rajkumari Jaynandini...umm no, Jayghamandini, as she preferred to call her. She has also learned to speak softly and in a refined manner, and her table manners have also improved, Manyata silently congratulated herself on her achievements. But she still has a long way to go, as Maharaj Brijraj keeps telling others. Yeah her father is still annoyed with her, he still has not been able to accept the fact that Manyata will get married to Akash after she becomes a princess successfully in 3 months; also he was smarting under the fact that his relation with Maharaj Giriraj has been affected because of this.

She turned away from the mirror and her eyes fell on the watch that Akash had given her on Valentine's day, she picked it up and looked at it fondly, she has not spoken to him for quite a long time, hope he is well and all his problems have solved. She had got him into a lot of trouble and for that she felt guilty sometimes but she cannot contact him now, she has promised Dadisaab and since she is a princess she means to keep her promise in each and every way possible. Oh yeah, she has started to call Rajmata as Dadisaab now, as she now truly feels that she is her grandmother, for, has she not always supported her even when she was in her worst behaviour? When everyone was against her? She has also gotten very fond of her and now truly from her heart she calls her Dadisaab, she cannot forget the moment when she had first called her by that name, for the first time she had seen tears in the otherwise calm and collected Dadisaab. She also must mention the fact that now she has got her own room, it was her decision to stop sharing Jaynandini's room, as she felt that both she and Jay needed their share of privacy. Jay had heaved a sigh of relief when she had made that decision, and secretly even Manyata had heaved a sigh of relief.

Suddenly her alarm clock began to ring shrilly, hmmm, time to go for her lessons...yeah she had set the alarm, since she gets lost in her thoughts a bit too much, this has cost her to be late many a times for her lessons and had earned her severe scolding from her teachers, she is a princess and punctuality must be made into a habit. Now for every lesson she has a separate alarm clock which rings and reminds her for which lesson to go. Now the pink alarm is ringing, oh god! This means grooming lessons. Yup that's right, each alarm clock has got a different colour, Green for dance lessons, Blue for etiquettes, Yellow for General studies, Red for singing and so on...there are so many subjects that sometimes she forgets the names also, so she has tagged the alarm clocks with the names of the subjects, just in case, not to mention she has stuck a time table on her wardrobe, where the timings and lessons for each day is mentioned.

Of all the subjects she hated the grooming lessons, she hated when her teacher raps her hand lightly and tells her to sit properly, to drink properly, to walk properly, sometimes she wonders why they don't tell her how to sleep properly also. Making a glum face Manyata came out of her room and slowly went downstairs to wait for her teachers to arrive, thinking what torture she was going to face today. To her surprise she saw Jay was standing at the foot of the stairs, it was as if she was waiting for her'."hey wait a second, Jay and wait for her? Well that will probably happen when hell freezes over, which means never, so the question is why is she standing here looking at me like that?" Manyata made a quick inspection of herself, "has she by mistake, worn something that she shouldn't or done something she shouldn't have? " When she found that there was nothing wrong with herself she decided to ask Jay .

"Hi Jay...waiting for someone? Do you know where my teachers are? My grooming classes are about to begin" Manyata said calmly, though she felt really irritated seeing Jay staring at her like that

"Manyata jiji, I was waiting for you , and sorry to disappoint you, since I guess you were eagerly waiting for your lessons to start , but today all your teachers have been given a holiday"

"Well that's odd, I thought everyone wanted me turn into a princess and now they are wasting a whole day by giving the teachers a holiday?"

"Off course not Manyata, we are not wasting any time" Manyata heard a soft but firm voice; she turned and saw Dadisaab was standing and smiling at her.

"Manyata , I think today the day has finally come when you should go out and buy some outfits for yourself ,suitable for a princess, and for this reason I have requested Jaynandini to take you out for shopping, as she has great taste in clothes and fashion"

" With all due respect Dadisaab , but I cannot wear clothes like Jay, I will feel uncomfortable, and also I don't trust her choices"

Manyata noticed that Jay's murderous look as if she would kill her any moment.

Dadisaab seemed to have guessed that Jay will say something spiteful any moment hence she quickly took control of the situation and said, " Don't worry Manyata, Jay will just show you the shops from where you can buy, and the shopping will be done only by you"

Jainandini looked doubtfully at Dadisaab and said " DS, then its better we go and shop in some Chawl wali market, for if Manyata Jiji shops by herself she might find some similar rags in a designer shop also, so why waste time in shopping in some designer boutique?"

Manyata felt her anger rising and tried to suppress it, and said coolly " Hmm I guess those are the same shops from where you bought that yellow holey T-shirt?"

"Oh my God! How dare you call my yellow crotchet dress, "a holey T-shirt"? Do you even know how much it cost?

Manyata wanted to laugh looking at Jaynandini's furious face, and was about retort back when she heard a deep voice saying " Dadisaab, these two sisters will murder each other if you let them go shopping together, its better you drop the plan"

"Udayveer , you have come back? How was your Jaigarh trip?"

"It was great Dadisaab, the Jaigarh campaign is shaping up really well, and I have got a really good news, I have finalized a deal of opening our chain of hotels in New York" Uday replied as he took Dadisaab's blessings.

"That's a great news, all the best Udayveer on your new venture" Dadisaab replied .

" and now when you are here, can you please help me solve the problem of these two quarrelsome sisters " Dadisaab continued.

"Dadisaab, if you will allow me can I accompany, Jay and Manyata to their shopping trip? In that way I will be able to keep an eye on them so that they don't blow up the shops they go to and can also help Manyata in choosing suitable outfits for her"

" I have got absolutely no problem , but off course its unto them whether they will want you to accompany them or not."

" I will ask them then" Replied Uday.

"Rajkumari Jaynandini and Rajkumari Manyata , do you have any problem if I accompany both of you to the shopping trip?"

Jay gleefully shook her head and said "off course not",

"Off course why would she say no, she is just looking for a chance to get all over Uday" Manyata thought rolling her eyes.

"And...what about you... Princess?" Uday said softly coming near her

Manyata literally felt her heart jump into her mouth when she heard him say that so near her, and was very angry with herself for feeling like that for Uday, the feeling had unsettled her...she felt Jay and Dadisaab looking at her intently "Damn, I must have been quite for a long time I guess... they are waiting for the answer...calm down Manyata" she thought to herself and then stammered out

" N..No problem at all Uday, you can come with us"

"Thank you Princess" said Uday and gave his signature smirk.

Thus began another long day for Manyata, but she kind of looked forward to that day, now the question is why? Is it because she was excited to go shopping for clothes? Umm ...no, hmm ..then it must be because she was going out of the Mahal after a long time... nope that's also not the reason...then what? Manyata thought impatiently ..." It must be because Uday said he will go shopping with you" she heard her heart whispering softly, "Are you mad? Stop saying rubbish" Manyata replied back to her heart and decided to ignore the question "why she is looking forward to that day"

Jay very cleverly went and sat at the front seat of the car before Uday could say anything, Manyata almost laughed seeing Uday's disgusted expression, very coyly she went and sat at the back seat, thanking Jay silently for beating her to the front seat, for she knew Uday would have made her sit in the front sit by making some excuse.

Finally, after sometime they reached their destination, it was a designer boutique, and it was said that this is one of the best boutiques in India. As Manyata entered the boutique , she was dazzled, so many beautiful dresses, she had never imagined she would ever enter into a shop like this ever...but she has and now she must choose a few dresses from here...she had to say, Jay certainly did have great fashion sense, otherwise she would have never brought Manyata here.

Jay told to the lady in the boutique , "please show some suitable dresses for my sister". The lady nodded and led Manyata to the back of the boutique, she brought out a powder blue salwar suit with silver borders, it looked as if the stars from the skies have been sewn on the dupatta, the sequins shimmered and glittered and the material was so soft and light it felt as if she was holding water in her hand. Manyata took the dress and tried it out...as she came out from the trial room, she saw Uday looking at her intently as if he will burn her with his gaze, suddenly she felt very conscious of herself and began adjusting her dupatta, she heard him coming and standing behind her , then very softly he whispered in her ears "you are looking beautiful, princess". Hearing his voice so near made Manyata draw her breath in quickly, he took her hand lightly but firmly and made her stand in front of a huge mirror, as Manyata looked at herself in the mirror, she gasped, she looked every bit of the princess everyone thought her to be, except for the way her is tied that is, oops! now it's not tied at all, as she felt her hair coming down loose and falling around her face, someone has removed her hair clip, she understood who has removed it, the moment she heard the deep voice saying softly from behind her "Now it's perfect", off course its Uday, who else had the audacity to do such a thing with her? She turned and was just in time to caught Jay's expression, it was a mixture of wonder and envy. But Jay was very quick to recover and said "Not bad Jiji, for the first time in my life I can probably introduce you as my sister to my acquaintances ". Manyata preferred not to react to her comment. Uday merely raised his eyebrows and gave a warning look at Jay.

"Can you please show some shoes for the Princess, to match with her dress?" Uday asked the lady in the Boutique. "Sure" she said and she brought a beautiful pair of shoes for her, except the heels were so high, Manyata felt she would fall if she tries wearing them, but then again she had already fallen in love with the pair, she slipped into the shoes and it fit her perfectly, as she tried walking in that, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her ankle, hell! She has twisted her leg , she winced in pain and tried to maintain her balance but failed to hold herself up, just when she thought she will fall , a pair of strong arms came and caught her . Manyata found herself in the arms of Udayveer, as she gazed at his face which was etched with concern for her, for the millionth time Manyata questioned herself, "why she feels like she does when she is near Uday, it's a feeling which was unknown to her, and this unknown feeling scares her"

"Are you alright princess? did you hurt yourself? Let me look at your feet" Uday said , his voice full of concern, breaking into Manyata's thoughts.

Manyata quickly released herself from the arms of Uday and replied "I am fine, just twisted my ankle I think", she winced as she tried to walk. Uday made her sit on a stool, and then examined her ankle carefully, "it looks alright, I guess the pain will reduce after sometime", he declared. Manyata looked up and saw Jay looking at them in a way that would make anyone shiver in fear. Uday stood up and said "I think we should move towards our next destination now".

Manyata saw that their next destination was a grand hotel, "I thought we should eat something before going back" Uday said , "and I remember Princess, you cannot bear to be hungry for long" he added smiling. "How sweet" Jay said sarcastically

"I am always sweet Jay, guess you have not noticed before" Uday replied back and with that he shut Jay's mouth.

Lunch was a quiet affair, for Jay was busy sulking, Manyata got busy eating, and... Uday...well he, Manyata noticed from the corner of her eyes was much busier looking at her than eating. Uday's behaviour towards her is really disturbing her nowadays, he is still the same arrogant, evil Uday that he was previously, but after the alliance between their families broke, and specially after the Valentine's day, Uday has changed somehow, he gave Manyata a lot of space, he has stopped forcing himself on her, but at the same time he always managed to remain around her, helping her, supporting her, without even waiting for her to come to him for any sort of help. Slowly but steadily he has been successful in making a place in her heart, Manyata accepts that but she is careful in not letting Uday know that at all, if possible she will make sure Uday never gets to know about that.

As the lunch got over, and they came out of the hotel, Manyata quickly went and sat at the back seat of the car before Uday could say anything. Jay, though in a foul mood went and sat in front with Uday. Manyata heaved a sigh of relief, " the day has finally come to an end, thank god"

The car halted in front of the Rajmahal, and the guards came running to open the gates. As the three came out of the car and the royal servants came to take in the shopping bags of the princesses, Uday made preparations to leave for his home. Seeing that, Jay said in a honeyed tone, "Won't you come inside?"

"No Jay, Dad had called, something urgent has come up, have to leave now"

"Ok, then, bye" with that Jay turned to go inside.

Uday waited till Jay hand gone inside, and as Manyata was also about to follow Jay , he said , " Wait a bit, Princess"

Manyata stopped in her tracks looking surprised, "What is it Udayveer?"

Uday did not reply her, but merely took her hand in his and he pulled something out from his pocket with his other hand. Before Manyata could say something, he placed a beautiful diamond and sapphire bracelet on her wrist. " Don't say anything Manyata, this is a gift from a friend to a friend, I don't know if you consider me to be your friend or not, but I can assure you I will remain your friend for life...but again, it's completely your choice if you want to keep this gift with you or you want to throw it away '."

He did not wait for Manyata's reply but swiftly went inside his car and drove away from the Rajmahal.

Manyata looked at the beautiful gift and for the first time in her life she was left speechless with the words Uday had left her with, she touched the bracelet and thought about the night when she had thrown away the beautiful jewellery set that Uday had brought for her on the Valentine's Day, but it was different today.

Manyata said softly "I will never throw this away Uday, I don't know if I have accepted you as a friend or not, and I cannot understand what I feel for you, but I know I have some bond with you, and for that I will keep this gift with me forever."