story.
MARRIED BY DESTINY
Prologue
It was raining. She loved rains but it seemed today the sky was crying. She tried to hide her anguish and pain but couldn't. She broke down and cried like a child. She doesn't want to lose her babuji. She prayed to Devi maiyya.
Today was supposed to be the happiest day of her life. Today was her marriage, but it didn't happen. Shyam ji had cheated them. Fate had cheated them. Shyam ji was already married and was going to marry khushi. She clearly remembered today's morning.
She was seated along with Shyam ji in mandap. Everyone was smiling. Khushi was happy for her family was happy. Even the people who had taunted and blamed them at
Payal jiji's broken marriage had accepted them back. Her amma and babuji had selected a
groom for her. And she trusted them blindly. Amma and babuji had done so much for her. Adopted her, gave her a home, a family to call her own and a sister
like Payal jiji.
The pandit ji was chanting the sacred mantras. She sneaked a peek at Shyam ji, her amma has asked her to trust Shyamji like she trusted her amma and babuji. And at that moment she trusted him.But he broke her trust.
"There Shyam is. The bas***d." A man shouted and everyone stood still.
The mantras stopped and the house was filled with police. She couldn't understand anything. Shyam ji was pulled from the mandap and a man in business suit punched him hard. The man continued beating Shyamji ji until the police pulled them apart.
Amma and buaji, took her to her room. She had questions but no one had answers. She sat in her room all afternoon and evening with payal jiji. No sound came from outside.Until she heard her amma's scream. She ran outside. Her babuji was lying on floor clutching his chest. Buaji was wailing.
Their neighbors were looking helpless. And the man in business suit along with
a police officer was trying to lift babuji. But babuji was resisting.She was in tears seeing babuji in this
condition.
"Marry my Khushi. Protect her." He asked the man in business suit. The man looked stoned but nodded anyway. Babujiclosed his eyes. They took him to hospital.
Khushi don't know how but she was sitting in front ICU. Her amma, buaji and payal jiji were all crying. the man in business suit waiting with them, looking furious and texting on phone.
"Khushi,thoda pani peelo." Payal jiji's spoke and khushi came to present. She refused. They waited there until it was night. Amma crying ordered buaji to take Khushi and Payal home.That night for the first time Khushi couldn't sleep. For Destiny had played its cards.
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