Premanjali ✔

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"Will you tell me how you killed that Lio- err Tiger?" Kirti asked hopefully, his young hazel eyes were filled with the hunger of knowledge

"I will if you tell me who made you this beautiful bow!" Arjun said playfully picking up the cute and perfect bow for three years old.

Kirti drank his milk fast to tell Arjun the story about how his mother gave him in their birthday

"My mother made it!" He said with a beaming smile

Arjun started talking to them and the excitement in their eyes made him relive his childhood again. This two kid made him laugh heartfelt which he didn't from the past four years

Soon Kirti fell asleep but Pragati kept talking to him.

"Don't you want to sleep?" He ruffled her curly hair and she shook her head "My mother always makes us sleep early! I don't want to sleep early today!"

Arjun noticed since they start talking everything was revolving around their mother and grandmother,

"Your mother is quite strict you have got a pampering father then !" He said to himself with a half-smile,

A smile which held the pain

An uncomfortable silence reveal their and Arjun looked down at Pragati who was in tears

"Hey! What happened? Did I make you upset? Do you miss your parents!" Arjun took her in his lap but Pragati continued to cry

"Pragati! Shhh... I'm here!" Arjun hugged her little body tenderly! She was so tiny, he was afraid, his body might crush her

"I want my mother!" She finally said through her sobs

Arjun's heart melted and the familiar fear of alone coming back

Was he really stopped feeling alone with them?

How much he knew them? They were just some random kids he met a few hours ago,

"Yes! You.. you will see your mother tomorrow, I, myself will take you and your brother to your mother! " Arjun said, the thought of being apart from them was somehow bothering him.

"But why were you crying?" Arjun made her face him

"I miss my mother and my father! Can I ask you something?" She asked, her eyes were so innocent as if they had never seen the darkness of outside let alone touch them. Arjun wanted to keep these two kids away from the darkness of lust, anger, and jealousy, he felt protective of them.

"You can ask me, anything princess!"

"Do your father lives with you?"

"He..." Arjun gulped the knot that had formed in his throat

"He used to but now he has gone away to rest for a while," he said as if assuring himself

"He used to live? You know my father never lived with us!" Her lips were trembling

To say Arjun was shocked would be an underestimate! Was their father dead? Or left them? No matter what, he had hurt her, He should have never mentioned their father's name. Before he could say anything Pragati continue

"But my mother says he will come back one day, he is punishing some bad people! But you know Kirti doesn't believe her and says he doesn't like our father!" She said sadly

"Did your father play with you when he lived with you like Vidhi didi's father?" She asked Arjun excitedly

"Yes. My father used to play with me and my brothers a lot! He was our best friend!" Arjun murmured to himself, as he recalled his childhood memories, every single memory spent with his father were so precious to him