SWEETHEART DRAUPADI (INNOCENCE OF THE FLAME)

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AFTER THEY RETURNED IT WAS MIDNIGHT. THEY BOTH CHANGED THEIR CLOTHES AND PACKED IT IN A BOX. "SO ARE WE FORGIVEN?"KARN ASKED. "NO"DRAUPADI SAID. "BUT WHY?"HE ASKED. "ONLY YOU NOT THE REST."DRAUPADI STATED. KARN SMILED AND SAID"MAKE SURE TO GIVE THEM A HARD TIME."KARN SAID AND WENT TO HIS ROOM TO SLEEP. AS HE CAME IN THE ROOM TO SEE EVERYBODY SLEEPING HE QUIETLY CLOSED THE DOOR AND LAID ON HIS BED. AS HE WAS SOON DOZING OFF TO HIS DREAMLAND REST OF THE PANDAVAS PILED UPON HIM. "OH GOD YOU HEAVY CREATURES, GET OFF MY BACK I MIGHT DIE."KARN SAID. "FIRST SAY WHERE WERE YOU"YUDHISTIR SAID. "DIDN'T A MAID TELL YOU THAT I WENT TO THE EAST TO SEE THE SUN RISING?"KARN ASKED AS HE WAS BEING SQUISHED BY HIS BROTHERS. "YES SHE DID BUT WE ARE NOT FOOLISH TO BELIEVE IT"BHEEM SAID."YEA BECAUSE YESTERDAY NIGHT WE WERE ON OUR SEARCH FOR DRAUPADI SO WHERE DID YOU SNEAK OUT?"ARJUN ASKED. "DON'T YOU CARE FOR HER JYESTH?"NAKUL ASKED. "I DO"KARN SAID. "THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP US TO FIND HER? PLUS ABOVE THAT YOU WERE LYING TO US ABOUT SEEING THE SUNRISE."SHAHADEV SAID. "NO I DIDN'T LIE ABOUT THE SUNRISE."KARN SAID ALMOST REACHING THE GATEWAY TO HEAVEN. "LIE AGAIN"THEY SAID."I WILL EXPLAIN LET ME GO"KARN BLURTED OUT NEARLY OUT OF BREATH.

"OK NOW MIND TO EXPLAIN US?"THEY SAID. HE EXPLAINED THEM EVERYTHING WHAT HAPPENED. THEY WERE JEALOUS OF HIM BUT AT THE SAME TIME HAPPY. "SERIOUSLY SHE BLUSHED?"NAKUL SAID. "LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE IS JEALOUS AND HURT BECAUSE JYESTH GOT HER AT FIRST TRY WHEREAS SOMEONE WAS TRYING FOR A LOOOOOONG TIME."BHEEM SAID. "SO THATS WHERE YOU WENT HUH?"KUNTI SAID."MATA?"THEY SAID."HEY AM I INVISIBLE OR WHAT?"PANDU SAID."OH HOW COME YOU TWO ARE HERE?"KARN ASKED."JUST WE WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY"PANDU SAID."OHHHH"THEY SAID. "SO LOOKS LIKE KARN SAVED YOU ALL."KUNTI SAID. "YES FINALLY SHE FORGAVE US" YUDHISTIR SAID. "US? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY US ONLY ME UNDERSTAND?"KARN SAID. "WAIT! WHAT?WHY?" THEY ASKED. "DON'T KNOW SHE SAID IT."KARN SAID. THE REST OF THE PANDAVAS WERE SHOOKED. "YOU MEAN TO SAY NOW WE HAVE TO PERSUADE HER ON BY ONE?"BHEEM ASKED."SEEMS LIKE THAT BHRATA BHEEM."ARJUN SAID."SO KARN HOW WAS THE DATE?"KUNTI ASKED. KARN BLUSHED. "DATE? WHAT DATE MATA?AND WITH WHOM?"NAKUL AND SHAHADEV ASKED."WITH DRAUPADI OFCOURSE DIDN'T YOU HEAR HIM?SEEING SUNRISE TOGETHER,BEING CALLED COUPLE BY MANY PEOPLE, KARN FLIRTING AND DRAUPADI BLUSHING HARD, SUNSET, STARGAZING, WISHING WELL, WISHING FOR EACH OTHERS HAPPINESS, DRAUPADI BEING EXTRA CLINGY TOWARDS  HIM, KARN HUGGING HER WHILE WALKING, DRAUPADI BURRING HER HEAD ON HIS CHEST, SECRETLY GOING OUT TOGETHER, KARN INDIRECTLY CONFIRMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP BY SAYING 'WE ARE NOT YET A COUPLE, KARN CALLING HER PRIYE PLUS KARN INDIRECTLY ASKING FOR HER HAND FOR MARRIAGE."PANDU SAID."MARRIAGE???"THEY SHOUTED. "YEA DIDN'T YOU HEAR HIM?HE WAS GIVING OUR EXAMPLE AS WELL. WHAT WAS THAT LINE AGAIN?'BECAUSE WHO KNOWS ABOUT THE FUTURE EVEN BOTH OF OUR PARENTS MET IN THE SAME WAY.SO YOU KNOW IF..' RIGHT KARN?"KUNTI ASKED. KARN WAS RED AS TOMATO BY NOW. THE PANDAVAS WERE SHOOK BY HIS HIDDEN MEANINGS.

THE NEXT DAY,

THE KAURAVAS WERE SETTING OUT FOR SOME WORK TO A FAR AWAY KINGDOM. DRAUPADI QUICKLY WOKE UP AND CHANGED TO SOMETHING SIMPLE.

AND WENT OUT TO BID GOODBYE TO THE KAURAVAS. ALL THE PANDAVAS AND KAURAVAS WERE STUNNED BY HER BEAUTY. SHE DIDN'T LOOK BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE OF THE JEWELLERIES ITS THE JEWELLERIES THAT LOOKED BEAUTIFUL ON HER. "WISH YOU COULD STAY A LITTLE LONGER"SHE SAID. "WE WISH TOO BUT ITS AN IMPORTANT WORK SO WE HAVE TO GO"SAID DURYODHAN. PANDAVAS FROWNED AT HIM BEING ALL FAKE AND SWEET."I UNDERSTAND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND MAY GOD GIVE YOU ENOUGH ENERGY TO HANDLE THESE 99 MONKEYS"SHE SAID AND THEY LAUGHED."WHAT MONKEYS?I AM NOT MONKEY THEY MIGHT BE BUT NOT ME. "DUSASHAN SAID.

 "SPECIALLY THIS SILKY LONG HAIRED MONKEY"SHE SAID."MORE LIKE A LANGUR"DURYODHAN ADDED MAKING ALL OF THEM LAUGH."JYESTH-"DUSASHAN WHINED. "LOOK EVEN YOUR JYESTH AGREES"SHE SAID. AFTER THEY LEFT DRAUPADI IGNORED THE PANDAVAS AND ONLY LET KARN ACCOMPANY HER. "ITS GONNA BE A LONG JOURNEY PUTRO"PANDU AND KUNTI SAID SEEING DRAUPADI AND KARN TALKING AND LAUGHING WHILE WALKING THROUGH THE HALLWAYS.