SWEETHEART DRAUPADI (INNOCENCE OF THE FLAME)

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THE NEXT DAY,

 AS USUAL DRAUPADI FINISHED ALL THE CHORES INCLUDING WAKING UP THE PANDAVAS AS THEY HAD TO GO EARLY. DRAUPADI QUICKLY CHANGED AND WENT TO CHECK ON THE PANDAVAS. THE PANDAVAS WERE GETTING READY BUT STOPPED MID WAY TO SEE THEIR APSARA ALL READY AND BEAUTIFUL AS ALWAYS.

THEY NOTICED THE BANGLES AND SMILED TO THEMSELVES AS THEY ALL MADE IT TOGETHER FOR HER. IT MIGHT LOOK SIMPLE BUT IT WAS VERY COMPLICATED TO MAKE. "HOW LONG ARE YOU GUYS GONNA TAKE?"DRAUPADI WHINED MAKING THEM CHUCKLE. "ARE YOU READY?"KARN ASKED. "YEAH"DRAUPADI. "THE CHAKRAVARTI SAMRAGINI WEARING THIS SIMPLE CLOTHES?"YUDHISTIR ASKED. "YEAH WHAT SO BIG DEAL"DRAUPADI ASKED HELPING YUDHISTIR TO WEAR HIS ORNAMENTS. "BUT I THOUGHT YOU AS SAMRAGINI WOULD WEAR TONS OF JEWELLERIES AND HEAVY LEHENGA."BHEEM ASKED. "YEAH BUT ONLY IN FUNCTIONS AND SABHA."SHE REPLIED. "I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE COVERED WITH JEWELLERIES."ARJUN SAID. "YEAH, I WOULD BUT I HAVE NO INTENTIONS OF DYING AT AN EARLY AGE BECAUSE OF THOSE ORNAMENTS AND HEAVY DRESSES."DRAUPADI REPLIED AS NOW SHE WAS HELPING HIM TO STRAIGHTEN HIS ANGAVASTRAM AND WEAR JEWELLERIES AFTER HELPING KARN,YUDHISTIR AND BHEEM. "YEAH BUT DON'T YOU HAVE TO PUBLIC WEARING THOSE HEAVY JEWELLERIES AND DRESSES TO BID THEM GOODBYE BEFORE DEPARTING?"NAKUL ASKED. "ALREADY"SHE REPLIED SIMPLY. "PLUS WON'T THE PEOPLE SEE YOU GOING IN THESE CLOTHES?"SHAHADEV ASKED. "NOPE I AM GOING IN AN INCLOSED CARRIAGE. THATS THE SECOND REASON WHY I DON'T WANT TO WEAR THOSE HEAVY LEHENGA AND ORNAMENTS. I WOULD DIE DUE TO THE HEAT."SHE SAID GIVING FINAL FINISHING TOUCHED TO SHAHADEV. "FINISHED NOW LETS GO"SHE SAID AND WENT OUT. THEY ALL GATHERED IN THE OPEN AREA OF THE PALACE WHERE ALL THE HORSES AND CARRIAGES WERE. THE PANDAVAS CAME AND ARJUN CAME A LITTLE LATE. "FINALLY YOU CAME. WE WERE WAITING FOR YOU FOR 1000 YEARS."DRAUPADI SAID RECIEVING A HEAD CHOP FROM KRISHNA "AHH"SHE SAID."NO TEASING MY PARTH." KRISHNA SAID AS HE WRAPPED HIS HANDS AROUND ARJUN. THEN BALRAM GAVE HIM A HARD HEAD AND NECK CHOP AND SAID "NO HITTING MY SISTER" IN A THREATNING MANNER. PANDU AND KUNTI LOOKED AT THE PANDAVAS AND FELT BAD CAUSE THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE THINKING WHY THEIR BROTHERS ARE NOT LIKE KRISHNA AND BALRAM AND THE REST. WHY WAS THEIR FAMILY NOT LIKE HERS. JUST LIKE WHAT KUNTI AND PANDU THOUGHT THE PANDAVAS WERE LAUGHING BUT DEEP DOWN THEY THOUGHT WHY COULDN'T THEIR BROTHERS BE LIKE THEM? "AHH DAU IT HURTS."KRISHNA WHINED EARNING CHUCKLE FROM EVERYBODY. THEN EVERYBODY PROCEEDED TO THEIR RIDES. AFTER THEY REACHED THE FOREST DRAUPADI'S CARRIAGE STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE HER CARRIAGE WAS IN THE LAST WITH THE PANDAVAS HORSES. ACTUALLY THEIRS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE MIDDLE BUT SHE WANTED TO BE IN THE LAST. PANDAVAS GREW WORRIED AS HER CARRIAGE STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE. DRAUPADI CAME OUT OF THE CARRIAGE. "WHAT HAPPENED?"KARN ASKED. "NOTHING ITS VERY HOT INSIDE THE CARRIAGE" SHE REPLIED. "WANNA RIDE HORSE?"YUDHISTIR ASKED. "I WISH I COULD BUT I AM WEARING LEHENGA NOT A PROPER KIND TO RIDE A HORSE."SHE REPLIED. "THEN RIDE IT WITH ONE OF US."BHEEM SUGGESTED. DRAUPADI NODDED AS A YES AND TOLD THE CARRIAGE TO GO FRONT IN THE MIDDLE. SO NOW EACH OF THE PANDAVAS GOT DOWN OF THEIR HORSES AND STARTED TO ARGUE WITH WHOM WOULD SHE RIDE. EVEN DHARMARAJ WAS ARGUING THIS TIME EXCEPT FOR KARN. THEIR EYES MET AND SHE WENT TOWARDS HIM LIKE A SMALL CHILD AND WRAPPED HER HANDS AROUND HIS NECK "WANNA?"KARN ASKED MAKING HER NOD LIKE A CHILD MAKING KARN CHUCKLE AND PLACED A KISS LIKE SHE KISSED HIM LAST TIME. THEY BOTH MOUNTED ON THE HORSE. "HEY AREN'T YOU GUYS COMING?"KARN ASKED. THE PANDAVAS SAW THAT DRAUPADI WAS RIDING WITH HIM AND THEY ALL GOT BACK ON THEIR HORSE. "FEELING GOOD?"ARJUN ASKED. "WAY BETTER THAN GOOD"SHE SAID EARNING A CHUCKLE FROM EACH OF THEM. "SO WHY DIDN'T YOU GO WITH VASUDEV AND DAU?"NAKUL ASKED. "YEA YOU THREE COULD EASILY SIT THERE WITH ALOT OF SPACE STILL REMAINING?"SHAHADEV ADDED. "WHY? YOU WANT ME TO GO?"DRAUPADI ASKED. "NONONONONO"THEY SAID. "JUST THEY WERE BRICKERING WITH EACHOTHER ON THE TOPIC WHO LOVES ME THE MOST AND WHOM I LOVE THE MOST. PLUS I WOULD HAVE TO SIT IN THE MIDDLE AND BE AN UNWANTED PART OF THE DISCUSSION."SHE REPLIED EARNING A CHUCKLE FROM THEM.