Chapter 38: chapter 38

It was 11 at night and Meenakshi was weeping in the prayer room.“Oh, Lord! Swamiji said that there’s a great danger to my son tomorrow. If he gets out of it just for tomorrow, all the flaws in his horoscope will be gone! I married him to Sandhya so that the positivity in her horoscope would be shifted to my son’s and Sandhya will take his place and  leave her last breath. This is how it’s written! Oh god! But my son is in love with her and he can’t bear it if something happens to Sandhya. Sandhya should be dead by 6 pm tomorrow because of the flaw or else Surya will be dead instead of her! I can’t imagine the consequences after that! Please shower mercy on us,” she pleaded.Swamiji was trying to prevent the disaster that was going to happen the next day. He summoned 101 sages from the Kashi, Amarnath, and Kedarnath and was about to perform a ritual. The Maha Chandi ritual had been performed for the past 10 days. He called upon Meenakshi to the ashram by 6 in the morning.It was midnight and Surya was having a nightmare. He was screaming and his body was shivering.He screamed, “No, Sandhya!” and jolted awake.Sandhya hurriedly rushed to him and asked, “Surya, What’s wrong? What happened?”He looked at her keenly for a second and asked, “Sandhya, are you okay?” He made sure that she was there.Sandhya was confused and said, “You might have had a nightmare! Let me get some water for you!”Sandhya bought a glass of water and he drank it hurriedly. He felt a bit relieved.Sandhya asked, “Are you feeling better?”“Yeah, feeling better now! In the nightmare you were in danger,” muttered he.Sandhya smiled gently and said, “Surya, I’m right here. What is going to happen to me? There’s no chance these nightmares will be true.”Surya couldn’t be able to come out of it and said, “Sandhya, I will get some fresh air in the lawn. You get some sleep!”“But it’s so cold out there Surya!”“Sandhya, it’s fine or else I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep in here!” he said.Sandhya didn’t answer back. Surya hurried to the lawn and thought to himself, “Why was Sandhya running onto the top of a hill? She isn’t even minding my words when I’m running behind her! What the hell was that?” he struggled and fell asleep on the lawn, thinking.Sandhya knew what was coming and her heart was in a clutch. She wanted to go to the temple and perform a ritual for his safety. She got dressed, went to her parent’s with Maggie to leave her with them, and went to the temple. She was doing the ritual with the help of other women in the temple.By the time Surya returned home after jogging, he couldn’t find Sandhya. Surya wanted to convey his love to her in the temple. He got dressed and started his journey to the temple. On the other hand, Ravi and Rona wanted to tell the truth to Sandhya and they started their journey to the temple.Surya was driving and his car gave him trouble after a while. He got down from the car and tried to analyze what happened. He tried but he couldn’t set the car, “GodDamnit!” he said.He luckily found Vinay’s car coming his way. “Thank God!” thought Surya. Vinay saw Surya and halted his car.“Vinay, you are here at the right time! My car gave me trouble. Can you drop me at the temple?”“Sure, man. C’mon, get in!” and they started their journey. After a while, Vinay asked, “What’s the matter, buddy? You going to the temple?”Surya smiled gently and said, “I’m gonna go meet Sandhya there!”Vinay was observing how excited Surya was all the way.