Tara stared at her henna-filled hands with a small sad smile. She knew this day will come in her life but never thought this will come this soon. But at least she is happy that she got 21 before this marriage.

But the point here was that she didn't even want to get married. She never thought she will be scared of her husband. She knew she would respect but being fearful of him was not in her dictionary till now.

She sighed leaning back on her seat. Her father and brother were at his home for some exchange of gifts as Sagai.

She felt so weird at the moment. Like she was a stranger in her own room.

Tomorrow she would be in the venue till now getting ready to be his slave for life. Slave was the word she would like to use with the way he treated her.

The reason for her getting married is her father's reputation in society. She stopped thinking about her happiness a long time ago.

She could hear loud music in the living room where her cousins were dancing like crazy. She just wanted to sleep at the moment but again sleep was far away from her because of the worries.

She sighed as the door opened and her Bhabhi entered inside. Oh her nephew was also at Arjun's place with his father.

"Have something, Tara", Trisha spoke bringing a tray with her having fruits in it.

"Bhabhi, I am not hungry", she spoke closing her eyes as Trisha sat near her caressing her hair.

"How are you feeling?", Trisha asked like a mother as Tara smiled.

"Horrible, if you ask truly", Tara spoke as Trisha sighed.

"You still have time, Tara. You can say no", Trisha said as Tara slowly opened her eyes.

"I don't know Bhabhi. I don't have any idea about what I want at this moment. Everything seems so confusing. I start thinking about this marriage and my head starts hurting. I don't know what the future is storing for me. Right now, I would like to go with the flow", she spoke closing her eyes again.

"It was my responsibility to ask. Rest is dependent on you", Trisha said feeding her fruits which Tara had without much drama.

"Who will love me there, Bhabhi", Tara asked Trisha after a minute.

"What do you mean?", Trisha asked trying to predict what was going on in her mind.

"Here if I even shed a single tear, every single person comes to my rescue asking me what is wrong. Everybody is so worried about me. If I don't eat food, Bhai or you or Mumma or Papa just anyone feeds me themself. Who will worry for me there?", She asked blinking her eyes to stop the tears forming in her eyes.

"Tara baby, it will be fine. It will take time for you to adapt to the new surroundings but once you get acquainted there your Bhai would've to forcefully bring you here. You won't even like to leave your husband alone", Trisha teased but it only add to the sadness of Tara.

"Trisha, I will feed my sister today. You should see if Mumma needs some help", Dinesh said entering the room. Trisha nodded before leaving not before kissing Tara's forehead.

"What were you both talking about?", he asked feeding Tara fruits.

"Nothing. Just random girls talk", she told her brother shrugging her shoulders chewing the banana.

"I even played with dolls with you. Share with me also what girls talk you were discussing", he asked making her laugh.

"Bhai, will you miss me from the day after tomorrow", she asked her brother who didn't answer just kept on feeding her.

"Bhai, say na?", she asked her brother.

"No at least my son would give me some attention", he spoke glaring at her teasingly making her pout.

"Bad Bhai", she said hitting his shoulder making him laugh.

The loud music from outside marked the onset of the Barat.

Tara felt goosebumps forming on her skin when she found her sisters preparing to welcome the Barat. Her elder sister Kunti, who got married a few years ago was going to do the aarti while Sakshi was doing the Neem Jharai for which she was very much excited.

"What are you guys doing? Barat is on the entrance", Dinesh spoke as Sakshi took the Kalash with Ganga jal and Kunti picked up the heavy brass plate.

Dinesh walked to the chariot where Arjun was sitting to help him get down as a part of the ritual.

There was a ribbon on the entrance stopping them to move forward.

"Jiju, you can't go inside like this", Sakshi spoke as the girls behind her cheered.

"You need to pay the tax", Kunti said as others nodded.

"We are not paying any tax. We are here to take Bhabhi with us", Kabir, Aadya's son spoke as others behind him cheered.

"Oh please, Tara is not going anywhere till the time you pay the tax", Sakshi said looking at Arjun who was silent till now.

"How much is the tax?", he asked

"You are lucky you don't have many saali(sister-in-law)", Sakshi spoke as Kunti nodded.

"51,000 only", Kunti said as Dinesh raised his eyebrows at them.

"We didn't bring that much money with us", Kenit spoke straight away.

"Hooo, don't lie", Sakshi said as Kinshuk raised his eyebrow at them before getting a fifty rupee note with one rupee coin and kept it on the plate with a thousand rupee note.

"Be happy", Kinshuk spoke as Kenit patted his shoulders.

"You guys are so bad", Sakshi spoke when Arjun felt rice falling on him. He looked up only to get a glance of his wife who already turned to leave with her Bhabhi holding her lehenga to help her walk properly.

"Arjun, eyes here, please. She already left", Dinesh spoke noticing his eyes.

"Final 11,000 each", Sakshi said grumpily.

"Wrap it up quickly, It's almost time for Jaimala(garland) exchange", Dinesh spoke making Sakshi pout.

"11,000 together", Kinshuk said at last.

"Fine", Sakshi said sprinkling a lot of water on Arjun making him blink a few times.

"We don't want any bad eyes on you, Jiju", she stated with a wide smile when Kunti did the aarti as Kinshuk placed the bunch of notes on the plate. Arjun cut the ribbon with the scissor they gave to him.

They entered inside finally as Yuvraj stayed with Arjun being the idle brother-in-law.

They reached the stage where varmala was to take place.

He looked up to even get a single glance at her.

"She is still inside", Yuvraj whispered in his ear. He could clearly see the same impatience in Arjun's eyes as he had once.

"How do you know?", Arjun asked looking at him.

"The photographers are standing on the entrance clicking pictures non-stop", Yuvraj told him when his wife walked to him with his son who was silently looking around. He took him from her as the boy kept his cheek on his father's shoulder already feeling tired.

"Maan baby, see your mami is here don't sleep now", Saachi told her son who looked ahead immediately resting his cheek on his father's cheek.

Arjun forgot to breathe when his eyes fall on her.

Her brothers were walking beside her as Trisha helped her with her lehenga while she continued holding her brother's hand.

"Look up, Taru", Dinesh spoke as she looked up trying to find her father anywhere. Her eyes fall on his teary ones as her hold against Dinesh's hand increased.

Dinesh looked at his father before nodding as he asked him to take her to the stage.

Arjun helped her climb upholding her other hand. She looked back at her brother who was holding her other hand with teary eyes.

Dinesh blinked his tears before leaving her hands taking a few steps back passing a smile to her. Trisha rubbed his shoulder as Tara walked up.

"Let's go", Trisha whispered to her husband holding his hand following Tara.

Saachi came with the varmala.

Arjun made her wear it as Tara did the same. It was pretty quick as the photographer clicked a few pictures.

They sat beside each other on the setup arranged on the stage as the guests came to get their pictures clicked.

When it was Dinesh's turn, he sat beside Tara keeping his hand on her head while Trisha kept her hand on Arjun's head as he was younger in relation now. Trisha gave the envelope of money to Arjun who took it silently.

Dinesh stood up immediately feeling tears blurring his eyes.

Tara held his hand which made him look down at her. Tears started falling down her cheek as he wiped his tears before hugging his little sister who was sobbing on his shoulder.

Nagesh walked in between trying to calm both of them.

Shraddha, Roshni, Saachi, and Aadya started crying as well remembering their time.

"Enough", Nagesh spoke wiping her tears as more fall down.

"Bacha, enough", he told her blinking his eyes before looking at Dinesh who was taking deep breaths to calm his breath. Trisha cried silently with Supriya not wanting to interrupt and make her cry more.

Just then they heard a baby crying. Trisha was trying to calm her son who was crying continuously.

Tara walked to her taking her nephew from her kissing his forehead lightly which calmed the baby as he looked at her with teary eyes.

"Now stop crying. What are you going to do on vidai(Tara's departure)?", Supriya asked as Dinesh nodded.

Yuvraj hugged his wife who was crying silently. She felt the same when she left her family. Ekansh patted her head calming her looking at Aadya who was just looking at him with a glare.

"What?", he asked her.

"You married me so early. Don't you remember how much I cried? You forgot to pacify me now also", she told him as he frowned at her words.

"You don't love me anymore, Rana Sa", she said hitting his shoulder.

"It's Arjun marriage. Why don't we focus on the new couple", Ekansh spoke as Aadya glared at him before looking at her nephew.

"My baby grew up this quickly. He was so little in my marriage", Aadya spoke.

"We got married years ago if you remember. It's been more than 20 years", he told her making her pout at his interruption and breaking her beautiful moment.

They reached to the mandap as Trisha helped Tara sit beside Arjun. Her lehenga took more space than her as the priest started reciting the holy verses.

Tara thought to forget everything looking at the fire.

The whole ritual ended as they were finally declared husband-wife in between their family.

They took blessings from all the elders. Arjun wasn't really happy taking blessing from his mother but he didn't want to make a scene here.

"This is not fair", They heard which made them turn.

"What is wrong?", Trisha asked Sakshi.

"He is wearing Jiju's shoes", Sakshi pointed at Kinshuk who smiled brightly.

"And we stole Bhabhi's sandals", Kenit announced with a proud smile.

Roshni shook her head looking at Anav who just shrugged looking at his sons.

"This is not even a ritual", Sakshi argued as Trisha made Tara sit which caught everybody's attention.

"Our shoe size is the same. I brought another pair of heels", Trisha announced making Tara wear her heels.

"Now wear those sandals", Roshni told Kenit who pouted sadly. Tara stood up with Arjun's help.

They were still arguing when Arjun felt Tara shaking a little which caught his attention. He tried to understand what was happening when she fell unconscious in his arms.

He shook her lightly.

"Tara", he called patting her cheek softly only to pull everyone's attention.

He picked her up in his arms taking her inside where her Bhabhi asked placing her on the bed.

"What happened?", Arjun asked looking at his brother.

"Her BP is low", Dinesh spoke after checking it asking his wife to get lemonade.

"She never gets BP problem", Supriya spoke caressing her daughter's cheek removing the nose ring.

"She might be taking a lot of pressure of marriage. It happens", Shraddha spoke catching Arjun's attention as he looked at her.

Did it have anything to do with his warning?

Shraddha looked back at her son trying to know what was going on in his mind but before that, he looked at Tara as her brother sprinkled water on her face making her frown.

"Drink this bacha?", Supriya said making her drink lemonade as she silently had it.