He took me to a cave where we saw a very old person, we went inside and on seeing us the old man said, "You have come, I have been waiting for you all these time." He looked like hermit, and he looks bit scary too, he was looking at me so much I got scared and went behind him, hiding myself. He asked me to come forward and instructed me to sit down. I sat down and he applied some powder in my throat, after applying that though, some changes happened in my body. I was someone else now. I wasn't too thin but neither was I fat, but I was bit huge. I had pimples in my face and I never really bothered about my looks. For a girl in her 20s it is big thing but for me I wasn't at all interested in all these stuff. I was nerd in all ways. I don't know what happened, I felt as if I had become someone else, the old man smiled and said, "Now you will have a voice, and you shall do whatever you are destined to do."
We left the place, while walking back it seemed as if I was walking through known places. I was able to recognize all these places. I had never been to these places till now but I could slowly remember. I held his hands more tightly. As we were walking I went towards him and out of some intense emotions, brushed his hair with my fingers, looked at his eyes, went more close towards him, and kissed him. I haven't kissed anyone so far, and I didn't know how to kiss, but it just came, it was long kiss, we kissed till we became breathless. He hugged me and I hugged him back and I had tears in my eyes and I could sense he also had tears.
He cupped my face in his hand and said, " Aisha, jaanum, finally we are together." I smiled shyly and we walked back to the palace.
I could remember each of the things which had happened. I know this man, he is my love. I felt like I woke up from a long sleep, as if I was brought back to this world again to life again. We went back to the palace, he invited me to another room, gave me another dress, another set of ornaments. When I came out, he took me to mirror, I looked like someone else, and I had changed from Maya to someone else.
He said, "You look so beautiful, am so happy that I can't express in words."
I turned towards him, and held his hands and said, "Don't ever leave me. I have been searching for you all these time,"
He smiled again and said, "We shall be together always." He held me in his arms and brushed my hair gently.
I withdrew his hold and asked him, "But I don't belong here, I will have to go back, what would happen then?"
He brushed my hair and said, "It took centuries for me to find you, do you think I will leave you now? You will have to return but I shall be with you always, don't worry."
He held me again in his arms, brushing my hair with his fingers, though we were madly in love before, we never had the courage to be in each other's arms, all the love was through eyes, now the time has reached were we could be what we are without being afraid. He was a strong man, he looked really handsome, the most handsomest and charming person I had ever seen till now. I believe maybe that's why I never liked anyone till now, maybe because my love was always with me though I was unaware of it. I was having long hair now, my hair was short, and lot of physical changes happened I was looking beautiful. I now understood why I had always felt some sort pain as if I had lost something all my life, I had everything required to be happy but I wasn't happy. I guess this was that missing thing in my life. I had shut myself away from everyone and everything, I had this rebellion and revenge inside me but I didn't know what it was against. I always behaved as if am going through a break up.
He came from my back and held me again, and said, "What happened, is everything alright? What are you thinking about?"
I looked back and smiled, and remained silent.
He held my hands and took me towards sofa, asked me to sit there, he sat near to me and said, " I was there in front of you, but unless you were ready I couldn't come before, you always said, you were hurt, you cried most of the days, and I used to see you every day, I saw you crying yourself to sleep, I wanted to come and hold you close and say it will be fine, I was dying in that pen too. Tell me jaan, why were you crying? "
I looked down and said, "I actually don't know, most of the times I felt like shouting whenever people showed me sympathy, I never wanted that, I just wanted someone to hear me, to understand my silence, no one would, I never had any friend, with whom I could share anything, I was always alone. I wanted to sing, I couldn't, I love to sing poetry but that too I can't." He stood up and came towards me and hugged me, I was crying.
He said,"Shh...it's okay…it's all thing of a past, you can do whatever you want to do now, I will make sure, you are able to do anything you want to do."
He wiped my tears and said, "You have such beautiful smile jaan why are you not using it, common smile now."
I started smiling and laughing. We had bit of conversations but most of the times we were just looking into each other's eyes.
Suddenly I break the silence, I ask him, "What is happening in my house? Can I go back to meet my family?"
He said, "Yes of course, we will return together, don't worry, for now just be here, don't think about anything else." I smiled and then we had food again, I was feeling weird, wearing all those heavy dresses. Most of the time we were silent, it felt strange talking too, for I am not used to it.
I said after a while, "I never knew I will get a chance to visit Kashmir like this, not this place has become more favourite. But why is it that we don't see anyone else, nearby."
He gave a naughty smile and said, "You have so many questions, this palace doesn't actually exist, it's far from the world, magic destroyed this palace, and people belonging here and that's the reason we are not known to any people, there are people who come to search, they come and go, but normal people don't come here, you know the current state of things, politics and all, things have fallen miserably. Earlier it was a paradise on earth."
I looked at him every time with more admiration. I had fallen in love, I don't know who I was Aisha or Maya but whoever I was I had fallen for this man, and there is nothing I could do about it. I loved the way he spoke, the way he looked at me, the way he called me princess, the way he held me, everything. I smiled and on seeing that he also smiled. It just felt magical whenever our eyes met.
I asked him after having food, "So from where does all these food and dishes come? Who cooks it?"
He said, "Magic, I also know bit of magic, I had arranged everything, you remember when I left a note that I would be back, I came here and arranged everything."
I said, "Oh that's really nice."
He held my hands again and we went for walk at night, it was beautiful. Moon shined brighter, mountains were shining, and trees were sparkling. It was amazing. As we were walking, he held me close to him, holding each other. I felt so safe. We returned back in a while, he played some music, the kind which I like, he said it was his favourite too, after he while he gave his hand and invited me to dance with him. It was a slow track , he held be by my waist, and by one hand he was brushing my hair, he was singing too, and in sometime I started singing the same song. I didn't knew which song it was or which language it was, I started to sing along him , looking at his eyes, we were moving very slowly.
We were so lost in each other's eyes, that we didn't stop singing, he came closer and kissed my eyes, saying, "Your eyes are the prettiest eyes I have ever seen."
He kissed my nose, my cheeks and then he kissed my lips. It was long passionate kiss. Slowly he took me in his arms, I didn't know where he was taking me, and all I could see was his eyes. He put me in the bed as if I were his child, held my head softly and kept me in pillow. He started kissing me again, with each kiss, each cell of my body came alive. He caressed me so much, in a way I haven't ever felt. All I could see was the love which was waiting to be given. As moments passed by, slowly , he came to me, it wasn't lust neither pain nor pleasure, it was just love and maybe the so called act of love making didn't feel like anything so great as people exaggerate it felt much higher and above it, because we just one emotion and that was love. He touched my body with his fingers, his fingers were moving so smoothly, I was feeling ticklish. I was feeling shy. He started removing my clothes one by one. It was feeling weird. He started kissing me slowly again. Our lips were twirling. He went on kissing my neck, slowly held my breasts. His lips touched one of my breasts, I gave a small moan. He started sucking them more, my fingers played through his hairs, holding him tightly. He went further down, kissing my belly. He was kissing, sucking and licking me, I had started moaning more now. He had removed his dress as well in this process. He kissed my inner thighs, I wasn't really prepared for this much. I was wet to a great extent. I was flowing with juices I could say in other words. He inserted his fingers on my wet pussy. He started rubbing, I was biting my lower lips and almost screaming.
He stopped for a moment. He started licking my pussy so madly, I don't even know how to describe it. First of all it was the first time I was making out with anyone. He came up to me again, we were kissing so madly. I didn't know when but he had inserted his dick on my still wet pussy. I did get an orgasm when he was licking. We were kissing and at the same time, he was getting more and more into me. I did feel pain in the beginning, but the kiss I guess worked. My fingers kept wandering through his broad back. He had increased the speed from being gentle, it became sort of aggressive. He went on and on, kept on giving me orgasms. It was as if he didn't want to leave me, he just wanted to be inside me. I was tired after a while. I don't know when but I had slept off in his arms.
He was gentle, just like he seemed, there weren't really much of difference between him and me. He came closer to me, held me in his arm closely, and with every his all, he gave I took it with even more love. I felt as if I were a flower going to bloom. He made the woman in me alive. Our breathes smelled similar, our smiles looked similar, our eyes looked similar, and our love above all was even more similar. I didn't realize when the night had gone and morning came, I had seen mornings before also, but this morning, I was wrapped in his arms, he was playing with my hairs, gently smiling on me, kissing on my forehead every now and then, whispering at times.