Title: When We Remembered
Part One: The Outcast Prince
Aryan Singh Rathore at St. Elora’s Residential School—an elite hilltop boarding school for the children of tycoons, diplomats, and dynasties. Aryan didn’t advertise his bloodline. No one knew where he came from, or why he walked like a prince no one had crowned.9Please respect copyright.PENANApEz8PCZOQz
He had vitiligo. White patches bloomed across his arms and neck like old maps. The students whispered. “Leper prince,” they mocked. “Albino ghost.” But Aryan never flinched. His storm-gray eyes stared back, not with fear, but with silence deeper than revenge.9Please respect copyright.PENANAFIHI4qijN5
At night, he dreamed. Of deserts. Of battles. Of chants: Prithviraj! Prithviraj!Always—there was a girl. Her eyes veiled but unmistakably fierce. Waiting. Watching.9Please respect copyright.PENANAMNqeWB154I
In waking life, Aryan was bullied, shy, hidden in shame. But in dreams? He was revered. Respected. Feared. This duality began to crack something inside him. Was this delusion? Or a memory that refused to die?
Part Two: The Girl Who Spoke in Gold
Samaira Deshmukh lived in a middle-class colony in Delhi. She was seventeen, studied literature, took the metro, helped her mom run a tiffin service. Ordinary, by all means.9Please respect copyright.PENANAjsd90ZVqiM
Except—she wasn’t.9Please respect copyright.PENANAGbPfrtLRgk
She once asked a grocer, “How many gold coins for potatoes?” Dead serious.She hated social media. She didn’t understand trends. She spoke like she’d stepped out of an epic.And at night—she saw fire. Women chanting. Invaders screaming. Her daughters clinging to her saree. And him. Storm-eyed. A warrior chained by destiny.9Please respect copyright.PENANAcElCbFCIQe
She didn't just see these dreams. She felt them—through her bones and her silence.
Part Three: Collision
They met during monsoon.9Please respect copyright.PENANAKqKcP45d0B
She was barefoot under the rain, face turned to the sky.“You’ll catch pneumonia,” he said, dry as gravel.She opened her eyes. “It’s just rain.”“You could fall sick.”“And wearing a cape to school is completely healthy?” she grinned.9Please respect copyright.PENANA3ARUyxc7Ty
The storm between them was instant. But they didn’t flirt. They retreated.Teenagers afraid of what their instincts already knew.Still—every night, she crept into his dreams. And for the first time, she laughed there.9Please respect copyright.PENANAMlJRtxk0lm
He dismissed them. Just dreams, he thought. Just tricks of a lonely heart.
Part Four: The Forgotten Fire
For four months, they never exchanged names. Yet they kept meeting at the same old banyan tree.Lunches shared. Eyes met during assembly. Notes passed. But nothing spoken aloud.Until one day, she said, “I’ve seen you before.”“In a dream?” he asked.She nodded. “We’re always running. Or riding. You die in the end.”9Please respect copyright.PENANAWtVohJAI2I
His breath stilled.“Same dream,” he said.9Please respect copyright.PENANAhBJexv8lfX
And then they stopped speaking.Maybe it was fear. Maybe guilt.Some truths burn too close to the bone.
Part Five: The Outcast and the Rebel
He showed her his scars.“Does it hurt?” she whispered, tracing the white on his skin.“I already died once,” he said. “What’s a few insults now?”9Please respect copyright.PENANAxsecrohUkg
She confessed too. About the veil she sometimes reached for.“I used to dream of waiting for a prince in a room full of mirrors.”“You don’t need saving,” he said.“No,” she replied. “But once, you did.”
Part Six: The Swayamvar Memory
It happened at a museum. A painting: Sanyogita placing a garland on Prithviraj Chauhan’s statue.9Please respect copyright.PENANAiVOhV0S8LM
Samaira froze.“I’ve done this before.”Aryan clenched his fists.“I walked into a court of jackals. I garlanded a statue. They screamed. But I knew you’d come.”“I did,” he said hoarsely. “On horseback. We fled to Ajmer.”9Please respect copyright.PENANAJxfjEol3KR
Tears welled.“We were so young.”“We were in love.”9Please respect copyright.PENANA7pfeGRzELZ
They held hands. No words. Just grief.
Part Seven: Blood and Betrayal
“I remember my son,” she said one windy evening.“And the fire,” her voice broke. “Johar. I stepped into it with my daughters.”He blinked fast. “And I wasn’t there. I was in chains.”“I know.”“I should’ve saved you.”“You saved me now.”
Part Eight: Guilt in This Life
“I didn’t go with my dad when he left for war,” Aryan said.“There was a school play. I stayed behind. He died. I was...laughing.”9Please respect copyright.PENANAoWpc127dzd
She touched his chest.“You’ve carried war longer than any soldier. Let it end here.”
Part Nine: Remembering Together
They began writing. Names. Dates. Dreams. They mapped a life they hadn’t lived, but somehow remembered.9Please respect copyright.PENANA10J3V3Vi96
“Ajmer,” Aryan whispered. “There was an underground palace.”“There was a courtyard,” she said. “You got a scar fighting ten guards.”“You remembered?”“Better than a statue ever could.”
Part Ten: The New Future
Three months later, the dreams blurred. The visions slowed.But their bond? That sharpened.9Please respect copyright.PENANAODKiYsY9kO
Aryan walked proudly, vitiligo on full display.Samaira wrote poems about fire and veils and women who burned but didn’t break.9Please respect copyright.PENANAIK24cxEHi2
They laughed. They cried less. They built fortresses out of sand, memories out of silence.9Please respect copyright.PENANAGEWAI2b8WC
“This hill,” Aryan said one day, “is where I’d build our palace.”She smiled. “Let’s start with a shack. Rent’s insane.”9Please respect copyright.PENANACxHBJZzFt7
They laughed. Really laughed.9Please respect copyright.PENANAp2q4qE4GJv
“This time, we live,” she said.He nodded. “This time, we get it right.”
Part Eleven: Full Circle
Rain fell again. They stood under the banyan tree.“I remembered something else,” she said.“You used to write me letters. On palm leaves.”9Please respect copyright.PENANAIlrswMx9zu
Aryan pulled out a notebook. “I never stopped.”9Please respect copyright.PENANANb9O4DfSyY
She opened it. Pages filled with handwriting. Dreams. Battles. Kisses.9Please respect copyright.PENANAYkgsntw7d9
“I love you,” she whispered.9Please respect copyright.PENANA4q4xEdyvSw
And then came the truth.9Please respect copyright.PENANAxoSB4FDWk3
“Maybe I was just a fangirl,” she said, “infatuated with a hero I didn’t know. We were married for barely two years. You were always at war. You had other wives. Where was the love?”9Please respect copyright.PENANAUrpeGvEn7I
Aryan looked at her, eyes steady.“And maybe I only loved your legend. Not you. Maybe it wasn’t love. Just hunger. Ego. Escape.”9Please respect copyright.PENANAFeDRFiWTI3
A long pause.9Please respect copyright.PENANAA7KOqzJJeU
“In our last life, we loved without knowing each other.”“In this one, we knew each other—and realized... maybe that wasn’t love at all.”9Please respect copyright.PENANADhO8A4x98D
They didn’t kiss.9Please respect copyright.PENANALA6jQTUlCA
They held hands, just for a moment.Then let go.9Please respect copyright.PENANA2t17euryAs
They chose to walk away. Not in pain. Not in bitterness. But in truth.
Final Line
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9Please respect copyright.PENANAu1GWpm8Suins216.73.216.82da2"To truly love someone," she wrote later, "you must know them. Memory isn’t love. Longing isn’t love. Recognition isn’t love.Only awareness is."9Please respect copyright.PENANA3qPR9NJLa6