Part - 77
Next day...
It's the wedding day...
All are ready but not Geet...
Geet is not happy to wear a lehanga...
She is not comfortable with it...
It's like she is wearing some funny outfit at a fancy dress...
She is wearing it for the first time know?
She is worried she might look funny in that...
Sam says that she is looking pretty but Geet is not convinced...
Her padoswale khakaji says she looks like an angel in that dress...
Annie is waering a salwar...
Geet wanted to wear her salwar only...
But since Sam's lehanga suited Geet ranno asked her to wera it...why waste such a beautiful dress?
Aksar apne bade bhai ya behen hoatha toh chote bhai aur behen ko unkke kapde pehena padtha haina?
Geet ko ye pasand hi nahi hai...par ye ranno toh manthi hi nahi...
Geet usse pehenkke bahut pareshaan hojaathi...
She justs sits in s corner while her friends sing and dance and play...
Maan is surprised to see Annie roaming around without her friend...
He asks Annie what happened to her friend and Annie tel hi about her new dress...
Maan wants to see her at once...
He searches her and finds her sitting alone...
She looks pretty like a fairy...
Aur haan, Geet ab ladhki se aurat banne ke tayaari mein hai, usski bachpana ab sirf usske dimag mein hai, lehin ye toh bad rahi hai ...
Looking at her angry face Maan doubts whether her brain stopped growing and she is till a kid, but he loves her childish innocence ...
Annie too is like that, but she is still his little sister and will remain the same forever...
Geet is not like that, he wants to see her as a friend, he wants her to grow up to his level so that he can share his feelings with her, which she would misunderstand now as she is nave and ignorant, how he wished Geet too was mature enough to realize his love for her...
There is definitely some attraction between the two which they both are aware of but the conseqences of this sudden changes and admirations are known to Maan only, Geet is still scared that this is some sin and she is not ready to express her feelings...she is trying to suppress them as they are wrong...
Though she may still be a kid going by her immature mind and innocence she is not a kid but she is into the first step of her adolescence and her body has rather taken a quicker leap ahead of her age...
Geet is already embarrassed by these sudden changes in her body while Annie and the others don't show such early changes, she is conscious about the changes and so she is feeling awkward...
And this lehanga makes her feel uncomfortble as it exploits her hidden beauty...even Ranno thought for the first time that her little girl is growing so fast...
Maan is the first to note the changes in her after Geet, who knows her better than Maan? He had this crush on her even before he knew about first crush or infatuation himself...
This is something natural and they didn't make any attempt themselves, it all happened as they grew up together...
They never had to worry about meeting each other or try to get acquainted as they are like a family and the opportunities come their way often, they get to spend a lot of time together, though they are surrounded by their friends and family they know that their relationship is different and unique, though they seemed to maintain a distance they are actually getting closer and closer, they know each other as much as they know themselves...
As Maan nears Geet, Geet becomes nervous and she looks at herself and tries to hide herself with the duppatta...and in her nervousness she struggles to correct her dress which is not proper and she doesn't know how to correct it...
As always Maan comes to the rescue...he just santches her duppatta and helps her wear it properly so that she looks beautiful and not awkward as she feels, you know how a protective brother would keep a watch on his sister's dress and want her to look perfect, just like that Maan is so protective and possessive for he wouldn't want others to see her hidden treasures...
Geet finds it hard to stand still as Maan adjusts her dress...
Maan: Geet, ye kya kar rahi ho? safety pin do
She tries to give him without making any eye contact and. she drops it...
Maan gets angry...
Maan: tummare didi kahan hai? Tumme chodke kahan gayi? Ye toh uska kaam haina? Aur dekho mein tere madat akr raha hoon, he pretends to hate helping her though he loves it, he thanks Sam for this opportunity...
Geet: aap chodho, mein kar sakthi
She snatches the pin and tries to pin the pallu...
But she couldn't...so she leaves it to the expert, MSK...
Maan keeps admiring her as she blushes...
Maan: tum yahan akhele kya kar rahi ho? bahar aao, sabke saath nachna haina?
Geet: nahi, mujhe nahi nachna
Maan: kyun? Sam ko dekha? Sab ussko hi dekhthe hai, tumme apne didi ko harana nahi hai kya?
Geet: nahi, mujhe ye dress achcha nahi lagtha
Maan: lekhin mujhe toh bahut pasand aaya, tumamri ye dress aur tum bhi bahut ahcchi lagthi ho Geet
Geet: aap joot bolthe ho, aap muje ullu banana ko koshish karthe ho
Maan: nahi Geet, scahi, iis mein toh Sam se zyada tum cute lagthi ho
Geet: nahi toh
Maan: tumme yakheen nahi hotha?
Geet: hmmm woh
Geet looks at herself...
Maan: aao mere saath
Geet: hare, chodo mujhe
Geet walks slowly which is unusual as she is used to running blindly hitting things all the way, but this dress doesn't allow her to run, she can't even walk comfortably...
Maan stares her as she moves slowly...he then offers to help her...
Maan holds her hand and takes her to the mirror...
Geet looks at herself and she thinks that she is looking pretty good, agar Maan ko ye dress pasand aaya toh Geet ko bhi pasand aayega na?
Maan admires her as she looks at her reflection and smiles at herself ...
Some guests come in and Maan hides himself behind the door...
Geet is embarrassed as they smile at her and tease her..."
"hare, isse dekho, issko abhi Dulhan banna hai:
"mera koi beta hotha toh mein isse abhi aone ghar lekhe jaathi"
"achcha hua ye bach gayi"
Maan gets angry...ye meri hai...meri Geet...
Geet stands there blinking...
After they leave Maan comes out...
She looks at him and is surprised that he is angry...
Geet: ye mein ahccha nahi laghti?
She is disappinoted...
Maan: bahut achchi lagthi ho, tum aao mere saath
He takes her back to the corner and asks her to stay there itself...
Geet is confused...
Abhi abhi mujhe kaha ki sabke saath nacho, aur ab kya hua?
Maan: tum yahi beito, Maan sits with her giving her company...
Geet: kyun? Mujhe bhi nachna hai
Maan: nahi, abhi nahi, phir kabhi
Geet: nahi, mujhe abhi nachna hai
Geet tries to get up and join the party...
Maan pulls her back...
Maan is looking serious...
Maan: tum yahan se hilne ki koshish mat karna, warna
Maan is very angry...
Geet sits back...
After a while Sam comes and takes her to the dance floor...
Geet pretends to dance but she keeps looking at Maan every now and then...
Maan is still angry...
But Geet doesn't understand why he is angry with her...poor Geet, she is upset...
Next day Maan realizes how silly he was to behave like that with Geet...
He goes to see her...
Geet won't talk with him...
Maan uses his secret weapon, Annie to bring Geet to the terrace as he always does...
Geet comes to the terrace in search of Annie...
Geet: Annie...
Maan comes behind her...
Geet turns and looks at him...she is angry...
She tries to leave...
Maan: Geeet
Geet stops...else he would stop her...
This is what happens always...she is used to this meetings and she likes them too...
Maan: tum abhi bhi naraaz ho?
Geet odesn't reply...
Maan: mujhse baat nahi karogi?
Still no answer...
She is standing with her back facing Maan...
Maan keeps inching forward...
Geet stands still not knowing what to expect...
He is very unpredictable, sometimes so sweet and sometimes so rude
But still she likes him! Why?
Now also she can just run away if she wants but she won't, why?
What has he done with her? Why is she so volatile when he is around?
Maan: achcha teek hai Geet, agar tum nahi chahathi toh mein bhi tumse baat nahi kartha
Geet turns back and shouts...: nahi, aaisa kuch nahi hai
As she turns and hits him and falls when Maan catches her and looks into her eyes...
He can see the passion in her eyes...her love for him is prominent...
Maan: tumme koi batein karne ki zaroorat nahi hai Geet, batein toh tere aankhen karthe rehthe hai, Geet
She is so embarrasses, she is caught ...now she can't hide anything...the cat is out of the bag now...the truth is out...there is nothing to hide...she blushes...
She can't face his eyes...she turns aside and runs away smiling big...
Maan knows she is happy...he is also happy...and there begins the love story of Maneet...
Maan thinks about her and the happy times when they were together...
Now his Geet is sleeping there alone, and she won't speak to him, she won't look at him and she won't listen to him either...god ...what have I done? I have lost my Geet...no...
This is so scary...
And thru out this journey Maan had never thought about anything without Geet and Geet was omnipresent everywhere in his life...his life revolved around her and her happiness...
He wanted to give her the best he could...he wanted her to be happy...she wanted her to be comfortable and secured...wihtout any fears about the future...welll settled...just like Sam and Annie...even if something happened to him in the future he wanted her to stand on her own without depending on others, he just wanted to secure her future...
But in his quest to fulfil his wish for future he has totally ignored the present...
Maan forgot to realize that there is no future without present...
And this incident has come as a shocker for him to stop and think about his present, about his lovely wifey about what he had before him , a lovely family and the most loving wife, he realized what he had missed all these days, his Geet's love and affection, he missed them the most, he failed to appreciate her love and he failed miserably to take care of her...
He failed to cherish the treasure in his hands in search of the hidden treasure which is a mirage ...
Back to the present...
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coderlady @coderlady
+ 8
8 months ago
First he wanted her to dance. Then he didn't want her to dance. She has no idea what's behind it all.
coderlady @coderlady
+ 8
8 months ago
Geet was not happy with the hand me down outfit. Maan knew he had to cheer her up.