Chapter 6

                 Part - 6

Next week Maan asks his driver to park his car at KC itself...

He thinks that she will come if she knows that he is not here...

Just as he thought Geet comes that Sunday...

She doesn't come inside the house...

She just goes to the garden...her favourite spot...

Maan is in his room still looking at her picture...

When will she come back? He just wants to see her once...

He doesn't know why this longing?

He had remained single all these days and never missed anyone's company...

But he is missing this unknown girl, whom he had met only a couple of times...

As he was thinking about Geet he hears some unpleasant sound...

He gets angry being disturbed from this beautiful thought...

He goes to the window and shouts...

Maan: Nakul, kya ho raha hai? tum log mujhe chain se rehne nahi de sakthe hai kya? woh awaaz kya hai? Nakuuulll

He peeps into the garden and finds Geet on the swing...

That swing had been kept unattended all these days so it's making those screeechy sounds...

Geet is scared and she tries to leave...

Maan: hare, rukho, koi pakdo ussko

Security stops her...

Maan gets down to see her...

Maan: tum? Yahan kya kar rahi ho? andar kyun nahi aayi?

Geet: kya? Aap ko lagtha hai ki mein chor hoon, haina? toh meinne socha ki mein andar aakke aapko pareshaan mat karoon

Maan: aaisa kuch nahi hai, ye tummara ghar haina? Tum kabhi bhi aasakthi ho, I'm sorry, meinne tumme galat samja

Geet: sach?

            Maan smiles...: haan

Geet: aap itna bhi bhure nahi ho, thoda thoda achche bhi ho

Maan: what?

Geet: par aap abhi bhi Dhust danav hi ho? jab dekho chilathe rehthe ho, haina babaji?

Geet runs off without waiting for his reaction...

Maan stares and Geet looks back at him and smiles...

She waves her hands : bye Mr.Khurana

Maan waves back...

But that was an error...haina? this is not MSK...

Maan is happy to see a smile on her face...

He is also feeling very happy...

Next Sunday...

Maan has gone out for some work...

Geet comes and finds that Maan is not at home...

She feels disappointed...

Btu she uses this opportunity to fulfil her wishes...

She runs up the terrace and finds her playing stones still in place...

Those were some left over granite stones big and small mostly rectangular bars...

Her aunty had got it from the nearby sight where Geet used to play in the sands in the evenings while her aunty had a chit chat with her friend, Mrs.Sharma, they were building this huge mansion and Mrs.Sahrma would proudly tell them the work in progress in detail...

Geet made sand castles and the engineer saw her interest in them and he showed her how they built huge buildings using the waste stones...

He would bulid her a new model everytime and soon Geet got interested in this new game...

Her aunt brought her a sack full of stones and she used to plat with them in their terrace...

Her aunt wanted Geet to be a career woman, and want her to satnd on her own legs...independent and free...she was very liberal as she came to Delhi at a very young age married to her doctor husband who was a nice gentleman...

When his whole family cursed his wife for not having issues he stood by her side and supported her, he ignored their advice to desert her and remarry...

He loved her so much and never let her feel inferior...they were made for each other...

She loved him so much and her world surrounded around him...

Starting from the early morning coffee to their late night stroll in the terrace they spent a lot of time together...uncle made it a rule nit to leave her alone for she would miss having their kids and took her along with him wherever he went...

Uncle had his own clinic ...

He always persuaded aunty to engage herself in some work...he never let her sit idle...

She joined a lot of clubs and organized charity functions for the needy...

She also organized weekend medical check ups for the children in the orphanage...

While uncle took care of their health aunty showered them with love and affection...

She used to give them chocolates after their vaccination ...

Infact the children called her chocolate aunty...

She also taught them how to keep themselves neat and tidy...

She taught the girls to set goals and persue a career, become economically independent...

Aspire to become doctors, engineers and scientists...

Geet used to accompany them to the orphanage only for the chocolates she also got from her aunt...

Little she knew about the misfortunes of its inmates...

She just made friends with them and played with them just as a kid...

Later she started to admire her aunty and her work...

Geet looked at the stones and remembered how uncle and aunty played with her like kids and her aunty would always insist on her not to give up her dreams of building such marvels in real oneday...

Here she is, going to complete her architect degree, but her aunt was not there to wish her...

Geet missed her so much...but she is determined to fulfil her aunt's wish...she would definitely succeed one day...

After a while she went to the garden...

Her aunty maintained the garden so well that every visitor never left before praising her efforts and admiring the beautiful roses indulging in their fragrance... The lady visitors always wanted to have those roses and only left after having a bunch of those...

Yes, it was a rose garden and Geet's favourite were the red roses...

She had a handful of red rose plants specially planted for her in a corner and would water them herself every day...wait for them to start flowering...eagerly counting the buds each day and sitting beside them to see them flower into beautiful roses until her aunt came in search of her and took her in telling her that it would only open in the morning...

Now her pretty rose garden looks like a desert...full of thorny bushes and weeds...

It was left neglected for so many days and Maan had no idea of reviving it...

For he had bought it from Geet's uncle's nephew who had inherited it and was an NRI...

He wanted to sell it at any cost as there were no buyers after it became a haunted house totally deserted for the past three years...

Maan knew the value of this place and bought this very cheap and decided to build a luxury apartment there...but as his investors refused to approve the project siting the haunted story behind the palce and it's unlucky tag...Maan decided to shift here and assure them that this place is just as good as the others...right in the middle of upper class residencial area...best suited for high class apartments...he just wants to stay here temporarily until he convinces his investers...

Geet came to know about this from the servants who wanted Maan to vacate this place at the earliest...everyone is so afraid and they stayed here just for Maan...

As Geet took a walk in the garden she comes across her swing...

It is looking like a new one shinning bright and painted and greased ...

Maan had got this done for her...got the area around it cleared...

She is very ahppy and merrily swings till she is contented...

She then decides to clear this place herself...

She starts plucking them one by one...

Maan has returned and he comes to know that Geet is here...

He rushes to see her...

She is not inside the house...

She must be in the garden...on the swing...

She must be surprised...

But, what is this? She is not here?

Maan looks at the empty swing...

She must have gone inside...

But this place is left unattended for a long time, what if there are some snakes or scorpions...

This girl is completely insane...

Maan gets in and searches her...

Maan bahut pareshaan ho gaya, pagal ladhkki, hamesha kuch ulta seedha karthi rehthi hai...

Maan: Geeet, Geeet

Maan had seen everywhere and there is no sign of Geet...

Maan gets a little worried about Geet...

What's wrong? Has she left?

That thought made him very sad...

No no, she won't leave that easily...

She likes giving him trouble...

And what's she up to now...

Ye ladhki mujhe pagal kardegi...

Jab se ye aayi hai Maan has turned into an emotional fool...

He used to be unaffected by human sentiments and neither had anyone to care about after dadi...this is the first time he has felt connected so deeply with someone...

Unknowingly Geet had entered his lonely kingdom and that has made a huge impact on him...

Maan then thinks about the garden...

Geet must be there only...

Maan rushes to the backyard...and here she is...

Maan has a broad smile on his face seeing Geet...

            But then he frowns and gets mad that she is so careless...

Maan DD banjaatha...

Geet doesn't notice Maan and she is busy in her work...

Maan shouts...:Geeet...