Chapter 14

                   Part - 14

                Maan is worried to see tears in her eyes...

                Maan: Geet, Geeet

                Geet: haan

                Maan: tum teek toh haina?

                Geet: haan Maan sir, mein teek hoon

                Maan: woh...tummmare haath mein kya hai?

                Geet : kuch nahi

                Geet hides it from him...

                Maan didn't want to interfere in her privacy...

                Maan: mein chaltha hoon Geet, mujhe kuch kaam hai

                Maan leaves her alone...

                Geet opens the letter...

                                Meri pyaari Geet,

Tum kaise ho? mein aur tummari aunty tumme bahut yaad karthe hai, tum bhi humme bahut yaad karthi hogi? Tummare jaane ke badh tummari aunty bahut akhele ho gayi hai, pehle jaise mujhse bhi baat nahi karthi, meinne bhi kitne logon ko kaam pe rakha hai ye sochkke ki woh apne aapko akhele mehsoos nahi kare, par koi faida nahi, woh kissi se bhi zyada baat nahi karthi, pehle ki tarah bahar bhi nahi jaathi, tumme toh yakheen hi nahi hoga, teri mausi jitne bahudur dikhthi hai utna hi darfok hai, tumme patha haina ki woh andhere se kaise darthi? Issi liye toh har jagah itne sare lights lagaya hua hai, sab ko lagtha hai ki tummari aunty ko aaise purane cheezon collect karne ki shok hai, par sirf mujhe patha hai ki ye sare allaudin ke din ke lights se lekhe ye nayi neon light tak kyun lekhe aathi hai, ab ye secret mein tumme batha raha hoon, kyunki mujhe nahi lagtha ki mein zyada din usska khyaal rakh saktha, mein bhi bahut kamzoor ho gaya hoon, mein hamesha bagwaan se yahi dua kartha hoon ki bagwaan mujhse pehele tummare aunty ko apne paas bhulaye, par ab toh aaisa nahi lagtha , Geet, tum kab wapas aarahi ho? mujhe tumse bahut sare batein karna hai, tum Delhi aathe hi mujhe call karna, mere naye number...**********, tumme ghar ka number toh yaad hoga, par iss number ko call karna, mein tumse akhele milna chahatha hoon,mere jaane ke badh tum kabhi apne aunty ko akhele mat chodna, kyunki woh ek din bhi akhele nahi reh payegi, aur hummare chintha mat karna, hum toh agle dus saal aaise hi ek dusre ke saath guzar sakthe hai, tum apne papa ki chintha bhi mat karo, jab tak tummari aunty zinda hai tumme koi kuch nahi kar saktha, bas tum apne padayi mein dhyaan do aur apne aunty ki sapne ko pure karo...all the best Geet...take care...

                                                                                Tummare pyaare uncleji...

Ye padkke Geet zor zor se ronne lagi...

                Aur patha nahi kitne dher wahi beitkke rahi...

                Maan comes looking for her...

                It's almost 5 pm...

                Geet ke jaane ka waqt ho gaya...

                Maan slowly enters...

                Geet is still staring at that letter...

                Maan: Geet, koi pareshaani hai kya?

                Geet gets up...

                Geet: mujhe jaana hai

              She just leaves...

                Maan also leaves that place with a heavy heart...

Maybe she remembered her uncle and aunty...poor girl...ab mein ussko kabhi akhele nahi chodoonga, haan Geet, ab tum meri ho gayi ho, Maan ki Geet, ab mein tummare ankhon mein aasoo nahi dekh saktha, kabhi nahi

                Next week they have a small party to celebrate KM's new look...

                Adi,Manisha, Romeo aur sare office staffs aathe hai...

                Geet bhi aathi hai...pinky ke saath...

                Maan toh sirf Geet ko hi dekhthe rehtha...

                Geet feels embarrassed...

                But Maan keeps following her everywhere...

                Geet tries hard to hide from him...

                Later she also gives up and even shakes a leg with him...

                Maan offers her a lift that night...

                Maan wants to tell her everything...

                What he feels for her and how he longs to be with her always...

                He knows very well that Geet too has the same feeiligs for him...

                Her eyes always confess her love for him...

                It's only her actions that trouble him always...

                Why does she keeps running away from him?

                Maybe she is still very immature to handle this, maybe she is feeling shy...

                Anyway he will make evrerything clear today...

                He can't live without her...

                Geet ab Maan ki aadat hi nahi zarooart bangayi hai...

                But Geet keeps mum all the way...

Maan stops the car in the middle...

                Geet looks out of the window...

                It's raining outside...

                Geet: kya hua?

                Maan just smiles...

                Geet ko laga gadhi karab ho gayi...

                Geet: aap aur aapki gatia gadhi, mein peithal hi chali jaoongi, hostel paas hi hai

              Geet opens te door and starts walking in the rain...

                Maan didn't expect her to wlak out in the rain...

                Maan hesitates to step out in the rain...

                But Geet will disappear from his sight and what will he do?

                How would he miss this opportunity?

                Maybe this is the last chance...

                Maan runs after her...

                He finds her dancing merrily in the rain...

                He stops and admires his Mishty for a while...

                Geet finds him and asks him to join her...

                They dance in the rain like kids...

                All of a sudden thunder strikes and Geet hugs Maan tightly...

                Maan is thunder struck...a thousand volts pass thru his body...

                He cuddles her within his embrace...

                For a moment Geet felt like she is in heaven...

                    All her worries vanish like the fast disappearing black clouds after the rain...

                The sky clears and Geet too feels like a free bird...

                Then she remembers that she is still a caged bird, her life doesn't belong to her anymore...

                It's time for her to get back to her cage...

                She can see her family waiting for her...

                Waiting to curb her wings and put her in that cage forever...

                Just like her mother and sister...

Only good thing is that she won't be put in some odd cage, she is going to share the cage with her lovely elder sister...

She remembers her sister and the promise she made her...

If she breaks her promise it's not only her but her sister would also suffer...

She realizes that this man has no place in her world...

She then steps back, and runs away with tears in her eyes...

She never wanted to see him again...

But the following week she came to see him with her wedding card...

Maan was shocked but he felt that he had been cheated...

Yet he wanted her to just say once that she doesn't like this marriage...

Just tell me Geet that you love me...

He kept staring at her the whole 10 minites as she tried very hard to sport a smile on her face...

Then she left without uttering a single word...

                She knew that he loves her...

                She didn't want him to keep waiting for her...

She wanted him to move on, so she came to give him the invitation, not to invite him for her wedding...

                Now that she had conveyed the message to him, she felt a little relieved...

                It's now up to him to get out of this mess that he himself created...

                She never wanted to let him affect her...

                She always tried to maintain a distance...but he always wanted her close to his heart...

He is the one who always crossed that line with such an ease that even Geet didn't realize it until he became an inevitable part of her life...

She always convinced herself that she is going to KM only for her job but her heart knows that she is lying...she wants to be with him...though it's only for a few hours she wants to stay with him ...fight with him...cry her heart out and tell everything to him...but then something stops her and she knows that he will get into unneccesarry trouble and she is also not sure what she wants...b'coz her life is now entangled with her sister's life know...

If she wants to run away then her sister too would have to return to her maikka with her children...for her marriage is fixed with her buaji's second son, her jiju's younger brother...

If she tries to stop this wedding then her sister would be sent home...that was the cunning deal that she was forced to make for pursuing her studies...

She promised her sister that she would marry her sister's devar after completing her studies...

But those morons have arranged the marriage as soon as they knew that Geet is 18...

That's the only thing that had stopped them all this years...

Else she would have been married off to that rougue 3 yaers back...

If not for her aunty her marriage would have taken place on that day itself...

After Geet completed school and went to Hoshiarpur for the holidays, her family had made all the arrangements for her wedding for they didn't want to let their family fortunes get out of their family...her bhuaji is also a Handa know...let her sons have it...

Her sister has already been made a scaoe goat, now it was Geet's turn...

Geet was too young to oppose them...she called her aunty and her aunty who was kept unaware of this wedding for she wanted Geet to join college and had already secured her a seat in one of Delhi's well known institutions...

Her aunty came with the police inspector in the wedding eve and stopped the wedding...

The inspector warned them that it's illegal to get her married as she is still a minor...

Everyone blamed her aunty but her aunty stood firmly by her and she left only after they promised to send her to college...she had complained to the sarpanchji who advised them that it's better to send her to college as they can't get her married and if she stays at Hoshaiarpur everyone would start speaking ill of her as her wedding is cancelled...

After her aunt left they asked her to swear that she would marry that same man who is nearly double her age, she was 15 and he was 30...

If she tries to cheat them then they would send her sister back...

Geet thought that it's better for her sister, but her sister was content with her life and she loves her jiju very much...he is somewhat good but is a coward...he is afraid of his mother...

Geet had no other go but to accept that deal...

Atleast she got 3 years of her own...

She thought that she could first finish her degree and get a job...

Then she can slowly convince them that this will not work as she wants to work...

But all of a sudden on the day after her 18th b'day her lovely fianc came with the wedding cards and asked her to get ready for their wedding...he warned her not to try any tricks for this time she is all alone and no aunty or uncle to support her...moreover her sister is eagerly awaiting her arrival...

Geet had her final exams next month and her beloved fianc was kind enough to let her sit for the exams...if she behaves like a good girl then she won't have any problem at all...

That's when she decided to be a good girl for her family...a good sister...a good daughter...