Chapter 105

                 Part - 105

At Mumbai….

The next day morning…..

Pari goes down and finds Gayathri sitting and enjoying her morning tea…

Pari: good morning aunty

Gay: morning beta, kal raat teek se soye haina?

Pari: ji aunty, I feel like I’m at home

Gay: aap Geet ki friend ho toh ye aap ke ghar hi hai

Pari: that’s so sweet of you aunty

Gay: ye lo beta, chai piyo

Pari takes a cup….

Gay: patha nahi Geet kab aayenge aur ye sab teek kab hoga

Pari: aap chinta mat karo, ye toh jaldh hi katam ho jayega

Gay: aap hi Geet ko samjao, hum toh unko samjha samjha ke tak chuke hai

Pari doesn’t have any clue about what Gayathri is saying….

Pari: woh aunty, mein kuch samjhi nahi

Gay: ye aapki friend Geet patha nahi kab sadhi karke humme retirement denge

Pari: shadhi?

Pari is pretty doubtful if Gayathri knows anything at all about Geet and Dev.... Poor her…

Gay: hare bagwan, aajkal ke bache shadhi ke batein mein sochte hi nahi

Pari: par abhi kya jaldhi hai?

Gay: bahut intezaar kiya humne bhi, ab aur nahi, ab toh pata nahi hummare paas aur kitne din baki hai

Pari: aap toh abhi bhi bahut young ho auntyji

Gay: hummare jawaani ko chodna, unke jawaani aaise hi intezaar mein kaat na jaaye

Pari: par abhi lockdown haina

Gay: humme toh kuch samajh mein nahi aatha, aur aap shadhi kab kar rahe hai?

Pari is taken aback... even her parents haven’t asked her about it….

Pari: woh, mein

Gay: Aajkal ke bache shadhi se itna kyun darthe hai?

Pari goes speechless….

Gay: lagtha hai aap ko koi achcha ladkha nahi mila abhi tak

Pari: woh, milla tha, par abhi nahi hai

Gay: woh bhi aapko chodke chala gaya hai kya?

Pari: nahi, iss duniya se chala gaya

Gay goes and hugs Pari….

Gay: bagwan aapko hamesha kush rakhe

Pari feels the warmth in her hug and is overwhelmed with emotion…

Pari: Geet sahi kehthi thi, aap bahut achche ho

Gay: aap kabhi apne aapko akhele mat samajhna, hum sab hai aap ke saath, aap dekhna, babaji jaldh hi aapko ek achcha saathi se milayenge

Just then Dev comes…

Gay: aap bhi hummari Geet ki tarah hi hai, aap ko kuch bhi chahiye toh humme bathana

Pari: thanks auntyji

Gayathri leaves for her pooja….

Dev: good morning

Pari: good morning Dev

Dev: subhe subhe maa ne tumme bore toh nahi kiya?

Pari: not at all, in fact I feel very relieved after talking with her

Dev: that’s good

Pari: she is such a sweet lady

Dev smiles…: that she is

Dev is surprised that Pari got along well with Gayathri….

Dev looks at Pari not able to believe how she is not bothered by Gayathri’s winning…

Dev: it’s pretty tough to understand women’s psychology

Pari: don’t even try, b’coz you people are far far behind when it comes to emotional quotient

Dev smiles….

Dev: I give up ladies

Dev bows down….

Pari laughs at his actions…

Pari keeps staring him….

Pari: thanks Dev

Dev: for what?

Pari: for everything

Dev: I don’t think I did anything extraordinary

Pari: you and aunty are too good, I felt like home here

Dev: that’s what family is for, haina?

Pari: thank you once again for all the love, you don’t know how much it all means to me

Dev: I’m happy that I could be of some kind of help for you

Pari: I have learnt a lot from you, you made me realize something huge, I now understand that Karan is not there however I wish otherwise

Dev: it’s really tough for you, but it’s great that you have started accepting the reality

Pari: can I tell you something

Dev: sure

Pari: at least I know for sure that Karan is not there, but it’s a lot more complicated for you I believe

Dev: maybe

Dev smiles….

Pari: Geet is there yet not there for you, I mean you know that already, haina?

Dev: hmmm

There is a moment of silence when both of them think about their personal experiences…

It seems to be a lot similar…

Basically they are at the same point in their lives though they had taken different roads… all alone yearning for love…

Pari: can I ask you something personal?

Dev: what?

Pari: how did you meet Geet?

Dev gets excited to share his mind with someone at last…

Dev goes back to the past …

Dev tells Pari about his first ever crush and how his love started taking new forms summer after summer…

Pari is overwhelmed to hear his love story and realizes Dev’s plight immediately…

Pari: I know it will be impossible to get over your first love, haina?

Dev: that is always special and those lovely memories are there to stay with you forever no matter what happens with you later

Dev pauses and looks a bit disappointed…..

Pari: what happened Dev?

Dev must have got a lot of patience to have been waiting for such a long time…

But why does he sound hopeless and heart broken all of a sudden?

Pari is curious to know what happened in between after they had happily announced their wedding….

Dev goes into deep thinking….

He doesn’t look to be happy or sad…

He seems to have mastered the art of taking everything neutral….

Dev: destiny happened

Dev looks at her and smiles sarcastically….

Pari: I don’t understand

Dev: I mean, life had other plans for Geet, I had to step back even before taking the first step

Pari: Geet married someone else?

Dev: no exactly, I don’t know much about it, I heard he left her and Aditi

Pari: that’s too bad, Geet is so lucky that you are there for her always

Dev: but that’s not everything

Pari: matlab?

Dev: I have realised that my love could never replace Geet’s past love, never ever

Pari: why did you decide to marry Geet?

Dev is stunned… he stares at Pari for a while…..

Dev: why would you ask something like that?

Pari: you only said that Geet is yet to forget her past

Dev: hmm

Pari: you didn’t answer me?

Dev: I don’t know, this time it was Geet’s decision

Pari: do you think she has taken a fair decision?

Though Pari doesn’t know about Geet’s hidden feelings for her first love, she knows the very obvious fact that she has no romantic interest in Dev for sure….

Pari has seen that Geet was totally transformed when she came to Delhi…

She was always restless and looked emotionally very vulnerable and weak, which is not what Geet used to be at Mumbai… the mentally strong and resilient Geet that Pari had known went missing…

She looked pretty worried and remained mostly in a confused state not able to enjoy with the others at the wedding….

She seemed to be scared of the wedding party which is totally strange for someone who just decided to get married to her long time beau…

Dev is silent… he knows the answer though….

Pari: I know it’s hard, but sometimes it’s better to let go, haina?

Dev looks at Pari in disbelief…

Pari: I think it’s time for us to let go of what is not ours

Dev is astonished to see Pari giving him life lessons… but they are true and have just given him a reality check…

It’s time to wear his thinking hat…

Gayathri comes with the Aarthi….

Gay: babaji, inn donon ki shadi jaldhi karwado, warna ye log aaise hi reh jayenge

Dev: mom, kam se kam mehmaan ko toh chod do na

Gay: aaise kaise? Ye bhi hummari apni hai, koi parayi nahi, haina?

Pari: ji aunty

Dev let’s the two ladies continue their chitchat and leaves….