Chapter 109

                   Part – 109

Next day…

Pari is strolling in the garden…

Dev goes to meet her…

Dev: good morning

Pari is happy to see him….

She was feeling bored…

Pari: good morning Dev

Dev: what are you doing here alone? Where is mom?

Pari: she is in her pooja

Dev: oh

Pari: I’m sorry that I crossed my limits yesterday, bhura toh nahi laga na?

Dev: bilkul bhi nahi, actually I needed to talk to someone

Pari: I’m always here

Dev: I know

Pari: so what now?

Dev: Geet called last evening

Pari: that’s great, what did she say? When is she coming?

Dev: she may not be coming back

Pari: what?

Dev: I mean she is ready to go back to her family

Pari: to her maikka?

Dev: nahi, her very own family

Pari: I don’t understand

Dev tells what Geet told him on phone…

Geet calls….

Dev: halo Geet, how are you?

Geet: good, how is maaji?

Geet’s voice is broken… she is little worried…

Dev: she is fine, what’s Aditi doing?

Geet: she is riding her cycle

Dev: that’s good, she got her own cycle?

Geet: Maan got her

Dev: hmm

Geet: I want to tell you something

Dev: bolo Geet, what’s it?

Geet: I want to tell this to you first

Dev: what is it Geet? You are scaring me now

Geet: I’m sorry Dev

Dev: for what?

Geet: for all the trouble

Dev: what trouble?

Geet: I can’t forgive myself for putting you in so much trouble, I know I made a blunder, I lost my mind in anger, will you ever forgive me?

Dev: would you please stop being guilty? Just tell me what happened

Geet: I don’t know how to tell you this

Dev: you need not worry about anything Geet, I just want you to stop blaming yourself for whatever happened

Geet: it’s not that Dev

Dev: then what is it?

Geet: I have hidden something from you for the past few months

Dev: hmm

Geet gathers all the courage and finally tells Dev…

Geet: Maan is my past

Dev: hmm

Geet: he is Aditi’s father, I should have to told you then itself

Dev: maybe?

Geet: I didn’t because I didn’t want to trouble you more and more, I thought I can handle it on my own, I thought it was just a matter of a few days, then it will all be over forever and I’ll finally get closure

Dev was expecting all this and so it is not a shocker to him like Geet fears….

Geet: I shouldn’t have done that, I’m really sorry Dev, I had no right to get you involved in my problems, but I really believed that you are the only solution for all my problems, I never thought about anything else, I honestly believed that there was no other option whatsoever, I had shut all those options long back

Geet is sobing…

Dev: I know you Geet, you are always right, you know what is right and what is not

Geet: I made a grave mistake this time, I shouldn’t have lied to you

Dev: what lie?

Geet: I told you I was ready for marriage when I was not

Dev doesn’t have any more emotions left within for he has overcome all that in these few days….

Dev: can I tell you a secret?

Geet: what?

Dev: I kind of knew that

Geet: how?

Dev: b’coz you never changed, you remained the same when I met you four years back, then how could you move on?

Geet: scared of the return of Maan I made a huge blunder and this time I hurt you bad, I know you can never forgive me for that

Dev: it happens Geet, sometimes we fail to see the reality and make mistakes

Geet: but I had no rights to play with your feelings after all that you and maaji have done for me, I really feel ashamed of myself

Dev: you must understand one thing clearly Geet, love is different from gratitude, and moreover there is no place for gratitude in friendship, haina?

Geet: but still

Dev: no ifs and nuts, I just want to your special friend, no one can take that place from me, not even Maan

Dev laughs trying to cheer Geet….

Geet: I thought the doors are closed between me and Maan forever, but I had no idea that he still had the keys

Dev: I don’t know about the past Geet, but from whatever I have seen now I am pretty confident that Maan deserves to be with his family

Geet: I think so too

Dev: I’m really happy for you Geet

Geet: so will you forgive me one last time?

Dev: don’t ever talk to me like that again, when are you coming back?

Geet: I don’t know

Dev: I forgot to tell you something

Geet: what?

Dev: Pari is here only

Geet: oh she returned from Pune?

Dev: yes

Geet: that’s good, I’ll talk to her

Dev: ok Geet, take care, mein Aditi se kal baat kartha hoon, let her play with Maan

Geet: ok Dev, bye

Pari is overwhelmed to hear that… she wonders how Dev could so easily forget and forgive….

She looks at Dev in disbelief, Dev is really the perfect gentleman that every girl would have as a friend, companion or the lucky one would wish to have him for her alone… just like Pari has started wishing for….