Chapter 51

                   Part – 51

Everyone is having lunch…

Geet made her famous sago kheer…

Aswin loves that and Rohini let’s him cheat his diet for Geet’s kheer…

Maan just comes….

Maan: welcome back aunty

Aswin: tujhe uncle kab dikhayi detha?

Maan: humne pehle hi baat kar liya haina uncle?

Rohini: humme aaise hi late swagat karoge?

Maan: I was just working on your house project

Rohini: hamesha ki tarah ache bahana banalethe ho tum, par Geet ko achche se rakhna, yaad rakhna ki woh meri beti hai

Maan: teek hai aunty

Aswin: ye dono words tummare aunty ki favourite hai, ab tum bach gaye ho

Rohini: chalo, jaake khalo, Geet tummare liye wait kar rahi hai

Geet is waiting at the table…

Maan goes to join her…

Both of them serve for themselves and start eating silently without bothering each other…

Rohini comes and sits with them…

Rohini: Maan, Geet ko kab Amristar lekhe aarahe ho?

Maan: jaldh hi

Rohini: you fix a date, warna tum jaldhi jaldhi kehthe rahoge

Maan: abhi thoda kaam hai

Rohini: kaam toh hamesha rahega, tum Geet ko lekhe aathe ho ya mein abhi apne saath lekhe jaoon?

Maan can’t think of letting Geet go…

Maan: hum next weekend pe aathe hai

Rohini: that would be great, Raksha would be here by then

Maan: how is she?

Rohini: she is good, you know her na, we had a tough time to convince her to come here, she agreed to come just b’coz you are here

Maan: don’t worry aunty, I’ll take care of her

Geet doesn’t like this…. Maan showing so much interest in another girl…

Rohini: only you can manage her, she listens only to you, she looks at everyone else like her enemy

Maan: she has lived there for a long time, it’ll take some time to adjust to the new place, hum sab haina, usse sambal lenge

Rohini: I hope so

Maan: leave that problem to me

Rohini: you are my only hope

Maan: I can’t believe she agreed to come back

Maan is so excited…

Geet starts thinking….

What is there for him to get excited?

Geet now wants to meet this Raksha first of all….

Rohini: Maan, did you try the kheer?

Maan: hmm

Rohini: it’s so good, I had two servings, Geet made it, it’s so delicious, that’s so yummy Geet

Maan just keeps listening…

Rohini: what’s this Maan? You should learn to appreciate your wife, she has made it with so much love

Maan: haan aunty, it’s good

Rohini: I didn’t make it Maan

Maan has to say something or his aunty won’t stop advising him…

Maan turns to Geet…. He just wanted to say it for formality but it turns out that Maan’s alter ego has a lot more to say…

He has been keenly following Geet subconsciously….

Maan: it’s good, even better than the last time you made it

Geet is happy that he remembered the kheer she made previously and even compared today’s kheer with that…

Maan should have made a special note of it that day too…

Geet: I cut down the sugar

Rohini: I know why? Maan, you don’t like that much sweetness na?

So Geet too has been taking note of his likes and dislikes…

Maan didn’t know that the kheer is modified for his pallette…

Geet is happy….

Geet: it tastes good when chilled, I have got some in the refrigerator, wait, I’ll get that

Rohini: dekha, she chilled it specifically for you, humme toh nahi diya

Geet: woh abhi abhi tanda hua hoga, mein sab ke liye lekhe aathi hoon

Rohini: meine pehle hi zyada kha liya hai

Aswin shouts from the living room…

Aswin: I like tanda kheer Geet

Geet gets for all…

Geet goes to Maan with the tray…

Maan ignores the kheer and stares her ….

Rohini: Maan, apne biwi ko badh mein gurna, abhi kheer lena, humme bhi toh khana hai

Maan too take a bowl to keep Rohini quiet …

As they all gather in the living room sipping the kheer, Maan shows some designs that Sasha has prepared for the Sharma house…

It’s extravagant and super stylish ..

Sasha has got those from the net… mostly copied the European trends as the Sharmas have been living there…

Annie: it’s very nice bhai, haina aunty?

Rohini: it’s all good but we want to keep things simple, haina ji?

Aswin: haan Maan

Geet: Dadima, meine bhi kuch ideas sochke rakha hai

Maan turns and looks at Geet only to stare, why does she have to interfere in his work?

That’s the last thing Maan wants…

He doesn’t want her anywhere near him…

Whatever it may be, Maan knows that this stupid girl does affect him a lot… that is his biggest problem right now…

Can the MSK let some girl who is not even interested in him affect him?…

Maan has decided to stay away from Geet…

But that is becoming a problem for Geet…

She wants to him to be normal with her… she won’t let him live in peace unless she gets back his attention….

Geet didn’t seek his attention but he himself gave her all the attention, now she demands it back which is just fair and reasonable…. She doesn’t ask him anything less or more…

If he thinks he is being affected by their current equation, then it’s his problem and not Geet’s… haina?

Geet will stay as she wishes as long as she is here….

Geet is clear from her point of view, she didn’t hide her personal life from Maan…

She has openly declared about her love affair and Maan went on with this wedding drama inspite of that, haina?

Maan married her for whatever she is, haina? Ab bhukto…