Chapter 36

                Part – 35

Past continued.....

Maan started thinking straight again…

He looked at the present and accessed the situation that he had put his loved ones into…

That was not fair, he had been punishing everyone all these days…

Maan realized that he has been troubling his elder sister Annie and his jijaji Arjun unnecessarily….

Arjun had got an offer from Australia and he was not sure if he could leave Annie and his sons here with her brother and go to Australia by himself…

Annie would never agree to go with him leaving her brother in that condition…

Dadi knew about it and she decided to talk to Maan…

Dadi: Maan, ye aap kya kar rahe ho beta? Aaise kitne din chalega? Sambhaliye apne aapko, aur Annie bhi kitne din aaise aap ke seva karte rahegi?

Maan: par Dadima, meine didi ko rokha kahan?

Dadi: aap aaise rahoge toh Annie kaise jayegi Australia Arjun ke saath?

Maan: Australia? Meine suna Arjun left his job

Dadi: aap ke liye choda tha

Maan: kya? Nobody told me

Dadi: were you even in a position to listen? You messed up everything not just for yourself but for everyone, you can’t expect Arjun to keep running KC forever, he loves his job and he has even got an offer in Australia, but Annie is not ready to go

Maan: don’t tell me that it’s also because of me

Dadi: you know it already Maan, you are not a kid anymore, Annie should take care of her family and you should take care of yours

Maan: I don’t have a family Dadi

Maan thinks about Sam….

Dadi: Maan, you are a father now, and your family is your daughter, she is your responsibility, how long would she live with her Nani beta? She is our daughter, she is a Khurana, she should be here on her home

Maan then realizes that he had been neglecting his daughter making excuses about his loss and totally ignoring the new born, his princess, his ray of hope, his life, his future, his daughter Mansi…

What happened to him? How could he abandon his daughter?

But he was still not confident enough to claim custody of Mansi…

Maan thinks that first he should help Arjun go back to his life with his family…

Masn started going to KC slowly relieving Arjun…

But when everyone was happy about Arjun’s job, Annie made it clear that she would go only when Maan brought Mansi home…

Then he went to Shimla to see his daughter…

Tara was not ready to let him see his daughter, she said that he didn’t even care to know if his daughter was alive or not in these months and so he has no right over her…

Maan came back empty handed but he promised Annie to bring her niece somehow….

He convinced Annie that it would take some time and she should go with Arjun while Maan would take care of his own life…

Annie left with her family…

Maan realized that his daughter is his one and only reason to live…

Maan wants to be there for her no matter what, he won’t let his daughter stay in someone else’s care when her father is alive…

Sam would easily forgive Maan for her death, but she would never forgive him for leaving their daughter in other’s care….

Maan then decided that the only way to forgive himself would be to take up his responsibility as a father seriously and give the life his daughter deserves…

After repeated attempts and with Pawan’s support Maan got to see his daughter….

Maan was really angry with himself for not taking any efforts to see his daughter…

Maan was really ashamed of himself for being so selfish and irresponsible….

Maan wanted to take Mansi to Delhi, but Tara was still feeding Mansi and she said that Mansi is her daughter now and Maan should not think about taking her away from her…

Tara was in a way right, no one would trust Maan to be a good father after what he had done….

But Maan has realized his mistake and he vows to dedicate the rest of his life for his daughter and daughter only, he would start living for his daughter and would never ever think about himself in the future….

Does he have a future other than his daughter? He has nothing left to live, he has no interest in anything but his daughter….

Maan made up his mind to stop thinking about the his past and start living for his daughter…

At that point Mansi was his only hope to live….

Maan rented a house at Shimla then, he stayed there for a month and went to see Mansi daily… Tara slowly started believing in Maan…

She was then skeptical about Maan’s remarriage, as he was too young and would eventually marry someone else…

Tara could never think about letting Mansi stay with a step mother… not even in her worst dreams would Tara let that happen….

Tara was feeling like an allien even with her mother, living with her grandparents and uncle’s family….

Here, Mansi has no mother to take care of her, and men can’t be trusted with child care….

Maan was grieving Sam’s loss so much then that he vouched never to think of another girl in his life…

Maan went to see Tara with a determination to get back his daughter and make her realize that no one can stop him from taking his daughter….

Maan: Mansi meri beti hai

Tara laughs hearing that…

Maan: what’s so funny? It’s the truth and you can’t keep denying it

Tara: Mansi tummari beti hai? Who are you kidding? Just sleeping with my sister won’t make you a father Mr. MSK, do you even know the “a” of parenting? What kind of a father forgets that he has a daughter for months and all of a sudden remembers her? A child is not some fancy shoes that you buy one day and forget about it forever

Maan had no answers for he knew that he was wrong…

Tara: forget about me? Would Mansi trust such a father? A father who is so absent minded that he forgets her for six months in a year and remembers for the other six months

Maan was shocked for Tara was right ….

Maan: but I won’t keep doing it forever, you know that too

Tara: what if you start your life again? Then you will forget Mansi

Maan: what are you talking about?

Tara: come on Maan, you are only 24, you have a long life ahead and you will meet people, you will like people and you will fall in love with people, then marry again, have kids, what about Mansi then?

Maan: what rubbish? Mansi is my wife and there is no place for other people in our life

Tara: but you are absent minded and you will forget what you just said in the next six months

Maan: I accept that I made a mistake, but that doesn’t mean that I’m that bad a man to neglect my daughter, and how could you think of anyone in place of Sam? You might be able to forget your sister but I would never, and no one can ever take her place, Neither in my life nor in our daughter’s life, one thing you too know very well

Tara: what?

Maan: that however hard you try, you can never replace Sam in Mansi’s life, could you?

Tara went speechless…

Maan: the same way no other girl can replace Sam in my life

Maan convinced Tara in the end…

Sam made a deal with him that she will give his Mansi back after two years, if he was still determined that Mansi is his one and only priority in his life and that there is no place for anyone else in his life whatsoever….

Then Tara let him have his daughter for the weekends after her first birthday…

This deal was within the two of them, no one else knew about that… Pammy learnt about it slowly… then Pawan too got to know about it and thought that it was stupid… but Tara silenced him by asking him, why Pawan is so bothered while Maan is ok with it?

She was telling him that Mansi and Rithusa were their two children and Pawan should forget about having another baby… now Pawan was happy that he could have another child at least and kept quiet…

After that Dadi played a super cameo that changed Maan’s life upside down, and now he has promised to marry Geet, but is still trying to maintain it as a secret till Mansi’s second birthday which is only four months away…. He can do anything after bringing Mansi home, but he doesn’t want to make things complicated before that…

Geet on the other hand has no restrictions like Maan, she is very happy and can’t think about anything else except her marriage with Maan…

This is her dream come true moment and she has every right to enjoy it to the fullest…

Maan has no right to stop her… he is not going to, anyway… he is happy as long as the wedding matter comes out after his problems are solved and he gets the custody of his daughter once forever….

Maan has to send Geet back to Hoshiarpur before he goes to Shimla this weekend…

He doesn’t want any speculations arising about Geet’s stay at KM for too long… Geet won’t be happy to leave Maan, but he has to convince her somehow…

Next day….

Geet is talking with Dadi about the good news and complaining about Maan’s postponing of the wedding again and again…

Dadi also thinks that it’s unfair, and supports Geet that she should be with Maan through thick and thin, if he has a problem, then let him face it along with Geet, why should he be thinking that he is still alone?

Dadi says that Maan is not able to bring Mansi home because of Dadi’s illness, else Dadi herself would have gone to Shimla and brought back her pothi long back…

Dadi feels that once Geet is here, then there will be no problem to bring Mansi home…

These two are planning an early wedding while Maan is not aware of their wicked plans…