Chapter 12
Geet has never felt this level of dullness while entering her house as she was today after her engagement. Rano, Mohinder and Rocky were delighted.
Other side Dev and family were super excited. Dev feels he has won the battle.
Rano looked at the tired Geet “Are you ok kid?”
“I am fine Mom.Event just took a toll on me”.
Geet went to her room, changed to the most comfortable night suit, sat on bed and tears just rolled down her cheeks as Professor’s face did not move away.
Geet slept late and it was Sunday morning, she did not wake up and face reality. She lazily lies on her bed with her eyes closed.
Rano was relaxed, sitting on the couch and attending the congratulations on the phone.
Dev entered with a big smile on his face. Showing all his teeth and flower bouquet in hand.
“Aunty.Good Morning “ Rano got up with smiles
“Dev beta, call me Mom now”
“Ohh Mom, came to say Good Morning to my fiancé “
“Of course, go and wake her your own self.She is your fiancé now”
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Geet was lying down, dreaming of her moments with the professor when there was a knock on the door. She opened her eyes, getting shocked.
She immediately sat up“Dev?you ?here?”
“Geet why are you so shocked? We are engaged now”
He came forward to give her the bouquet. Geet hesitated but took “Thanks “
“I came to ask my fiancé out today “
“Today? No-no”
Dev came and sat on bed near her, how unbearable it was for her.
“Today is Sunday. Why not today baby?” and he touched her left cheek. Geet hated the whole feel of it, his touch on her and him calling her baby. No it all can be so torturous she had never imagined. She removed his hand from her cheek
“Dev please. We just got engaged yesterday, I am not comfortable getting so close in a day. If you don’t mind can you please take a seat on that chair”
Dev felt offended. He was somewhere losing patience with Geet. He wanted to flaunt going out with Geet. He also would make sure Maanuu sees it but this girl was just treating him like any random no importance man. Come On, he was Dev Khurana and she was just Geet Handa. Even though he knew his own reality, in the market still his name was way above her.
But he kept his patience and got up from bed
“Geet, that is the reason I want us to spend some time together. I know we are both so busy. But for our future, we need to know each other.”
Rano came from behind “Dev is Right. Geet, go get ready. You both need to spend some time together”
Dev and Rano went out of the room. Geet with minimal interest got ready.
Dev and Geet went out. But it was a tough day for Dev as Geet showed minimal interest in all places he took her or in his talk. It looked like Dev was only the one interested in outing. First he had aborted his plan with his girls to be with Geet as his mother insisted that he work on wooing his fiance. Also, Maanuu did not show up where he had somehow set up a scenario that he would show up. But as usual, he ignored that Maannu was much smarter than him and he had his own things to look at rather than invest time in his silly show game.
And here, Geet was boring him to no end, with just her fake smile to him and some hmmm, unnh. No talk initiated from her end. It was clear she was not interested and just forced out.
“Geet, are you not interested in this marriage” he asked at last
Geet looked at Dev “Dev, to be very frank, I have gone into this relation with all my practical approach. You are Dev Khurana and you are handsome as well and you are well mannered with me, I have no reason to say no to this relation. on top we did sign a great business deal, right?”
“hmmm”
“To get involved in this relation, in an emotional aspect, it will take me time. Maybe after marriage it will automatically happen. I am not sure if you are ok with it.” Dev kept thinking, what could he say. He cannot break this marriage. Maannu will mock and above all the deal was the last chance to survive in business.
Dev was tempted to ask if she has any boyfriend or something like that but then he held. What if she asks him and then digs into the number of hidden relationships he is into. All those adventures that made him lose interest in learning business properly.
He cannot be Maanuu, who lost his childhood in learning and establishing business and handling his depressed mother and then losing his youth again in working on business and taking care of Grandpa and Grandma. He cannot be an emotional fool like Maanuu to have worked hard from behind and did not bother to bring his name forward as he was busy taking care of ailing GrandPa.
What has Maanuu gained by these emotional things? He is all alone in life, no one knows him, maybe he doesn’t even know where his huge money is floating and all people know is that he is a drunkard.
But as Dev only knows business superficially, he also does not have calibler to estimate the real power of Maanuu. He can only see pictures of Maanuu that Maanuu wants him to see.
Anyways, he leaves the topic of digging into Geet. He will show her the real man in him after marriage. Once marriage is done, he is not going to take her tantrums.
Later he dropped her.
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Monday morning, Geet was in 10 am class before time. She was madly waiting for the clock to strike 10. Clock struck 10 and other participants started pouring in.
“Why is prof not in yet” restless Geet asked one of the participants
“You know Miss Handa, he mostly comes a couple of minutes late.”
“Hmmm” she smiled at the co-participant but each minute she was impatient. He can’t stop her from getting his glimpse in class.
And then the professor entered “Good Morning Everyone” and he smiled at the whole class which included Geet as well.
Then the class started and discussion went on heating, with few new business trends and new surveys on customer changing approach etc etc. What and how to tackle that. Everyone placed their input, even Geet did, mostly to get his attention. He gave the same attention to her as others. Neither did he avoid her, nor gave any special attention. It pricked her heart. He threw some pointers to her questions, same as he did for others and made co-participants discuss on their own. Before class ended, he gave a question to his class and asked them to write their views in chit and place it in a drop box. Giving them this task, he left.
It took all of them, including Geet, some 10 minutes to finish the topic and place it in the drop box. Geet ran down to see him in his cabin, but she was surprised to see a guard there.
“I need to meet professor”
“Sorry Ma’am. He is not in.”
“Okay, i will wait inside”
“Sorry ma’am, sir has strictly asked not to allow anyone in. Some important stuff there”
“Okay, i will wait here” Geet kept waiting for about an hour, but he never turned up. Geet at last left
“How many days are you going to avoid me? Just once, you have to talk to me.”
Tuesday again, class happened. It was the same, professor was neutral in class. Discussed on all topics. He left the class, Geet ran after him only to find he was stuck in talk with another professor.
She waited for him to get free, but they walked away discussing something. Later she went to his cabin but again no one was allowed in. Some important stuff is going on.
Wednesday and Thursday, she had no class with him. She tried keeping herself busy in meetings after meetings. But nothing helped. How badly she was dying to get one hug from him, one possessive pull from him, one deep kiss that he placed on her lip, without letting her know it was coming. She laughed, bit her lip, all alone remembering his craziness. It has hardly been five days and she has started missing his hands on her, his naughty looks on her, his hands inside her shirt, his unhooking her bra. He never asked for permission from her and she enjoyed it that way.
Thursday night, Geet was in thought. “I should try to stay apart from him. He had already declared he won’t keep in touch with Dev's fiance. What am I trying to do?”
Professor on the other side was busy with his plans and work. It was his grandfather’s dream and he cannot break it. He had wished for her to be part of it, but if she thinks another way is better for her, he can’t help. Also, her being Dev’s fiance made no sense for him to keep contact with the enemy's partner. He knew he was an emotional fool, but not anymore, esp. no loose balls to Dev and co.
And even after knowing all about him, his knowledge in business, his being her favorite author, her being addicted to his proximity, she has decided to go to Dev. Just because she didn’t know his surname, his legacy, she chose Dev over him. Then, he did not want her in life after she knew his complete identity. What will be the difference between her and Ragini then?
He had always seen a glimpse of his mother’s truth and genuinity in her. Her up front nature has inspired him. He was hard working and impactful, but he was a man who worked from behind. She loved working from the front, she thus has always inspired him by her nature. She brought something with her, which he lacked. Even after knowing she was a very practical person, completely unlike him, he had always seen serenity in her that only his mother carried. Her being with him had made him forget all his loneliness of life, but he was back to square one on that front now. It would have been wonderful, he would have worked from behind and she from front, but now he has to take all the responsibility in his own hands.
If she comes to him knowing all his name and legacy, what is the difference between her and other’s. Though it was painful, very painful to avoid her. But her over practicality and choosing Dev pained him even more.
Friday, again class happened and Geet tried hard but was at last able to ignore the professor.
Whole day she had been disturbed. Scolded herself for giving up. Not seeing him was eating her up. His naughty face, uff. Why can’t he just come with all his rights and take her away to another world, where these names and money do not exist. Only he and her. She being a practical person, won’t be able to do such things but he is a weirdo, he can do such stuff. And he knows she will not stop him, why can’t he just come once rather than madly ignoring her.
Geet was already in an off mood, when she got a reminder that today was the date of the 2nd release of the podcast.
She logged in and found that she had not been given access to the 2nd series.
“What the hell. Why have I been denied this series now? Was prof. ignoring me not enough that I am denied here as well.”
Geet was all frustrated. Her friends called her for partying on the disc. She went to change her mood but nothing worked. Saturday-Sunday, she had been tempted to meet the professor. No Monday she is definitely going to talk to him.
After class, she ran after him and held his wrist, and he said “Yes Miss handa?” He, as if, pierced her heart. Her ears were yearning to listen, Inspiration.
“Once, can we talk please. just once please” she pleaded, tears could anytime roll down. He slowly freed his wrist from her hold and looked at his watch
“Today is actually a very busy day, Miss Handa. Maybe tomorrow in class, I will discuss your point first. Okay bye now” He smiled and turned.
Next day in class, his left hand had a deep cut, not taken care of at all. He was trying to hide it with one hanky around it but Geet saw the red inflammation that it had caused.She knew he was in pain and hurting himself. No this is not done.
After class she ran and held his hand “What the hell is this?”
“Miss Handa, what’s the matter with you? I kept asking you during class, you did not discuss your point and now after class. I have an image here ma’am. Even you have your”
“Shut up. What is this? You tried hurting yourself?” She was all hyper. he again slowly removed her hand from his
“Bye” he did not say even a word of taunt and even that painted her. Had he taunted her, it would have shown connection but he completely disconnected.
Wednesday-Thursday again Geet had no way to reach him. It was killing her. His wound was wandering in front of her eyes. It scared her. He is all alone, who will take care of him. He won’t allow anyone. He would have to her but now he won’t.
Come Friday, she received a message that Prof has canceled today’s class. He never does that. She tried to inquire in the principal's office but all she could know was he was very busy with something. Something struck her and she reached his office. Professor was unaware of her coming and came out of his cabin. She held his hand to stop him but was shocked as she felt the high temperature .
“You have a high fever.” she checked his hand, the wound was still unattended.
“What!! this is causing infection, you have high fever”
“Miss Handa, what's the problem with you? I am sorry, but I don't have time to give separate attention to the individual.”
“You don’t understand my problem, fine, I don’t care. You are coming to doctor’s office with me”
“Miss Handa, please don’t try to be personal.Please leave my hand. I will take care”
“No, I am not leaving” and tears rolled down her face. He removed her hand again, turned and sat in his jeep and left.
Geet was restless the whole Friday, Saturday and Sunday. He had an unattended wound, he had fever, no one to take care of and he was not taking care. On top of that, did he get drunk on Saturday? He needs her; she knows that as much as she needs him. No one is there to care for him, he is not letting her. No it’s not working this way. Her brain has stopped working and his distance made her heart overtake her mind. All this practicality of hers seems useless to her if he is so much alone and in pain. Is she even enjoying her practical decision? The answer is No. Will she enjoy her emotional decision to be by his side, irrespective of who he is? The answer is yes.
Fifteen days plus, after her engagement, she was still there. Come Monday and………
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Taahir @taahir004
+ 10
1 months ago
Geet craves to speak to Maan and just be in his arms againbut now Maan will not have anything to do with Dev's fiance
Akku @akkub.92
+ 3
1 years ago
Awesome partMaan also right in his place and now regret choosing dev her practical decisionCan't wait to see what geet do nowUpdate soon waiting eagerly
dalur1 @dalur1
1 years ago
Emotional chapter. Must be so so tough for both of them to stay apart. But glad that it is bringing some realisation to Geet. So sad that Maan is having fever and he has no one to take care.
pop77 @pop77
+ 3
1 years ago
Geet miss her professor. Maan told her that after her engagement with Dev he will not bother her. He is doing that. Dev try to show up but couldn’t do himself. Now I wants to know Maan past. Why he is not taking business from them? Let see how Geet send doctor to him?
Aatiya @PaintedSky
+ 2
1 years ago
His avoiding her is just great. I'm enjoying, stupid girl, think and realize fast, time is running out.
khwaishfan @khwaishfan
+ 7
1 years ago
Anu... how are you feeling now?Thanks for the update and for tagging me Chapter 12Agonizing update… incredibly written so Geet is unhappy....at least Rano noticed that Geet was not herselfwell Dev feels he won the battleGeet and her family are oblivious of Dev's intentionsit should have been the happiest day in her lifealas Geet is crying in her roomnow she does not want to face realityas expected Dev want to impress Geet and her familyGeet was indeed amazed seeing Dev thereof cos she abhors his touch, his closeness and him addressing her as babygood that she removed his hand from her face and told him that he uncomfortablehow will she manage when they get married?well Dev is using Geet to show Maan down but Geet is treating him with disdainhe is clearly offended with her behavior but pretends otherwiseDev is arrogant and egoistic Geet was forced to go out with Dev however she does interact with himGosh Dev has girlfriends will Geet get to know?great that Dev's plan floppedhe fails to see that Maan is smarter than him and way above himDev's question was justifiednice that Geet was direct with him feeling for Maan... he lost his childhoodMaan is the name and success behind the Khuranas however no one knows thishe is intelligent, shrewd and respectedDev is only known by his surname and is a failure what did Dev mean that he will show Geet the real man in him after marriage?oh Geet is restless to see her professornot surprised that Maan did as he told herglad that he ignored Geetshe is upset with thiswhat did she expect?hmm she is lost in their momentspleased that Maan is busy with his grandfather's dream and wants to make it a success Maan shared a close bond with his grandparents and momMaan's thoughts well portrayedhe does not want Geet in life after she knows his complete identitywho is Ragini?ahh Maan saw glimpses of his mom in Geetno wonder he was so drawn to herhe wanted Geet to work with nice that Maan will no lon
Dr21NG @Dr21NG
1 years ago
Time for the heart to win over the brain.. waiting to see what’s next..
maneetarsh @maneetarsh
+ 3
1 years ago
Lovely update, I hope geet is not too late confess her feelings Maan.
piyasa @asmani
+ 8
1 years ago
Maan completely disconnected geet and he was right doing it. Geet did look like shallow person going behind name and legacy only even though she know Maan's talent and found that he is the author she admired.Geet need this phase to realize her mistake.Pls update soon
Maangeet @maangeet.gmmg
+ 5
1 years ago
Hey fantastic update dear superb