Chapter 12

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Untouched Yaadain:

Part 12:

Geet stood in front of the mirror gazing at herself. The girl who was staring back at her had changed. A lot. Back then with her Bhabhi, she used to joke around, make people laugh. She was the darling of Hoshiyarpur. Despite Daarji and Brij's hatred towards her. Went to college, enchanted reading all kinds of books. Though She was a mystery to everyone. Nobody knew what was going on in her mind, even Pammi. She was hiding something big from everyone. Though she had succeeded very well. Till now nobody could figure out what was it that was eating her from inside. But overall. everyone loved her, thought very high of her. But now? Who is she? She, herself, doesn't know the answer of it. Everything changed abruptly.She is now a married woman, though for two months only. Married to a man who thinks less of her. An haughty and ill-mannered businessman he is to remain. But the pain she carried through her past and it still lives in her present. She should've denied the wedding proposal, but who can dare confront Daarji. Oh, had she told her family about the pain, then they, themselves, would've refused the proposal. But how could she share it. Daarji and Brij thought of her as a burden. And Pammi, she was already distressed about her husband, and giving her more grief would not do justice. She was long to keep the pain hidden in her chest and vowed not to take it out. But what about now? She is a wife now. He has all the rights to know about the real Geet. Her pain. But then again, it's not like she's staying here forever. Only 2 months and that's all. Then why tell?

"Geet?!" Maan's voice interrupted her thoughts. She turned to see a figure standing right behind her. So close. For one second, she felt like telling him everything, crying on his shoulder. And in return he would soothe her. Tell her that everything will be fine cause now he's here to help her. He will take her away from this pain, far away. That thought was still lingering in her mind, when a sudden force pushed her in to a wall.

"Geet! Tum tayyar nahi huwi! I don't have all day for you! Get ready now! I don't like late people!" That being said, he left the room showing her 2 minutes sign on his fingers. Without wasting any further time, she quickly got ready. She transformed into a green shalwar kameez. Quickly took her bag and dashed out of the room. She was received by Maan and Nayantara downstairs. Maan, who couldn't take off his eyes off of her. While Nayantara enjoying the moment left the room, smiling.

"Chalain?"

"Nahin, main auto main aa jaon gi. Aap jain."

"Geet, destination aik hi so why go from auto?"

"Office mai main sirf aap ki secretary hoon. So main aik secretary ke haisiyat se jaaon gi na."

"No, you're coming with me and that's final."

"Aap hote koun hai mere ooper apna faisla thopne wale."

Silence. Taking the advantage of this silence, she departured saying,"Exactly."

In the office, Geet reached the office before Maan. She was astonished to see a huge building along with very beautiful furnishing. She never knew till now that Maan was such a fortunate man. Their were so many employees that she had lost count. Along her journey in Khurana Constructions, she bumped into Sasha, making her drop some files she was holding.

"Idiot! Daikh ker nahin chal sakti."

"Sorry." Geet motions to pick the files, while Sasha is too busy fixing her hair. She hands her her files. Geet looks at her face and kept staring at it with humor because there was an ink stain all over her left cheek. Geet controls her laugh and leaves immediately. But Sasha's voice stops her.

"Tum koun ho? And what the hell are you doing here?" Geet refuses to turn around, afraid she'll laugh at her face.

"Woh main emm. yahan ki new secretary hoon."

"What?! Tum ghalat jaga pe aa gayi ho. I am the secretary here. Not you!" Adi comes in the middle and tries to separate Sasha from Geet. Who knows she'll burst out at that poor woman. But Adi sees her and starts laughing, enable to control his laugh. Sasha looks at him in awe.

"Apna moun ja ker dho lo." Couple of people gathered around and laughed. Sasha leaves quickly, enable to take the embarrassment.

"Chaliye kaam kerain apna yahan pe koi comedy scene nahin chal raha." With that saying everyone left and Adi asks Geet who is she? And all those formal questions. All of the sudden the bell rings and the next thing Geet knows is everyone is running here and there.

"Jaldi kero!" "Everyone in position!" Geet was completely in awe. Soon afterwards when the office was disciplined, Maan enters. Everyone greeted him with good mornings. Which Maan completely ignored.

"Sasha?!" Sasha came running out of no where, pushing people aside. "Yes MK?"

"This is Geet. She'll be taking your position. From now on wards she's my personal secretary." Sasha was so furious but controlled herself.

"Aur main MK?"

"You will assist Adi.Geet come to my cabin now! " He left and Sasha shooting glares to Geet, which she ignored and followed Maan into his cabin. Adi gulped down and left afterwards.

Geet enters Maan's cabin. "Aap ne bulaya?"

"First of all.." Maan says without looking up from his file.

"Tum mere secretary ke haisiyat se aayi ho na toh knock the door before entering to my cabin. Yeh to pata hi ho ga na."

Geet goes back, little startled and knocks on the door and Maan orders her to come in.

"Good. Now I want a meeting held in 20 minutes. Hamare clients aa rahe hain. So go move quickly. Arrange the meeting."

Without giving her a chance, Maan leaves his cabin, leaving Geet confused.

"Ab main yeh meeting kaise..??"

Geet leaves fearing for the time she has left. After 10 minutes Geet tried her level best to set the meeting just as Maan wanted. Thanks to Adi's assistance, she made copies of the files that Adi had provided her. She was ordered to make coffee for every individual, which she did without hesitating. While Maan couldn't help but ogle her. He vacantly stared at her without knowing that Sasha was boiling from inside. He couldn't help but smile at her every doings. How she slipped her dupatta and tied it around her waist. How she played with her strands. The way she was talking, walking, smiling, laughing. Everything was so adorable to Maan. For an instant he felt like embracing her in his arms as if never planning to let go. But that thought was disturbed by Sasha. She purposely threw some files on the floor to gain Maan's attention. Which she succeeded. "Sasha what are you doing?" "MK, I don't know. Ghalti se gir gayin." "Ok well in the future stop being clumsy and watch where you going. This is a profession place, here there's no room for any mistakes. Understood?" Sasha nodded and cursed at her bad luck. Everything was settled. Geet had prepared everything as she was suppose to do. The clients came and were instantly impressed by the preparations. After investigating in to who had prepared this, congratulated Geet. Maan felt proud for her from the inside of course. Though he did pass a little smile to her but the proudness he was feeling inside was nothing compared to that smile.

"So Mr. Vassati, should I finalize this deal?" Mr. Vassati was a french businessman, who wanted to build his empire in Paris, France.The deal was finalized. Mr. Vassati abruptly agreed to this deal, knowing that his work is in safe hands. Maan is to go to a business trip to France for couple of days or weeks depending on the work. There he is to architect Mr. Vassati's to be building and also to expand his business to a foreign country. Sasha, Adi are to go with him. And now since Geet is his secretary and also because of the praises she received from the clients, she was finalized to go with them too. She is too excited to go. Her life time dream was to go to Paris or overall go to Eiffel Tower. She had heard so much things about it in the magazines and television. Cause of the excitement, she couldn't really concentrate on her work. Maan asked for Mr. Sharma's house file, she accidently gave him the overall account file. He asked for coffee, she made tea for him that too with extra sugar. Maan's anger was ranging in every Geet's wrong doing. He hated people making mistakes. The third time when Geet brought in the wrong file, Maan smashed the file against the wall and pinned her against the wall. Tightening his hold. "Geet! Enough is enough! I had it enough! Tum bhot ghaltiyan ker chuki ho. Agar aik aur ghalti ki na tumne, then I won't take you to Paris. Aur phir idher he sadna!" That did it! From that point on Geet focused on her work, not making mistakes anymore. Or at least trying not to. She was very meticulous in giving files. She checked 3 times before submitting anything to Maan. The day went by very exhaustingly for Maan and especially for Geet. Her first day at work was pretty filled with busyness. Her being a new comer, almost everyone took advantage of it. Some making fun of her dress or some making fun of her behavior. They misguided her at some point of time. But Adi was there to the rescue. He guided Geet, told her everything related to MSK or the office staff. He advised her to not listen to the office workers. "Think of them just like dust. They will come in to your way and will spread dirt. But remember you can always wash the dirt off. And main bhi tumhare saath hoon na." Geet was very happy. She felt like she had found a brother. A brother whom she was longing for. Brij was a brother just by blood, but Adi. He's not even related to her let along being blood related. But still on their first meeting she had witnessed a brotherhood in him which she really needed. Someone who can look after her just as the sake of a brother and nothing else. Since everyone thinks of her as a burden. First Daarji and Brij veer ji, then Nayantara Di and Maan, and now the office staff. She didn't even know what she did to deserve this all. Time passed quickly and the clock struck 7 pm. Alarming the office staff to go home. Everyone left except Maan and Geet. She wanted to go home exactly at 7 but how can she leave when her "boss" is still in his cabin working? Time kept on changing slots, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00 pm. Without knowing that Geet is waiting desperately for him, he was head over heals into his files. Flipping pages, observing every word. Making new plans for his upcoming projects. At 10 pm, he was dead tired, feeling like a zombie. Wanted a sleep desperately. Maan closed his files and placed them in his office bag. He rubbed his eyes and prepared himself for a ride. As he was departing the office, he noticed a light switched on in Geet's cabin. He walked over to examine it and was startled to find Geet sleeping. Resting her head on her arms which were crossed on the table. Her strands bothering her precious eyes and cheeks. But she had a mini smile on her beautiful face.

"Yeh abhi tak idher hi hai? But why? She was waiting for me?"

Maan moved closer to her. He hesitantly removed the strands from her eyes making her shrug a little. Maan instantly got lost in her. He himself didn't know when he pulled a chair and sat closer to her. Resting his head right beside her and holding her hand warmly and a smile appeared on his face. He forgot everything but remembered Geet and this moment. How can someone be so beautiful? So innocent? He had surely found a treasure for himself. Smilingly he closed his eyes and fell right off to sleep without noticing. At 6 am, Maan's alarm clock went off. They both woke up instantly and were flustered. "Main yahan pe?" He then remembered what happened last night.

"6 baj gaye?!" Geet screamed.

"Geet 6 bajna koi anokhi baat nahi hai. Tum to aise cheekh rahi ho jaise tumne kabhi 6 bajte huwe nahin dekha. Calm down."

"Calm down?? Kaise calm down? Hum donon saari raat office main soye. Di kitni pareshaan ho rahi hon gi. Aap ne mujhe jagaya kyun nahin?" Maan ignoring her question, pulled his phone out to pretend to surf through his phone. "Yeh sab aap ki wajah se huwa hai." Geet went on ignoring Maan's gesture to avoid her. "Agar aap khud sust ho ker sote na na phir hum yahan pe na hote. Per nahin aap ko neend pyaari thi na. Ab buktu..."

"Geet".

"Saari ghalti aap ki hai."

"Geet."

"Ab hum kya kerain..?"

"Geet!"

She finally sealed her mouth. "Yeh koi naayi baat nahi hai. Kaam ki wajah se mujhe office main kabhi sona padhta hai. Kaam bhot tha." Maan said not going further with his explanation afraid that he might spill the real reason. "Acha agar sona he tha to apne cabin main sote, yahan pe chuwe ki tarha kya kerne aa gaye!"

"Tumne mujhe chuwa kaha?!"

Geet covered her mouth realizing what she had just said. "How dare you?! Kisi ne mujhe kabhi gali nahin di aur tumne mujhe seedha chuwa bula diya?!"

"Kisi ko kehne ka mouka dain gain to phir koi kahe ga na." Geet murmured.

"Kya kaha tumne?"

"M-main keh rahi thi chalain ghar ya phir office staff ka intezaar ker rahe hain."

Maan nods and he leaves while Geet murmurs, "Dusht Dhanav."

After reaching home, Nayantara was waiting for them in the living room. "Aap donon kahan the? Aik call ker daite. Aapko pata hai hum itna pareshaan ho gaye the na." Nayantara says while faking her concern. Maan consoles her saying there was too much work and he decided to sleep there. After a little bit more drama by Nayantara, finally they were allowed to go to their rooms. Maan in his room and Geet in the guest room. Geet changed into her office dress again. She still had an hour till the office starts. Since she wasn't hungry and was tired. She decided to go off to sleep for an hour. Setting her alarm for 7 am. She instantly fell asleep. Maan in his room, looked at himself in the mirror. "What's wrong with you!? And what the hell were you doing last night! Yeh Geet mujhe pagal ker dai gi! Maan apne aap ko daikh, you can't fall for a girl! Not at all. She's just an ordinary girl not a princess or a queen. It's for the best if I stay away from her. Completely ignore her. That's for the best! Ab Geet daikhna main tumhaare saath kya kerta hoon!"

The End!

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sara_062012-11-20 14:15:08