Chapter 5

Part – 4

Annie has to convey the news to Geet as soon as possible, so that she would get some time to prepare herself for the actual shock when it comes…

Annie impatiently waits for Maan to leave and she rushes to call Geet as soon as he leaves, leaving Riya with Pammy…

Annie knows that it would take some time for Geet to understand what just happened….

Annie calls Geet….

Geet is still sleeping… she has got into the habit of sleeping late and waking at noon she is a nocturnal person…

Geet is annoyed…. Who would even call at this wee hours of the night?

It’Annie… Annie!!!!

Maybe little Riya is playing with Annie’s phone, warna Annie knows about Geet…

Geet is sure that Annie wouldn’t disturb Geet in the middle of the night….

Geet cuts the call and goes back to her dreams….

Geet is the Sleeping Beauty, yes, the Disney princesses Aurora only, in her long slumber waiting for her Prince Charming to come and wake her with his passionate kiss… actually our Sleeping Beauty is faking a sleep and thinking about her prospective Prince…

Will he be like the dabang khan on our eternal romantic king Khan?

No no, he would be much younger just like PC got nick…

Maybe a Kabir Singh? Or the original Arjun Reddy?

Geeet, Stop dreaming about fictional heroes, your Prince would be as real as you… A real Prince… that’s true!!

OK then, let me wait for my real hero ….

Aahhh, here comes my Prince..

It’s only a dream, so the Prince should come at anytime that our princess commands him to… haina?

Geet is excited to see who her Prince charming is…

She just wants to open her eyes and look at him… but she wouldn’t…. she has to wait for him to kiss her?

Geet is so excited and nervous… she could feel his proximity and her heart starts racing uncontrollably… Suddenly she feels the warmth of his lips on her cold lips..

But he is only teasing her…. A touch and go kiss to reveal his presence….

Geet is disappointed…

Oh no!! what’s wrong?

Has He disappeared into thin air or is it just a dream only?

It’s all mysterious…

Should she open her eyes and look out for him?

But what if the Prince leaves if at all she opens her eyes?

She’s all confused and scared.. but she could still feel his presence… her Prince is just teasing her to see if she is so desperate, he is waiting to see whether she is opening her eyes or not?

But Princess Geet is not convinced.. she needs that passionate kiss, after all she has been waiting for years and she deserves it, isn’t it?

Her Prince too knows that and here comes the real kiss, this time his passion burst like a broken dam and her fragile lips are no match for him.. yet she doesn’t want it to end…

She slowly opens her eyes to see her Prince…oh those piercing eyes!! She is so familiar with them… As her Prince charming reluctantly finishes his job and retreats to look at her blushing face, she’s eager to get a glimpse of him… her curiosity doubles as he looks like someone familiar and not some stranger…

She just keeps looking at those eyes… And as she gets to see the whole face slowly, her mobile rings again and the Prince’s image blurs and vanishes…

Geet is disappointed and angry with the caller…

She cuts the call without even looking at who it is and switches off her mobile..

She then tries to go back to sleep and find her Prince..

But no matter how hard she tries to recollect his face she couldn’t, and now she’s so disturbed and frustrated that she’s in no mood to dream… she tries to recollect those eyes…..

What? They look so familiar… Geet has recently interacted with them ..

She could easily remember them… how could she forget?, for she was so disturbed by those penetrating looks!! What? Dreaming about Him? Geet is angry with herself… it’s all his fault…

Why was he stalking her that day, in the birthday party? She thought he was not happy to see her at the party and she felt like an unwanted guest…

But then, why was his eyes always following her?

Maybe he wanted her to leave immediately.. but she didn’t go there as his guest… she was there for the birthday baby you know? So she stayed back till the end…

Geet tried to ignore him and focus on the party .. but that was impossible…

It was as if he wanted to say something to her…

Geet understood that finally bhe had realizes his mistakes…

That’s why he was trying to

And the food was so good… Geet really enjoyed the feast, maybe he arranged it?

It seems like he is also a foodie just like her..

Geet is still thinking about Him? Why?

Stupid girl, if you stay confined to your room, binge watching all those romantic hits, since you came back from the party, then what do you expect your poor brain to do?

It will process only what it’s fed, isn’t it?

Geet jumps out of her bed and rushes to the bathroom.. she stands under the shower trying to get rid of those unwanted thoughts and clear her brain…

She plans to go out and get some fresh air today… maybe do a little shopping? Eat at her favorite food court at the mall..

Her first love is food and she thinks that it would distract her from all this nonsense… maybe her mother is right? Geet should try attending the morning aarti…

She gets ready quickly and goes to the puja room to pray.. she needs to purify her mind desperately…

Her mother is surprised to see her daughter praying!! That too, So early? It’s only 10:00 o’clock in the morning….

Is her exam results coming out today?

Her poor mother doesn’t know that she has already completed her post graduation with flying colors…

Geet quickly finishes her breakfast, juice and cereal…. She’s on a strict diet, but only at home…

If she asked her mother, Ranno, to make something special for her, then Ronno would ask Geet to come help her, so that she would also learn to make it…

So Geet avoids asking anything and she orders from her favorite restaurants…

Geet’s Dadi, Gayathri Handa, is also fed up with Ranno’s obsession with healthy food and she joins Geet for some tasty delights…

Geet switches on her mobile and finds out that it was only Annie who had kept calling her… she calls Annie and she always likes talking to Riya..

Riya just utters the words “eet”, “eet”, she has to learn to speak from her bua… that she’ll, for Geet doesn’t spare Riya too, she could talk uninterrupted with Rea… Rea is a good listener….

Geet only keeps blabbering, about herself… Riya is the only one who is happy to listen to her bak baks these days…

Geet is bored sitting idle at home and how she wished Riya was with her now!!!

Why can’t this Annie take Riya and come home?

Riya picks up the call as expected….

Geet: good morning, I missed you a lot jaanu, muah muah muah

Ranno stares Geet… she always looks suspiciously at Geet whenever she is talking on her mobile and Geet loves to tease her…

Geet: now it’s your turn, I’m waiting

Ranno: ye aajkal ki ladkiyan bhi na!!!

Annie takes the mobile from Riya and talks to Geet…

Annie: Geet, at last you woke up, so early? How?

Geet: How? Are you kidding me? You woke me up and you ask me how I woke up?

Annie: What?

Geet: I’m not talking with you, I am mad at you, you spoilt my beautiful dream, I missed my Prince, you know? Just put Riya on the phone

Annie: sorry Geet, but I have something very important to share with you, where are you now?

Annie sounds pretty serious, what’s so important?

Geet: I am here praying, can you believe this?

Annie: I don’t know what to say, you won’t believe what I’m goanna say too

Geet: aaise kya baat hai? Babaji ne mere dua itne jaldhi qubool karliya hai kya?

Annie: ye toh mujhe bhi patha nahi, pehle meri baat suno aur phir tum decide karlo

Geet: toh jaldhi bathao na, I can’t wait

Annie: Geet, upar jaake baat karo na?

Annie cuts the call instantly… must be something about their shopping…

Ranno doesn’t like Geet spending( or in her terms “wasting”) money for that useless business of hers…

Geet is a wedding planner, or wants to be one soon… .

The only wedding she did was Annie’s….

Annie is her best friend and she had a good time planning her wedding, Geet got so much involved in it for it was her pilot project….

Annie is the one who readily accepts whatever Geet tells…

Actually Annie’s nature is like that, she is so naïve and innocent that she believes everyone so soon…

Annie accompanies Geet wherever she goes….

Rather Geet forcefully takes Annie along whenever she goes out…. It’s mostly window shopping with delicious Desi food…

Geet has missed her favorite Indian delicacies while she was away from home ..

Now that she is back, she is on a eating spree, binging on everything she had missed….

Delhi’s food joints have multiplied exponentially in Geet’s absence it seems…

Geet is gaining weight by the kilo each week…

But that doesn’t matter, for Geet is ready to add some kilos to bring back her friend’s happiness…

If this is what will make Annie forget her worries for a while, then this is what Geet has to do…

Poor Annie, after her wedding broke, she is going out only with Geet, and it’s her only source of entertainment…

Geet also realizes that this is only a temporary solution for Annie’s problem, she needs this temporary solution until she finds a permanent one….