Chapter 12---(blooms)
"O.k. so you are avoiding me Geet?.let's see?"
He waited and still when Geet didn't come back to her cabin, he called up Pinky and started a hue and cry about a file which he himself had just misplaced knowingly. He then called up Adi and did the same with him??
Everybody sprang into action and started searching for the file...
"Pinky, where is Geet? ask her about the file."
"Right sir," and Pinky went off in search for her.
Geet rushed in...
"Which file sir?"
"The last month's profit file, you know how important it is and I can't find it anywhere."
Geet also started looking and MSK stood at one corner of the room and watched how she took command and how everyone started following her instructions.
After a while Geet found it behind a stack of blueprint files and even while giving it to MSK, she frowned...
"how did this get there? I never kept it there??."
"So, now the files have grown legs and are walking around?"
"No, but??" she shook her head, by then everyone else had left the room.
As she put the file on the desk Geet realized that they were all alone in the room. She felt so shy, she couldn't turn around and face him.
Maan was at first puzzled by her behavior, her silence, she wasn't saying anything and neither was she turning around.
"O.k. Sir, did you need anything else?"
"No".
"O.k. then," and she made to leave the room...
"Geet, why aren't you looking at me?"
"No!no, nothing like that," and she turned towards him, facing him, but still kept her eyes on the floor.
"O.k., so...everything is ok, right?"
"Yes, Maan sir,"
Maan advanced towards her...and she retreated...he again took a step towards her...and she again stepped back...
"Geet look at me."
"Sir, iam looking at you," Geet was still addressing his chest.
"Eyes up Geet, mere taraf dekho..."
Geet looked at the column of his throat...
"mere ankhon mei dekho Geet...come on look at me?"
And Geet very slowly looked up and into his eyes...Maan felt a punch in his heart, he released his breadth which he hadn't known he had held.
He was surprised and fascinated to see such crimson colour bloom on her cheeks.
"You are feeling awkward with me?"
"I don't know,I feel peculiar..."
"Do you now?.why? Don't worry, it won't happen again...it was something about the moment and only you and I were present, so nothing to feel awkward about it...see I have figured it out... iam totally fine with u..."
Maan had had a very long discussion with himself the previous night and he being himself had decided that even though he was very attracted to Geet he wouldn't repeat the incident...and neither will he act as if there was a great deal to it and function like before. Even now he didn't notice how his eyes were reverberated on just Geet...as if she was all that existed in his world...his heart beating a stattio beat...as if trying to insistently tell him that she means something...and ignorant that he was he didn't understand any of his own heart's meanderings.
Maan came near her step by step, Geet seemed to be trapped in his eyes... He could smell a slight trace of something that she had dabbed on, he could see the pulse beating wildly at the side of her throat... he desperately wanted to touch her hair, cradle her face...
"Why??..what are you feeling Geet??"
"Breathless..."
"huh..."
Maan caught hold of her hands and slowly pulled her towards him.
"Sir?"
"Why are you scared?..?"
"I am not scared Sir."
"Your pulse is beating so fast..." Maan murmured holding on to her wrists.
"Why then??"
"Becoz...iam scared of what I am feeling right now, becoz, yesterday seemed unreal...but so true...it seems forbidden but so right..."
Geet knew that she was babbling...she didn't understand half of what she herself was telling him...only that his proximity was doing strange things to her...her mind seemed to be mush...
"Chup..." Maan put a finger on her lips, "Kitna bolti ho..."
His fingers caressed her lips, then took a trip to her brows and lightly traced both of them?.in much the same way as Geet had once done.
Geet was staring at him and his gaze was following the path of his finger. Maan seemed fascinated with every feature of her face, he traced her nose, then her cheeks...Geet gave an involuntary lift of her shoulders and tilted her head as he traced the shell of her ear and...Maan kissed her there...
Geet let out the breadth that she had been holding in a rush...
"Maan sir??"
"huh..."
"Someone might walk in..."
"huh..." Maan kissed her other ear.
"You said we are not going...uh...to repeat ..."
"huh..." and holding on to her jaw, he kissed her jaw...the corner of her lips...
"What is it about you Geet? You make me want to forget everything..."
"Mujhe pata nahi nahi Maan sir...paar aap mujhe bahut acche lagte hai..."
"Geet...mujhe pata hai...mujhe bhi..."
"Maan sir..." and Maan kissed her...he kissed the words falling out of her mouth, he took her mouth so possessively as if sealing his name on them, holding her head with both his hands...his fingers in her hair...
The more he demanded, the more she yielded, he changed the angle of his mouth and she adjusted to him...he couldn't get enough...he grabbed her nape with one hand and with the other he pressed the small of her back, drawing her flush against him...she simply lifted her arms and encircled his neck, standing on her toes...leaning into him...she made a sound deep in her throat... Maan was mindless with her so soft, so yielding in his arms...he struggled with himself and tore his mouth from hers...and leaned his forehead on hers...
"Geet..."
"hu..h?."
"God Geet...don't make a sound like that..."
"huh?."
Geet was still floating...she felt her world had tilted...
Maan had thought he had imagined the reaction yesterday, but it was proof today that they were like explosion together. He also understood that Geet's innocence was both her disadvantage and her power. She won't be able to control or fully comprehend what was happening to her, so he had to be the responsible one...
"I love you!."
Maan loosened his hold and looked at her. Geet had her eyes closed and a small smile was playing on her lips...
"Geet..."
"I love you..." A fist slammed and his heart gave a painful jolt.
"This is not love Geet...it is merely attraction?."
Geet's eyes sprang open...she had been thinking aloud again...she felt deeply embarrassed that he had heard what she hadn't wanted to tell him
Now, but then his words registered and she frowned...
Maan was watching the different play of expressions one after another on her face.
"this is not love Geet...this is old fashioned attraction, simple basic attraction between a man and a woman..."
Geet's frown became more deep, Maan patted her cheek like that of a child's and stepped back from her and went to sit back on his chair.
Geet became so angry all of a sudden, not only was he destroying all the sweet sensations that she had been cherishing but he was also disregarding her feelings!!!!!??
"I hadn't wanted to tell you this now...today!.but I know what I feel...iam feeling now..."
"No Geet this is just infatuation that you are feeling, and it will pass...with time..."
Geet became so angry that she all but screamed at him, she barely controlled hersel...
"Whatever you say Sir...i know myself and I know what I feel."
And she stomped out of the room...
Maan laughed out loud seeing her reaction... "and she says she is mature enough to feel and understand love..."
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