~innocent~ maaneet ff- UPDATED PG 75 10/25 - Page 29

The sun shone brightly. Very brightly. Geet tried to open her eyes but squinted it shut again. Her head felt heavy, throbbing and almost ready to burst. Her senses were delicate and sore, the parched feeling in her throat suddenly making its presence felt. She managed to get a peek at her alarm clock and saw its needle ticking at twelve. The sun seemed to extract revenge from her for enjoying the cocoon of sleep when rest of the world was bearing its endowment. Cursing the sun for rising early she gingerly got up from her bed and went to close the blinds. As her eyes adjusted to the sober lighting she opened her eyes and went back to bed. Slumping down she fished for her phone when her bedroom door opened and nakul entered carrying a glass of water.

Geet's brow furrowed. Usually dadima waked her up when she was late.

He handed her the glass he was holding, asking her to drink. She complied immediately, gulping down the whole thing in one go. The lemon water gave an instant bout of relief to her desiccated throat and pounding head.

'Thanks nakul. But how did you know i would need it'? She asked keeping the glass back on the tray he was holding.

'maan saab told me to'

The mention of maan hit her like nail. How did maan know she would need lemon water?

'Dadima ka phone aaya tha. Vo bhi aapke baarain main subah se puch ri thi'

Dadi called?? Why was she calling when she could have come and see her??

'Umm dadi ghar pe nahi hain kya nakul?' she asked confused, her head renewed its throbbing.

'Nahi. Dadima aur bade saab ek week ke lie bahar gae hain' nakul replied.

'Umm thikh hai, thank you nakul.' Geet said as nakul left the room. Her head now spun with confusion and questions. Dadima wasn't at home. She never mentioned her about her trip yesterday. That was unusual. Then there was maan. He had known she needed lemon water, but how?

She clutched her head tight, trying to recall the incidents of previous night. The last she remembered was pinky's futile efforts to stop her from drinking. She had no idea what had happened after---

Her thought was broken with the shrill ring of her phone. Searching, she found her phone under the pillow, with pinky's name flashing on it. Sending a thank you prayer to babaji she picked up the phone and bombarded her with questions that had left her crippled with unawareness.

'Geet relax. If you go on asking me questions how am i going to answer it' pinky chuckled once she finished her prattling. 'I don't why dadima left obviously, but i have a very good idea why maan sent that lemon water' she said with mischief.

Geet could only frown, but then when she realized it couldn't be seen through phone so she asked, 'why would he do that?'

The question brought more chuckling and some events of last night which were missing from her consciousness.

Pinky told her how after drinking gallons of alcohol she had taken to dancing, quiet like she had done eight years back. Worried for their sanity and whatever of the standing that was left, pinky had gone out to call the driver so they could head back home, only to find the driver missing. After hundreds of calls to her driver and her father the driver was finally brought back from his tea party with his other driver friends. Just when she had thought that all adventures had come to an end she had found her hugging maan. The sight had evoked a brilliant possibility to her and so she had left them-the new (fake) couple in making- to enjoy some private moments.

'So yea that's pretty much it. Now you tell me what happened after that? Did you guys kiss? Or better still...' pinky questioned cockily but it didn't seem to reach geet. All she could see was her own self...hear her own voice.

The events of last night dancing before...

She was about to strip publicly

She had kissed him

... 'pinky says men love girls who have got bigger tits, rounder ass or longer legs. Do you'? ...

...'do you like sex'...

...'Are you impotent'...

He had kissed her...she had said thank you

She had asked him to carry her to the bedroom...she had forced him dance with her...

WHAT HAD SHE DONE!!!

'Geet...geet are you listening to me...GEET!!' Pinky voice shooted through her stupor and geet realized that pinky was still on phone. She tried to speak but nothing came out of her mouth except some meaningless dins and gasps.

'Geet what happened. Tell me...OH MY GOD...did you guys you know...had se...'

'Shut up pinky!!' geet yelled causing pinky to nearly drop the phone. Hearing geet panic made pinky concerned and alert.

'Is something wrong geet??' what did you guys do??Pinky asked again, this time all the banter gone.

'pinks..i...i said or rather asked certain stupid questions which i shouldn't have. God pinky i want to die' Geet said depressingly.

'Questions?? What questions?'

Geet told her the whole story, and with every revelation her heartbeat augmented in fear and cries of misery started settling in.

She waited for pinky to endow some words condolence but there was total hush at her end.

'Pinky are you there? Say something''

She came to confused halt when pinky's muffled giggles reached her ears. Soon the giggle turned into laughter and then into guffaws, until she could practically picture pinky splitting into sides.

This made her mad.

'Pinky why the hell are you laughing? Geet shouted.' Do you have any idea what's going on with me? You know me and maan never got along and yesterday...well...' she trailed off suggestively.

'I am s-s-sorry geet' pinky said stuttering, trying to muffle her giggles 'it's just so funny-' and then she again exploded into another fits of laughter.

'Pinky you are not supposed to laugh' geet said through gritted teeth. 'It's because of you that i am asked him those horrible embarrassing humiliating questions. And now you are supposed to help me out. You are supposed to tell what am i gonna do now. How am i going to face him?' She asked her anger turning into desperation.

'Okay i am sorry. But you can't blame it on me. I mean whatever i told you were meant only for your ears. You were not supposed to go and drop those bomb questions on that poor hot stud. And i did warn you not drink like alcohol parched soul, but you didn't listen to me. So the mess is all yours. But i also agree that it was my fault to leave you alone with him. I know shouldn't have, but hell, i thought he was perfect for our mission. You see he is hot, sexy and ruggedly handsome and dev's brother and happens to be available-vicinity wise i mean. Now i think instead of looking at it in negative way you should focus on the positive---'

'Positive!!! There is nothing positive in whatever has occurred. And i don't want you to remind me of my erratic behaviour and malfunctioning brain. I want you to give me some good sound advice to clear the mess i have mad. And how the hell can you come up with the bizarre idea of using him to get back dev, especially after the blunder i have made. I can't even make myself move out of my room. God this is worse than what happened with dev. Now with dadima gone, how am i going to live here with those two brothers? One has dumped and cheated me and other one must be thinking what a mad psycho case i am.' Geet said hysterically.

'Geet relax. Seriously, It's not as bad as you are making it. I know its embarrassing but you just can't run away from it all. Infact you should learn to use the situation for your own benefit, and first thing that you need to do is face maan. You can't anyways hide away from him'. Pinky tried to soothe her.

Geet groaned 'no pinky, don't you understand..i just cannot face him. I asked him if he liked sex!! He must be thinking that i am a nymphomaniac!! It's not embarrassing, it's mortifying. Infact i think i should die of mortification'

'Geet for the last time, stop whining. For heaven sake you were drunk, so you are allowed to say whatever came to your mind and do whatever you wanted to because you were not responsible for it. No one talks of gods and nature and spirituality when they are drunk. And you just did some questioning, it's not like you raped or seduced him, which i would have done had i been in your place.' she said with a dreamy sigh.

Pinky had seen maan personally once when she had come over khurana mansion. It was typical bollywood movie type of meet. She was coming in while he was moving and then in full bollywood style they had collided with a bang. However to her dismay he hadn't held or stared at her, instead had walked away mumbling a sorry, too busy discussing logistics with someone over the phone. Thus she had landed flat on her ass, though not without a glimpse of the sexy maan singh khurana that she had heard of through numerous magazines and news paper. And she wasn't disappointed, his side profile, his walk, his (clothed) hot body and his confidence, all screamed of man.

'Pinks i know you have hots for him but will please concentrate on my problem right now' geet said with an exasperated tone. Pinky had always pestered her to forge some friendly alliance with maan so that she could get a chance to woo him. Least did she know that she had shared something with him that couldn't be altered into friendship or anything else. Whatever they shared was something beyond the tag that could be given to relationships. They weren't friend, they weren't enemy, there was a tug that forced them together but they weren't lovers. Couldn't be. Shouldn't be.

'i am concentrating on your problem G.' Pinky said indignantly. 'And i have thought of a perfect solution as well' she added obsequiously.

'Really!! What's that?' geet asked unimpressed. Considering the type of solutions that she had given her so far, she obviously wasn't excited. Next she would ask me to propose him so that i could have sex with him and find out if he is impotent or not.

'Simple darling-feign unawareness. Ignorance is bliss'

'You mean i should act as if i cannot recall our chat show' not to mention stripping and kissing.

'bingo!! Just pretend that you are suffering from partial amnesia due to excessive drinking. Behave like you behaved before. No need to acknowledge the truth.'

Geet finally saw some hope. Ignoring him wasn't a tough or new job. She had mastered the art in the last eight years. Now it had almost become a second nature...

'i think i can do that'

'Good. Now i am going i need to take shower, and i am sure you must be stinking too after all the drinking so i would suggest you the same'

Geet chuckled. 'Fine pinky. Bye'

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Maan looked at the new housing project for the hundredth time but nothing made sense to him. Nothing had meant sense to him after last night. His heart had been in a constant upheaval, and he could still feel the feel of her body smuggled to his, her soft petal lips brushing his hard bark cheeks, her creamy hands around his neck. His body still burned from her touch and even after a long cold shower the tingling hadn't washed away...

'S-sir y-your p-phone.' Adi stammered bringing him back to earth. He looked at his phone which was vibrating constantly. Not wanting to subject himself to the torture listening sameera's talk nineteen to the dozen or some client's new demands and bragging, he was about to cut the call when he recognized the number. He had instructed nakul to check on geet and give her lemon water when she woke up. Since morning he had been making thousand calls at home to get news on her but everytime she was sleeping. Now that nakul had called he was sure that she has woken up. He picked up the call, and confirmed his assumption. As soon as he told him that she was fine and awake he let him himself breathe. The feeling of edginess that had surrounded him since morning somewhat evaporated. She was fine, he assured himself.

It had taken a will power of a saint to leave her last night when she had set his desire running by filling his senses with her seductive aroma. The way she had moulded her body to his had given him ideas which weren't appropriate. The dance had been a sweet torture to him, where he could touch her but couldn't claim her.

She had finally slept in his arms, beautiful and serene. He had tucked her into her bed and after dropping a kiss at her forehead had left quietly and reluctantly. The waves of emotion that crossed were incorrigible. She had evoked lust and craving in him but at the same had engraved longing and love in his heart. Two emotions he hadn't felt together.

However when the sun has rose today it has illuminated the darkness that prevailed between them. The kiss, the dance, the feel of her against him, everything was ebbing to give path to the realization of its absence and aftermath.

He knew she would regret it the moment she would come face to face with reality of last night. They had always lived in oblivion with eachother. Form the first time they had met she had made it clear that she didn't him in her life, and so he had stayed away. He didn't know her reason but he did it for his own sanity. Geet bewitched him; her one look would make him trapped in the snare of enchantment and fascination. There was a force that attracted and repulsed them at the same time. The night they had kissed, he had almost lost control, and then he had known she was lethal-to him and his senses. So the unacknowledged agreement that they made after that night was dutifully followed by them-until now

From the past two days he could feel the concord loosening, guards lowering. They had come together in mind and body far longer than that would be acceptable by either of them. And its effects were already showing.he couldn't focus, his mind and heart were in constant whirl. she was taking over mind body and soul.

Now all he wished was that she didn't remember the incidents of list night.

part 12

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i know the update is late and quite dry but sorry couldn't help it. i have been busy in roaming around different colleges of delhi and attending stupid conferences and my brother had monopolised the lappy so i didn't have it most of the time...sigh ...anyways... and yea i have a good news and bad news to share...my boards(10+2) results are out and i got 93% (yayyiiieee) and the bad news is that many students this year scored above 90% so the cut-offs will be high and hence i am tensed for my admission...😭

but i have hopes...😆some stupid college will take me am sure..

.so i just wanted to thank you all you guys for support and wishes during my exams...now please pray that i do get admission in DU...