Fall Out ~MG~ THREAD 3 Part 25 PG 142 - Page 88

hahah no reva Didi ROHAN is NOT for PINKY . . .

Originally posted by: 7thHeaven

hahah no reva Didi ROHAN is NOT for PINKY . . .

Originally posted by: Dreamy_Mystique

what wer u talking about pinky

Originally posted by: 7thHeaven

that the 5 yr thing is about pinky😉

CHAPTER 24

I'll Be There . . . Part 1

She twitched the door knob and as soon as she pulled open the door . . . she froze cold. Everything around her fazed as she gaped at him wide eyed. She opened her mouth to speak but words wouldn't come out. He was here . . . standing right in front of her after five real long years. Her heartbeat raced as her mind went blank and only one thought raked her nerves . . . Why was he here?

She had thought she had gotten over him, she had thought she had had a head start, she had thought she had moved on . . . until this moment. He stood before her in flesh and blood . . . and her past flashed in front of her, transpiring her right back to the day when she had decided to leave him . . . for that was the need of the time and perhaps it had seemed best option at that point of time but now seeing him after all this time forced her to question, had it really been the best option?

"Adi" Pinky mumbled, much to herself.

"Kaisi ho" he let out.

"I am . . . good." Pinky said. "How about you?" Her heart was racing frantically . . . it was simply overwhelming to see him after such long a time.

"Good. . . I am fine . . . everything is great" he choked.

"So, you here . . . Uh'

"I . . . Uh . . . Geet . . . Ms Geet Handa, I had something to give her" he said, his voice shaky and his eyes fixated upon the girl who stood before him . . . Pinky.

"WHAT" she asked utterly perplexed.

"May I meet Ms Geet" he said, trying hard to control his surging emotions. He was seeing her after five years and he couldn't even hug her . . . she'd taken away that right long time back.

"That would be me" Geet said, stepping next to pinky.

"I needed your signature" Adi said, straightaway coming to the point.

"Excuse me" Geet exclaimed.

*****

Geet's eyes widened in shock as she read the papers . . . unwavering rage coursed through her as she clutched the damned papers in her fist.

"Stay with Meha" With that said Geet breezed out without Pinky had any chance to even utter as much as a letter leave alone a word.

*****

Maan was standing outside her apartment gates when he saw her come out, with what looked like a furious expression adorning her face. He quickly turned to his side, obscuring his face from her view. He felt her whiz pass him and just when he was sure she was at a safe distance from him, he turned only to find her staring at him as she stood at a few feet distance from him. Hell! She had sensed his presence.

*****

Aditya looked at pinky, he had so much to say but words ditched him. Moreover this wasn't time. One last glance at pinky, he dashed after Geet.

******

His head hung low in shame and guilt coupled together and he couldn't dare to look in her eyes. He could hear her footsteps as she neared him, and his heart raced in anticipation of what, he had no idea. But he could tell one thing for sure, whatever she would say wouldn't be anything pleasant and not like he deserved any better. Then he heard a tear and soon he saw torn papers on the ground. Just as he realised which papers had she torn, instinctively he looked up and saw that she was walking back into the apartment.

"Geet" he called out impulsively.

She stopped as she whipped around. The look in her eyes made him eat back his words. He had been about to plead for her to accept the papers but as he saw her angry profile, he knew better than to say anything. Then there was utter silence for a few moments. He knew she was about to snap. Even when he had gotten the papers ready, he did fear she wouldn't accept it. He had thought she would yell at him, perhaps give a slap or two but he hadn't thought . . . She would cry. He ran towards her as he heard a muffled sob.

"Why can't you just leave me alone" she whispered, her voice faltering.

"Please . . ." his hand reached out towards her face. "Please don't cry . . . hit me, yell at me, kill me but please . . . Please do not cry"

As the tip of his fingers came in contact with her skin, she cringed. "Stay away"

He took a step backwards, dejected and hurt at her withdrawing away from him but then, he deserved no better.

"Just who do you think you are" she yelled.

He never expected her to forgive him and he hadn't sent those papers with any other intention but that of wanting to give her everything was his. He had a fairly good idea after last night, she wouldn't want to see him ever again and so he had sent Adi with the papers. More so, he doubted if he could utter a single word had he himself gone to her. But now that she was standing in such close proximity, and with tears falling down her face he just wanted to take her in his arms and never let go.

"What do you think you tried when you sent me those bloody papers? Apna pura empire mujhe deke kya dikhana chahte ho. Mr Maan Singh Khurana I am very much capable of fending for myself and MY daughter. Itna incompetent laga rakha hai mujhe ki I will accept that piece of shit. Ruin your empire or hand it over to some trust for all I care. But you stay away from my life." she ranted.

"I am only giving you what's yours" he replied in a mere whisper.

"Oh yeah and may I know just how Khurana Empire is mine" she spat.

He wanted to say because it was his, naturally it had to be hers but he knew she may not like that as an answer. Moreover there was yet another reason he had named everything in Geet's name . . . Meha. "Meha is a Khurana daughter. It is all rightfully hers and since she'

"SHUT UP" She billowed.

"Meha is MY daughter' Meera's daughter. She is not a Khurana' mind that Mr Khurana' Safe guard your money for your heir. My baby needs none of it. Go away from my life" she bit out, her voice shrill and cold.

His heart lurched in agony as he heard her say HIS child, not theirs. Was he no one in her life? Had he really lost her for forever? Was Meha not his baby? He remembered her words which she had penned in that dairy . . .

Well, since she is my baby, you like it or not, she is your baby too . . .

Ever after he had hurt her in every which way, she still had written that. But now, when all he wanted was to love her . . . she hated him. She did not hate him for leaving her but she hated him because she felt he knew about Dev's actions, she hated him for she held him responsible for Meera's demise . . . yes he was responsible . . . he should have been there . . . he should have known . . . But he had to tell Geet . . .

With head downcast he spoke, "Meera had come to see me but I didn't meet her. I was not in the mansion. Trust me Geet I did not know"

He looked up . . . She was gone . . .

*****

Life . . . it's an ongoing process . . . it has its ups and downs. Sometimes it showers you with all the happiness in the world, while at some other less luckier times it pushes you into an abyss of hardships. You never know when it decides to change its course . . . from good to bad and vice-versa. But then, life is about living . . . taking things as they come, embracing the good times and coming through the worse. And so she would . . . live her life although with a scar on her heart but regardless she would move on in life . . . forgetting the past.

With this resolve . . . she walked out of the temple.

And then . . .

She turned just as she crashed into someone. Her head collided with something muscled and she stumbled backwards and her ankle twisted. Instinctively her hand reached out to grab whatever first in her reach, to save the fall. She felt a hand hold her by the wrist and the next moment she felt an arm go around her waist, pulling her upright.

"Are you alright" she heard a husky voice call out.

She straightened herself as she moved a step backwards, putting some distance between the man and her, before finally speaking "Thank you"

The man smiled at her as he said "You're welcome"

"Um . . ." she stuttered, not knowing what else to say. That was when she felt him extend his arm forward. "Rohan Shergil"

She smiled warmly as she replied "Naintara Khura' . . . Rathore" Her eyes reflected a deep hurt as she spoke her own name.

*****

"I am sorry sir" Adi said in a low tone.

"I kind of knew she won't accept it" Maan said. He gave the car key to Adi and walked away saying he would talk with him later.

*****

Aditya watched as Maan walked away aimlessly. He had been working with Maan for over four years now and never had he seen his boss so . . . shattered. For the initial two years, after Aditya had started working in KC Maan had been a different person, than who he had been for the past two years. If in the two initial years Maan always had a glint of happiness in his eyes . . . in the later two his eyes were only blank. Aditya had closely observed his boss for the past two years, which wasn't tough given that Maan was in the office all day long, sometimes even at night. He had seen Maan trying to run from something . . . perhaps from his inner feelings. Maan had been no less than an enigma . . . what he did . . . why . . . how . . . Aditya could never figure it out in the entirety.

He had been sceptical when Maan had asked him to hire a detective agency to spy over Geet, almost two years back. He had not known much about Geet Handa, only that she was supposedly Maan Singh Khurana's X-fiance, in fact his knowledge about the Khurana's, much like everyone else in the office, was limited to knowing who all were The Khuranas. From all he had gathered over the last two years was that whoever this girl was, she meant a lot to Maan Singh Khurana. After all, who knew better than him, just what all Maan had done for this girl.

"Adi" a soft voice called out to him, breaking his chain of thoughts.

*****

*****

They sat in silence . . . absorbing the truths they had just learnt from each other.

Pinky wiped a lone tear as she said "He does love her". She was pleasantly surprised by the new knowledge Adi had given her. She had thought Geet's love for Maan was stronger but then now she knew one thing . . . Strong . . . Weak . . . they don't exist in love. Love is simply love.

"I can't believe his own family did this to him" Adi said in reply to what pinky had told him just a few moments back. All of a sudden it clicked . . . "Does Geet know?"

Pinky shook her head slightly while Aditya held her wrist and walking towards the apartment.

"Where are you'

"She needs to know why he left her."

"We can't tell her"

"WHY?"

*****

He stood by the road side as he observed a group of young kids playing at a distance.

"You're going away" he heard a voice.

"Dad got transferred to Pune" another kid replied. "I have to go"

"Please don't go." he heard a cute soft voice say.

"I will have to"

He smiled as he heard the kid say "You are my friend . . . you cannot go away' I can never lose you" But soon the smile vanished as horrid memories sprung up in his mind.

~Flash back~

Maan turned as he saw Yash being carried on a stretcher, soaked in blood all over. Then he heard soft cries . . . whipping around he saw the baby in Geet's arms crying. Then he saw the nurse pull that damned white sheet over Meera's face. NO! God no!

And then . . .

"Maan" he heard Yash call out in a feeble whisper. He turned again as he saw Yash being carried inside the OT, with his hand outstretched in Maan's direction. Maan rushed towards Yash just as the doctor asked Maan to be patient and so he watched as his friend was led inside the OT.

He had no idea just what the hell was happening.

*****

"Yash" Maan rasped as he held Yash's shoulders. Maan shook Yash frantically, urging "Open your eyes" Maan's eyes brimmed over as his heart constricted in fear. Yash had had an accident on Gurgoan-Delhi highway, and was brought in critical. And now he wasn't opening his eyes . . . he wasn't responding . . . he was lying motionless like a . . . A dead body. NO! Maan's heart screamed. No! God damn it! No! This couldn't be happening. Every moment Maan had spent with Yash came right back to haunt him . . . he remembered warning Yash against hurting Meera when Meera had introduced Yash to Maan as her boy friend . . . he remembered Yash and Meera fighting over you-ate-my-ice cream . . . he remembered seeing his friends all happy and smiling.

"He is no more" he heard someone say.

And he screamed . . . his voice shrill will agony.

That day he had lost both his friends.

~Present~

Maan was brought out of his reverie as he felt a water droplet on his nose. It had started drizzling. And he walked . . . to nowhere.

*****

Pinky explained to Adi how Savitri Devi had insisted that no one tells Geet anything. She wanted Maan to win her back on his own. Then pinky went on to tell him about Geet's misconception of Maan knowing about Meha being Dev's daughter. She told him that Savitri Devi had informed her about all that had happened at the mansion last night, she had wanted to clear Geet's misunderstanding then and there but Savitri Devi had stopped her from doing so. She had said, she wished for her children to clear their Misunderstanding on their own.

*****

He outstretched his arms as he stared out at the heavens. His actions had pushed him into a never ending abyss of loneliness. Geet had asked him to stay away from Meha . . . from herself. How could he? Just a few days back Geet never stopped him from meeting Meha, in fact upon being questioned by pinky why she allowed a man like him to see her daughter . . . her reply was 'She is alive because of him'. His mind was transferred back in time as he remembered that day when he had rescued Meha.

~Flashback~

He was sitting blankly staring out in space, not knowing what else to do . . . when he heard a nurse panic from somewhere outside the room where he sat, "The baby . . . they took her". Soon he could hear Geet screaming at the nurse "What do you they took her? What the hell is happening? You took her for cleaning. I want my baby. You hear me. I want my baby! Where is she?".

And his shot up . . . Meera's baby . . . the baby was missing. He ran out of the room as he dashed into Geet. "Maan" he heard her mumble. He pushed her away as he ran towards the nurse and barked. "Where is the baby?"

"They snatched her from me" the nurse choked.

"I'll sue this hospital for negligence if so much as scratch is seen on the baby." With that he breezed out of the hospital . . . not knowing where he was going. He called the police and explained to them the situation, briefly, commanding them to immediately start the search for the baby.

*****

He saw a two men standing next to a van while two other were busy changing the tyre. He then saw another man standing a fair distance, trying to soothe a waling baby.

"Whose baby is that?" Maan asked.

The man looked at Maan and then the baby before he made a run. That was all the confirmation Maan had needed to know that the baby was indeed not that man's. Soon Maan was running after the guy. He pulled out his phone as he informed the police of his location whilst trying the catch up with the scoundrel who dared touch Meera's daughter

*****

Hauling the goon by his collar, Maan pulled the baby out of the clutches of the man as he pressed the baby closer to his own chest. The man hurled a punch towards Maan as he ducked his face away right in time. Carefully avoiding any hits, Maan tackled the man while holding Meha safely in his arm.

Then he heard footsteps behind him and looking over his shoulder he saw the other four men running towards him. He could have tried to put a fight but with Meha along there was too much of risk and this was not a time to take risks. He then ran . . . not for his life but for Meha.

*****

He could hear them chasing after him . . .

Much to his respite, the police reached there just on time.

While the police arrested the goons, Maan waited for his car to come pick him up. It was then that he heard Geet . . . "Meha"

He had turned to look at her and let her know that the baby would go with him. But the concern in her eyes, the love which was clearly etched all over her face . . . towards the baby, he simply walked over to Geet and handed the baby to her.

He watched as Geet kissed the baby all over. He knew Geet would take care of the baby more than he could ever. He just knew it. He walked away without a backward glance . . . He questioned his own actions but no avail. He did not know why he had let Geet have Meha. May be because he knew, Geet wouldn't have been able to handle it if he took Meha away from her. He had seen the love for Meha in Geet's eyes. Although Meha was hardly a few hours old but does a mother take any time to fall in love with her child . . . she plainly loves her child. He did not have it in him to snatch away from Geet the only reason left for her to live. However he never accepted it, not even to himself that he let Meha stay with Geet for Geet.

*****

~Present~

Maan was brought back to the present with the ringing of his phone.

*****

"Pinky" Adi called out to her just as she was about to enter the gates of her apartment building.

She turned around as she smiled but soon the smile faded as she heard Adi speak, "Can we start over"

She looked at him for a moment before she bit out "Why?"

"Because . . ." he walked towards her. " . . . I want my girl back"

"Adi . . . the problem remains the same. I cannot handle a long distance relationship. I can't move in here and you cannot come back to Amritsar."

"I can" he breathed. "I came here to stand on my feet. And so I am. Now time to get back home. I just realised . . . you're too precious to let go"

"What makes you think I am still available?"

"You better be"

Then they kissed . . . after five long years.

*****

As she entered the house with a huge grin, she heard a forced cough. She smiled sheepishly as she saw Geet look at her with an expression What-is-cooking.

"Actually Geet . . ."

"Uh . . . um . . . I am listening. Go on"

Then pinky told Geet about how she and Adi had been childhood buddies and soon as they had entered college they had confessed of loving the other. Then she went on to tell her, how she couldn't leave Amritsar as she had to take care of her parents, she being their only child. And Adi had to leave for Delhi in search of a job.

"Now you are back together"Geet stated.

"He'll get his transfer done to Amritsar"

"I am so happy for you" Geet chirruped as she pounced on pinky.

*****

Sorry guys I had thought of some more, but I am quite sleepy and the update is already quite long. You must have got an idea about what I had to add from the chapter title. Will update again certainly tomorrow or day after, really sorry but I will include the Precap in the next update. Sorry once again. I know this may have been a little boring but i have to close some loops before i reach the climax . . . BTW yes the end is near😆