Maneet FF-Love makes Life Beautiful#2-Ch29,p144* - Page 75

Chapter 29

"Geet!", he said, softly and stepped towards her, while she stepped backwards. She hit the table there, balanced herself, and knelt over it. He knelt over her and placed his hands to her side. He looked on intently at her and said, "How can I let you sleep so peacefully Geet? You took my sleep away and you thought you could sleep in peace?"

Geet did not understand if he was joking or if he really meant it. She tried to push him away, when he caught her wrists.

"Mr. Khurana bahut ho gaya mazaak. Aap Mazaak kar rahe ho na?", she asked, tensed.

"Tum jitni dumb dikhti ho utni dumb nahin ho, Geet. Bahut jaldi samajh mein aa gaya, tujhe", he said, winking. Geet got angry and tried to push him away and he only tightened his grip on her wrists.

"Mr. Khurana aap baar baar mere paas mat aaeye", she warned him, looking away.

"Kyun?", he asked, smirking.

She looked at him and said smiling shyly, "Mujhe kuch kuch hota hain aur mann karta hain ki main aapke aur paas aou".

He left her hands instantly and moved away, while she laughed at his reaction. She jumped up and down and laughed.

"Darr gaye Mr. Khurana? Aapko kya laga sirf aap flirt kar sakte hain, main nahin?", she asked, laughing, while tears flew down her eyes. She caught her stomach in pain, still laughing. "Gosh, my stomach hurts", she said, continuing to laugh, while Maan's eyes turned deep red out of anger.

"Itna hasne ki zaroorat nahin hain", he snarled and she laughed even louder. Kiara and Daadima, came down the stairs, when they heard Geet laugh so loudly. NT- Dev watched from upstairs, what was wrong with Geet.

"Aap na sadoo ke sadoo hi rahenge. Anyone on the planet would laugh or atleast smile, when they see the other person laugh and smile so much. But your expression is always the same, angry and irritating", she said, finally standing up, straight.

Both of them did not notice that the entire family was not watching them.

"Geet!", he yelled, softly, gnitting his teeth.

"Haan Geet! Aur aap Maan", she said, smiling.

He relaxed a little and said, "Jao ab jaake fresh ho jao. Khade Khade mere muh kya dekh rahin hain?"

"Bahut din ho gayi na, isiliye dekh rahin hoon. Haayee Maan, aap itna handsome kyun ho?", she said, pinching his cheek. The others in the hall, suppressed a smile and stood there with their eyes popping out and mouths falling open.

"Someone actually had the guts to ask Maan Khurana why he is handsome and even pinch him", whispered Dev to Naintara, who stood as if she was paralyzed.

"Good gracious. She'll remain in the books of history", thought Kiara and Daadima thought, "sadoo Maan ko sweet Geet mili. Thank you so much Geet's Babaji"

"Geet", he yelled at her and pushed her away, "I'm going to meet Daadima"

"Oh ab yaad aaya aap mansion mein kyun aaye the?", she asked.

He looked at her and then remembered the purpose of his visit to the mansion. "Good Heavens. I was here to meet Daadima. What was I doing with this girl all this while? I completely forgot that I was to meet about Daadima. How could I forget Daadima, out of all people on the planet? Gosh this girl, irritates me and pushes me beyond my limits of patience", he cursed her.

He shot her an angry glare that actually frightened her. She looked down at the carpet and he turned away from her, to walk towards the staircase. He was shocked to see Kiara and Daadima standing there.

"Main aapse milne aa raha tha", he said.

"Haan hum samaj gaye", mocked Daadima.

"Bro, living room se daadima ke room ko aane ke liye aapko 40 minutes se zyaada lag rahan hain, aaj kal", said Kiara.

"Who main is pagal ladki se baat kar rahin thi, tuo thoda late ho gaya", he explained.

"Haan Bro aap baat kar rahe the, aur woh aapko pinch kar rahin thi. Hain na. Isiliye shayad der ho gayi", said Dev, from the first floor. Geet and Maan looked at each other embarrassed and Maan shot an angry glare at everyone in the living room. Dev and Naintara instantly stiffened at his look and Kiara looked away. Geet looked everywhere but at the people in the living room and Maan stood with his hands on his hips, qith his insides boiling with anger and awkwardness.

Daadima realized the tension that had started to grow, so she quickly spoke up, to break the tension.

"Dinner karne chale kya? Kaafi late ho gayi hain", she said. She turned to Kiara and gestured her to follow. Kiara nodded and Daadima looked up at Dev-Nt. They nodded too and started to descend down the stairs.

"Geet aapko fresh up hona hain, tuo jaldi jaaeye", she said and continued, "Maan chaliye". Maan nodded and before following Daadima into the dining room, shot an angry glare at Geet, who shivered.

Geet quickly ran into her bedroom. She cursed herself for not noticing the surroundings, when Maan is in front of her.

"How can you be so lost?", she questioned herself. "Gosh, Maan will kill me for this", she thought. She was not worried about the family noticing their talks, fights, or flirts. All she was worried about was how Maan would react to the way the family reacted.

"She must be very angry", she mumbled, as she pushed open the bathroom door and stood in front of the huge glass mirror by the wash basin. She stared at herself and thought for sometime. She heard her phone beep and vibrate and realized she had got a message. She washed her face, pulled her hair into a plait and walked out of the bathroom, to read the message.

"Niharika ki message hogi. Shayad wapas aa gayi hain", she thought and took her phone. She opened the inbox and while she did that, she walked out of the bedroom towards the living room. As she saw who the message was from, it read, "Maan" and she stopped in the middle of the corridor connecting the living room, to her room and the other rooms.

"Maan ka message. Hain Babaji aaj tuo main gayi", she cribbed and prayed, looking upwards at the ceiling, as though her babaji would look through the ceiling at her.

She slowly walked as if she was counting the number of steps she took. She gathered the courage to open the message, which read, "Geet stay in your limits. I am not going to remind you repeatedly. DO NOT meddle with me".

She feared his reaction but at the same time smiled at his message. She did not know why she smiled but she did. She replied, "I'm sorry. I missed you the last few days, so you know'. :-) But don't worry, I will not cause any more trouble".

She came and took her chair beside Kiara and smiled at Kiara and she did the same. Maan's phone beeped and he could see on the screen Geet's message. He simply shut his phone down and continued to have his dinner. He did not look at her and she was worried. She felt he was angry, but what could she do. She had her dinner, helped NT clear up the table and walked back to her bedroom, lazily.

Everyone else were in the hall and Daadima stopped her too, "Geet, you aleeping already? Come and join us for sometime, if you don't have any work", she said.

"Daadima, I have to speak to my friend. Have not spoken to her for quite sometime. So will go and catch up with her. Good night", she said, weakly. Maan who was reading her message, felt the softness mixed with a little bit of sadness in her voice. He did not look up at her and she smiled at the rest of them and said good night to the rest. She slowly walked into her bedroom and shut the door close. She tired calling Niharika but it did not work.

"God, yeh ladki pata nahin kab wapas aaeygi. Dhimaag kharaab ho rahan hain mera, yahan", she said, walking around the room. She sat by the window and read the entire newspaper from the first page to the last page, but would not feel sleepy.

"Yeh kya book dekhte hi, mujhe neend aa jaati hain aur yahan maine poora newspaper padh liya, but no use", she said, putting the newspaper aside. She looked around the room wondering what else to do. Her gaze fell on the television and she simply nodded her head in a "no". She looked at the table on the other side of her room and jumped up as a thought struck her.

"Diary", she said, getting up and running across the room to grab her diary.
Oh well, its been quite sometime, so good thing to do now", she thought.

She opened her diary and read her previous entries. She noticed how the last ten to fifteen entries were only connected to Maan and no one else. Surprisingly even the next few entries would only be connected to him. She wondered if she would ever write about anyone else, in her so called, "diary" or would it just be him.

While she read the last entry that was made sometime before going to HP, her phone beeped again.

"Now what?" she thought, and picked up her phone to read the message. It was from Maan again. She took a deep breath and opened the message.

"You are not a trouble, you are only foolish!!! ;-)"

She made a weird face and rolled her eyes and replied, "Thanks for the compliment!!!!! :P"

She kept her phone aside and suddenly picked it up again, "Oh shit, my text plan expired and I'm messaging. Pata nahin kitne paise kat gaye", she wondered, dialing *123# to check her balance. She was right, she was being charged more than usual since her text plan had expired. She quickly got a recharge done and before she could complete the process, her phone beeped again.

"I don't understand this man. Babaji, kaise specimen ko manufacture kiya hain, aapne", she grumbled and first recharged her mobile, with a new text plan.

Then she read the message, "Anytime Sweetheart". She mocked him, "Anytime sweetheart", and hit her head.

She replied, "Aap please apna kaam kijiye. Aur mujhe mera kaam karne dijiye". She again picked up her diary and wrote exactly four words, "Hello my dearest diary", when her phone beeped again.

"Kaam hi tuo kar raha hoon. Aur waise tum itne busy kab se ho gayi?" Geet was slowly getting irritated. She would not understand if he was angry or if he was fine. If he was angry then why was he angry, and why is he texting her? It was not usual for Maan Singh Khurana to text an ordinary girl like her, setting aside all his work.

"Maan, what is your problem? And why are you texting me so much?", she read the message as she typed it.

Geet proceeded to write her diary and she heard the same beep again. She got irritated closed her diary and put it aside. She walked to her bed and fell onto the pillow. She opened the message and read it, "Wow, I can actually hear you scream in your messages. Relax! Why should you always be the one to irritate me? I took the role, today", was his reply.

"Yeah ok! Whatever", she replied.

"Good night sewwtheart. I think I should get back to work now", he replied.

"Don't call me sweetheart and I thought you were working till now. Anyways, bye, good night", she replied.

"I was working till now- wasn't I texting you? And when I say "sweetheart", don't take it too seriously", he sent a message again.

"Mr. Khurana, I do not have the patience to type any more messages. Cant you just come and talk straight away?", she typed, irritated.

"I'm scared to come and talk to you alone, Geet. In the presence of the entire family you pinched me. I wonder what you'd do to me when we're alone ;-) ;-) ;-)".

Geet got furious but smiled and replied, "Aww the great Maan Khurana scared of an ordinary "foolish" girl? Strange Huh!!! Waise until and unless you come and spend sometime alone, how will you, what I'd do".

"I thought you did not have the patience to type any more messages. ;-) Anyways, when I'm terribly bored, I'll surely come to you. good night and take care", he replied.

"When would that be?", she asked.

"what?", he asked.

"You getting terribly bored", she replied.

"Never! So you can forget the idea of me coming and talking to you. I have enough work to do, honey'!!!!"

"I see! So why are you texting me now?", she asked and then mumbled, "Kitna show-off karta hain. Mujhe koi kaam nahin hain kya? Sirf inhe kaam hain, poori duniya mein".

"Because I missed you, too, Geet, the last few days. Missed bickering with you! Missed a loud speaker in the house and all of a sudden the mansion suddenly fell quiet. Bye now!", he concluded.

Geet thought she would fall off the bed, reading the message she got. "what?", she screamed and sat up in bed, trying to balance the smile and the blush that were slowly growing larger on her face. She shook her self up and said, "Okay Geet! Do not feel off too much. He must be joking. Very soon, you are going to get a message that he was kidding".

She re-read the message and screamed, "He called me a loud-speaker. What the hell?", she pushed away the pillow in anger. "How mean, can this man get?"

"I missed you Geet, because you sound like a loud speaker", she mocked his voice. "How dare he?", she thought and fell onto the pillow again, "But he missed me too?", she asked herself.

"Okay enough! Wait for the "I was kidding", message to come, Geet", she told herself and put the phone by her side. She closed her eyes and turned the other side, away from the phone and switched off the lights. She waited for sometime, for her phone to beep again, but fell asleep.

Like Geet had expected, would the "I was kidding", message come any time soon? Well, this time she was wrong. The message never came from Maan Singh Khurana.