[MG FF]- Surrender...Author's note page 49 - Page 3

'Well Mrs. Savithri ji...she can come with you if she wishes to. I have no objection regarding that. She is now perfectly alright.' said the doctor when Daadi had visited the hospital a week later in the pretext of visiting the girl. Daadi was very much in favour of bringing the girl home but Annie was a little apprehensive about that. But she didnt understand one thing how her strict brother had given his consent to this. He wasnt that type of a guy who would bring any random girl into the household of Prachetas(Khurana Mansion). She knew her brother only too well. He was infuriated when his cousins landed in his house but now he was letting some girl, that too nobody knew anything about her, come into their house. What was actually happening?

'Daadi usse hamare ghar le jaana zaroori hai?' cribbed Annie again.

'Annie bete, why are you thinking like this. You like helping people right? then what has got into you now? she is all alone beta. She is not well and she doesnt remember anything at all. Its our duty to help her na.'

'lekin mujhe ek baat samajh mein nahi aaraha ki Maan bhai kaise maan gaye iskeliye?'

'Maan was the one who admitted her to the hospital.He knows her condition very well.Woh itne bure bhi nahi jaise aap soch rahe hai.'

'Oh really. I didnt know bhai ko social service karna bhi aata hai' said Annie mockingly.

'Annie bete, enough of teasing your brother. Hum inhe ghar le jarahe hai and thats final.'

'Agar woh aana nahi chahti to?'

'Hum kisi bhi tarah unhe mana lenge. You dont have to worry.' said Daadi with a tone of finalty that Annie didnt argue further.

'Doctor kya hum unse mil sakte hai?'

'sure, main aapko lekar chalti hoon, chaliye.' said the doctor and took them to the ward.

The girl was staring at the ceiling with her big blue green eyes. She was utterly confused yet she acted all normal. When Daadi entered the ward with Annie tagging behind,she looked up hopefully but as soon as she saw them her hope was yet again punctured. Daadi came and sat next to her on the bed and said 'aap theek hai na beta'with such sweetness in her voice that she couldnt help but smile at her.

'Hum jaante hi ki aap hume nahi pehchan rahe hai but hum aapko jaante hai. Jab hume pata chala ki aapki accident hogayi to hum daude chale aaye aapse milne keliye' Daadi said yet again and she thought probably she was in no danger now.

'Hum aapko hamare ghar le jaana chahte hai. Aayengi hamare saat?'

'Aap mujhe apne saat kyun lekar jaana chahte hai?'

'Kyun ki aapki mamma yahi chahti thiki aap hamare ghar mein hi rahe.' said Daadi.

'Aap meri mumma ko jaante hai?' said the girl that made Daadi look up hopefully but the girl continued 'main nahi jaanti ki meri mumma kaun hai. Yaha ke nurse mujhse pooch rahe the aur main unhe koi jawaab nahi de payi. Agar aap jaante hai to aap unhe bata dejiye, subha se pareshan karke rakh diya mujhe, tabse soch rahi hoon lekin koi fayda nahin.'

Daadi yet again smiled and said 'Humne nurse ko kehdiya hai. Woh aapko pareshan nahi karegi. Filhal aap hume yeh batayiye ki agar aap hamare saat aana chahti hai ya nahi?'

'Lekin main kyun aaongi waha?'

'To kya aap zindagi bhar hospital mein hi rahenge?'

'Na baba na! Mujhe hospital se darr lagta hai. Main yahan nahi rukhne wali.' said the girl

'To phir aap kaha jaayenge?'

'Pata nahi, mujhe to yeh bhi pata nahi ki main kaha rehti hoon. Aapko pata hai?'

'Ha hume pata hai. Par ab waha jaane se koi fayda nahi hai kyun ki woh ghar ab locked hai. Koi nahi hai waha par.'

'oh...' exclaimed the girl

'Isiliye hum aap se hamare ghar chalen ke liye keh rahe hai'

'Lekin aap kaun hai?'

'Hum? hum to aapki Daadi hai'

'Daadi? aap sach main meri Daadi hai?'

'Haan bete, hum sach mein aapki Daadi hain.' said Daadi with a small smile.

'To phir theek hai. Main aaongi aap ke saat' said the girl cutely

'Yeh hui na baat' said Daadi and kissed her forehead lovingly and excused herself to go out and ask the doctor to get the discharge papers ready and the girl was having silent tears of happiness rolling out of her eyes but a certain amount of doubt was still lingering. Wasnt this another trap???

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'Naina, Geet ke baare mein kuch pata nahi chal raha' said Rajiv(Naina's brother who considered Geet as his second sister)

'Par woh kaha jaa sakti hai.' said Naina with tears.

'Dont worry nainu...ajayegi woh' said Rajiv, hugging his sister and consoling her.

'Puri zindagi taba kar rakhdi uski un darindo ne...meri Geet ko ek din bhi chain se jeene nahi diya..' sobbed Naina.

'I know but Geet itni kamzor nahi hai..woh jaanti hai apne aap ko bachana..she will come out of this mess. Tum dekhna..'

'Babaji kare aisa hi ho...' sobbed Naina resting her head on her brothers chest. He stroked her hair, consoled her and took her inside the house.

'Dont worry nainu...she will come back..Geet haar maanne walo mein se nahi hai...she will fight and she will come back as an acheiver' said Rajiv and bid her sister good night and went to bed.

Here Naina sadly went back to her room and picked up a photograph of Geet and herself taken in her room and looked at it with teary eyes and hugged the photo remembering the best moments she had spent with her best friend.

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Annie hadnt waited for Daadi but came back home from the hospital early as her Maan bhai had called to ask her about work. The show she did with Maan went on very smoothly and she came back from london two days earlier and Maan had stayed there get some other work done. As soon as he had called her she went back home to give him the work details he wanted and shut herself in the room apparently fuming that her Daadi was bringing some random girl into their life and house. She was unable to register the fact that her Daadi was showing so much of concern to some unknown and her words of irritation hadnt affected her at all. She was still angry and decided that she isnt going to entertain that girl in any manner. Ahana Khurana was someone who had grown to claim much of attention to herself in her family and friend circle and now when someone random was coming to share that as well was something that she couldnt tolerate in the slightest. 'Let her come. I will make her life difficult for her.' Little did she know that destiny had something else in store for her.

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