Y is life so unfair - Page 3

Par 6

FLASHBACK

MUMBAI AIRPORT

A girl wearing a dark pink tank top and white shorts come out of the door of Mumbai airport. She is wearing big sunglasses and a slight smile on her lips. Her hair is long and left loose on one side of her shoulder.

She looks around at the place. Mumbai. The city of dreams. Atlast she is here!

She had to persuade her father for over a month to let her come here. But at the end she has won, ofcourse with the help of her mother.

Her father didn't liked the idea of her going so far from her home alone and that too for one month! That was a big no no for him.

But here she was! In Mumbai!! Her birth place. She has spent her childhood in Mumbai before her parents had moved to London when she was 11 years old. She felt like she has got her childhood back!

Yes! She is gonna be here for a whole one month! And she has decided that it is gonna be a blast!!!! No parental supervision! No curfews at night!!

She was free… free for whole one month. She was liking the smell of her freedom.

She looked around herself checking out the place that is gonna make her next month the most memorable of her life.

Just then her eyes fell on a guy who has just bumped into the door of the airport and fell back looking at her. His expression was like he was dazzled by her beauty.

She looked at him for 2 seconds surprised and then she broke into laughter. She had the most melodious laughter that every person standing over there has ever heard.

Everyone looked towards the place from where the most beautiful sound of laughter was coming and they saw the goddess of beauty standing there and laughing at some already dazzled guy.

She was very, very pretty. It would not be wrong if someone took her as the goddess of beauty. There was not a single flaw in her beauty. She has a very, very beautiful face, an awesome body and on top of that, she also carried herself very gracefully and elegantly.

Suddenly another girl walks out of the door with the baggage trolley and said "geet, why did you leave me alone at the luggage counter? I was looking for you everywhere" she notices geet laughing and asks her "Why are you laughing?" and sees the guy on the floor still looking at geet and she asks her "Who is he?"

Geet controls her laughter and bends down a little towards the guy and says "Dude! Next time try walking with your eyes open"

Geet walks away with her friend.

"Who was he?" she asks geet

"Kuch nahin Pinky. Some loser" and she shakes her head in negative unbelievably. [no one pinky]

"Tum bhi naa geet! Now shall we go? Uncle would be waiting for us."

"Ok. Lets go." And they both leaves.

Geet was studying theatre and regarding one assignment she has to do a research on Indian Theatre. And instead of getting the book knowledge for her research, she has thought to get the first hand experience.

Geets father has not allowed her to go alone, so pinky has accompanied her. Pinky has her relatives here and she was visiting them.

It was decided that geet and pinky would stay with pinky's uncle.

Pinky's uncle was a really sweet man. After briefly introducing geet to her uncle, all three went for home.

NEXT MORNING

Geet was ready to go to the theatre company. Mohinderlal had a friend in Mumbai who had a theatre company along with many other businesses, but he expired few years ago. Now his son looks after the theatre and it was the largest theatre company of Mumbai.

Mohinderlal has written a reference letter for geet, but geet didn't want to use that. She wanted to get into it on her own. After all, who can say no to Geet Handa!!

Pinky's uncle was gonna drop geet off at the theatre, so geet said bye to everybody and goes out into the city which was unknown to her, yet she knew this place somehow.

She felt she belonged here. Maybe it was her childhood memories but she had a feeling that this place was waiting for her for years.

IN THE CAR

Geet looks out of the window and loved the wind blowing on her face.

Pinky's uncle see her looking outside the window and say "Beta ji, I'll pick you up while coming back from work."

Geet nods her head and says "ok uncleji"

And suddenly they get stuck in the traffic.

Uncle says under his breath "Yeh Mumbai ka traffic bhi na!!"

Geet asks him "Uncleji, how far is it?"

"We are almost there. See that building over there" he points towards a grey building which was couple of blocks away. "it's in that building"

Geet says "its ok uncleji. I can walk there."

He wasn't sure about that as geet was new in this city but when she insists, he lets her go.

Geet gets out of the car and starts walking towards the building.

Suddenly, someone comes out of an alley and bumps into geet.

Geet felt a burning sensation on her body, as she saw that the guy has spilled hot coffee on her and her dress is drenched in the hot coffee.

Her eyes widened as this was her favorite dress and she wore it to put a good impression on the owner of the theatre.

She looked angrily at the source of this mess. And then she showers the rain of insults on him..

"Oye!! Ullu de pathhe, khote di dum, gadhe, idiot!! Are you blind or what?? Cant you see????" she makes a cry face and says "meri favorite dress kharaab kar di" and then says angrily "Bhagwaan ne itni badi badi aankhein di hain, agar unka thoda sa bhi istemaal kar loge na , to doosron pe bohat meharbaani hogi" [u ruined my fav dress….god has given u such big eyes, if u try to use them, then it would be a great help for others]

"Look miss, I'm really very sorry." He said totally taken aback by what has just happened. "Agar aap chaahein, to yahin paas mein ek mall hai, main aapko nayi dress leke de sakta hoon" [if you want, theres a mall nearby, I can buy u a new dress]

Geet mistook his intentions and thought he is hitting on her to buy her new dress. This made her more angry.

"You'll buy me a dress?" she looks at him from top to bottom. He was wearing a cheap check shirt and blue jeans. She thought he is some poor guy who might have a salary of 6000-7000 per month. "Do you even know how expensive this dress was? Yeh dress itni mehngi thi, ke agar tum apne poore saal ki salary bhi kharach kar doge na, tab bhi aisi dress nahin kharid paaoge." [ this dress is so expensive, that if u spend even ur annual salary, u wont b able to buy it]

Geet continues "Tumhari himmat kaise hui mujhpar coffee girane ki?" [how dare u spill the coffee on me]

The guy had enough. "Excuse me miss, it was not my fault ok. You were the one who was walking without looking. And as for your dress, how expensive is it?"

Geet picks her chin up and says "25 lakhs"

"Ok" the guy takes out a cheque book from his suitcase and writes a cheque. He offers her the cheque and says angrily "Here you go miss. Go and buy urself a new dress. And next time walk with your eyes open." And he leaves without saying anything more.

Geet is surprised with what just happened and looks at the cheque in her hand. It was a cheque of 30 lakhs. Geet looks at his back totally shocked and see him sitting in a silver Mercedes benz.

She scoffs and says to herself "Wow" she shakes off the incident and goes inside the building. She cleans her dress in the washroom and goes into the office.

Everybody in the theatre company were rehearsing for their next show. She looks around the place and goes towards a group of people standing in a corner.

She clears her throat and says "Excuse me! My name is Geet Handa. And I'm doing a research on Indian Theatre, so I was thinking if I can volunteer in this theatre company." She finished with a sweet smile.

Everyone was awestruck at her beauty. Geet was used to this kind of treatment. She smiled a little more and said "So, whom should I talk to about that?"

A guy tells her "talk to Mr. Vicky Khurana. He is the owner of this theatre."

"And where is Mr. Vicky Khurana"

"He just went outside for a meeting. He is gonna be here in half an hour or so. You can wait here if you want."

"Ok."

Everyone got back to their rehearsals, and geet sat in a chair and waited.

Everyone was so good in their work that geet got so engrossed in watching them that she forgot what time it was.

Suddenly someone call her from behind her back and say "Excuse me!!"

She looked back and saw the same guy standing there who has spilled coffee on her dress.

Both of them gets shocked seeing each other.

They say "You!!" both at the same time.

The guy asks her angrily "What are you doing here?"

"Its none of your business"

"Well, as a matter of fact, it is my business. Audience is not allowed inside the premises while rehearsals are going on."

Geet asks him in mockery "Who are you? Security guy??"

"I'm the owner of this place." He said with pride. "Vicky. Vicky Khurana." Geet is shocked to hear this.

"Now will you leave, my crew is trying to work here. If you want to see the show, its tomorrow at 6 pm" he leaves while geet stands there shocked.

After 2 seconds geet realized what has happened and call him from back. "Mr. Khurana." She runs towards him "Hi, I'm Geet Handa. Actually I'm doing a research on Indian Theatre and as this is Mumbai's best theatre company, I was thinking if I can volunteer for Khurana Arts."

"No" he was quick and short. He tries to leave again.

But geet again calls him and runs towards him "Mr. Khurana. One second please. If you are mad because of the morning's incident" she bits her lower lip being uncomfortable in saying sorry "then I'm really sorry. But I have come all the way from London just for my research. Pleeeaaase let me do it" she makes a puppy face.

"Look Miss. Geet, I would love to help you but, there's nothing you can do over here. And we don't let outsiders stay on our rehearsals. Its our company policy you see. Our every show is fresh and new and we cant let anybody leak any information to our competitors before our show."

He tries to leave but geet holds his hand and says flirtatiously "Please Mr. Khurana. Please let me do it. I'm not a spy. I promise I wont leak any information" she said looking into his eyes.

Geet was used to getting her way out like this. She is extremely beautiful and she knew how to use it in her own benefit.

Vicky looks like he was lost in her big hazel brown eyes. But then he controls himself and says "Well there's one thing we can do. Well you can do a job over here and u have to sign a contract with us. In that way our company's confidentiality would be secure and you can do your research too."

"OK" geet says happily leaving his hand.

Geet signs a contract and then Vicky introduces her to all the crew. She quickly became friends with all.

Geet was very busy for the whole day as they had a show next day.

IN THE EVENING

Everyone had gone home but geet was waiting outside for her ride. Vicky comes out and sees geet standing there outside the building.

"Geet.." he calls her "Are you waiting for someone?"

"Yeah, my ride."

"OK. I can drop you home if you want!"

"No its ok. My friend's uncle's gonna pick me up. He would be here any minute."

And there was silence between them. Geet thought of something and said

"Mr. Khurana, I----"

He didn't let her finish.

"Geet, call me Vicky."

Geet smiles and says "Ok. Vicky. Uh… I wanted to apologise for the morning. Actually I was---"

He didn't let her finish "Hey its ok geet" he said good naturedly. "you don't have to apologise. Infact it was my fault. I ruined your dress. I'm really sorry." He smiles sweetly.

Geet takes out the cheque and gives it to him "I cant take this."

"Hey its yours. Please buy a new dress, I'll feel better if you do."

Geet looks at him and thinks 'he is so sweet' and says "Vicky, I know it was an accident. and friends don't charge friends for accidents" she smiles.

"so are we friends?"

"Only if you take this cheque back"

"Ok. On one condition I'll take it back."

"And what would be that?" she asks him in good humour.

"You have to come to shopping with me and let me buy you a dress."

She smiles and says "Ok. But let me warn you, I take hours to do shopping. You might never wanna come to shopping with me again."

"I think I can handle that" both laughs.

Just then geet's uncle come to pick her up and she bids bye to Vicky and goes home.

NEXT MORNING

Three black cars come to a stop somewhere. From 2 cars 6 guys in black suits come out fast and opens the door of the third car.

A guy gets out from that car wearing formal office attire. He is wearing Ray Ban sunglasses. He fixes his glasses and starts walking with all six men behind him. He enters in his office and his body guards stands outside.

All the girls in the office looks at him with awe on their faces. No matter how much they try to get used to their boss's handsome form, they just cant get enough.

He walked swiftly to his cabin and calls on the intercom

"Tina, what is today's agenda?"

Tina stammers on the other side "s-s-sir, you have a meeting with Mr. Chopra at 11 o'clock and then with Mr. sharma at 3.00 o'clock. A-A-And sir, mr. yashwardhan called and said he wants to meet you today at 7 o'clock but you have to go for the Khurana Arts show at 6 o'clock as a chief guest."

Maan takes a second to think and says "Tina, fix my meeting with Mr. Yashwardhan and cancel Khurana Arts appointment." And he hangs up the phone.

AT KHURANA ARTS

Geet reaches there and saw everyone is running here and there in full tension. Some of them are trying to make some calls.

She couldn't understand and asks a girl "Anjali, what happened? Why is everyone so tensed??"

Anjali replies "Geet, yaar our chief guest has cancelled on us at the last moment and Vicky is also not here. He has to go to Puna for some important work, or he could have talked to him. How can we have a show without a chief guest. I don't know whats gonna happen" she finished in a tense voice.

"Why don't someone from you go and talk to the chief guest. He cant cancel like that on the last minute." Geet said annoyingly.

"Actually vivek went to talk to him. But he didn't even meet him" Anjali answered.

"Anjali, can I go and talk to him??"

"Well if you want you can try. But I don't think he's gonna listen to anybody. He's a very arrogant man."

"I think I can handle that. What's his name?" geet asks with confidence.

"Maan Singh Khurana."

KHURANA CONSTRUCTIONS

Geet is standing at the reception of Khurana Constructions. A grumpy lady in her 40s is sitting on the receptionist's chair.

Geet says to her sweetly "Excuse me, can I meet Mr. Maan Singh Khurana."

"Do you have an appointment?" she asks geet in a mechanical voice.

"Uh…..no but actually---"

"Sorry, you cant meet him without an appointment."

Geet looked at her in frustration but fakes a little laugh and says "Oh I think you got me wrong. I do have an appointment."

The receptionist looks at geet from under her glasses.

And geet continues "I have an appointment with him at 10.30" she finished with a smile.

"What's your name?" she asks in the same grumpy voice.

"Geet."

She checks her computer and says "he doesn't have any appointment at 10.30"

Geet says with confidence "How is it possible! You must be mistaken, please check it properly."

"The only appointment he has is at 11 o'clock with Mr. Chopra."

Geet says confidently "Yeah, that is the one. Mr. Chopra is my dad. Actually he couldn't make it, so I came in his place. Sorry I might have heard the time wrong." She finishes with a smile.

The lady gives geet a doubtful look but geet smiles at her confidently. So the receptionist called her boss.

"Sir, Mr. Chopra couldn't make for the meeting, but he send his daughter instead."

Her boss said something on the other end and the lady hangs up after saying "OK Sir."

The lady looks at geet and says "Sir said he will see you in the conference hall." She calls the peon and asks hum to take geet to the conference hall.

Geet smiles inwardly at her successful plan.

GEET'S POINT OF VIEW

I am standing in the conference hall waiting for Maan Singh Khurana. It is a very big room. Infact the whole office is very big. It looks like he is super rich.

I don't know much about Mumbai, but in London 18-storey office means a lot. Maybe it is normal in india to have big offices. But 18 storey office!!!

What if someday escalator doesn't work!! I smile inwardly thinking about the hilarious sight of people crawling at stairs trying to go to the top floor!!

Okay. I know my mind is blabbering, but I'm bored. How long do I have to wait before that Maan Singh Khurana shows up!

Maan Singh Khurana—what an unusual name. I have never heard this kind of name before. His name sounds like he is some khadoos!! And Anjali also said he is very arrogant man. Oh well! Who cares!!!

I'm just here to make him come to the show as a chief guest and then probably I wont see him ever in my life again.

I remembered the face of the receptionist when I told her that—what was that name? yeah Mr. Chopra right?—he is my father. I chuckles inwardly.

I would love to see her expression when real Mr. Chopra would show up.

"Miss. Chopra." I heard a voice from behind me.

MAAN'S POINT OF VIEW

The receptionist told me that Mr. Chopra couldn't make for the meeting and he sent his daughter for it! I'm so annoyed!!

How can he be so irresponsible? What does his daughter know about our deal!!

I am not gonna take this kind of behavior. I hate when people don't respect other people's time and money.

His daughter is waiting in the conference hall. I would have told the receptionist to ask her that I don't have time to meet her. That I would fix another date for the meeting when Mr. Chopra has this much etiquette to show up for the meeting!

But that would have been really rude. Afterall, I have very good business relations with Mr. Chopra since so many years. I'll tell her personally that I'm calling off the meeting.

I see her standing in the conference hall with her back towards me. She is wearing a yellow short skirt. She's got great legs!! Hmmm…….

I call her name to get her attention "Miss Chopra?"

And she looks towards me.

Maan looks at her awestruck by her beauty. He has dated a lot of pretty girls in his life, but she—she is the prettiest of all. He has never seen a girl so beautiful in his whole life.

The first thought that came to his mind was 'I gotta have her!'

He looked at her from top to bottom and then back to top. She is not only pretty, she's got a great body too…

He looks into her eyes. Those beautiful big deep hazel brown eyes. He felt like he is drowning in those eyes.

Those eyes were looking at him in the same awestruck expression that was in his own eyes.

Geet looked back and saw the most handsome guy standing in front of her. And he was looking at her.

Geet didn't knew what she was doing. She absentmindedly started walking towards him. Her foot stuck into the chair, and she lost her balance.

Geet closed her eyes in horror.

She thought that the next second when she would open her eyes, she would have fallen flat on the ground.

But she felt two strong arms holding her. She opens her eyes slowly and found the most handsome face few inches away from her own and she was in his arms in a half fallen position.

The fall has broken geet's trance but maan was still under the spell of her beauty. He saved her from falling as a reflex of movement but he was still staring into those deep beautiful eyes.

His eyes moved from her eyes to her lips. She had pink lip gloss on and had the most kissable lips.

He slowly bends down his face towards her while still under her spell.

Geet saw his face moving towards her face. She saw his eyes getting closed when he was few centimeters away from her lips. And she realized that this stranger was bending towards her to KISS her!!!!

Her eyes widened, and she shouts "Woah!! Get away from me dude!" she tries to wriggle to get away from him.

But she doesn't have to do much as his trance broke with her words and he make her stand on her feet instantly.

Geet looks at him in shock and he smiles at her shamelessly.

And then they both realized why they are here.

"Uhh…Miss Chopra. I…" Maan starts but geet cuts him in between and says

"Handa. Geet Handa."

Maan is confused and he says "Handa? But the receptionist told me that…"

"Oh, I lied to your receptionist." She said casually.

Maan looks at her surprised.

"Why?"

"Because she wasn't letting me to see you without an appointment." She said without any regret.

"And she was right. I don't meet anyone without an appointment."

And he was about to leave but geet calls him from back.

"Mr. Khurana. Please. Mera aapse baat karna bohat zaroori hai." [its very important for me to talk to u]

Maan looks back at her and just stands there folding his arms on his chest.

"Look Mr. Khurana, all I'm asking for is just one evening. If you wont come, everything's gonna be ruined." She said sweetly.

Geet didn't realize what she has just said and that her words were ambiguous.

Maan looks at her unbelievably and misunderstood her words. He picks up his eyebrows and looks at her from top to bottom.

Geet saw him checking her out and she felt uncomfortable from his stare.

He says "Uh… 'geet' right?" and geet nods.

He smiles at her and says "Alright geet. How about 9 o'clock at Merlin's Bar?"

Geet is confused "Excuse me? But the show starts at 6" she said innocently.

Now it was maan's turn to get confused.

"Show??" and then he realized something and say "Ohhh, so you work for an escort agency?"

{ok guys, I didn't knew the meaning of escort agency so I'm presuming if anyone doesn't know the meaning like me, let me save u from looking up in a dictionary. Its an agency which delivers call girls}

"Excuse me??" geet couldn't understand what he was talking about but smiled anyways so that she wont look dumb.

But maan continues "But you don't look like a call girl!! I mean not that there's something wrong with that…"

Geet says smiling "Oh that's because…" and she stops abruptly as she realized what he has just said and her eyes widened due to shock, and she almost screams.

"Whattt???!!! What did you just call me????" she asks him angrily.

Maan was a little taken aback by her sudden anger.

"Ummm……call girl?!"he said doubtfully.

"Whatt!!...You!!...I….!!" geet couldn't find right words to say because of her anger.

And atlast she said "How dare you??"

Maan still couldn't understand the reason for her sudden outburst.

"I'm sorry. Uh…would you like some other term??" he asks innocently.

"Hell no!!! I mean yes!!" she closed her eyes frustrated and said " I mean, I'm not a call girl!!!"

Now maan was surprised at himself. He realized that he might have misunderstood her words, and thought that he owe her an apology for being rude…

"I'm very sorry Miss Geet. I think I misunderstood you. But didn't you said you needed an evening with me??"

"Yeah…I mean no…tsk! I mean I needed your evening professionally, not personally" she makes a disgusted face at the word 'personally'.

Maan understood his mistake. "Ummm….i'm really sorry miss geet. It was my fault. Lets start it all over. Please have a seat."

Geet was still angry with him but she cooled down a little with his gentleman manners and she realized that she has come here for some important work. That tonights show depended upon her now.

So she sat down.

Maan took a seat in front of her and asks "so tell me miss geet, what brought you here??"

"Umm… actually, I'm from Khurana Arts." Geet didn't want to take any chances, so she decided to start from the beginning.

"and we have a show tonight where you promised to be a chief guest. And now you cancelled at the last minute Mr. Khurana, which…"

Maan cuts her in between and says "Maan. Call me Maan."

Geet looks at him bit uncomfortable by his look and paused for few moments and then start again "So I was saying…. Umm…we cant have a show without a chief guest." She left it at that and looks at him to reply.

She was expecting him to either say yes or say no, but his reply totally shocked her as he said "so you work at Khurana Arts? I know all the girls over there personally, but I've never seen you there before!"

Geet looks at him in disgust realizing the meaning of 'personally', but instead of saying something sarcastic, she decided to answer his question as she needed his approval for the show.

"Umm…I just started couple of days ago…….so what do you say??" geet didn't want to go astray from the topic.

"Hmmm. Actually geet…can I call you geet?" geet nods. And he smiles and continues "I have a very important business meeting in the evening."

"But Mr. Khurana…"

"I told you to call me Maan" he smiles at her.

Geet gave up to be nice and says "Fine! Maan" she stresses the word Maan "you cant just back off at the last moment. Where are we gonna get another chief guest at such a short notice? In every business, a man's word is most important. We trusted you when you gave us the word. And now you are ditching us!! What kind of a man are you??!!"

She saw him looking at her intensely and she gets uncomfortable from his look.

"You didn't let me finish geet. I said I have an important meeting in the evening, but I can cancel that."

"Oh" geet said with a slight smile

"But on one condition" he smiles at her.

"Condition??" the smile vanished instantly.

"Yes. I will come to the show as a chief guest, if you'll go on dinner with me after the show."

Geet looks at him shocked and thought in her mind 'does he even have any shame? What does he think that I, Geet Handa, will go on a date with him!! He, who has just tried to kiss me 10 minutes ago, and then called me a call girl, and now putting a condition to show up on the show that he himself has promised before to come!! What a loser!!!'

"So, will you go??" he asked her again.

"Yes" she replied…..

Part 8

KHURANA ARTS: SHOW TIME!!!!

It is a houseful show, as always. Everybody was running here and there before the show doing the last minute preparations. It was a really stressful sight to watch.

Geet was working for such a big live show for the first time.

And then at last it was time!!

It was 5 minutes left to start the show.

Everybody was very excited.

And then some guy came and told everybody that the chief guest is here!

Vicky started going outside to receive him when he realised that geet has also started coming behind him.

He hadn't thought much about this moment so he turns around and say to her "geet, could you please check if all the lighting is ok. One last time."

Geet was surprised and she said "but we have checked it 3 times already!"

"Could you check it one last time please?"

"But we checked it 5 minutes ago!!"

Geet couldn't understand why Vicky was asking her to check the lights when she didn't know anything about lighting.

Vicky broke her flow of thoughts and said "Ok. So could you check if the dresses are ok?"

"Vicky whats wrong with you?" she was confused "everybody is already dressed up. And we have done dress rehearsals like 100 times. So ofcourse dresses are ok!!"

Vicky was getting out of excuses but he tried one last time "Could you stay backstage and make sure if any actor needs anything during the show."

"But Vivek, Maya, and Kunal are already there for that!" now she was getting irritated.

Vicky lost his temper and said angrily "Geet, if you want to work at Khurana Arts, you have to do as I say. And when I'm saying you will stay back stage, that means you will stay back stage!"

Geet looks at him angrily and goes inside cursing him under her breath.

"Stupid, idiot, gadha, ullu. Apne aap ko samjhta kya hai?? Aaj tak kissi ki himmat nahin hui, ke woh Geet Handa par is tarah hokum chalaaye! Boss hai to kya hua!! Kuch bhi bolega kya!!!?" she keeps on taking out her anger while cursing him. [what does he think of himself? Nobody has ever dared to order geet handa like this! So what if he's the boss? How can he say anything!!!???]

The people backstage looks at her and wonders why is she so mad.

OUTSIDE

Vicky welcomes maan and makes him sit on the VIP seat and then the show starts...

BACKSTAGE

"What happened geet?" maya asks geet seeing her angry and talking to herself.

"Vicky slash ( / ) I'm-the-boss happened! I don't know what he thinks of himself!!" geet said angrily.

"But hua kya?" maya asked again. [what happened]

"I was going outside, but he didn't let me go. He was like 'I'm your boss. And you will do whatever I say!'" geet mimics him and says angrily "Idiot!!!"

Maya and vivek looks at each other knowingly which was not missed by geet.

Geet said "What??"

Vivek says "Geet, its Maan."

Geet was confused.

She asks "Maan? What about him?"

"Geet maybe you don't know this, but Vicky and Maan are brothers."

Geet was surprised. She didn't let him finish and asks "Whattt!? Vicky and Maan are brothers??"

"Yes. But they don't get along well. Infact, they cant even stand each other. Vicky doesn't approve of Maan's lifestyle. He doesn't like the way Maan treats girls. You wouldn't find a single pretty girl in this town, that Maan hasn't broken the heart of. So Vicky is just trying to protect you. He tries to protect every new girl in our crew, but try as he may, girls always allure themselves to Maan's handsome looks and then are left heartbroken by him. Vicky is just trying to keep you away from Maan's sight. That's all." He finishes.

"But I have---" geet tries to say something but Vivek cuts her in between and says

"Geet please. Don't go outside. It is for your own benefit." Vivek and Maya left her standing there alone.

OUTSIDE

The show finishes with a standing ovation from the audience.

Vicky goes to Maan and says "So bro, how did you like the show?"

"Good as usual." Maan said while looking around as if looking for someone.

Vicky saw him looking around and asks "Maan, Are you looking for someone ?"

"Yeah, I'm looking for Geet."

Vicky looks at him shocked. He thought he might have heard wrong.

So he asks "Who bro?"

Maan looks at him "Geet. You must know her. She works at Khurana Arts."

Vicky asks suspiciously "How do you know geet?"

"She came to my office in the morning. I have a date with her." Maan winks at Vicky mischievously.

Vicky was taken aback.

"So could you call her. I'm getting late." Maan finishes while looking at his watch.

Vicky couldn't decide whether he should lie and tell him that geet's not here or tell him the truth and show him to her.

At last he decides to talk to geet first before saying anything.

So he says "I'll just be back."

And he goes back stage angrily.

He shouts "Geet!!"

Everybody looks towards him.

He goes towards geet and holds her arm angrily and asks "Did you go to Maan's office in the morning?"

"Yes, but---"

He didn't let her finish and says "Geet, why did you go there?"

Geet tries to free her arm from his hand and says "Leave my hand Vicky. You are hurting me!"

Vicky realises that he was holding her hand a little too hard and leaves it instantly. But his anger hasn't cooled down and he asks angrily

"geet, did you fix a date with Maan for tonight?"

"Yes but—" now geet's temper has also started to rise

But Vicky didn't let her finish again and says

"How could you geet?! What do you know about him? I'm trying everything over here so that he wont see you, and you have already done the damage by taking maybe the worst decision of your life!"

Now geet had had enough.

She says angrily "Mr. Vicky Khurana. You are not my father to decide whats right for me and whats not. It is my life, and I haven't given you the right to interfere in it. If I want to go on a date with someone, it is gonna be my decision. You get that?"

Vicky says angrily "Fine!! Do whatever you want!! But don't come crying when he'll break your heart!" and he leaves.

Geet goes out angrily and sees Maan waiting for her at the door.

"Hi beautiful." He says with a smile.

"Hello." Geet replies casually.

"Shall we?" he asks offering his hand out to her.

"Excuse me?" she asks him faking innocence. "Where are we going?"

"Dinner!" he says not understanding what geet meant.

"And why do you think I'll go to dinner with you?" she asks him angrily.

Geet didn't wanted to be such a bitchh with this almost unknown handsome guy, neither she has decided to behave like this. She has thought that she will tell him nicely. But. But Vicky has already left her with a high temper. So she took out her anger on Maan.

Maan looks at her confused and says "because you promised to."

"Look who's talking! Who has broken the promises himself!" geet looks at his confused expression and continues "Why, haven't you yourself broken the promise of attending this show when you cancelled on us?"

Now Maan understood what was going on. She has lied to him. She has used him to come to this show.

"You used me?" he asks angrily.

"I've just given you the taste of your own medicine. What did you thought? I'll go out with you?"

Maan closes his fist in anger and glares at geet angrily.

"Well Mr. Maan Singh Khurana, I don't date losers and I haven't seen a bigger loser than you." She laughs mockingly.

Maan just glares at her angrily. All his self control is being used to stop himself from hitting something hard.

No one has ever dared to talk to him like this. How dare she call him a loser!! He, the Maan Singh Khurana, the richest man in Mumbai, whom girls feel lucky to be seen with, is getting insulted by this nobody.

Geet didn't care if he was glowering at her angrily. She was taking out all her anger and frustration of the morning meeting out on him. She couldn't say anything in the morning because she needed his approval for the show. But now the show is over!

She laughs mockingly again and said "Trying to get a date by conditions!! Well next time, try to get a date on your own, and not by blackmailing someone!"

Maan had had enough. He helds her arms and jerks her towards him.

He looks angrily into her eyes and says "how dare you geet? How dare you call me a loser??"

Geet looks back into his eyes and says "Oh yeah!! Watch me!"

She tries to free herself from his hold but he was way too strong for her.

"Leave me Maan!!" she wriggles in his hold.

Instead of leaving her, Maan holds her both hands in his one hand, and with his free hand, he holds her waist and pulls her more closer towards him.

Now geet's face was mere inches away from his and he says with an evil smile.

"What if I don't!"

"Maan leave me or else" geet threatens him angrily.

Geet saw his eyes moving from her eyes to her lips and again to her eyes.

"Or else?" he asked in a husky voice.

Geet narrowed her eyes and stumps her heels on his foot squeezing his foot harshly with her heels.

"Ooowww!!!" he cried in pain and leaves her instantly.

Geet smiles at him victoriously.

Maan holds her arm angrily and says "You stupid woman!! How dare you?"

"Whats going on here?" they heard a voice and they looked towards their side and saw Vicky standing at the door with shock on his face.

He walks towards the duo and asks Maan, who is still holding Geet's arm "What are you doing Maan?"

Vicky looks at maan's hand which was holding geet and says "Leave her Maan!"

Maan looks angrily at geet and pushes her away with a jerk.

Geet glares back at Maan and Maan says to geet "saara shehar jaanta hai, ke Maan Singh Khurana, na to apni beizzitti bhoolta hai, aur na hi kisi ko bhoolne deta hai. You are so gonna pay for this Miss. Geet Handa!" [the whole city knows, that msk never forgets his insult, and nither he lets anyone else forgets it]

"Aisi geedar dhamkiyan maine bohat suni hain"[i've heard these kinds of threats alot]

"No Miss Geet Handa. Yeh dhamki nahin, chetaavani hai." He snaps his fingers in front of her face and show her the forfinger [chutki]

Geet picks up both her hands up in the air and fakes she is scared and said sarcastically "ooohh! I'm scared."

She rolls her eyes on him and goes, leaving him standing there while Vicky watching the whole scene silently.

Maan says to himself with serious intensity "You better be scared, Geet Handa!! Kiyunki Maan Singh Khurana kab kahaan se vaar karta hai, yeh to khud bhagwaan bhi nahin bataa sakta. You have messed with the wrong person Miss Geet Handa."

Part 9

Geet walks out angrily. She was still very angry. Angry at both the brothers.

Geet say to herself "What does he think of himself! How dare he hold me like that!" she looks at her arm and sees the bruise on her wrist from Maan's hold. She says angrily to herself "You have to pay for this Maan Singh Khurana. Nobody has ever dared to hurt Geet Handa like this!"

And she was true. Nobody has ever hurted geet in her whole life. No doubt her father was very strict, but he has never hurted her physically, leave alone mentally.

She has been brought up like a princess. Mohinderlal handa has always fulfilled every little desire of his only daughter. He was strict with her only to keep her away from any kind of pain or hurt.

"Geet. Wait up!" she heard a voice from behind and saw Vicky coming towards her.

"Now what?" she asks him angrily.

"Geet, I'm really sorry for what happened inside. Maan shouldn't have behaved like this." He said looking really sorry. He was mad at maan for holding geet like that.

Geet was very angry until she looked in his eyes and all her anger evaporated.

The expression in his eyes was that of shame and regret. He was ashamed of the way his brother has behaved with her and regret that he didn't do anything back there.

"It's ok Vicky. Why are you saying sorry, when someone else should be apologizing." She stressed the word 'someone else' indicating towards Maan.

Vicky tried to cheer geet up and said "Geet, forget about all this! Lets party for the success of our show."

"Party!" geet asks getting a bit excited as she remembers the success of her first show.

"Yes Party!" Vicky says happily. "Lets all go to the disco. What do you say?"

"Sounds awesome!" she says happily. Her eyes beamed at the thought of her real first night out without her father's restrictions. She could stay all night out without worrying about her father.

Everybody comes out and Vicky tells them about their plan to celebrate their show's success by going to disco and have a party.

Most of them were very tired and exhausted after a long day's work. So they decided to celebrate the success the next day.

Geet was very disappointed with the change in her plans. Geet has thought that the night was gonna be fun, but now all her hopes were shattered. She started making plans in her head about going out with Pinky…

Vicky saw geet's small face in disappointment. She looked like a small child whose father has promised to get a doll for her birthday but has forgot to get it.

"Shall we go Geet?" Vicky asks her with a smile.

Geet was surprised "Go where?" she asks him.

"Did you forget so soon! We are going for shopping. Remember you promised to let me buy you a dress."

Geet smiles at his words.

He continued "and after that we can go and celebrate the success of your first show."

Geet was already liking the plan a lot but she said "Uh….but nobody is coming!"

Vicky fakes shock "Geet, now you are insulting me! I'm not that bad company you know! In fact my friends say I'm pretty interesting." He finishes with air of confidence.

Geet puts her elbow on his shoulder playfully and says "Hmm. So Mr. Interesting, where are you taking me?"

"Theres a very good mall at Worli."

"Ok" Geet says with a smile.

And they went for shopping. They went to the Atria Millenium Mall…

Soon geet realized that Vicky is a very easy going guy. Their tastes, their likes and dislikes were freakishly similar. Both of them liked the same kind of music, same kind of weather, same kind of food…both of them were vegetarian. Both of them liked red wine. Both of them liked One Tree Hill. Both of them liked dancing. Even their favorite colours were same. Both of them hated strawberries…

After some time geet was so comfortable with him, that she was confident that they can talk on any subject for hours together.

In just one hour they have came so close to each other {as friends}, as much that they have never been even to their best friends.

They did everything in the last one hour except shopping for a dress… they talked, they ate, they talked more, they even made fun of people, they talked more, they played games, they talked, they fought with each other, they talked more……..

At last it was 9:30 and only half hour was left for the mall to close. So they went to buy a dress at last.

Geet was looking at different dresses on the rack and asked Vicky how was it looking when suddenly Vicky's phone rang.

Vicky excused himself and went out to attend the call.

Geet was looking at a pink dress when 2 guys approach her and one of them says "If I were you, I wouldn't buy that dress."

Geet looks at them and says "Excuse me?"

The guy who has spoken takes out a beautiful black dress that he was hiding behind his back and says "I would buy this."

Geet looks at the black dress, and indeed it was very beautiful. Black was not really her colour, but this dress! It was so beautiful that she gotta have it!

She takes the dress from his hand and says "Thankyou" and puts the dress in front of her and looks into the mirror trying to figure out how she will look in that dress."

"Hey don't mention it! By the way, I'm Shaan and he's my friend Raj" he offers his hand out for geet's hand.

Geet puts her hand on his hand and says "Geet."

They started talking to geet in a friendly manner and geet also talked casually.

When suddenly she feels a hand on her arm which twirls her towards her back with a jerk. She gasps as she bumps into someone's hard chest.

She looks at the face which was mere inches away from hers… Maan Singh Khurana.

Before she can say or do anything, he planted a hard and fierce kiss on her mouth…

Her eyes widened due to shock while Maan's eyes were looking at the guys standing behind geet. Before she can gain her senses and do something, he released her and holds her from her shoulders.

Geet says angrily "You!!!"

But before she can say something else, maan didn't let her finish and says "Sweetheart, thank god I found you! Why did you leave me alone over there? You know how worried I get, when I don't see you for even one minute."

Geet wasn't understanding what he was talking about!! Where did she leave him?!!!!!

Geet again tried to say angrily "What do you---" but Maan again didn't let her finish and he says

"I know sweetheart. I know you don't like when I kiss you in public places but I love you so much. I was so scared for you." There was mischief in his voice.

And then he looks at the guys standing behind geet and geet follows his look and turns around facing the guys.

"Hi. Maan Singh Khurana." Maan offers his hand in handshake gesture and shaan shakes his hand looking a bit disappointed.

Maan puts his other arm behind Geet's back towards her shoulders and continues "and this is Geet Singh Khurana." He looks at geet with a smile playing at the corner of his lips and says "My wife."

Geet looks at him shocked. Her eyes widened. She was literally in shock. She couldn't find her tongue to say anything.

She heard him saying "it was nice meeting you."

The guys went leaving Maan and baffled Geet behind.

Geet gains her senses and she says "You!!! How dare you??" she almost screams.

Maan has left her before she even said her sentence. He was about to walk away without answering her when geet realized that he has started moving. Geet holds his arm and looks at him angrily.

"You cant just walk away without answering me!"

"Oh yeah!?" he looks back at her indifferently and says casually "And who's gonna stop me?"

His casual tone made geet more angry. "How dare you touch me?"

Maan looks at Geet's hand that was holding his arm and says with a mockery smile "Right now you are the one who's touching me!"

Geet leaves his hand instantly.

Maan again tries to walk off. This time geet didn't hold him but said "how dare you kiss me?"

Maan looks back at her and says "Sorry." But there was no regret in his voice or his expressions. His tone had somewhat mockery in it, which made geet more angry.

Geet was so angry that she felt like she can kill this man standing in front of her without ever feeling regret about it.

"Sorry?" she said while controlling herself from hitting him hard on his face. "What kind of a cheap man are you?" she then remembers him calling her 'his wife.' "How dare you call me your wife?"

Maan gave her a mockery crooked smile and says "Consider yourself lucky girl! Most girls would even commit murders to get the title of Mrs. Maan Singh Khurana. Go and enjoy yourself, because Maan Singh Khurana himself has called you his wife!"

Geet looks at him in disgust "Woh ladkiyan aur hoti hongi, jo Mrs. Maan Singh Khurana kehlwa kar khush hoti hongi. I pity the girl who would be your wife."

He said with a smile "Well then pity yourself sweetheart! Because I just called you my wife. And you haven't even denied at that time."

And then he said with a serious expression "But you know what! I think I owe you an apology. I'm really sorry for calling you my wife because" the smile returns "you are not good enough to be even called my wife. My wife would be 1000 times better than you."

He looks at her from top to bottom in disgust as if he was looking at some dirty thing and says "Just look at you! You are so……" he paused as if looking for a right word and says with a disgusted face "average looking!!"

Geet felt insulted and she said fuming "Atleast I'm better looking than you are!"

"Exactly" he said with a smile "you are handsome than me. But you know what, I prefer girls who looks like girls, not guys!"

Geet's eyes got bigger in anger at his mean comment. Maan's smile gets bigger watching the effect of his words on her.

"How dare you!? Have you ever seen your face in a mirror? You look like a monkey! Atleast I look like a human!!"

Maan's smile fades away and he holds her upper arms angrily and says "How dare you call me a monkey?"

Geet looks back into his eyes and says "In the same way like you dared to call me your wife!"

Maan leaves her and pushes her away with a jerk "You know what! I have way better things to do than waste my time on you!"

And he walks away.

Geet calls from his back and says "You cant just walk away like this Maan!"

But he didn't stop, which made geet even more angry.

She walks towards where Maan has gone thinking in her head to make him apologize at her feet.

Geet talks to herself "What the hell he thinks of himself? First he kisses me, then he calls me his wife and then he insults me!!"

Geet says frustratingly to herself "And what did I do?! Nothing! I just stand there giving him the power to insult me! No Geet. you are a strong girl. You are the Geet Handa. No one can walk away from you like that. He has to pay for this insult!" she walks determinedly towards where Maan has gone few moments ago.

She saw Maan talking to an old lady. Geet hides behind a clothes rack and tries to hear what they were talking…

"Dadima! You know I hate these shopping trips of yours. Why don't you go with Vicky?" Maan said frustratingly.

Dadima gives a look to Maan and says "Maan! You are also my grandson like Vicky. And I'm not here to buy dresses for me Maan!" Dadima says frustratingly. "We are here to buy stuff for your dad's barsi. It is the tradition of our family that the eldest son buys the ingredients for Puja." [death anniversary]

"Yes Dadima." Maan says feeling sorry. He respects his grandmother very much and he can do anything for her happiness. The only person in the whole world that he truly loves. But he has always envied Vicky because Dadima has decided to stay with him instead of Maan. It was one of the main reasons why Maan and Vicky doesn't get along at all.

Dadima gets busy in looking for stuff for the barsi and Maan just stood there smiling to himself remembering the expression of geet's face when he has called her his wife.

MAAN'S POINT OF VIEW

She thinks herself to be very smart and intelligent but I haven't seen a stupidest girl than her! Either she is too nave to understand the things around her or she is too stupid to fall into traps so easily!

Couldn't she tell what kind of guys they were, that she was talking to so friendly. Didn't she know it was such a common move to impress a girl by giving her something very beautiful!

That dress wasn't that beautiful, that she couldn't see the intentions of those guys behind their so called gesture of helping her.

If I haven't gone there on time, I'm sure she would have fallen for their trap.

Why did I feel so angry when I hear them planning between them how to trap that girl? Why did I felt like hitting them hard until they breathe their last breath? Why??

When I myself use the girls in the same way… No. I don't trap girls like that. Girls come to me with their own wish. I never promise them anything. If they make the mistake of falling for me, how is that my fault! I always tell them the truth before going out with them. Well I guess, all girls are stupid! Just like that geet…

But the question is not whether she is stupid or intelligent, the question is 'Why did I save her?'

Because she is an employee of Khurana Empire. Yes! It doesn't matter if she works under Vicky, but still Khurana Arts is a part of Khurana Empire. And like all the other employees of Khurana Empire, she is also one of the employee for me.

And as she has proved that she doesn't have any brains, so I helped her as a boss. Yes! This is the reason!! But the war is still on…

x-x-x-x-x

Maan was happy with the conclusion that he came on.

He didn't realize that the girl who has invaded his thoughts since the morning is standing a few feet away from him hiding behind a clothes rack.

Geet was still hiding behind the clothes rack waiting for Maan to be alone so she can go and get her answers from him; when suddenly an idea struck her.

She smiles evilly and moves confidently towards Maan. She picks up a dress from a rack while on her way.

She calls Maan confidently "Maan, what do you think about this dress?" she asks him showing the dress in her hand.

Maan looks at her confused.

He was gonna say something when Dadima says looking at Maan with a known look "It is very beautiful."

Both Maan and Geet looks at Dadima. Geet fakes like she hasn't seen Dadima before and touches her feet "Paireen Pouna Dadima!"

"Jeete Rahiye!" Dadima blesses her and asks "You---?" [god bless u!]

Geet says with a sweet smile "Dadima, I'm Geet."

Dadima looks at Maan who was looking at the scene very confused. He couldn't figure out what was happening!

Dadima says to Maan "Oh! So this was why you didn't want to do shopping with me? So that you can do shopping with your girlfriend?"

Before Maan can say something, Geet says with a smile "Dadima, I'm not his girlfriend."

Geet holds Maan's arm with both her hands and says confidently with a sweet smile "I'm his WIFE!"

Maan and Dadima both looks at Geet shocked and both say at the same time "WHATTT???!!!"

Recap:

Geet holds Maan's arm with both her hands and says confidently with a sweet smile "I'm his WIFE!"

Maan and Dadima both looks at Geet shocked and both say at the same time "WHATTT???!!!"

Part 10

Maan looks at Geet shocked. He couldn't believe his ears.

Maan thinks in his mind 'What is she talking about! How dare she?' and shock turns into anger.

Maan looks at geet angrily throwing daggers at her with his eyes, which geet responded just with a smile.

Her smile made him more angry.

"But how...when did all this happen?" Maan hears Dadima asking.

He looks at Dadima and Dadima asks him confusedly "Maan?"

Maan says "Dadima, there's nothing---"

Geet didn't let him finish and says with a smile "Just few days ago Dadima." Maan gives geet an angry look "Actually everything happened very fast." Geet gives Maan a taunting smile.

Maan whispers angrily near Geet's ear "geet, what are you doing?"

Geet whispers back faking innocence "What am I doing? You were the one who said few minutes ago that I'm your wife." She said with the same taunting smile and continues loudly looking at him.

"We didn't get time to tell anybody. Right Maan?" geet was really enjoying herself looking at Maan's expressions.

Maan was surprised at her guts.

Geet in her mind says 'ab pata chalega tumhein ki Geet Handa se takraane ka kya anjaam hota hai!' [now u'll understand the result of messing up with geet Handa]

Maan in his mind says 'you don't know what you're getting yourself into miss. Geet Handa. You are gonna regret this decision so bad!'

Maan puts his hand on Geet's back and smiles and says to Dadima "yes Dadima, actually it all happened very fast."

Geet's smile vanished. Now it was Geet's turn to get shocked.

This wasn't what she was expecting. She tries to free herself from his arm that was on her back but he was a lot stronger than her and he didn't budge a bit.

"We wanted to tell you but we were waiting because of dad's barsi. We thought we would tell you after that." Maan finished with a smile.

Geet was continuously trying to free herself slowly with her one hand so that Dadima doesn't notice her action, but Maan didn't leave her.

Dadima said "Maan, I'm very upset with you. You got married and you didn't even tell me!"

Maan gives a sorry face and Dadima looks around and says

"We'll talk about this after reaching home. Right now, aap inka bill karwa lijiye" she hands him the stuff of puja "hum ghar jaayenge." She finished strictly.

Maan nods and says "Jee."

And Dadima goes from there.

As soon as Dadima leaves, geet pushes Maan away and frees herself from his grip.

Geet looks at him angrily and Maan says with a smile "So, Mrs. Maan Singh Khurana" he stresses the word 'Mrs. Maan Singh Khurana' "Chalein?" [shall we?]

Geet says angrily "How dare you tell her that I'm your wife?"

Maan says with a smile "Well I didn't tell her, you did!"

Geet says "What do you think of yourself? Do you think that just because you told your Dadima that we are married, that I will go with you?"

Geet says with a mockery smile "Oh no no Mr. Maan Singh Khurana! You don't realise how big mistake you have made!"

Maan was looking at her with amused expression.

She continues "I'm not going anywhere with you. And if you are thinking that I'm in a problem over here, then you are mistaken. Because she is your Dadima! You have to answer her, not me! You get that!! This was just a small trailer to tell you the consequences of messing up with Geet Handa! Next time think about 100 times before crossing my way!!"

"Tum kitna bolti ho!!!" Maan said with the same amused expression "Thakti nahin ho?!" [how much u talk! Don't u get tired]

His taunt made her more angry. She was expecting him to be angry, to be frustrated, or more precisely to beg her for help to clear everything in front of his grandmother.

But his calm behaviour was something she hasn't expected.

She said angrily "You think you're funny?!"

Maan expressions changes to seriousness and he says "miss Geet Handa, you have no idea what you have gotten yourself into. Till now I was being lenient to you...but now the war is on... so just watch your back!!!" there was no anger in his voice or on his face. But there was something in his voice that gave goose bumps to geet in fear.

He continues "Your this little so-called act of revenge is gonna cost you a lot. You are here for one month right?"

Geet looks at him shocked and thinks 'how the hell he knows that! Is he spying on me?!!!!'

She gulps down the saliva in fear which was not missed by Maan

Maan smiles evilly and says "I promise you that you'll never forget this one month for the rest of your life."

The threat in his voice ticked the anger in geet.

She narrows her eyes and says "Are you threatening me?"

Maan says with a smile "No sweetheart! I'm warning you. And consider this your last warning. Kiyunki iske baad, tumhein seedha vaar milega! Maan Singh Khurana se jeetna itna aasaan nahin hai"

"Fine. I accept your challenge. But let me tell you that you might be used to winning every war, but you haven't come across Geet Handa till today! Tumhaara har vaar tumhi par bhaari padega. Just like today!" she finishes with a victorious smile.

"You dared to call me your wife? Now go explain it to your Dadima!!"

Maan says "Do you seriously think that you have won today?!" he fakes a little laugh and says "miss. Geet Handa, I'm gonna tell Dadima the truth and I'll come out clean. Dadima knows that how low some girls can stoop to come close to me!" he looks at geet from top to bottom at 'some girls'.

He says with a serious intensity "And as for you! Bohat shauq hai na tumhein meri biwi ban-ne ka? To ab tum sach mein meri biwi banogi!!!!" [u wanted to b my wife? Now u will be in real!!!]

Geet is shocked at his words and she says "Whattt????"

Geet couldn't understand whether he was proposing her or challenging her. And then she decides on the second option. He was definitely challenging her.

"Yeah! You heard me right sweetheart. You are gonna be my wife." Maan says with a smirk.

Geet laughs tauntingly and says "Good joke Maan!"

She had laughed to make Maan angry but to her surprise, Maan didn't got angry, neither he said anything. He just stood there looking at geet with serious expression waiting for her to finish her laugh.

When he didn't react to her, she stopped laughing and said narrowing her eyes little

"That is never gonna happen Maan!"

Maan says with the same smirk "I haven't asked for your permission Geet! By the end of this month, you will be my wife. And that's a challenge!!!"

Geet says "Alright Maan, I accept the challenge!"

Both of them shakes hands to finalise the challenge.

And geet continues "even I would love to see how you'll marry me without my permission."

"Don't worry sweetheart, you will see!!" he said flirtatiously.

Just then Vicky sees geet over there and he runs towards her.

He calls out "Geet." Maan and Geet looks at Vicky. Vicky hasn't noticed Maan over there and he says "Geet where were you? I was looking for you everywhere."

He then sees Maan and says "Maan?"

Maan looks at Vicky with suspicion and then at geet.

Vicky asks him "What are you doing here?"

"Well that's not a question right now." Maan says looking at Vicky "the question is what are you doing here?" Maan gives a suspicious look to geet then back to Vicky.

Vicky says with controlled irritation guessing what Maan meant "I came here for shopping."

Maan says with amused expression "Hmmm... with Geet? Looks like you guys have become very deep friends in just couple of days!"

Geet narrows her eyes at Maan's remark. She was gonna retort back when Vicky said frustratingly

"Look Maan, I'm in a hurry ok. I'll talk to you later."

Geet felt negative vibes coming from both of them. It looked like they can't even stand each other's very sight. Geet was thinking this when

Vicky asks geet "Did you find any dress?" there was still frustration visible in his voice.

Maan picks up his eyebrows on Vicky's question.

"Yes" geet gave him the dress that she has kept on the nearby rack.

Vicky leaves to the checkout to buy the dress.

Geet was standing there still confused at the behaviour of both brothers when she heard Maan saying "Geet" she looks up and saw him standing close to her and he said in a playful voice

"Now that you are gonna be my wife soon, there's a little piece of advice which I think you need badly."

Maan saw Geet's expressions turning to anger on his words 'my wife' and he enjoyed that a lot.

And he continues "Stay away from Vicky. He's not a good friend for you."

Geet's temper was rising with his little flirtatious comment. So even when she felt seriousness in his warning, she ignored it and retorted back

"Firstly, I'm not gonna be your wife. And secondly, I don't need your advice. I know what is good and what's bad for me." She eyed him from top to bottom disgustingly at the word 'bad'.

And then she leaves from there...

Geet and Vicky goes out and Vicky says trying to change the mood "So where would you like to go now?"

Geet says feeling tired "sorry Vicky, I think I'll go home now. It has truly been a long day today."

"Ok." And Vicky drops her home.

NEXT DAY

When geet reaches Khurana arts, everybody has already started working on their next show, which was scheduled to be in 15 days.

As usual Vicky was directing it.

Vicky was in a very bad mood. Geet has never seen Vicky shouting at the actors like this. It was a different case that geet has been there for just 2 days, but she thought she knew him after last night.

Maya tells geet that Vicky is always in a bad mood in the initial days of rehearsals of any new show as he wants every scene to be perfect.

Suddenly geet hears Vicky screaming at the actors.

"how many times I have to tell you, bring the expressions on your face. Look sad goddamit! You are seeing the love of your life for the last time, and you should have that pain and sorrow in your eyes! Lets do it one more time."

The actors did the scene once again and geet personally thought that it was pretty good.

But it was not good enough for Vicky!

Vicky again screams "No no no! you are doing it completely wrong. You are looking like you are relieved by leaving your girlfriend! You have to look sad Yash. Wait I'll show you."

He looks around for a partner and sees geet standing few feet away from him.

He says "Geet can you come here please."

Geet goes there and he asks her to be his partner in the scene so he can give a demo to the actors, and geet agrees.

Vicky starts the scene while looking deep into Geet's eyes.

"Sab kuch khatam ho gaya Geet, sab kuch khatam ho gaya." There was pain in his eyes, his face and his voice. [everything is finished geet, everything is finished]

When geet first looked at his expression, the only thought that came to her mind was 'wow! He is good.'

He continues "kal ka din meri zindagi ka aakhiri din hoga. Main tumhare bina nahin ji sakta hoon geet." [tomoro is gonna be the last day of my life. I cant live without u]

At this point, geet make a mistake of looking into his eyes. Those deep black eyes that has only one emotion in them. Pain.

"Marne ke baad bhagwaan se puchhoonga zaroor, ke usne meri zindagi mein hi imtihaan kiyun likhe? Kiyun mujhe hi mera pyaar nahin mila?" [after death, I will ask god y I dint get my love]

Geet was drowning in his eyes. She was feeling his pain. She wanted to soothe him. She wanted to tell him that she was here. She will always be here with him.

Vicky's eyes started brimming with unshed tears and he continued

"Kal tum hamesha hamesha ke liye kisi aur ki ho jaaogi." [tomoro u will be someone else's]

Geet's eyes started brimming with tears of vicky's pain. She wanted to hug him tight and never let go.

Vicky touches geet's cheek gently with his hand

"Kal tum par kisi aur ka haq hoga. Aur main...maut ke andheron mein kahin kho jaoonga." [tomoro someone else will have right on u. And I, will be lost in the darkness of death]

Geet's vision was blurred with tears. She closed her eyes and the tears rolled down. She again opened her eyes looking into Vicky's eyes.

Vicky wipes the tears from her cheeks and continues

"par tumhein mujhse ek wada karna hoga geet. Karogi naa?" [but u have to make a promise to me. Will u?]

Geet felt choked due to tears and she nods in a 'no'

"Please!" his voice begged her.

Geet didn't say anything but the silent tears rolled down from her eyes

"Wada karo ke tum kabhi nahin ro-ogi." While tears flow from vicky's eyes. [promise me u would never cry]

Geet felt like crying loudly but she remained mum.

"Tum jaanti ho na, ke main sab kuch bardaasht kar sakta hoon, par tumhari aankhon mein aansu bardasht nahin kar sakta..." [u know that I can tolerate anything, but I cant tolerate tears in your eyes]

And geet broke down and hugged him tight crying.

And everybody gave a standing ovation to their performance.

Well, it was a performance for Vicky, but not for geet!

Geet has been got so engrossed into vicky's eyes, that she has forgotten that it was all an act.

They heard everyone clapping, and geet realised that she has flown into the scene too deep.

She leaves Vicky instantly a bit embarrassed at herself.

Vicky asks her "Geet are you OK?"

Geet looks at him and nods a yes with a pathetic attempt of smile.

Vicky takes geet into a side hug and squeeze her a little and says "Sorry, I got a little carried away" he smiles sweetly at her.

Geet looks at Vicky with a deep expression. Last 10 minutes have changed everything for her.

For the first time in her life, she has felt pain for someone else. She has felt that she is gonna loose not only him, but her entire life.

In those 10 minutes, Vicky and geet were one for her. She had felt that her love, life, world, meaning, everything was coming to an end...

Vicky saw geet looking at him with intense eyes, and he asks "What happened?"

Geet looks down realizing that she was looking at him and says with a shy smile "Nothing."

Geet felt herself blushing.

Geet couldn't believe that she was actually blushing.

She almost ran inside to control her rebellious emotions. She had a crazy feeling in her stomach which was making her nervous and restless.

Maybe this was what is called butterflies in stomach! She couldn't believe that she, Geet Handa, is blushing because of some guy!!!

Geet has never felt like this for a guy before. No doubt she has dated a lot of guys but she has never had butterflies for any...

She got goose bumps remembering the effect of Vicky on her when he was saying the dialogue.

It took her a lot of time to control herself and to decide that she is gonna talk about this to Vicky. After all she is Geet Handa. She is not like some of those shy girls who wait for the guy to make the first move. She will ask him out.

Forcing herself she went outside determined to talk to Vicky. But he was nowhere to be seen.

She asked vivek, who tells her that Vicky had got an important call and he said that he will be back in half an hour.

Geet felt a bit relieved as well as tensed at the same time.

Relieved that now she'll get more time to prepare herself that how she's gonna ask him out; and tensed because she has to go through the tension for another half an hour more.

Well, still she waited...

Half an hour turned into one hour. One hour turned into two hours. And then it has been 5 hours since Vicky has left.

Now geet was getting worried.

At last she decides to call him. She tried calling him but there was no signal inside, so she went outside to make the call.

She was going outside while looking at her phone screen and as she reached the door, she bumps into someone and lost her balance.

Suddenly two strong arms holds her and saves her from falling. After coming out of the shock of fall, she looks at the face of her saviour.

'No, not again!!!' she said in her mind frustratingly.

Maan Singh Khurana was bending onto her, holding her with both hands to save her from falling on her back.

Maan says with a sexy smile

"Girna tumhara shauq hai, ya tum jaan boojh kar mujhe dekh kar girti ho?" [is falling ur habit, or u fall on purpose when u see me?]

And he makes her stands up.

"What are you doing here Maan?" she asks him frustrated, clearly doesn't want to get into any other kind of conversation with him.

"Maan nahin, Maan sir" he stresses the word 'sir' "Aaj se main yahaan ka boss hoon!!!"

Recap:

"What are you doing here Maan?" she asks him frustrated, clearly doesn't want to get into any other kind of conversation with him.

"Maan nahin, Maan sir" he stresses the word 'sir' "Aaj se main yahaan ka boss hoon!!!"

Part 11

"What?????" Geet tried to figure out what he was talking about. She was so confused that she didn't know what to say. At last she added 2 and 2 and she asks him..

"Vicky is the boss over here!"

"Vicky is gone." He says with a slight smile.

Geet narrows her eyes in confusion and says "Gone! What do you mean by gone?"

"I mean from today onwards he's gonna work in Khurana Constructions."

"You can't do this!" she still couldn't understand what the hell was happening.

"Yes I can do this! Maybe you're not aware of the fact that Khurana Arts is a part of Khurana Empire and like every other business of Khurana Empire, I'm the 60% stake owner of Khurana Arts. So technically, I'm the boss over here." He says with a little pride.

She couldn't believe it. "I have to talk to Vicky." She said.

"Whatever you wish!" he said indifferently and goes inside.

Geet goes out to make the call to Vicky.

She calls Vicky and he tells her that due to some major emergency in Khurana Constructions, he has to go to US; as Maan had to attend an important meeting in Mumbai. And he also told her that Maan is gonna look after Khurana Arts in his absence and that he will be back in a week.

Geet was very tensed with this news. She was having this feeling that Maan is doing this on purpose. She doubts it was all about their yesterday's challenge.

Geet said to herself "I'm pretty sure he is doing all this because of that challenge. If he thinks he can do whatever he wants, then he is wrong. I'm not gonna work for him!" she makes a cry face and says "But I cant even leave Khurana Arts. If I'll leave, I'll probably never be able to see Vicky again."

And she remembers about the rehearsal scene with Vicky and a smile comes on her lips.

But she comes into reality and realizes the present situation.

"Think Geet think!! You cant let him win!!!" and an idea struck her.

"Yes!! I will give my resignation now and when Vicky will come back, I'll rejoin! I'm sure Vicky would have no problem with that! He knows his brother'. And its just a matter of one week!!!" she smiles and pats her shoulders praising herself and says "Good job Geet!"

And she goes inside.

Maan was nowhere to be seen. She saw many girls standing around in groups and talking. Geet happened to hear one group's conversation'

"He is sooo handsome naa!? Haaaye!!! I'm gonna faint! Someone call the ambulance please" Nicky says dramatically.

Aditi says confidently "Keep your hands off of him. He is just mine!"

Geet looks at them in disgust.

Aditi continues "I know he came here just for me."

The other girls starts bickering and Aditi says "I can prove it to you, that he is here just for me. I know he missed me."

Geet smiles at their stupidity.

Aditi goes towards Maan's cabin to prove it to her friends that Maan is there just because of her.

Aditi enters Maan's cabin without even knocking or taking permission.

Maan was studying some file when he see Aditi walking into his cabin.

She catwalks towards him and sits seductively on the table.

Maan looks at her actions with cold eyes and she says in a seductive voice "I missed you so much Maan."

She tries to touch his hand but Maan gets up angrily and says angrily.

"Aditi!!! What are you doing here?"

Aditi was taken aback by the anger in his voice.

"I-I-I just came to say hi"

"Miss Aditi Gupta, you are an employee over here. And if you want to keep your job, then behave like an employee."

Aditi was dejected by his behavior. She slowly gets up and was about to leave when Maan stays strictly

"Aditi, call a meeting of all the employees of Khurana Arts in 10 minutes. I want to talk to all of them."

She nods and leaves.

MEETING

Everybody was gathered on the stage for the meeting. They were all very surprised and confused for the reason of a meeting like this.

Vicky never did meetings like this. If he ever needed anything or wanted to talk to anybody, he used to call them personally and talked to them. So the meeting of all Khurana Arts employees was a surprise for them.

When Maan comes there was a lot of noise in between them. Everyone was talking to each other. It sounded like a kindergarten class without a teacher.

Maan glares at everybody but when they didn't shut up Maan shouted "ENOUGH!!"

And there was pin drop silence.

Maan looks at everyone as if daring them to speak now.

While looking around Maan's eyes fell on Geet who was standing alone in a corner with a file in her hand and she has just looked up from her file.

Geet and Maan's eyes met for a second and Geet could have sworn that she saw mischief in his eyes when he looked at her.

And then he looked away and there was again the same cold stare in his eyes.

He addressed everyone "I'm presuming you all know my name. Maan. Maan Singh Khurana. And for the next few days, I'm gonna be the boss over here."

He looks at Geet with a smirk who in return was looking at him with cold eyes.

He continues to everyone "I don't know how you guys have been working with Vicky; but as long as I'm here, you will have to work as per my rules."

"Rule No. # 1." He picks up one finger and says "This is a professional place and all of you will behave professionally over here." He gives Aditi a look and continues "I don't care what kind of relation I have with any of you outside this place, but as long as I'm here in the working hours, I'm your boss."

He again looks at Geet and says "and you will call me sir or boss."

Geet narrows her eyes at his words. She knew he was telling that to her.

He picks up 2 fingers and says "Rule No. # 2. My word is law. Whatever work I give you, needed to be done on time, without any questions and whining."

"Rule No. # 3. Aur jisko jo kaam diya jayega, woh kaam woh khud karega. This is a business people, not a helping institute. You are here to work, not to help each other. [whatever work I give u, u have to do it by urselves]

He looks at Geet with a little mischief in his eyes.

Geet couldn't take it anymore. His stupid rules were making her angry with each passing second. She felt like she has come in some dictatorship country.

She didn't care about his stupid rules. She has already made up her mind to quit KA.

"And what if we don't accept your rules?!" she said just to make him realize that she doesn't care about his stupid rules.

Maan shouted angrily "Miss Geet Handa! Maybe nobody has ever taught you that when your boss is talking, you should keep your mouth shut!"

Geet had enough. She retorted back "you are not my boss. I would prefer quitting this job than to work under you!" she finished picking up her chin a little.

Maan looks at her with cold eyes while anger building up in him.

Everybody else looked at Geet, then at Maan and back to Geet while Geet and Maan glares at each other.

Maan shouts angrily "Everybody!"

All the spectators jump at his words.

Maan continues while still glaring at Geet "I want a report of the last 5 years shows from each of you of your respective departments by the end of the evening."

Everybody looks at each other confused and scared. There has been 1000s of shows in the last 5 years and there has never been any reports made till day. How can they make the reports as there was just 4 hours left until evening.

Maan said still looking at Geet "And whoever can't submit their report, submit your resignation." And he screams "Now get back to work."

Everybody runs here and there and in 5 seconds, Maan and Geet were left alone on the stage standing at the far corners, still glaring at each other.

Maan started walking towards Geet slowly and Geet looks back at him angrily.

"So Miss Geet Handa" he said in controlled anger "now that you have made up your mind of quitting Khurana Arts, I'm sure you know that you have to pay 5 crores to the company as a compensation."

Geet narrows her eyes at him in confusion.

Maan looks at her expressions as he was expecting something like that. She doesn't know about that clause in her contract.

Maan shows her the contract and says "This is your signatures right? According to this contract, if you leave this company without giving a notice of one month, you have to pay the company 5 crore rupees as a compensation."

There was a victorious smile on Maan's face. Geet takes the file from him and looks at it. It was indeed her job contract. She had signed it without giving much attention to all the clauses as she has never thought of quitting until now.

Geet's mind raced fast. She thinks 'What the hell!' she looks at the clause 'shitt! Why didn't I read it before. 5 crore rupees! I can ask dad to send me the money'..no I cant. If dad comes to know anything about this, he's gonna make me go back to London!! Already he didn't wanted me to come to India alone. And if he makes me go back, I would never be able to see Vicky again! Think Geet think!!!!' she looks at Maan who was looking at her with a smirk on his face.

"I don't have 5 crores!" she said as a matter of fact.

"Well then, get back to work!" Maan says with a smile.

She curses him in her head and was about to leave when he calls her

"What do you do here? I mean, what department are you in?" he asks her.

An idea struck Geet and she says "actually I don't do anything over here." She finishes with a taunting smile.

She thought 'I cant quit, but you can fire me! I will make you fire me!!'

She says to him smiling "you can fire me if you want."

Maan says smiling at her understanding her plan "Who said anything about firing you sweetheart? I'm just gonna assign you a job!!!"

Geet's smile vanished and Maan's smile got bigger.

"See those lights over there" he points towards the 3 big lights that were sitting in the centre of the stage. "You have to put these lights in the corner over there."

He turned to go back when Geet said "but this is the work of spot-boy!"

Maan looks back at Geet smiling and says "Congratulations for your new post!!!" and leaves enjoying himself immensely.

Geet goes towards the lights cursing Maan under her breath.

"Ullu, gadha, stupid, idiot!! What does he think of himself!" she makes a cry face and says "Naukar bana diya hai mujhe!" and then her expressions turns into determination and says "Chun chun ke badle loongi Maan Singh Khurana, you just wait and watch." [made me a servant!]

She looks at the lights and make a cry face and tries to pick the lights up.

Geet was underestimating the weight of the lights, so when she tried to pick it up, it was way too heavy and she lost her balance and falls on the floor flat on her bum.

Maan was watching her from his cabin and a smile came on his lips.

Geet whines in pain touching the hurt portion of her body and exclaims "Owww!!"

And she says to herself "Hitler kahin ka! When 100 dictators would have died, then one Maan Singh Khurana had born! What was he saying?" she tries to mimick him and says "Rule no.1, rule no. 2, rule no. 3' life hai ya rule book!!" she makes a face and gets up.

She again tries to pick up the lights but they were way too heavy.

Geet was so gentle and delicate that she has never even picked up her shopping bags by herself (courtesy to her boyfriends), so how could she pick up these 30 kg lights!?

But still she tried.

She tried everything. She tried pushing it, she tried pulling it, she tried picking it, but they were just like Maan Singh Khurana and didn't budge.

Seconds turned into minutes, minutes into hours. But the stubborn lights didn't even move a milli centimeter. They were like testing Geet's patience which was evaporating with every passing minute.

Geet was angry like hell. She was so angry that she even made plans of killing Maan mercilessly at her feet in her head'

And that cooled her anger a little.

Whenever she got very tired and angry, she would sit there cursing Maan and those lights. And after taking out all her anger, she started moving the lights again.

But the lights still didn't get scared of her anger neither they pity her condition and they stares at her mockingly.

Geet felt tears welding up in her eyes due to anger and tiredness.

It was the third time her eyes have moistened with tears of anger since she has started working on her new post 3 hours ago'

By all this time, Maan was watching her while sitting comfortable in his cabin. He was enjoying immensely by making her work like that.

He knew very well that those lights were very heavy and she would never be able to move them even a centimeter.

He says to himself with intensity in his voice "Work Miss Geet Handa, Work!! Now you will understand what it takes to mess up with Maan Singh Khurana!!!"

Geet saw Rahul walking close by and she calls him "Rahul! Yaar please help na!!"

Rahul says trying to be quick "Geet yaar I'm very busy. I still have to make reports for the last 2 years shows."

And he was about to leave and Geet runs towards him and says "Rahul" he looks at her and she says flirtatiously looking into his eyes.

"Please Rahul. These lights are too heavy. Aren't you my friend?"

Rahul was definitely dazzled by Geet's beauty and the way she was talking to him.

Maan saw everything from his cabin and narrows his eyes on Geet's tactic.

He goes out swiftly and found Rahul was about to pick up the lights while Geet standing there smiling at her plan.

Maan shouts at Rahul "Rahul. What part of 'nobody will help anybody' you don't understand?"

Rahul came to his senses and says "I was just'" he tried to reason.

But Maan didn't let him finish and says "Rahul, you are fired!"

Geet and Rahul both looks at Maan shocked.

Geet says unbelievably "But he was just trying to help me!"

Maan picks up his hand to stop Geet and says to Rahul "haven't you heard? Just leave!"

Rahul leaves.

Maan gives an evil smile to Geet and goes back to his cabin to enjoy watching Geet working.

And Geet goes back to cursing him "Dusht Daanav, Nirdayi! I know he's doing all this because of that challenge! What does he think? That I'll marry him if he troubles me like this?? Just wait and watch, once I'll get married to you'" and she realizes what she was saying and stops instantly.

She shakes off the thought and says "Geet, how can you even think like that??!! Marriage! With HIM!! Eeewww!!!!!"

And she gets back to her 'work'

More time passed''..

At last it was 11 pm and everybody has gone home except Geet and Maan.

Geet was so tired that she felt like she's gonna faint if she tried to utilize her physical strength one more time in moving those lights.

And the lights''''

They were still there!

Maan comes out of his cabin. He stood at the door of his cabin and looked at geet working (or should I say trying to work!)

He saw Geet standing near the lights with her back towards him. He saw her milky white skin that was visible due to the deep neck of her magenta tank top. The magenta colour was giving her skin a more brighter look. She was wearing a short skirt and she has put her long hair on one side of her shoulder, hence showing her back to him.

Arre aankh se boond gira koi

Chingaari ka tukda jala koi

Umeed ko aag laga zara

Sehra ki pyaas bujha zara

Maan started walking towards her absentmindedly without realizing what he is doing. Geet was unaware of Maan's presence behind her. She was busy in doing her work.

Maan reaches close to her and puts his left hand gently around her waist. Geet gets shocked by the sudden movement that touched her and she looks back at him while her back still towards him.

Umeed ko aag laga zara

Sehra ki pyaas bujha zara

Ghan itna baras ke galne lagoon

Main pani ke upar tarne lagoon

Maan slowly moves his face on Geet's back and gently puts his lips on her bare neck and kissed it softly. His kiss sent shivers to Geet's spine.

Behne de mujhe behne de mujhe

Behne de mujhe behne de

She closes her eyes to feel the moment.

Maan slowly strokes Geet's arm with his right arm while going down and gently squeeze her hand a little.

O Behne de mujhe behne de mujhe

Behne de mujhe behne de

Geet opens her eyes and again looks back at Maan. Maan slowly moves her to face towards him.

Maan saw Geet's chest heaving up and down.

Behne de ghanghor ghata

Behne de pani ki tarah

Saagar mein ja girna hai

Behne de nadiya ki tarah

He gently touches Geet's cheek and Geet closed her eyes.

He puts the tresses of her hair behind her ear and moves slowly towards her.

He can feel Geet's rapid heartbeats and long breaths. Even his own heartbeats have fastened at an abnormal rate.

He gently kisses at her ear, and he felt Geet's hands moving onto his back taking him into a hug.

Shart lagi hai mar jane ki

Jeena hai to pyaar mein

Deh kahin bhi ho mera

Jaan rakhi hai yaar mein

He moved his lips slowly on her cheek towards her lips and gently kisses her lips. The moment he touched her lips, an electric shock passed through him. He was in a totally different world.

He didn't remember who he was or what he was doing. All he cares about was this beautiful girl in his arms.

Beh ja beh ja hai saagar ka kehna

Beh ja beh ja hai nadiya ko behna

He wants her. He wants her bad. He could do anything in the world to make her just his. She belongs to him. And he wanted her to know that.

Geet's hands moved onto the back of his neck and she pulled him more closer towards her. It sends chill to his body.

Patte se tapakti boond se aawaaz sunayi di thi

Nadiya mein tapak aur gum ho jaa

And he pressed harder and hotter on her lips sucking the delicious juice of her lips. He wanted to get her as much as he can.

Beh gaya beh gaya jo reh gaya reh gaya

Beh gaya beh gaya jo reh gaya reh gaya

Until they both were out of breath.

Geet moaned and broke the kiss to breathe but Maan didn't leave her and he moved to the side of her lips and kissed each and every portion of her face.

Behne de mujhe behne de mujhe

Behne de mujhe behne de

His hands moved down on her body. He has no control over himself. He was not the same Maan Singh Khurana that he knew. It was the demon inside him which has been woken up by her unlimited beauty. And this demon wants her badly in his arms.

O behne de mujhe behne de mujhe

Behne de mujhe behne de

He again moved his lips onto her lips and this time deepened the kiss. His tongue moved inside her mouth and she responded equally.

He puts his hand in her top and started moving on her smooth skin. Geet again moaned and scratched his neck in desire and passion.

Behne de ghanghor ghata

Behne de pani ki tarah

Saagar mein ja girna hai

Behne de nadiya ki tarah

He moaned but didn't leave her. He gently bites her lips making her moan in more desire.

He then moved onto her neck and gives hickey on her neck. Geet moans.

And his hand moves under her skirt'''

And suddenly a sound of something falling with a thud makes him open his eyes.

He looks around and he was still standing outside his cabin and Geet was still standing in the centre of the stage. The thud sound was of the Geet's mobile falling from her hands and broken into pieces.

She cursed under her breath about the stupid mobile and Maan blinks few times before the reality sets in. And he realized that he was day-dreaming about Geet.

And he shakes off the feeling of acting upon his dream and making it reality, and forced himself to come into present situation.

He goes and sits on the chair while looking at Geet 'working'.

Geet feels his presence and looks at him and saw him smiling.

Geet looks back to the other side and started to move the obstinate lights as she doesn't have any energy left in her to argue with him.

She thought of asking help from him but shakes off the thought thinking that he's never gonna help her and moreover her ego stopped her.

But then her tiredness won and she thought 'waqt padne par to gadhe ko bhi baap banana padta hai! Geet, ask him, Who knows, he might help you!'

She looks at him and flutters her eyelashes flirtatiously and says with a smile

"Maan"

Maan picks up his eyebrows but didn't say anything.

She signals towards the lights making a baby face.

"What?" he asks faking innocence but mischief playing in his eyes.

Geet tries to put the smile at its place and says "Help na, pleeeaaassse!!" she says making the same baby face.

She was expecting him to say no but she was shocked when he stands up and moves towards the lights.

He picks up the lights easily and puts them one by one in the corner.

Geet saw his muscles flexing when he picked up the lights.

Geet's eyes widens a bit as she checked him out. She has never paid attention to his well-built body before.

Everytime they have met, she has never seen anything below his face, of course his handsome face did deserve her attention. But their little fights have always overpowered her seeing ability, and all she ever saw in his handsome face was a jerk. And she had always hated jerks.

But today, she was so tired that she didn't want to fight anymore. Not atleast today'

Maan saw her checking him out and a smile came to his lips.

He says in a husky voice coming close to her "What happened sweetheart? Are you checking me out?"

Geet looks down embarrassed from being caught.

"I should leave" she said looking down and tries to leave in a hurry.

Maan holds her hand and pulls her towards him. She bumps into his chest.

She slowly looks up into his eyes and realizes that their faces were mere inches away.

Maan looks at her eyes and then at her lips and then back at her eyes.

"Where are you going?" he asks in a husky voice.

Geet was feeling uncomfortable from his stare and the proximity. She tries to move back but she realizes that Maan has his one hand around her waist holding her close to him.

Geet was never have been affected by the closeness of Maan before because she has never looked at him in that way like she did today when he caught her checking him out.

Geet's heartbeats fastened.

Geet tries to put the tresses of her hair behind her ear while looking down and said "Maan please!"

Maan smiles crookedly enjoying himself by the effect he is having on geet for the first time.

He holds her chin gently and makes her look up at him.

Geet's heart was beating in her chest so hard, that it looks like it belonged to someone else and was struggling very hard to get out of the prison of Geet's body and reach to the one it belongs….

Maan moves his face closer to geet and geet closes her eyes when he was just few centimeters away and picks up her face a little higher giving him more access to her mouth.

She heard him whisper on her lips "I'm sorry Geet." She knew he was very close to her because she can feel his warm breath on her face.

She waited another second for the kiss but it never came.

She slowly opened her eyes and saw Maan has moved back and he has left her.

She blinked few times to control herself and then she said confusedly "Sorry?"

Maan holds geet's hand slowly and looks at it. Geet has a cut on her hand from moving the lights.

"I'm sorry geet for being such a jerk to you." He moves her hand towards his lips to kiss her hand where there was a cut.

But geet pulls her hand back as she has gained her senses and she was already embarrassed of what she has done few moments ago.

She says looking at the ground "I should go." And picks up her bag from the chair nearby.

Maan says being serious "Geet, its very late. I'll drop you."

Geet was still very embarrassed to look into his eyes and said "uh….no its ok. I'll take a cab." And she tries to leave.

Maan again holds her hand and pulls her towards him. This time he says seriously "Geet, it's very late and you will not get a cab at this hour. It's not safe for you to go alone like this."

Geet looked into his eyes and again her heart started fluttering. She cursed herself in her mind for letting him have this kind of effect on her all of a sudden.

She had no idea why was she getting affected like this. Maybe it was just because of a weak moment. That they were alone in this place at night. the lighting on the stage was kind of nice too. Geet didn't know what the reason was, but she knew one thing for sure…that he is affecting her.

She was aware that she must control herself but her heart was beating so fast without her permission…

Maan was looking into her eyes deeply and waited for an answer.

Geet knew he was waiting for an answer but she couldn't find her tongue to say anything. So she just nods.

Maan leaves her and goes outside. Geet curses herself and walks after him.

When she reached outside, she felt cool breeze hit her face gently. Her hair blew in the wind gently. It was a very beautiful sensation. A smile came to her lips as she tried to put her hair back that was coming onto her face.

And she saw Maan in the car waiting for her and looking at her with intense eyes.

When Maan had brought out the car from the parking, he saw Geet standing at her door of the building.

For a second he lost control on the steering wheel and he was about to hit the car on the footpath, when he controls himself and puts on the brake.

He has never seen such a beauty in his whole life. Her milky white skin was glowing in the moonlight and she was looking even more prettier that the moon itself in the sky. It looked like moon was taking the light from her beauty making it stand out of the world….

Her hair was blowing on her face in the breeze and she was trying to put them away from her face. He had a sudden urge of punishing the breeze for touching her without his permission.

He didn't know for how long he has been staring at her, but he knew he didn't want to lose this sight for even the world's most precious treasure.

A beautiful smile escaped from her pink lip-glossed lips. And Maan felt a sudden urge of kissing those lips. He remembered his day dream and cursed himself for letting go the moment to make his dream the reality when she was submitting herself to him. He hasn't kissed her because he knew now was not the right time. Only he knew how he controlled himself from kissing her. It had taken every ounce of his self control to make himself move away from her. He has much bigger plans for her……

And then he remembered their first kiss yesterday and remembered the taste of her lips. Well it wasn't really a kiss, but he has tasted her lips.

And he wanted to taste it again!

And then his eyes went down on her body……

Suddenly, his reverie broke with Geet's words.

"Maan, can we walk?" she asks him expectantly.

Geet was feeling refreshed in the cool breeze. She doesn't want to sit in the car. She wanted to stay in this weather as long as she can. And moreover, her home was not that far away that she cant walk.

Maan wanted her so bad to be inside with him. To be close to him, in his arms….

But her words brought him to reality and he said

"Sure."

He parked the car on the side and came out. And both of them started walking.

There was an awkward silence between them.

And atlast geet says "Maan can I ask you something?"

"Hmm." That's all the answer she get.

"Why did you send vicky to US?" she was dying to ask him that.

"What do you think?" he asks her in return.

Geet did not answer him and looks at the ground.

"Do you think I did this because of you? Because you are gonna be my future wife?" his voice teases her with a smile.

Geet was gonna say something, but she remained mum. She did not have any energy left in her to fight with him and moreover, she was not in a mood to fight. The weather has made her surprisingly calm.

When geet didn't respond to his little teasing remark, he says in a serious voice

"I know geet, you think very low about me. But Vicky is still my brother. It doesn't matter if we don't like each other."

Geet looks at him surprised at his last words and Maan says understanding her look

"I'm sure you have figured that out by now." And he smiles. "But he's still my brother. And with the rights of a brother, some responsibilities come too. Khurana Arts is not all of Khurana Empire and Vicky have to understand that. He have to give time to other businesses too. And why I send him to US? Well there was a very important meeting in US regarding a new project that I'm opening up under his name. So as he is the legal owner of that project, he has to go there."

Geet was looking at him intensely. She has never thought that Maan can have a softer corner for anybody.

Maan realizes geet's eyes on him and he asks "What happened?"

She says little surprised "Wow! That's----- something!" she just left at that as she couldn't find the right word.

Maan waited for her to say something more, but when she doesn't say anything, he asks

"Good or bad?"

"Surprisingly good." She said still not believing herself for actually praising Maan.

"Hmm." Maan's tone changes into playfulness "I'll take that as a compliment considering its coming from my future wife!" he teases her.

Geet says frustratingly "Maan, I had a long and tiring day. Cant we just give it a rest for one day? I don't want to fight today please. I promise we can have all our pending fights tomorrow!" she finishes with a smile.

And it was returned with a smile "Ok."

There was again silence and then she asks

"Why did you fire rahul? He was just trying to help me!"

He says seriously "Geet, if there's one thing I cant tolerate is someone breaking my rules. I hate if my employees don't obey my orders."

Geet asks confusedly "But I asked him to help me. Why didn't you fire me then?"

"How can I fire my future wife?" he says playfully.

"Maan please." She said getting fed up of this future wife stuff.

"Ok! You didn't disobey me, he did. I just said that nobody will help anybody but I never said that you cant ask for help!"

Geet tried to make sense out of it and said "But you said everyone has to do their work by themselves, so why did you help me?"

Maan says with a smile "For 3 reasons."

Geet signals him to go ahead with her hand and he says

"First, if I wouldn't have helped you, both of us would have been still stuck over there." and then his voice changes into teasing and he said "because the way you were working, it didn't looked like you could have moved them by the end of this year."

Geet narrows her eyes at his taunt.

He continues "Second, office hours were long ago finished, so I wasn't technically your boss at that time." And he stopped talking at that.

So geet asks "And third?"

"How can I see my would be wife working so hard." He said playfully.

"Maan!" geet slaps on his arm and says with fake anger "Baaz nahin aaoge naa?"

And both of them smiles.

Suddenly Maan says "Geet, lets eat golgappe!" he said while pulling her arm.

"What?? Gol what???" geet has never eaten golgappe before.

"Golgappe!" he says the word slowly so that geet could get it.

"At this hour! Maan, all the restaurants are closed!" geet says innocently.

Maan chuckles at her words and says "Restaurant!?"

He points towards a thela of golgappas and says "Golgappe."

Geet looks at golgappe and understood.

"You mean junk food? Oh no no no! I'm so not eating that!" she shakes her head in negative.

"Oh come on! I promise you wont regret it."

"And what if I do regret it!"

"To mujhse shaadi mat karna! Bas!!"

"Woh to main waise bhi nahin karne wali" she says smiling playfully.

"Fine!" and he drags her to the golgappa shop.

Geet did not know how to eat the golgappa, and in order to tell her how to eat it, Maan tries to put the golgappa in her mouth.

And when his hand was close to her mouth, he breaks the golgappa spilling all the water on geet's face on purpose. And he laughs playfully.

Geet's mouth gets open by the shock of what he just did. She picks up everything and anything that she could get her hands on the golgappa shop and started throwing it on Maan taking her revenge.

Maan ducked all the time, running around and throwing anything that came in his hand playfully at Geet.

After sometime they stopped from tired of laughing and running around. And they seriously ate the golgappas.

And Maan was right. Geet did not regret it. She has never eaten anything so yummy. She didn't care if she put on some pounds because of these. It was totally worth it.

Geet says "You were right. These are awesome"

"Told ya!" he said and adds playfully "So I guess the wedding's still on!"

Geet rolls her eyes on him and shakes her head smiling and leaves.

They reach home and geet says

"Maan, I never thought I would say this to you. But I really enjoyed this walk. Thank you."

"You're welcome." He says with a smile.

Maan started going and geet calls him from his back and says

"Maan!"

He looks back and says "Hmm?"

"But the war is still on…" she smiles.

"I know." Maan smiles too.

They look at each other smiling sweetly and Maan says "Goodnight."

"Goodnight."

Part 12

Maan walks towards the gate and Geet goes inside.

The moment she enters inside and closes the door, Maan looks back at the closed door.

And smiles evilly.

And leaves.

GEET IN HER ROOM

Geet took a shower and wears her night suit.

She comes out and stands in the balcony.

She plays all the events of today in her mind. The rehearsal scene with Vicky made her blush again. Then she remembers Maan's taking over Khurana Arts and her eyes narrows at the thought.

His stupid rules, the way he made her work so hard, how heavy those lights were; and anger started building up in her.

Then she looks at the cut on her hand that she got from those stupid lights, and suddenly she remembers the way she had behaved with him when he has helped her with the lights.

"Geet, tujhe kya ho gaya tha? Why did you do that?" and she remembers the way he was coming close to her. She relived the moment all over again.

And her heart started fluttering in her chest remembering the moment.

And she snaps back at herself and says "Geet, have you gone mad? Just forget about whatever happened! It was just a weak moment and you get carried away into it! That's it!!! Just remember this that how he treated you whole day! Khadoos kahin ka!!"

She remembers the walk with him and tries to reason with herself while playing with her fingers nervously "Par--- dekha jaaye to---- woh itna bhi bura nahin hai! I mean, he did help me right? And whatever happened between us" she closes her eyes as to forget the moment somehow "he never mentioned once while we were coming home. Maybe he is kinda nice person"

Geet realizes what she has said and the other part of her brain says "Geet, what are you saying? Maan Singh Khurana and nice?!"

And she again tries to reason herself "Yeah! He did help me. And whatever he's doing for Vicky, that shows he's a nice brother! Maybe I had jumped on an opinion about him too fast. Maybe I should give him a chance! I mean I'm not gonna marry him" as she remembers his teasing her about marriage stuff "but we can be friends right? Yeah!"

And she get into bed and soon went to sleep.

Next morning she opens her eyes with the alarm on her phone.

She looks at the time and date on her phone and suddenly she remembers something and sits straight up.

Her eyes brightens up and a smile comes on her lips and she says to herself

"Happy Birthday Geet!!!"

She gets up and went to the washroom.

While taking a shower, a sudden thought came in her mind and she thinks 'why didn't maa and dad called me yet to wish me???!!!'

She frowns at the thought because her parents have never forgotten her birthday ever. They have always wished her at midnight for all the past 19 years.

And this is such an important birthday, as she has left behind her teen years today and entered into the first day of her twenties.

She thought that maybe because of the time difference between London and india, that they might have got late in wishing her.

And she gets busy in getting dressed up. She tried all her beautiful dresses on and then discarded them. She wanted to look prettiest today. After all how many times does someone turns twenty!

And then she remembers about the dress she bought 2 days ago with Vicky and picks it up which was still lying in the shopping bag.

With the name of Vicky, she remembers about him and then about Maan and her decision of giving him a chance to be friends.

She took the dress to the washroom and came out wearing it. She looks at the time and it was already 10:30 and she was half hour late for work.

But she shakes off the thought and gets busy in getting dressed up.

She curls her hair into big loose curls and tie them into a side ponytail while letting some of front tresses of hair to fall gently on her face.

She puts on light eye makeup as she never liked to put on heavy or dark eye makeup. Just eyeliner and mascara. She puts on red lip gloss.

And then she checks her reflection in the mirror satisfactorily.

She was looking like an angel. Ofcourse an angel in black! But no beauty in the world was even close to hers today.

After being satisfied with her look, she went downstairs ready to receive birthday wishes from pinky and her relatives.

When she went down, pinky and her cousin were watching tv, while her uncle has already gone to work and her aunt was busy in kitchen.

When they saw Geet, all they wished her was 'morning'

Geet frowns at them, thinking that nobody remembers her birthday??

She wasn't expecting much from pinky's relatives, but pinky?! She has been her best friend since childhood, and she forgot her birthday!

She felt her appetite dying from disappointment. So she leaves for work without eating anything.

She was so mad at everybody. Her parents had forgotten her. It was already 12 pm and they haven't called her even once to wish her birthday.

She thought 'they don't love me anymore. How can they do this to me? Just because I've come to India, that I'm not near to them, they have forgotten me. And pinky! She's my best friend! And she's also forgotten my birthday. How can they do this to me?'

And she reaches office while feeling very depressed and angry.

She was about to go and talk to Anjali about something when she heard an angry voice behind her.

"Miss Geet Handa."

She looks back and saw Maan standing there fuming in anger.

Geet says in her mind 'ab ise kya ho gaya??!' [now what has happened to him]

Maan comes towards her and says angrily "Yeh office hai, koi park nahin hai, jo tum jab jee chahe kaam pe aaogi. Have you looked at the time?" [this is office, not a park, that u'll come on work as u please]

Geet frowns at him and all her resolutions of being friends with him went down the gutter with his words.

He continues "You are two hours late. And Maan Singh Khurana do not tolerate late comers!"

Geet was already in a very bad mood. It was her birthday and nobody has wished her till now and now he is shouting at her.

"So what are you gonna do now? Fire me?" she says angrily looking into his eyes.

"You know what, be my guest! Go ahead and do whatever you want! Because honestly, I. Don't. Care!!!" she finished.

Maan says looking into her eyes angrily "Attitude huh? Ek to tum galti karti ho, aur upar se mujhe, Maan Singh Khurana ko attitude de rahi ho! What do you think, that its so easy to leave this place?" he smiles evilly "No miss Geet Handa! I'm not gonna fire you! But you'll set an example for everyone over here, that how Maan Singh Khurana punishes those who comes late on work."

Geet narrows her eyes on him and says "Oh yeah? And do you think I'll stand over here with my head down and follow your orders? No Mr. Maan Singh Khurana, you are hugely mistaken. I'm not your puppet ke tum kahoge nacho, to main naachungi!"

"Naachna to tumhein padega! Warna woh raha darwaza, aur nikal jaao yahaan se!"

"Fine!" Geet says while looking into his eyes and was about to leave when she heard him say

"But before going, give your resignation along with 5 crore rupees." He said while folding his arms around his chest.

"I'm not resigning, you have fired me!" she said frowning.

"No I didn't." he said with an evil smile "I think you should keep your job contract with you at all times, because you keep on forgetting its clauses. In its 4^th clause, its clearly written, that you cant deny to your boss of any work, no matter how small is the work! And if you wont do it, your boss, that is me, can ask you to resign from this job!" he finishes with an evil grin.

"So sweetheart, its your choice! Either do your work properly, or resign!"

Geet was so angry that she was ready to go with the second option. She thought that no one is worth this job. Not even Vicky. She did liked Vicky, but not as much that it'll give power to this jerk to rule over her.

5 crores was not a big amount for her dad. She decided that she'll ask her dad for money, and damn the consequences.

She was gonna tell this to him when he picks up a big bundle of pamphlets from the ground and put it on the chair nearby and says

"Now go stand outside and distribute these pamphlets to the passers by." He says with a smile thinking that she will definitely choose her job.

Geet was gonna tell him that she's resigning when an idea struck her and she says

"Ok"

And picks up the bundle and goes out.

As soon as she goes out, she calls Vicky and says

"Vicky when are you coming back? Your Hitler brother is getting on my nerves! Do you even know what kind of work he's making me do? Kal, saara din mujhse majdoori karwai usne! And today, he's making me distribute pamphlets for the show!!" she said with a cry face

Then continues angrily "I'm telling you Vicky, come fast; or else you'll find just one of us alive. Because either I'm gonna commit suicide or I'm gonna murder him. Well, the chances of your not finding your raavan brother is more!!" she says enjoying at the thought in her mind of killing Maan.

Vicky laughs at her threat and promises her that he is trying to come fast as soon as he can.

She hangs up the phone and says to herself "What does he think? That I, Geet Handa, will stand here and distribute these pamphlets whole day!! Oh no Mr. Maan Singh Khurana, you don't know me yet. I'm not ruining my birthday for your stupid pamphlets."

Then she smiles and says "thankyou so much Maan, that you have sent me outside. Now I will go and enjoy my day. And you will think that I'm distributing these stupid pamphlets!!"

She picks up the bundle and throws it in the garbage bin and says smiling "Goodbye my so-called punishment! This is called killing two birds with one stone!!" she smiles evilly.

Suddenly she feels someone's presence few feet away from her and when she looks towards her side, her eyes popped open in fear and shock.

Maan Singh Khurana was standing there with his arms crossed on his chest and frowning angrily on Geet.

Geet fakes a little laugh in nervousness and then her expressions changes into fear.

Maan started walking towards her slowly with a death stare in his eyes.

Geet swallows her saliva in fear and looks down.

She felt as if she has been caught by the principal for doing something wrong and now he's gonna call her parents! And trust me, she has been through that experience before…

Her heartbeats have fastened at an abnormal rate out of fear. She tries to control it without any success.

She again looks at him and he has reached close to her. She holds her breath in fear and looks at him.

He says in a controlled anger "Miss Geet Handa, in my cabin. Right now."

And he goes inside.

Geet breathes out in a little relief and realizes that she has been holding her breath in fear.

She says to herself "Geet, don't be scared! He cant say anything to you. You have already decided that you will leave this job, so it doesn't matter if he saw you throwing these pamphlets."

She looks up and says to babaji "Kya babaji aap bhi na! koi ishara hi kar dete, ke woh rakshash wahaan khada hai. To main woh pamphlets tabhi nahin fenkti na!" she makes an angry face and says "uske jaane ke baad fenk deti" [what babaji! Cudnt u give me some signal that he was standing there. So I couldn't have thrown the pamphlets at that time. Would have thrown after he has gone]

And then she realizes something and says "in a way it's a good thing that he saw you. Maybe he'll fire you now. So you don't even have to tell dad anything about it. Hai na? haan."

And she goes inside.

She knocks the door of Maan's cabin and enters.

Now she wasn't scared anymore.

Maan says angrily "Miss Geet Handa. You think this is all a joke? I asked you to distribute those pamphlets, not to throw them in the garbage."

Geet stares at him coldly and said indifferently "So?"

Maan was surprised at her behavior. He said angrily.

"So? So now you leave me with no other option. Now you'll see what a boss is!!"

He takes out a bundle of cards from cabinet and puts them on the table and says

"Bohat shouq hai na tumhein baahar jaane ka, to jaao! Now you will personally distribute these thankyou cards to all who have attended our last show. You will go to their homes, give them the cards, and yes! You'll take their signatures on this file that they have received the cards, so that you cant throw these cards in garbage this time." He finished with a smirk.

Maan is about to go out when he heard her saying "Sorry."

He looks back at her thinking that shes apologizing for throwing the pamphlets.

Geet crosses her arms on her chest understanding what he might have thought the meaning of her sorry and she says "I cant do this!"

He said while anger building up in him "Excuse me? Tum mujhe naa keh rahi ho? Mujhe? Maan Singh Khurana ko? Maybe you are forgetting that I'm your boss; and whatever work I give you, you have to do it."

"Fine!" she says with an air of confidence. "If this is what you want, then let it be! I QUIT!!!" she finishes with a smile.

Maan was not expecting this. He hasn't thought that she would really quit this job. Before Maan could say something, Geet says smiling.

"and don't worry, you'll get your 5 crores by tomorrow!"

She's about to go, when she heard him saying

"To aakhir tumne haar maan hi li!" [so at last u hv accepted ur defeat!]

And she stops in her steps.

A victorious smile came on Maan's face. He knew this trick never fails.

Geet looks at him and he says "I knew you never had enough guts to stand against me. But I didn't knew that you'll accept your defeat so soon!" he taunts her.

"Its ok miss Geet Handa, I free you from that contract. You don't have to pay anything. Maan Singh Khurana haare huye logon se nahin ladta!!" and he smiles mischieviously [msk doesn't fight with losers]

Geet narrows her eyes and says

"You are mistaken Mr. Maan Singh Khurana, because neither I'm scared nor I've lost. Its not over yet! And I'm not going anywhere. Jaaoge to ab tum yahaan se, aur woh bhi haar kar!!"[u will b the one who'll leave from here and that too after loosing]

He smiles tauntingly and picks up the bundle of cards and offers it to her and says "All the best!"

Geet glares back and takes the bundle from his hand and goes out.

Maan looks at her walking and smiles satisfactorily.

Geet goes out while cursing him under her breath "Ghamandi kahin ka! What does he think, that I cant do this? I'll show you Mr. Zaalim Singh Khurana, that I can do anything better than you!"

And she looks at the bundle of cards in her hands and she makes a cry face and says "There goes my birthday! Itne saare cards ko baant-te baant-te to raat ho jaayegi! Aur mujhe to yahaan ke raaste bhi nahin pata!"

Ans she is about to go when she heard someone calling her name.

"Geet!"

She looks back and saw vivek coming towards her.

"Hey Vivek, what's up?" she said

"Geet , I heard Maan asked you to distribute thank you cards to all the people of our last show. So I was wondering, do you need any help?" he asks her concerned.

Geet says smiling sweetly at him "Thanks Vivek. That's very sweet of you. I would really appreciate it if you can come with me."

Geet decided to take Vivek with her for 2 reasons. First and the primary one, she doesn't know the streets and places in Mumbai very well. And second, she doesn't want to spend the remaining day of her birthday roaming alone on the streets. She thought if nothing else, Vivek could give her company.

That was her biggest mistake. Vivek was the worst company ever. He was boring like hell. At times he talked non-stop without any reason. And at times he was so silent that geet had to look if he was still walking behind her.

He was a science person. He talked about stuff that was running over Geet's head. Geet was bored like hell but she didn't say anything to him because he knew all the shortcuts of the city. It was just 4.00 pm and they have already distributed more than half of the cards.

But his knowledge of the city didn't make him less boring. Geet came on a conclusion that it was her worst birthday ever. Nobody has wished her till now, not even her parents, she had a fight with that khadoos, and she was stuck with this bore! God, can this birthday be more worse??!!!!

For most of her journey, she cursed Maan in her head to escape from the torture of Vivek. And to her surprise, it really made her feel good to curse Maan in her head…

'Dusht Daanav, Khadoos, Sadu, don't know what he thinks of himself. Thinks himself to be some king or what?! Geet, you have to think something fast. You cant let him win every time. You have to do something. Just one chance, and he'll know who he has messed up with. You have to pay for ruining my birthday Mr. Gabbar Singh Khurana. I'm not gonna leave you so easily!!'

And she went on and on with cursing him in her head.

It was 7 o clock when she reached office after distributing all the cards.

When she entered the office, it was pitch dark inside. The first thought that came to her mind was if everyone has gone home.

And suddenly the light came on and everybody screams

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!"

For a second Geet doesn't realize what is happening, and then her eyes adjusted to what she was looking at.

The whole theatre was decorated in blue and white. There were balloons and flowers all around. All the chairs were decorated with ribbons and frills. And everybody was standing in the middle of the stage with a table decorated beautifully and a huge cake sitting on it.

All in all, it was the most pleasant surprise Geet has ever had. Geet has been so sad for the whole day, thinking that nobody remembered her birthday; and after the bad day, the feeling of getting a surprise party was awesome!!!

Geet went inside and she saw pinky standing with other people and she thought that pinky has arranged this party.

"Happy Birthday Geet" she heard someone wishing her from behind her.

She looked back and saw Maan standing with a huge bouquet of flowers in his hand and a smile on his lips.

The anger that has been building up in geet for the whole day came out as she looked at him.

She forgot all about the party for a second and all she remembered was that he has ruined her whole day.

She said angrily "You!!" she goes forward and puts the file in his hand that she has taken signatures on and said "Here you go sir!" she stressed the word sir angrily "And what did you said? Happy Birthday?!" she scoffed and continues "Wishes doesn't look nice from someone's mouth that has ruined my whole birthday!!! What do you think of yourself?"

She didn't realize that she has started shouting at him and everybody was looking at them. All she cared was that she was taking all her anger and frustration out on him.

"Do you really think that I care about your stupid wishes? After last night, I thought I might have misjudged you. But I was wrong. My first opinion about you was right! You are the biggest jerk I've ever came across!"

Maan looks behind geet and saw everyone looking at them and he closes his hands in fists in anger and insult.

"You've ruined my whole birthday!! I have been roaming on the streets for the whole day just because of you!!" she finishes while clenching her teeth in frustration.

Maan stares at her embarrassed from being insulted and then again looked back at the spectators and just leaves from there. he was so mad at her that he feared that he might hit her any second, but he controlled himself and went, don't want to see her face anymore.

Geet stood there fuming in anger and looked back at everyone was staring and she realized that she has insulted him in front of everyone. But to her surprise, she didn't feel good about it. In fact, she actually felt bad for him.

She goes to pinky and says "Thankyou Pinky. Thanks for this party. I'm very happy that you've done so much for me" she tried to smile but didn't felt happiness inside.

Pinky says "Geet, I didn't do this!"

Geet looks at her surprised "What?"

"Yeah, actually last night your boss called me. He said he's planning for a surprise party for you. So requested that no one should wish you birthday. He also asked me to ask your parents not to wish you."

Geet couldn't believe it. She asks shocked "Maan?"

"Yes, Maan. You did wrong to him geet. You shouldn't have insulted him like this in front of everyone."

Now geet was feeling very bad on what she has done.

"He's been preparing this party since morning. He sent you out so that he can do the preparations." Pinky finished.

"And he was the one who sent me with you." Geet looked back and saw Vivek standing there and he has heard pinky and geet's conversation. "He knew you don't know the places over here. So he sent me after you."

Now geet was feeling terrible. She was regretting that she has insulted him and when he was the one who has given her this surprise!

She looked around for him and saw him sitting alone in the corner with a drink in his hand.

She runs towards him and stops few feet away from him.

Maan saw her standing there but looked away.

Geet doesn't know what to say. She was always very bad at saying sorry.

She clears her throat to get his attention. He looks at her and she fakes a smile but he looks away again.

So she says sweetly "Maan!" but this time he doesn't look back at her.

So she again says sweetly but this time a little louder "Maan!"

Maan gives her an angry glare and she gets scared but says "I'm sorry!?" she said doubtfully making a baby face.

But Maan said angrily "What are you doing here Miss Geet Handa? You should be enjoying your birthday. Don't waste your time on me! I don't want to ruin your precious birthday anymore. So just go away!!"

He looks away to control his anger. Geet was near tears.

"Maan, I'm really sorry. I didn't know you were planning this party for me! Please forgive me!! I shouldn't have talked to you like that. Please Maan!!!!" tears have started welding up in her eyes.

Maan looks at her and saw unshed tears in her eyes. Maan's expressions changed a little and he said "So you really want me to forgive you huh?"

Geet nods.

"So what can you do to get my forgiveness?" he asked playfully.

Geet's eyebrows mashed up in confusion and she asks him confusedly

"What you want me to do?"

"Well that depends on how desperate are you?" he said in a husky voice.

Geet saw mischief in his eyes and a little smile came on her lips realizing that he is no more mad at her.

So her mood also became playful and she moved closer to him and stroked her hand on his face seductively and whispers "Sorry Mr. Maan Singh Khurana, I'm not gonna do anything."

Maan felt a million emotions pass through him with her touch. He felt like taking her in his arms and hugging her tight. He closed his eyes as his heartbeats fastened.

And suddenly she moved away and he felt her touch moving away. He opened his eyes and saw geet standing few feets away smiling at him mischieviously.

He couldn't take the distance between them. He pulled her towards him with a jerk taking her into his arms. Geet gets shocked with a sudden pull.

Maan wraps around his arms around her waist and says mischieviously looking at her eyes and then at her mouth and back at her eyes "Well then, I'm not forgiving you."

Geet wasn't scared anymore and she said playfully while a smile playing at the corner of her lips "Oh really! I know you will!!"

"And how can you be so sure?" he asks her faking innocence while still his arms wrapped around her.

Geet says playfully "Because I know you cant stay angry with your would be wife forever!!!" and she smiles mischievously.

Maan was very surprised. And in his surprise he left her. He wasn't expecting this. He never thought that she could tease him about this marriage stuff.

Even geet was surprised at herself. She just wanted him to forgive her, that's why she said it.

Maan smiles at her and she smiles back.

Geet says while offering her hand out to him "Friends?"

Maan takes her hand smiling and geet says "Cummon lets cut the cake. I'm very hungry."

"Tum chalo, main aata hoon."

Geet leaves him and goes towards her friends to cut the cake.

Maan says with intensity in his voice to himself while looking at the retreating form of geet

"Welcome to Maan Singh Khurana's trap Miss Geet Handa!!!"

And he smiles evilly and gets up and goes towards geet.

Part 13

Next day, when geet reaches office, she saw Vicky standing there. She was so happy to see him, that she literally ran towards him, and hugged him tight.

"I'm so glad you're back Vicky!" she said while breaking the hug.

Vicky tells geet that his work was finished early, so he came back early.

After meeting everyone briefly, he goes inside to meet Maan in his cabin.

Geet was so happy that at last now she'll be free from MSK's torture. No doubt that they had become friends last night, but she knew once a jerk, always a jerk.

She wasn't expecting Maan to change overnight.

But she has missed Vicky very much. All these days, she has been planning in her mind as if how she'll tell him how she has started feeling for him.

When Vicky comes out of Maan's cabin (his ex-cabin), everyone was waiting for him expectantly. Everyone was scared of Maan's strict way of working, so they wanted Vicky to join asap.

Vicky tells everybody "sorry guys, but for few more days, I have to work at Khurana Constructions and Maan will look after Khurana Arts."

Shock and fear flooded on everyone's face. With Vicky's return, they have let their hopes very high, but with Vicky's words, all their hopes shattered on the ground.

And saddest of them was geet.

Geet says to Vicky with a cry face "How could you do this to us Vicky??!! Tum hum sab ko sher ki gufa mein kaise dhakel sakte ho!!" [how can you push us into lion's den]

Now Vicky felt very bad at their condition. He knew Maan's robotic ways of working. So he said to cheer them up

"Sorry guys! But how about I make it up to you! How about a movie treat? Tonight I'll take you all to a movie!"

Everybody gets very excited after listening to this. Geet also plans in her mind that she'll say about her feelings tonight.

And Vicky went.

After becoming friends, geet and Maan started getting along pretty well in the next few weeks.

After her birthday, Maan's behaviour had changed towards her a bit. He did not make her do labour jobs anymore. He talked to her nicely.

At first geet thought if he had some brain transplant! But soon her doubts were cleared, when she gave him a wrong file by mistake and he screamed at her as if she is his slave.

After some time geet realised that Maan is obsessed with perfection to the level of madness. He wanted every work to be done properly without any mistakes.

And geet was like prone to mistakes. In the earlier days, she made mistakes by mistake. But after some days, she started doing it on purpose.

She somehow have started to develop a likeness to irritate Maan. She feels a weird satisfaction when he screams at her and she smiles inwardly hence irritating him more.

In the earlier days she used to get angry a lot at him and they fought like cats and dogs. But slowly she got used to him and she has stopped letting her blood boil in anger and actually enjoyed herself inwardly.

It was not like they only fought all the time. They used to talk a lot too, they always ate their lunch together, they even flirt with each other every now and then; and to geet's utter surprise, she actually liked it.

All in all, one can say that they have become very good friends.

If geet spent everyday with Maan in office, she spent almost every evening with Vicky.

Every night before going to bed, she practices how to confess her feelings for Vicky, but everyday when she meets him, cat takes her tongue. She was unable to say anything to him.

And after coming home, she again curses herself for not able to say anything and again practices her speech.

TWO WEEKS LATER AFTER GEET'S BIRTHDAY

Geet goes to office late as always. It has become her habit to reach late at work.

Maan sees geet entering office and asks vivek (who was giving him some report) to send geet inside.

Geet was just about to keep her purse on the table when vivek said "Geet, Maan sir is calling you"

Geet said "Ok." She was sure that he is calling her to shout at her for coming late.

She goes to Maan's cabin unaffectedly. She was used to his shouting. She didn't cared anymore.

She knocks the door and enters "Yes Maan?" she still hasn't got used to calling him 'sir'.

"Geet, come in!" he said calmly.

Geet looked at him suspiciously as he was not angry or shouting at her as usual.

"Sit!" and geet sits down still looking at him doubtfully. This was not normal.

"Geet, get ready! We are going to Puna."

Geet notices the 'we' word in it. She asks "We?"

"Yes we. You and me." He said every word distinctively as if talking to some mentally challenged person.

Geet was looking at him suspiciously.

She asked "Why?"

"Oh hello! Ghabrao mat, main tumhein koi honeymoon manaane ke liye nahin leke ja raha hoon!" he said with a smile as geet rolled her eyes on him. [don't worry, I'm not taking u on honeymoon]

"I'm taking you regarding work." And he picks up the file from the table and starts looking at it.

"Work?" geet was still confused.

Maan says frustratingly "Yes work. Actually we are buying a new theatre in puna and there's a meeting regarding it and I need someone to take notes for it. As there is our show in couple of days, so everyone is busy. And by the way, tum to koi kaam karti ho nahin!" he teases her "So at least prove yourself a little useful and take notes in the meeting."

Geet narrows her eyes at his little teasing "Excuse me, I'm not your secretary ok. I don't want to come."

Geet remembers that she had a 'date' with Vicky in the evening. Well if you can call it a 'date'! if geet be honest with herself, it was always more like hanging out.

She spends almost every evening with Vicky, but she wasn't able to tell him how she feels even for once. Maybe she was also like those shy kinda girls!! And that Vicky! He was so stupid that he wasn't even getting the hints!! Urggghhh!!!!

Geet, like everyday, has fully prepared herself to tell him; so she doesn't want to cancel her 'date'.

"Geet, I haven't asked for your permission!" he said in a controlled anger. "I'm just telling you that get ready. We are leaving in one hour."

"But—"

Maan didn't let her finish and said flirtatiously "What happened geet? Are you scared of going alone with me?"

Geet crosses her arms on her chest and said "In your dreams! I'm not scared of you!! Fine, I will come with you."

After one hour geet and Maan are sitting in the car- Maan on the driver seat and geet on the passenger seat.

After few minutes of drive, Geet said "I'm hungry."

Maan didn't reply and so she said a bit loudly "Oh Hello, I'm hungry."

"I heard you first time!! But I'm not stopping the car in every 10 minutes for your big stomach!!!" and he smiles crookedly enjoying himself.

Geet says under her breath "Dusht Danav!!" she would have fought with him but she was hungry so she said with a baby face "Maan please I'm hungry!!!"

"Geet, how much do you eat??!! Just one hour ago I saw you eating burger, and now you are again hungry??" he said with a teasing surprise

Geet said angrily "Maan, nazar mat lagaao Ok!! And I'm not eating for my alone self." She said with a solemn expression and touches her tummy and said "Mujhe apne bachche ka bhi to khayaal rakhna hai na!!" [I have to take care of my baby]

Maan puts on brakes with a shock. He looks at geet shocked and said "Whattt??????"

Geet winks and smiles playfully and said "Got ya!!"

Maan rolls his eyes in relief and says "Geet tum bhi na! Bohat hi ghatiya joke tha!!" but smiles at her joke. [it was a ridiculous joke]

Geet says "Now that you have stopped the car, lets eat something na! I'm really very hungry."

"But there's nothing over here that you can eat." Maan looks around as there was no shops.

Geet saw golgappa thela and said "Maan lets eat golgappe!!"

Maan says faking concern "Geet, iss halat mein golgappe khana thik nahin hai. Its not good for the baby. Geet, apna nahin, to kam se kam hamare bachche ka to khyaal karo!!" he said looking mischieviously at geet. [geet, its not ok to eat golgappe in this condition..if not urs, at least think about our baby]

"Ha Ha Ha!! Very funny!!!" geet rolls her eyes and said "Maan please chalo na!"

"Geet listen..." but geet didn't listen and gets out of the car.

They eat golgappe and start their journey again.

After some time geet puts on a cd of English dance numbers in the cd player. She closes her eyes and starts dancing on the tune of the song.

Song Playing: Single Ladies : Beyonce

Maan looks at her and changes the disc to cd2 which was of old sad songs

Song Playing : Husnwale Tera Jawab Nahin : Gharana

Geet opens her eyes and looks at him irritatingly but didn't say anything and changed to disc1 back to 'single ladies'

Maan looks at her but didn't say anything and change the disc from the button on the steering wheel.

Geet said angrily "Maan whats your problem?" and changes the disc.

Maan changes the disc and says "I don't like that song."

Geet changes the station and says "Well too bad! Because I like it aur is gadi mein sirf yehi song chalega!"

Maan changes the disc and says "Maybe you are forgetting that this is my car. And I'm gonna play whatever I want!"

Geet changes the disc and says "But I put it on first!! So its gonna be my choice."

Maan didn't say anything this time but changes the disc and looks at geet smiling victoriously.

Geet narrows her eyes on him and ejects his cd and before Maan could say or do anything, she broke it into half.

Maan stops the car and glares at her angrily but geet smiles victoriously.

Maan ejects geet's cd but before geet can snatch it from his hands fearing that he's gonna do the same, he threw the cd out of the window.

"You!!" geet said angrily and jumps onto him to hit him.

In the process of saving himself from her long fake nails (that she was desperately trying to scratch his face with) he holds her both hands with his hands.

And in the next moment, he was on top of her in her seat. The seat with a sudden jerk reclines back, hence making them almost lying on the seat with faces mere couple of inches away.

After few moments, geet realised that how close they were.

Geet looks into his eyes and for a second she lost herself in them.

Maan looked at her eyes and then at her lips and back to her eyes.

Geet's heartbeats have fastened at a great pace. And Maan could feel them on his hard chest.

Geet looked at his perfect M shaped lips and then into his eyes and then she closed her eyes giving him a hint. Her lips quivered a little in anticipation.

Maan bent down on her and gently took her lower lip into his and starts kissing her gently.

The taste of her lips awoke the demon in him. And he increased the fervour of the kiss and deepened the kiss. His kiss became harder and hotter with each passing moment.

Geet responded to his kiss and kissed him back. She wasn't in herself. Her mind was totally blank and rational thinking was clouded in his kiss. Correction, their kiss.

Geet's hands moved onto the back of his neck and scratched his neck in desire.

Maan moaned in passion and broke the kiss and started moving down on her neck showering wet kisses everywhere.

Suddenly a truck passes from nearby and coincidentally the truck blew its horn just near their car.

Geet comes back to her senses and found Maan kissing her shoulder while trying to take the strap of her top down to give him more access to her bare shoulder.

Geet pushed him with all her might and said angrily "Maan!!"

Maan came back to his senses and looks up at her embarrassed a little.

He gets off of her and sits back in the driver seat and muttered "Sorry!"

Geet didn't reply but looked out of the window fighting the tears that have started to make way into her eyes.

Geet thought in her mind 'What did I do? How can I do this??

Geet have you gone mad?? You were kissing him??' she thought the word 'him' disgustingly.

'What if you hadn't stopped him in time?' she closes her eyes at the thought of the aftermaths of their kiss.

She tried to reason herself that nothing happened. That is was just a kiss. And there was no big deal in it. She's not like some 18^th century girl that would make a fuss over a kiss.

She tried to reason that she would never have let him do anything more.

That her virginity is still safe.

And she decided that she will forget about it and just be normal.

It was easy to think that but harder to act on it.

She was so embarrassed, she couldn't look at him for all the way to Puna.

All the time, geet just looked outside the window. Her neck has started hurting for looking into one direction for so long but her embarrassment was too much to look inside at Maan.

Maan sneaks glances towards geet every now and then and every time found her in the same posture, looking away from him. But he also didn't say anything.

At last they reached puna.

Maan took the bag from the backseat and starts going inside the hotel.

Geet was moving in front of him and while he passed geet, his arm brushed at geet's arm accidentally.

And geet snapped at him "Don't touch me!"

Maan was taken aback by her sudden outburst.

Anger was building up somewhere inside geet from the moment he has kissed her. The anger that was mostly pointed at her ownself for responding to him but she had forcefully moved the point of her anger towards Maan and blamed everything on him. That gave her some satisfaction.

She said angrily "How dare you kiss me?"

Maan was trying very hard to keep down his temper and said in a controlled voice. "Geet, it was just a weak moment, and you know that!"

Geet almost screams in anger "Weak moment my foot!! You did it on purpose! This is how you are right?" and then she realised something and said "Oh my god! So this was why you brought me here. So that you can..." she stopped and closes her eyes in disgust.

Maan holds her shoulders and pulls her towards him roughly and said angrily

"Shut up Geet, Just Shut up!! How dare you?"

He looks around at the passers by and said in a hushed voice but still angrily "Whatever happened was just a weak moment. It wasn't like I have forced myself on you! You kissed me back and you know that!!"

Geet narrows her eyes at his remark. She knew whatever he was saying was true, but her anger was stopping her from admitting it.

"How cheap are you Maan! You are blaming it on me?"

Maan leaves her and tries to control his anger "I'm not blaming it on you ok! I'm just saying that it was nobody's fault. And for gods sake geet! It was just a kiss!! Why are you so over-reacting?"

"I'm over-reacting? If I wouldn't have stopped you, I'm pretty sure it was not gonna be just a kiss." Geet made a disgusted face. "I always knew Maan, that you're a womaniser. But I didn't knew that you will try to do something like this with me. We were friends Maan!!!"

Now Maan's anger was getting out of control. Geet was getting on his nerves. He snapped back at her

"Friends? Really Geet? Are you sure we were friends? Because I don't think you even know the meaning of friendship! You think I brought you here to sleep with you? That shows how low you think about your friends" he eats the word 'friends'.

"You know what your problem is Geet? Tumhein insaan ki pehchaan hi nahin hai. You think every guy is crazy for you and just want to have sex with you? No Miss Geet Handa, you are hugely mistaken. Kiyunki Maan Singh Khurana ko ladkiyon ki kami nahin hai. If I want some girl, I'll get it like this" he snaps his fingers

Before geet can say something, he leaves and goes inside the hotel.

Geet goes after him and took the key of her room from the reception and goes to her room.

She cursed him for a long time sitting in her room; but when her temper cools down, she felt bad somewhere inside.

She tried diverting her attention from the feeling of regret by doing other stuff, but everything in vain.

She tried to order food, but looking at the name of pasta in the menu, she remembered Maan. Pasta is Maan's favourite dish.

She tried to watch tv but there was single ladies song was coming on tv which again reminded her of Maan.

Now she was feeling very bad. She thought that it was not really a big deal. It was just a kiss and it was not alone Maan's fault. She was equally at fault too.

After a lot of internal war, she decided to apologise to Maan for over-reacting and doubting on his intentions.

So she tried calling him in his room.

Maan: "Hello"

Geet says sweetly "Maan. Actually... woh... um... main..." she was fumbling "woh... um..."

And she heard the disconnected tone. Maan had hung up on her without even talking to her.

She tries again but this time he didn't pick it up.

Geet makes a baby face and says to herself "Fine Mr. Maan Singh Khurana, main bhi dekhti hoon, ke tum kab tak mujhse baat nahin karoge!!"

Part 14

Geet went to Maan's room and knocks at the door.

Maan opens the door and sees geet smiling at him sweetly.

Maan didn't say anything and closes the door on her face.

Geet's mouth opens in shock at what he just did and she says to herself with a baby face "Mere muh pe darwaza band kar diya! How dare you!!" and she kicks at the door.

No reply.

She knocks at the door harshly and says angrily "Maan, open the door!"

No reply.

Another harsh knocking.

"Maan, I'm warning you, open the door or else..." she pauses to think what she'll do and says "or else I'll break the door."

She laughed at herself in her mind. She probably wouldn't be able to kill a fly, and she's threatening him to break the door! She knew he also must be laughing at her threat.

But again no reply from inside.

This time geet said angrily "Maan I'm telling you, if you won't open the door, then I'm not going to the meeting with you. Fir khud hi le lena notes!!"

She was again gonna knock at the door when he opened the door.

All her bravery shattered into pieces the moment she saw fire in his eyes.

Geet said fumbling "Maan... woh... mujhe... um... woh..."

But Maan says sternly "Miss Geet Handa"

Geet steps back in fear at his sudden anger.

Maan continues "You are getting paid to do work. Aur tum yahaan kaam pe aayi ho, picnic pe nahin! Ke tum apni marzi se meeting pe jaaogi. Meeting is in 10 minutes, I'll see you downstairs in 5" and he goes from there without letting geet say anything.

Geet says to herself "Dusht Danav, sorry bhi nahin kehne diya!!" and she makes a baby face and goes after him.

Professionally the meeting went very well. They signed the deal.

But personally, Geet was in pain in all of the meeting. Maan was torturing her with his excessively cold behaviour and subtly indirectly taunting her every now and then. He didn't looked at her even for once.

Geet had thought that he has to talk to her in the meeting but she was wrong. The only few times that he talked to her in the meeting when it was extremely necessary, he addressed her 'Miss Geet' in a cold way, which had made situation even worse for geet. She wasn't used to his this kind of behaviour, so it was hurting her more.

AFTER THE MEETING

Maan was about to go when geet ran after him and said "Maan, one minute please."

Maan stops but didn't say anything neither looked at her.

"I'm sorry" she said looking at him expectantly.

Maan didn't say anything and starts walking. Geet runs after him to keep with his pace and said

"Maan I said I'm sorry. I realised that I had over-reacted, but aren't you doing the same now? Aren't you making a big deal out of it? Lets just forget everything."

Maan stops in his steps and geet added "Please!!" thinking that he is giving in.

Maan looks at geet angrily and said "Oh really Geet? Thank you very much for your generosity! Par yeh udaarta dikhaane mein aap ne thodi si der kar di. Because I think that you are not worth of my friendship! Kyaa kaha tha tumne? That I brought you here to sleep with you? Jis insaan ki soch itni ghatiya ho, woh Maan Singh Khurana ki dost kabhi nahin ban sakti!!" and he leaves from there leaving Geet in tears.

Maan goes into his room very angry.

But when his anger cooled down, he realised that he has been very harsh to geet. He tried calling her room, but nobody picked it up. He tried her mobile, but it was switched off. He called at the reception and comes to know that geet has gone out.

So he thought that he will talk to her when she'll be back.

After some time, he dozed off. He woke up with the noise of sudden lightening outside.

He looks outside from the window and saw a huge storm coming.

The trees on the roads were falling, hence blocking the ways. And it was raining very hard. Maan cocks his eyebrows at the sight.

And suddenly he thought about talking to Geet as he thought that she would have been back by now.

He called her room but nobody picks it up. He gets anxious and he calls at the reception who tells him that Geet is not back yet.

Maan gets very restless now. He says to himself "Yeh ladki bhi na, pata nahin kahaan gayi! There's such a big storm outside, I just wish she's ok!"

He was about to call her on the mobile, when his mobile rang. He saw the name 'Geet' flashing on the screen and he quickly picks it up and said in one breath "Geet, where are you? Did anybody ever tell you that its not safe to go out in the storm? Now why aren't you saying anything??" and he stops for her to say anything.

He heard Geet's voice shivering on the other side maybe due to cold? "M-M-Maan, I-I-I'm stuck h-h-here!"

Maan felt his heart sinking at her voice "Where are you?" he asked her anxiously. He has started running towards the door even before geet said anything

"B-B-Bear C-C-Creak Par-r-rk." {made it up}

"geet don't worry, I'll be there. You just wait over there Ok! I'm coming to get you. Nothing's gonna happen to you!"

Maan was already outside the hotel. It was useless to think of taking the car, as all the roads were already blocked due to storm.

He knew the way to the park, so he just ran towards it.

He was drenched in water in just few seconds.

All the way, he keep on talking to Geet consoling her that he's gonna be there pretty soon.

When he reached the park, he found that 3 huge trees have fallen in the main entrance of the park, hence blocking the way inside.

Somehow Maan managed to enter the park, courtesy to his trekking skills.

When geet saw Maan, she ran towards him and hugged him tight, crying.

She was so scared that she thought she was gonna die in this storm. When she saw Maan, she felt like she has seen life.

Maan hugged her back relieved that nothing has happened to her and she is alright. He stood there consoling her for some minutes and then said

"Geet, we have to get out of here as soon as possible. The storm is getting worse. Let's go!!"

"B-B-But th-th-the exit is b-b-blocked" her voice shivered in cold and Maan realised that she was also drenched in water from head to toe.

"Don't worry Geet, we'll find a way out!" and he takes her hand and starts walking out.

But when they were few feets away from the blocked exit, another huge tree fell, leaving no space to get out.

Maan felt anxious. He was thinking what should they do now. He has to do something fast because Geet's condition was getting worse. Hell knows how long she has been in this storm! If he wouldn't think of a way of getting out now, he was sure geet was gonna get sick.

He remembered that theres another exit in the park but it goes into the wilderness. He thought that maybe they can find shelter under a tree in the forest which would be safer from here as that would be denser and if Geet felt okay, then they can even take the route from the forest towards the city.

Maan felt that it was the best idea at the moment, so he took Geet's hand and started moving towards the other end of the park and said

"Geet, there's another exit from that side. It goes into the forest. But don't worry, I'll figure out something. I promise I wont let anything happen to you."

When they reached the forest, Maan realised that he was right.

Due to density of the forest, the effect of the storm was less. They could feel less downpour, but they were still very cold because they were drenched in water.

Geet couldn't move any further, so Maan picks her up in his arms and keep moving to find a denser place where they can sit for the night and let the storm pass.

Maan's sight fell on a hut like building. He went towards it with geet hopefully, but when they reached there, they found it was some old ruined stable kind of place.

They went inside. It was still very cold but at least they had roof on their heads now.

Geet was shivering very badly and her teeth was clattering due to cold.

Maan put on the fire with the help of two stones (thanks to the survival camps he attended as a kid)

He then took off his wet shirt and wet vest. Geet looked at his half bare body and her eyes widened a little and her heart skipped a beat as she checked out his well built body.

Geet has never seen him half naked before and to her horror, she actually liked his body.

It was so strong and muscular.

Maan saw her checking him out and he was gonna tease her about it but he remained mum looking at the condition of geet.

He knew that geet's clothes are all wet and if she doesn't change into something else, she's gonna fall sick. But there was nothing that she can wear and his own clothes were wet too, or else he had given her his clothes.

He was thinking as if what to do when he heard her say

"I-I-I-I'm c-c-cold!!!"

Maan looked at her and seriously she was very cold. Her skin has turned pale and her pink lips has turned into purplish-blue. Maan didn't know what to do! He never felt so helpless in his entire life.

At last he couldn't take it anymore.

He said "Geet, take your clothes off!"

Geet looked at him blankly as her mind was freezing due to cold. After few seconds his words register in her mind and she realised what he just said.

Geet narrows her eyes a little and said "A-A-Are you o-o-out of your m-m-m-mind!!"

Maan closed his eyes in frustration and said "Geet, I'm not in a mood to fight over here! Your clothes are wet and if you wont take it off, you gonna die till tomorrow!!"

The very thought of her getting sick and dying hurted Maan more than he thought it would.

He opened his eyes and ordered "I promised you I wont let anything happen to you. But I can use a little help on your part too. Geet please, take your clothes off." He almost begged her in the end.

Geet couldn't understand half of what he just said. The only thing that her mind was able to catch was that if she wont take her clothes off she was gonna die and that he wont let anything happen to her.

But her honour was more important to her than her life.

So she said "N-N-No M-M-Maan! I w-w-would prefer to d-d-die than t-t-to take off my c-c-clothes!!"

Maan closed his eyes in frustration. Why this girl have to be so impossibly difficult???!!!!

"Geet, I'm asking you last time. Take your clothes off or else I'll do it by myself!"

Geet didn't hear what he said as her eyes were starting to get closed.

When Geet does not make any movement to take her clothes off, Maan went towards her angrily and jerked her stand up.

"Don't you listen what I said?!"

Geet's eyes were half closed and she was near to getting unconscious.

Maan realised that he has to act fast as Geet's condition was getting worse.

He took her dress off quickly. Geet's mind has stopped responding so she wasn't able to realise his actions.

When Maan looked at her, his heart skipped a beat and his eyes widened a little. Her milky white skin has turned pale white but she was still looking like a goddess of beauty.

Her naked beauty was pulling him towards her.

He closed his eyes to control himself. He tried to tell himself that he has to stop himself. He cant do this. This is not a part of his plan. And if he lost himself today in desire, he'll probably have to forget about her. Then what about his challenge??!! He has promised himself that she'll be his wife. And when Maan Singh Khurana promises something, nothing in the world can make him change his mind.

He tried to reason with himself that its just a matter of sometime. Then she will belong to him. He would have full right on her...

He opened his eyes and saw geet has already fainted in his arms.

It took every ounce of his self control to put geet down near the fire and move away.

He decided that tonight he wont look at her again. But after some minutes, he found himself looking at her.

She was still shivering badly and her skin was still pale white.

He cursed himself million times in his mind for what he was gonna do next, but he has no other choice.

He gets up from his place, and started moving towards her.

He sat near her and lie down beside her and hugged her from back.

The moment her smooth skin touched his bare skin, he thought he's gonna explode in desire. But he has to control himself. He closed his eyes and hugged her tight.

Maan knew that it was extremely necessary to increase Geet's body temperature in order to save her life. But as they didn't have any extra clothes, so the only source was Maan's body heat.

It doesn't matter how much pain Maan had to go through to fight his desire, he will take this momentarily pain and control himself.

Maan's body was very stiff near geet's body. He was forcefully controlling his body.

Geet turned side in Maan's embrace to face him, which made matters worse for Maan.

He was going through the most painful torture of his entire life but he cant loose himself for even a moment.

Slowly geet stopped shivering in his embrace and near to midnight, she opened her eyes.

Before the sight got registered in her mind, Maan asked her "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine!" and then she realised that they both were naked and her eyes widened in shock. Before Maan could say or do anything, geet screamed at the top of her voice.

Maan couldn't understand what to do and he puts his hand on her mouth and said "Chup! Bilkul Chup!!"

{there at last, he said it! I was dying for him to say that <3}

And he realised that he was on top of her.

Their eyes locked as Maan took away his hand from her mouth.

Geet was lost in his eyes once again. His closeness and smell was affecting her in a weird way, making her loose her senses.

Geet looked at his handsome face, his big brown eyes, his tightened jaw, his perfect red lips, his macho body, his huge biceps, his wide chest...

And before Geet knew her actions, her hands touched his bare chest and stroked gently on his skin.

Her touch sent shivers into Maan's body. He closed his eyes tightly to control himself. 'Why this girl is so hell bent on testing my control!!'

Geet was not in her self anymore. His physical closeness was driving her insane. She has never been so close to any guy physically before. His scent was pulling her towards him.

She touched his face absentmindedly.

Maan opened his eyes and he saw desire in geet's eyes which was also in his own eyes. He was tired of controlling himself. He has already used all his energy to abstain himself.

The pull in geet's eyes was so strong, that he found himself bending onto her.

He started kissing her gently but when geet reciprocated with the same passion and desire, he increased the fervour of the kiss.

He wants her. He wants her bad...

Some part of geet's brain was telling her that its not right, that its a sin. She was western but her parents' values ran into her blood. She has never crossed that line before. Then why today?

Why isn't she able to control herself? Why isn't she stopping???

It is a normal human behaviour to indulge into temptation of doing wrong stuff when they already know that its wrong. Even Eve couldn't resist herself from the temptation of eating the apple when she knew it was wrong...

Geet also didn't want to think of the consequences. All she wanted was him to hold her tight in his arms forever. She doesn't care about anything else in the world. She just wanted to live in the moment, which was like heaven...

x-x-x-x-x-x

After 10 minutes, they lied on each side panting heavily.

Maan looked at her with a smile and kissed her sweetly and said "I love you Geet."

Geet smiled back and said "Love you too Maan."

And they both went to sleep while cuddling in each other's arms...

In the morning, when geet opened her eyes, she realised what she has done last night.

A sudden pang of pain crossed her heart. She has crossed her line!! Tears started making way into her eyes as she remembered last night.

And the pain of losing something very important and valuable that she has been so proud of hits her hard. Her virginity.

She has lost her virginity to Maan! Maan- the biggest jerk of the world!!

She closed her eyes in regret! What has she done!!??

She has ruined her future, her career, her choices, her life, everything in a moment of passion. If her parents come to know what she did, they'll surely gonna kill her, in real.

She has scrambled her family honour under her feet for this womaniser!!

She gets up and wears her clothes which were dry now.

She knew the damage has already been done! There was no point in blaming him for it. She knew it was her fault. She did all in full senses.

But now what? She has to be practical and think about the future now.

She cant let one night ruin her life. She has a future, and she has to concentrate on it! She has a family, who would probably kill her if they come to know about this! She has an almost-boyfriend, and the thought of finishing her love story before even starting brought fresh tears in her eyes again.

And she decided that she has to forget about this and move on. She has to be practical!!

Maan opens his eyes and saw geet standing at the door with her back towards him. The storm has stopped (or is it really??!!!)

He remembered the last night and realised what he has done.

He gets up and puts on his jeans and goes towards geet.

Geet realised his presence behind her but didn't looked back. She was too hurt to look into his eyes.

Maan holds geet into a back hug and says in a loving way "When did you wake up?"

Geet moved away coldly and said while looking on the ground "Chalein?"

Maan felt a little off at her behaviour but didn't say anything.

He puts on his shirt and they both went outside.

While walking, there was an awkward silence between them.

Maan was wondering what Geet was thinking and wanted her to start the conversation.

Geet didn't know how to tell him. But at last, she made herself say "Maan, we need to talk!"

Maan stopped in his steps and looked at her waiting for her to look at him.

But she didn't looked at him and said while looking at the ground "Whatever happened last night" and she closed her eyes to shake off the thought and said after a pause "shouldn't have happened!"

Maan saw how much pain she was in. He never wanted her to be in such a state. He tried to say to comfort her.

"Geet it wasn't your fau—"

But geet didn't let him finish "Maan please, let me finish first." She said while looking at the ground.

"I'm not blaming it on you Maan! But whatever happened, please just forget about it. Just think that it never happened!" and she tries to walk away but stops at few steps away and added "Aur achcha hoga, agar hum dobara kabhi na milein!!"

And she walked away while tears stinging her eyes leaving Maan still standing there who was trying to figure out what just happened...

Part 15

MUMBAI NEXT DAY

The next day, Geet reaches office with the decision of resigning. When she reached there she saw everybody running here and there in stress. Everybody was very worried.

Geet asks Anjali "Anjali, what happened?"

Anjali says "Yaar Geet, don't ask!! Boss ka mood aaj kuch zyada hi kharab hai. Aate hi Maan sir ne aakash ko job se nikaal diya just because uski tie ka knot dheela tha!! Na jaane aur kitno ki naukri jaane wali hai Geet!! Mujhe to bohat tension ho raha hai yaar!!!"

And Anjali gets back into her work.

Geet frowns a little and goes towards Maan's cabin.

She knocks the door and heard Maan saying "Come in" from inside.

Geet goes inside. Maan looks at her and anger starts flooding on his face.

Geet didn't know how to start. At last, she puts the envelop in which she has put her resignation letter on his table in front of him.

Maan looks at the envelop in front of him and then at Geet who was looking at the ground.

The sight of their yesterday's night was still flashing before Geet's eyes and she was too embarrassed to look into his eyes.

Maan opens the letter and looks at it.

Maan glares at her and stands up while pushing the chair roughly behind.

Geet winces in fear at the noise but did not take her eyes off the ground.

Maan walks towards Geet and says angrily "What is this?"

Geet did not look up and said while looking on the ground "Maan I'm sorry but I cant work here anymore!"

"Of course you can and you will!!" he holds her resignation letter in front and tore it into half.

Geet looks at the resignation letter that he was tearing and then looked into his eyes for the first time since yesterday's night.

And all she can saw was immense anger in those eyes. She unknowingly takes a step back.

And Maan says "I am not accepting your resignation! And you are not going anywhere you get that?!" there was an authority in his voice.

"Maan please!! Why are you making this so difficult?" she almost begged.

"Geet, you are the one who's making everything so difficult!!" he said with anger in his voice "You are bringing the personal stuff into professional life. This is office Geet! And whatever happened between us that night, has nothing to do with this!! Raat gayi, baat gayi!! Forget about it and get back to work!"

Geet looks at him unbelievably. Her temper has started rising with his words.

She snaps back "How dare you Maan!! Tumne mujhe samajh ke kya rakha hai? How easily you said that 'Raat gayi baat gayi'!!!!!" she says the words disgustingly. "Tumhare liye ye aam baat hogi, that you forget after sleeping with someone, magar main tumhare jaisi ghatiya nahin hoon."

Maan holds her shoulders and pulls her roughly towards him and says sarcastically "Kiyun Geet? Kal tumhi ne kaha tha na, that whatever happened between us, just forget about it? To fir yeh gussa kis liye? Maine bhi to wohi kaha na jo tum chahti ho?"

He said while taking out all his anger on her. He was glaring at her with fire in his eyes.

Geet remembered that it was her decision and it was 'right' too.

So she cooled down and again looked at the ground and said "Maan please let me go!"

"No!!!" he was still glaring at her.

Geet looked at him surprised.

Before Geet can say something, he roughly planted an aggressive kiss on her mouth.

Geet became numb with shock. She couldn't understand for what is happening.

Maan's lips became aggressive to passionate as he kissed her. He has been so angry and frustrated from yesterday, that he didn't know what he was doing or why he was doing that.

He has just kissed her to take out his anger on her but the moment their lips met, all his anger vanished.

Now it was pure passion. He nibbled and sucked her lips passionately.

Geet's mind has become blank. And before she could realize her actions, she closed her eyes and gave into the passion and kissed him back.

And they deepened the kiss. Their tongues played with each other's and sucking and nibbling each other's lips. Their hands were all over each other.

Maan's hands slided under Geet's top and moved upwards. Geet moaned in pleasure. She was getting weak on her knees. She holds his hair tightly in desire.

Maan started moving down and slided the staps of Geet's top and Geet realized what they were doing, but something in her didn't want to stop but her blurry rational thinking was screaming at her to stop.

Geet tried to open her eyes and said breathing heavily "Maan please stop!!"

But Maan didn't stop. He has gone wild in desire. Her words didn't reach his ears.

Geet was trying very hard to regain her control. She tried once again and mumbled "Maan stop!" her voice was hoarse with desire.

But Maan still didn't stop. The touch of Geet's body has awakened the demon inside him. He did not hear anything around him. All he knew was he has to satisfy his hunger or else this hunger and desire would kill him. He wants her. He needs her. At any cost!

It took every ounce of Geet's control to snap her eyes open in full.

And she pushed him with all her might and took two steps back. She quickly puts on the straps of her top.

Maan looked at her with eyes red in desire. He blinked few times to control himself.

Geet puts a hand on her mouth shocked of what they were doing as tears started making way into her eyes.

Maan realized what he has done.

Geet was about to run away while crying.

Maan runs after her and holds her hand when she is at the door and says

"Geet, I'm really sorry. Please Geet, I'm really really very sorry. I know you are hurt but please hear me out once. Just once please."

Geet looks away and say while crying "I don't want to listen anything."

But Maan didn't leave her hand and says "Geet please, give me one chance. For our friendship's sake??!!" he almost begged.

Geet didn't say anything but kept on crying silently neither try to leave. So Maan continued

"Geet I know you might not believe me, but I love you."

Geet looks at him surprised. She stops crying from the momentary surprise.

"Yes Geet, I'm falling in love with you from the moment I met you. Believe me, I have tried very hard to suppress my feelings for you, but they have kept on increasing with every moment."

Maan holds her hand and continues "But now I cant stop myself anymore. I love you Geet, and I cant live without you. I want to marry you Geet. I know I have done a lot of mistakes in my past. I know I have a dark past with a lot of heartbreaks on my hands. But would you be able to overlook my past and be a part of my present and future?" he looks into her eyes intensely and says "Will you marry me Geet?" he looks at her expectantly.

Geet was in a shock. She didn't know what to say. Maan is 'proposing' her??!!! And he's waiting for an answer! What should she say? She doesn't love him! Whatever happened between them was just…. Urgghhh! She wasn't able to explain the reason for that even to herself. Honestly, she doesn't know why she did that! Why she let down her guard that night or why she kissed him back passionately that day or today? Why?? That was one question that she doesn't know the answer to!!

But she know one thing for sure! She doesn't love him. Not like that at least! But she doesn't hate him either. So what is this that's between them? Friendship? Attraction? Likeness? She doesn't know.

No matter how messed up she is right now, but she knows she doesn't want to hurt him. How could she? He's her friend. And she's not a bad friend! But she cant even accept him. That would be unfair to him and to herself. He deserves someone who would love him, but she cant love him because she's in love with someone else.

But how should she tell him so that it doesn't hurt him? She was aware that he was waiting for her reply.

Geet tries pathetically to smile at him and takes back her hand from his hands. Maan noticed that!

Geet said "Maan," she bites her lower lip and continues "I'm—I'm really sorry. You are a very good friend of mine and I love you, but just as a friend!! I'm sure that whichever girl comes into your life would be the luckiest girl in the world. But that's just not me Maan! You have no idea how much its hurting me to say that I cant marry you Maan. I'm sorry but I don't love you like that! I'm very sorry Maan."

She tries to leave and Maan again stops her but this time putting his arm in front of her. "Geet please. You cant just go without giving me a reason for your refusal. Why Geet? Why cant you even give me a chance? Kya tumhein mujh mein koi kami dikhti hai? Just tell me Geet! I can completely change myself for you!!" there was pain in his eyes.

Geet did not want to go into the reason. She knew she is hurting him enough already, how can she hurt him more by telling him that she's in love with his own brother!

"Maan!" she closes her eyes "I don't want to fall in love or marry anyone right now. I have to concentrate on my career!!" she made it up

"Geet, I'm not asking you to leave your career. I have no problem with you working after marriage."

"Maan you are not understanding what I'm saying! I'm… I'm just not ready yet!!" she said a little frustratingly.

Maan said with a little hopeful smile "Its ok Geet. I can wait. I can wait for you for my whole lifetime!" and he smiles at her sweetly.

Geet wanted to tell him that there was no use of waiting. That he should forget about her and move on. But she couldn't make herself to say the words after looking at that hope in his eyes. She just couldn't! she has just hurted him by refusing him, how can she hurt him more by killing his last hope?!

She knew she was wrong by not telling him about Vicky, but still she couldn't make herself. The words just refused to come out of her mouth. And she kept mum.

"Geet, I know you are very disturbed right now. How about you take a day off and have rest?" Maan said sweetly.

Geet didn't say anything and leaves with a million thoughts going through her mind.

Geet couldn't understand what has just happened inside??!! What is she doing with her life? Why is she messing up everything so badly!!??

When she has decided that she was gonna leave this place, then why did she stopped? Why didn't she just tell him on his face that she is not staying? Period. When she is already regretting that night, then why she was all ready to repeat it today? That night was a mistake. The biggest mistake of her life! But why did she responded to his kiss today? Why did she kissed him back? Why didn't she pushed him right away? Is it because she likes him????

As soon as the thought crossed her mind, she snapped at her own self

"No, I don't like him. Maybe he has an awesome body, beautiful big deep eyes, long eyelashes… I wonder sometimes if its natural for a guy to have such beautiful long eyelashes! And the way he glares at everybody from under those eyelashes as he would kill them with his eyes!! The way he tightens his jaw when he's angry…"

A smile came on her lips as she remembered one of Maan's angry glare and she thinks 'And the sweet smile that plays at the corner of his lips sometimes… and the taste of his lips…'

Geet found herself blushing and she snapped back at herself angrily "Geet, yeh tu kya soch rahi hai?! Maan??!! Babaji! What's wrong with me??" she closes her eyes in disgust "Stop behaving like some cheap fluzy Geet! And get a grip on yourself!! You are probably thinking about him just because he was your first time! First time???!! Eeewww!! Geet just stop it!!!!!"

And then something struck her mind and she says to herself in determination "Geet, theres only one way to put an end to all this!! Vicky… I need to talk to Vicky and tell him how I feel about him! Then probably these dirty thoughts will stop coming into my mind." She made a disgusting face and takes out the mobile and calls Vicky.

Vicky: hello

Geet: Vicky… um… I need to talk to you!

Vicky: yes Geet. What is it?

Geet: Not on the phone. I need to talk to you face to face.

Vicky: Sure Geet. I'm going to Just-In restaurant in an hour. So you also come there.

Geet: ok

And she hungs up.

She thought that she has to do this. She cant live with that sword hanging on her head anymore. She has to take the first step! She cant just beat about the bush anymore!!

And with determination in her heart, she goes home.

She changes into the most beautiful red dress from her wardrobe and dresses up with extra care. Then she sets out to meet Vicky.

All of a sudden, she was very confident. There was not a slightest fear in her heart of rejection. After all, she is THE Geet Handa! Who can say 'no' to her??!

When Geet reaches the restaurant, she saw Vicky sitting in a corner with someone. Geet couldn't see who was sitting with him as the person has back towards Geet. And neither does Geet cared! Her eyes were only for Vicky.

She goes towards him and says with a smile "Hi Vicky!"

"Hi Geet!" Vicky gets up to greet her and says "You are looking very beautiful today!"

"Thanks" Geet said smiling while blushing a little.

Vicky says to the girl sitting with him "Nimmi, this is Geet. She works at KA and is a very good friend of mine."

Nimmi says a formal 'hi' to Geet and smiles sweetly at her.

Vicky continues "And Geet," and he puts his arm around Nimmi's shoulders and says "This is Namrata, my WIFE!!!"