MG FF THE DIVINE FLOWER : thread 2: PART 39 : page 141 17th may - Page 27

Maan didn't have the nerve to look at Geet while they were on the dinner table. Geet felt relieved as Maan didn't react in anyway seeing the room though a part of her mind, only a small tiny mini part, hoped that he would say something about it. Ami described once that the room was pretty awesome' but both Maan and Geet were eager to change the topic. Later Geet was cleaning up the dishes Maan came to kitchen looking for water.

Before he left he turned his head towards her. Geet could feel his intent gaze on her though she dared not look at him. Her hands stopped mid way as she was arranging the plates back in order. Maan cleared his throat and said in a soft voice, "Geet..thanks for the room"

And then he was gone. A slight trace of smile came on her rosy lips for a second. She knew what he meant. How much that meant for him to see all that in his room..and it was not just the room, but the space that she had given him in her mind. But then the reality was too harsh for her. How much she wished for this day in her life. She always thought that one day Maan would see the depth of her heart and would throw his arms around her taking away all her pain. But now, all that seemed like a fool's dream gone in vain. Today even if he took her in his arms she would be suffocated by the very love for which she once craved for. Her smile faded and she mechanically continued her job.

Things were slowly falling back into place. Two days passed and everything seemed to get back into a routine. Maan kept himself away from Geet as much as possible for now he knew the pain she would go through whenever she saw him. The pain that he gave himself thus was somewhat comforting as a penance. But that was not enough and Maan knew that very well. So it was the day when both Maan and Geet had to get back to work. After all the scam and accident, this was the first time Geet was going back to the office. She knew that people would be pointing their fingers at her and even laugh at her. She didn't care about all that. She had seen worse. At least all these wont hurt her to the extent that Maan had hurt her. Clearly that wasn't the fact that disturbed her while she was getting ready for the office. Adi reached their place early in the morning and remained in Maan's room. He was normally a nice person unlike his boss(!!). This morning he didn't wish Geet or asked about Ami and went straight to meet Maan. Geet feared that something was terribly wrong or Adi won't behave like this. To affirm her fears Adi and Maan already left without even asking her to join them for office. She didn't want to but she had told Maan that they have to take the same vehicle as Ami wanted to see them off together for once.

Lisa : Geet, you look worried! Whats wrong?

Geet : I dunno Lisa but I think something is up..Maan and Adi sir left early

Lisa(grinning) : worried for your man, huh?

Geet : No! I mean.. I am worried that I will be fired. I think they are planning for that!

Lisa : I bet they are not hon!

Geet : You don't know Maan! He would stoop to any level to get what he wants! And right now that is Ami. He knows that as long as I have a job I can take care of her. If I lose that, I will be incapable and he can take charge!

Lisa rolled her eyes, "Does he know who Mia is?"

Geet slightly taken aback, "no.."

Lisa : then why would he want her back?

Geet : I don't know..he somehow gets well with Ami..he loves her like a daughter

Lisa smiled and touched Geet on her shoulder, "Darling, he is doing all that to please you can't you see that. A father is drawn to a kid by the nurturing of her mother. Ami has your traits in her and thats why he loves her. He wants you and he knows that you are incomplete without Mia. That's the connection you are missing!"

Geet stared at Lisa as if she was speaking some foreign language and then she sighed.

Geet : I don't know this man anymore. He..Lisa, he can't love me..

Lisa : why? What has changed?

Geet : because he thought I was cheating on him!! How could he think so low of me? He thought I brought Ami to trick him for money! All these years he thought I was such a filthy person..then how does all that change now? Just because he knows that I didn't sleep with anyone else? All of a sudden he wants me to behave as if nothing wrong ever happened between us! How is that possible?

Lisa : don't talk so loud. You are going to wake Mia!

Geet : I'm sorry, all I want to say is it doesn't matter to me if he loves me or not. It means nothing to me.

As Geet left for the office Lisa smiled and said, "It means everything to you or else you wont be thinking about it!"

Geet got out of the cab and took a long breathe. Ok, so this won't be hard enough, thought she. After all, this was the same building where she had been working for the last five years.

It's not that daring to walk up to her desk her head held high. But she never had an experience of walking into her work-place when the video of herself making out with their most potential client is getting maximum hits on YouTube. Somewhere in the corner of her brain that old teenager Geet started giving her nasty comments, "why not, when we look so hot kissing..I mean I saw the video myself twice..thrice(ok 10 times, don't count the replays..) and it was umm smoking hot!! The raw passion and the need in his touch.." Ssshhh Geet mentally wacked that erratic teenager Geet and walked into the building. Did the security guy always stare at her like that or was it her imagination? The cafeteria lady, elevator maintenance boy, the beauty dept assistant, the gossip girls, Manisha and the A-list size zero models, the editors of various depts. and the vanity girls all of them definitely don't stare at her usually like they did today when she walked through the building.

But wait, they were actually not laughing at her or anything but some of them, atleast those gossip girls and size-zero models, were looking at her with admiration!! Wait! why would that be?? Oh, she gets to nail the hottie married client and they don't!! Eww how pathetic! Geet could not stand the thought that she was actually the object of interest for those girls. She felt disgusted. She never wanted the paparazzi attention and that too in Maan's name. But now she was being dragged right in the middle of it and probably she would lose her job also. So much for falling in love..well once upon a time..

Once she reached her desk, there was already a message from Ramona to meet her immediately. That was half an hour ago but now Ramona was in a meeting. Geet decided to go into the room and face whatever the result might be. But her legs stopped mid-way when she heard a furious voice inside Ramona's cabin. She knew that thundering voice like more than anything else in the world, the ruthless Maan Singh Khurana. Ramona was meeting Maan.. which means Maan left early to see Ramona. However that was not the fact that shocked Geet. The words that he spat pierced right through her heart like a bullet.

Geet listened carefully and her eyes widened as she heard,

Maan : I can't believe this I'm sitting here and arguing about this with you!! Just get this straight lady, you fire her or I'm walking out of this deal!!

Geet(self-thought) : what?? He wants to cancel this million dollar deal just to get me fired?? Probably yes, he paid that Rosa a fortune!!

Maan continued, "I can't stand her in this office any more ok??

Ramona : But Maan, how can I do this? It is not just my decision. I have to consult the chairman and others. She had been a valuable asset to our firm for.. well so many years. Her work had always been the finest. She even assissted your project, can't you see??

Maan : yeah that I saw

Ramona : God! You are getting personal here. Think professionally

Maan : right! that's what I was talking about. If she stays we are pulling this off. I can go to any other magazine in the city like Vogue or The Look and get back all that I would lose. But if this goes off then your Pageant can kiss its a**!!

Geet's jaw dropped hearing him swear like that.

Ramona : This is impossible. Listen, Mr. Khurana I will try but I can't promise anything. We have to be diplomatic here anyway even if I will fire HER anyway!!

That was the limit for Geet. So she was losing her job, fine! Then why would she wait for their stupid meeting to be over? She would just go inside and get it head-on. She marched inside not even bothering to knock and suddenly there was pin-drop silence in the room.

Ramona smiled nervously, which in fact was rare considering the confident woman that she was.

Ramona : oh Geet.. you didn't check in before coming

Geet didn't miss the quick glance that Ramona threw at Maan. Maan just stiffened as he heard Geet's voice.

Geet : yeah, but I got your message. You wanted me asap..

Ramona : oh that, umm well I need to talk to..

Maan : Thats your final call?

Ramona : I have agreed to your demand..

Maan : on my terms?

Ramona : Fine! I give up. We are doing this NOW! Happy?

Geet stood there clenching her nails on the file that she had carried as a prop. She looked at Ramona and then at Maan. Finally Ramona called for her attention.

Ramona sighed and gave a sharp look to Geet. Geet was well-prepared. She knew she was being fired and she didn't care..atleast in front of others.

But what Ramona said shook the Earth beneath her.

Ramona : Geet, ask everyone to assemble in the conference hall. EVERYONE!! And YOU better be there first coz you have only 4 minutes left.

Geet sent the message by selecting All contacts and sank back to her seat. That was probably her last task. She was prepared to be thrown away. That was never new for her. Atleast this was a job not a family like her previous ones (real and adopted) who abandoned her. But no, he wont be satisfied with that. He wanted to humiliate her in front of everyone. Wasn't all that humiliation enough? He had to finish it personally? And he claimed he loved me,my foot!! , thought Geet.

She rushed to the elevators to get to the conference room.

PAST :

A week after they had professed their love, things were going really smooth. They spent every night together and every morning Maan had to take Geet to her room. Maan knew that Geet's favourite colour was red, she loved parathas made of ghee and she hated baigan ka bharta becoz it smelt burnt. She loved rain but hated being sick afterwards. She skipped her class 11 straight a week as a guy used to follow her on her way. She loved romantic movies and always wanted a dramatic climax to her love story!! She hit a girl in the dark because she made fun of her friend Arjun when she was in class 10th. She hated when Nayan Tara came to their house because she just hated her!! She wished she was in love with a Vampire when she read Twilight.

Geet on the other hand found out rare facts about Maan. Brace yourselves!!! Its known that Maan loved photography but he got that hobby from a tech-book which he happened to read scretly while he was in high school when dadima believed that he was studying hard. Once Maan went on a bicycle ride with his Math tuition teacher, Ms. Pamela!!! He liked paasta, his favourite dessert was mishty dahi for obvious reasons.."mishty mishty" He hated bhindi and panir should be exiled from Earth!! He never read Harry Potter but he liked Twilight!! He secretly watched Romantic comedies and when Geet laughed saying it was girly, he explained that he wont ever watch Mean Girls or anything like that but he had seen Friends with Benefits, Its a boy girl thing, Love Actually, Pretty Woman etc.. He used to buy some special oil to grow a beard while he was a teenager!!

And so they shared everything about each other well censoring the naughty thoughts they had about each other. Cmon, its been only a week!!

Geet was chatting with her friends Mira and Arjun after the class. The plan was to leave in Arjun's car and they would drop Geet in the mansion and then go to the pub that Mira wanted to explore. But as they reached the parking lot a black BMW was waiting for Geet. Geet got excited and told her friends to leave. She opened the door excitedly but was soon disappointed to find the back seat empty. "Maan nhi aye?", she enquired the driver Yogesh.

Yogesh smiled and replied, "nhi madam lekin Maan sir ne apko leke ane ke liye bola he"

Geet was surprised as Maan didn't mention about any plans the previous night. Infact they never went out as a matter of fact.

Geet : kaha leke jaane ko bola?

Yogesh : wo nhi batane ko bola saab ne

Now Geet was getting irritated. How could Maan expect that she would go with a driver who would not tell her the destination? What if he kidnapped her? But that might not happen as Yogesh was one of Maan's trusted employees, still you know..

Geet : ek minute Yogesh, I have to make a call

Yogesh : ok madam

Geet took a few steps away from the car and dialed Maan's number.

Maan was in a heated argument with the board members.

Maan : The hell with your money..You guys know very well that I am the major shareholder here in this group. If you pull out I can still go with it myself, got that?

One of the elder board member, Mr. Shindey : Mr. Khurana we understand your views. But you are new to this field. And I'm afraid too nave to handle this all alone. This industry won't work that way. We need profits and there are people who benefit from this, lots of them. We can't ignore everyone and just go ahead..

Maan barked louder that the whole room trembled in silence, "Mr. Shindey, If all those experience didn't teach you the value of honesty then my words won't do that job either! Khurana constructions are known for their quality! Just because we reduce our quality for the reason that the cement and sand prices have gone up, it will tarnish our name forever and you better get this straight that being a Khurana I know very well how to hold that name properly. If it diminishes the profit for now , I'm ready to cut down my income from this deal but I will never back out from my word! Is that clear everyone? I want no compromise in our quality for the...

It was at that moment his phone rang. Maan looked at his mobile and raised his eyebrows. It was the first time she called him after they were committed.

Maan :umm.. excuse me gentlemen, I have uh..an important call

With that he left the conference hall signaling Adi to take over. He stepped out to the hallway and picked the phone. Before he could say hello the hoarse complaining and whining yet sexy voice ringed in his ear that his face just froze.

Geet: itna time kyu lagta he apko call uthane me? Aur ap waise bhi apne apko samjate kya ho? Bhoj maharaja jo hukam diya wahi hoga duniya me.. matlab me to hu hi nahi na sab apki manmarzi chalegi aur Geet to baz jo hokum mera aka kahegi he na? he na? he na?

Maan : saans le lo..

Geet : kya?

Maan : saans le lo warna meri jaan atak jaati he!

How could she not smile when he threw something like that. But he can't see that in the phone.

Geet : me apse naaraz hu

Maan : arey abhi to hasi

Geet : apko kaise pata?

Maan (smirking) : matlab tum hasi?

Geet (blushing) : wo sab chhodo.. pehle ye batao phone uthane me itna time kyu laga

Maan : kaam kar rha tha

Geet : aahaha.. kaam? Lekin 3 baje to apka lunch time he na?

Maan : arey meeting thi

Geet : hai rabba! Matlab apne khana nhi khaya? Ap bhi na zara sa to khayal rakho apne apka..tabhi me sochu mujhe hichkiya kyu aa rhi thi lunch pe..

Maan in amunsed tone, "Geet.. meeting abhi khatam ho jayegi to me kha lunga"

Geet : pakka?

Maan : pakka. Aur ab se time pe lunch karunga warna tumhe hichki a jayegi na

Geet : ha nhi to

Maan : to tumne ye kehne ke liye call kiya ki tumhe hichki ayi?

Geet : uffo.. nhi Maan me kya bachi hu?

Maan: to phir baat kya he?

Geet : apne gaadi bheji?

Maan couldn't help the involuntary snort that irritated Geet even more.

Geet : arey ap has rhe ho?

Maan : nhi Gee two bas tumne kaha bachi nhi ho.. to meri badi Geet ka sawal sunke hasi to ayegi na

Geet : arey to ye bacho wali baat thodi na he? Gaadi bheji lekin mujhe nhi bataya jaata ki me kaha ja rhi hu! Matlab agar mera kidnap ho rha he to?

Maan : Geet is dilli me kisi ki himmat bhi nhi ki tumhari taraf aankh bhi uthake dekhe aur jagah to surprise he. Tum jitna bhi drama karo nhi bataunga

Geet : Maann.. me dramebaaz hu? Drama ap kar rhe ho ya me? Agar mujhe pata nhi chalega to me kya kapde pehnungi?

Maan : don't worry Geet! Mene saare arrangements kar diye. Tum bas gaadi me betho aur mujse milne ka count down krti raho

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PRECAP : Geet fired Maan!!! 😲 😲 😲

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