PART 1. FIRST CRASH
Geet Handa was a very happy girl today. And why wouldn't she be? Her sister was getting married today! Geet Handa, an 18 year old girl, belonged to Handa family from Hoshiarpur and had come to Dilli to attend her cousin sister's wedding. Geet loved her cousin sister who was also Geet's inspiration. Geet wished to study and become a graduate like her sister. But her family seemed to be against it as they did not believe in letting girls study further. But Geet was determined. If her family did not agree to her decision, she would run away. Her cousin sister had already offered her asylum and Geet had fully planned to take it.
Geet smiled as she looked around the marriage hall while carrying a basket full of flowers which she was supposed to hand over to the person who was decorating the mandap. Even though she was a guest, she had asked for work and her sister finally gave her the job of helping the decorator. Dressed in a pink sharara Geet bounced around the decorator till the decorator, tired of her chirping, handed the job of providing baskets of flowers to all the workers who were working on decorating the mandap. Hence, Geet was happily prancing in the hall going towards the mandap with a basket of flowers in her hand.
Geet looked at the mandap carefully. It was decorated so beautifully! While the sangeet, haldi and mehendi was kept in Rathod House, the main ceremony was arranged in a marriage hall as the guests were supposed to be around thousands. Geet was overwhelmed by this information. So many people around and she did not know anybody except her cousin sister Naintara, Naintara's brother Arjun, Naintara fianc Dev and Dev's Daadima. She gulped; what if she got lost here? Then she shook her head. Arre Geet! Jhalli hogaya hai kya kuch bhi sochti hai! She shook her head! She was acting ridiculous. And yet she nervously looked up, "Hey Babaji! Mujhe yahaan gum hone nahi dena haan!"
As Geet was pleading to her Babaji, she did not notice a man coming towards her and they crashed into each other. The basket of flowers went flying all over them as Geet fell on the guy and both crashed onto the floor. Geet had her eyes tightly closed as the man fell on the floor and she fell right above him. After few seconds, Geet opened her right eye and looked around. Noticing the man staring at her, she opened both her eyes wide and looked at him in shock. The man was none other than Maan Singh Khurana, her sister's fiance's elder brother. While Geet had never talked to him, after listening to Dev rant about how angry his brother can get easily and after making her own observations during the haldi and sangeet, Geet had enough knowledge about Maan's anger that she was scared of him. Maan intimidated her and she became very nervous whenever she came face to face with him.
Geet gulped and she looked at Maan in horror as the flowers from the basket fell all over them. Maan glared at her, "Uthne ka kasht karengi aap?" "Huh!", Geet looked at him confused. Maan rolled his eyes, "Uthogi ya godh mein uthaaun?" "Nahi!", Geet almost screamed as she scrambled off him. As she stood up and adjusted her dupatta, Maan stood up and glared at her. "DEKHKE NAHI CHAL SAKTI? ANDHI HO KYA?", Maan roared at her.
Geet had planned to apologise to Maan and scramble away as she was scared of him but the moment he roared at her, her nervousness gave way to her anger. "Kya kahaa aapne? Main andhi hoon? Aur aap kya ho? Khud dekhke chalte nahi aur mujhpe chillaate hain!" "Kya?", Maan glared at her, "Tum kya kehna chaahti ho? Ki galti meri hai?" Geet folded her arms against her chest and nodded, "Haan!" "KYA?", Maan roared and took a step ahead but Geet was not scared. She was angry and she did not care even if the person standing in front of her was scary to her few minutes ago. All she cared was that he was accusing her of wrong thing and she had to fight back, "Dekhiye Mr. Maan Singh Khurana! Aap mujhpe galat ilzaam laga rahe hain! Aur Geet Handa yeh bardaasht nahi karegi!" "Ilzaam? Toh kya tum mujhse takraayi nahi? Haan? Bolo?", Maan accused her. Geet's jaw dropped open and she looked up, "Hey Babaji! Dekha aapne! Dekha! Takraaye toh yeh bhi the! Toh galti sirf meri kyun?" She looked down to scold Maan more only to see Maan vanish. Ab yeh kahaa gaye? Someone put a hand on Geet's shoulder and she turned to see Daadima smile at her. As she started talking with Daadima she forgot the fight with Maan but she did not know that the story had not ended yet; the fight had not ended yet!
Next update on Wednesday!
Thanks for reading and take care,
Kalpana
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