Part – 87
As soon as the door closes and Maan sees the empty room decorated with candles, he understands that it’s some kind of a trap set by his brother Vicky…
Maan looks at the person in front of him who is trying to find out what’s happening…
She is searching someone…
Maan goes near her to find out what’s wrong… As Maan gets closer he looks at the mask in confusion…
He can sense that it’s no stranger and it’s Geet, an inevitable part of himself that he is trying to disown…..
Maan understands that they are fooled… but Geet is still oblivious to the happenings…
She turns towards the figure approaching her…
She can see his face in the candle light… her legs start to move towards him automatically…
Maan pauses as he sees her coming to him…
Geet has almost reached him…
The rest of the candles are blown off by a sudden blow of air…
Geet struggles in the darkness.. the whole place is filled with balloons…
She is about to fall when Maan catches hold of her..
She holds on to him as a reflex…
The darkness of the night and his proximity makes her go weak..
She slowly hugs him… Maan won’t hug her back but he is neither pushing her off…
He just let’s her shed some of her pains at least…
She is at peace… she rests her head on his broad shoulders with full rights…
She grabs his back with her fingers… she tries to own him totally… she tightens her hold giving it her whole strength…
Geet starts to talk in a low voice so that not even the darkness but only Maan could hear her heart… she wants to share it with him and him only…
Geet: mujhe kuch kehna hai, jo mujhe bahut dher baat hi samajh mein aaya, aap ko patha haina ki mera dimag utna tez nahi hai, usse koi bhi baat samjhne mein dheri hoti hai, ab mujhe samajh mein aaya ki, haan, meine pyaar kiya, haan mujhe pyaar ho gaya, aapse aur meine hamesha aap se hi pyaar kiya hai, sirf aapse, samjhe aap? aap jaante hai ki meine aap se nakli shadi ki hai, par mera pyaar nakli nahi hai, sach hai, aur mein aapke pyaar mein pagal ho chuki hoon, ab aap hi bathao mein kya karoon?
Maan listens to her every single word carefully… but he already knows everything about what she just said…
Maan ka dimag toh bahut tez chalta haina…
Maan ne toh Geet se pehle hi Geet ka pyaar ko pehchaan liya hai…
Maan: nahi Geet, tum pagal hui nahi, tumne mujhe pagal bana diya, aur mein ab uss pagalpanti se bahar nikal chuka hoon, ab tum kitna bhi koshish kyun na karo, MSK ek galti ko dubara nahi karta, ab tum mujhe pagal nahi bana sakti
Geet is shattered hearing that from him… she slowly withdraws herself and leaves immediately….
Maan doesn’t even try to stop her…
Geet goes and knocks the door… the door opens…
Vicky is waiting out …
Geet is happy to see him…
Geet: chalte hai Vicky bhaiya
Geet walks to the lift and Vicky follows her…
He doesn’t ask her anything, he has got the answers by looking at her itself…
All the efforts have gone waste…. Maan toh pura pagal ho chuka hai …
So, it’s Maan’s turn to give it back to Geet.. . But the problem is, is he happy doing this?
Does his wounds heal by this or is he hurting himself by trying to keep her away?
He can’t deny one thing for sure, neither of them are happy with this, nor the others…
What does he want to prove by doing this?
What’s the use of pointing out Geet’s mistakes?
She has already realized it on her own only when she found out about his feelings for Geet…
Maan is also at fault for hiding the truth that he was mislead by his family to believe that Geet loved him, he should have told her about that when she kept repeating that she loved someone else, but his big ego stopped him…
He can’t blame her totally, for she didn’t know anything about his side of the story, at least she had the guts to tell him what was in her mind…
The following week… Geet falls sick… she has got the viral fever… she is staying in the OH in isolation…
Dadi has arranged a nurse to be with her…
The others can’t be with her due to the contagious viruses…
Dadi is old, Annie is with the baby and Vicky can’t help Geet in all the ways… she needs someone to hold her and help her out…
Geet has become too weak… she is confined to the bed…
Maan knows that she is ill… but he doesn’t know that she is in a very bad state…
At dinner… .
Dadi: I don’t believe what’s happening in this house
Vicky: what’s the matter Dadi?
Dadi: I can’t digest the fact that we have to leave Geet helpless at the OH like some orphan though she has been taking care of everyone as her own family, poor Geet, she would have been better off at Beas itself, at least there she has someone who really cares about her, her Nanaji, agar unko patha chaltha toh woh hummare barein mein kya sochenge?
Dadi is indirectly speaking about Maan…
Maan leaves without eating and goes to the OH…
Geet is lying on the bed and she has become too thin and weak….
The sister is sitting beside her with a mask on…
Everything is lying on the table as it is…
The soup, the juice and the kitchdi…
Maan asks the sister why she has not given anything to Geet on time…
She says Geet refused everything… even the medicines and she didn’t know what to do… she wants to start injecting fluids but Geet is not cooperating…
Maan asks her to try again…
Sister tries to hold Geet’s hand but Geet pushes her away…. The sister is too little, and looks even weaker than Geet…
Geet gets angry with the sister…
Geet: stop it
Sister: but ma’am you need this, or you will not get well
Geet: I don’t want to get well, you just leave me alone
Sister looks at Maan…
Maan doesn’t know what to do… he can’t see Geet punishing herself like this, yes, she did hurt him, but unknowingly, now, Maan knows what’s happening and he can put an end to her suffering if he wants…
Maan is in a tight situation, it’s time for him to make a final call, it’s either yes or no, it’s not the time for any kind of revenge, if at all he is thinking on that line….
Either Maan forgives her and accepts her or he must leave her to go, go back to her family, go back to Hoshiarpur, far away from him, so that she can slowly forget all this and start afresh….
Is it even possible?
Can he do that? Can he forget her and start afresh?
He won’t, he won’t forget her and he would never think of moving on, not even think of returning to his single life, he will still be living with her memories…
He can do whatever he wants, for he is the extraordinary MSK, not any tom, dick or harry…
Maan realizes that his life is not the same after Geet entered, he has changed a lot, he has become the ordinary, a man with all the emotions, he is not that saint anymore, he wants to have a family and kids with his wife, he wants her companionship, for now and for the years to come…
Then what’s wrong in conceding defeat and forgiving Geet?
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