Part – 34
Maan is a confused soul now…
He doesn’t know what he has done by accepting Geet’s wish.. .
Yes, he wants to see her happy…
Yes, she makes a huge difference in his life…
Yes, she makes him forget about his past and think about her… .
Yes, he needs her by his side as a Saathi, as a pillar of strength….
Yes, she makes his life more beautiful and makes him long for more….
Yes, he likes her, he wants her, he needs her, he loves her….
Yes, he is happy with the decision, but will his happiness lost long?
Maan has said yes to the wedding, but he is still not sure if it’s for the good or not…
Maan tries to sleep but he can’t stop doubting the decision…..
He is scared if this will bring more trouble than expected…
Maan rewinds his past and thinks about how he had pledged himself unknowingly overwhelmed by the hatred feeling about his own life….
Maan got married to Sameera and it was a grand wedding, like any other big fat Indian wedding….
Dadi was so keen to get Maan married though he was only 23 then… Maan has not yet settled in business properly, he was still in his learning phase….
Dadi’s mobility was more and more affected and she had to use a wheelchair against her wish…. Maan realized that dadi needs someone to support her more than him..... Maan agreed to marry anyone whom the two ladies choose for him…
Dadi got the proposal of Sameera from an acquaintance, Annie and Dadi instantly liked the girl, as soon as they saw her picture, she was so beautiful and homely…
They decided that she was perfect for Maan, Maan too liked her picture and had no problem if everyone liked her…
Dadi immediately started the wedding talks and fixed the wedding within a month…
Dadi was adamant that she won’t get any support (wheelchair) until Maan’s wedding… moreover Annie was also there for her second delivery… she was postponing her return to Australia just for Maan’s wedding… she knew she can’t leave dadi alone in that condition… Maan had very little time at home, he had a hectic schedule with the revamp of KC going on… he even skipped most of the pre-wedding process, Luckily Arjun and Annie took care of everything…
The wedding took place in Delhi ..
Dadi managed to attend the whole wedding without the wheelchair, with Annie’s help..
Sameera was a little reserved type, but she got attached to Dadima soon…
Sameera never expressed herself openly but dadi made sure Maan spent a lot of time with her.. Sam was very close to her sister, Niantara…
They kept talking on the mobile most of the time…
Maan understood her bonding with her elder sister who took charge of the family after their father ran away with another woman leaving their mother to suffer alone…
Sam and Tara’s father left them when they were 12and 9, they lived with their dadaji and dadi under the shelter of their bade papa, who ran the family business…
It was a joint family, the whole family supported Pammy, their choti Bahu and took care of her like their daughter….
But Tara felt insecure, with her father not being there as the head of their family, she always had the feeling of a step child, or a extra burden…
She hated the fake sympathies of her badi maa and her children…
When she was eighteen, she moved out with her mother and sister to a rented accommodation, and demanded their rightful share from the business…
Then she fell in love with her college buddy, Pawan and married him, Pawan is a very soft spoken, gentleman…
He accepted Tara’s conditions for marriage, her family will be with her and she will keep supporting them forever…
Pawan’s parents were still working and they live independently at their farm…
Pammy and Sameera moved to Pawan’s home at Shimla along with Tara after their wedding…
Sam stayed mostly at her college hostel in Delhi…
But she considered her sister’s place as her maika after her marriage…
Maan was not comfortable going to Pawan’s place, and he doesn’t consider it as his sasuraal… Maan did meet Sam at Delhi in her college itself..
Tara was upset that Maan never visited Shimla even after marriage….
Sam had a lot of arguments with Maan regarding that, but Maan was adamant…
Soon after marriage, Sam got pregnant… Tara asked Maan to send her sister to Shimla…
Tara was already pregnant, she postponed her pregnancy till Sam’s wedding…. Then she was 3 months ahead…
Maan wanted to be with his wife at this time, he refused to send Sam… Tara sent Pammy to Delhi to take care of her little sister…
Maan was busy with his business and Pammy’s stay at KM helped Sam a lot, with Dadi on wheelchair, she needed an elder to take care of her…
Pammy had to go back to Shimla for Tara’s delivery… this time too Maan refused to send Sam with her, for he thought Sam won’t get enough attention with the newborn taking all the time…
Pammy decided to come back to Delhi during delivery, she trusted Maan to take care of her daughter in the meantime… Maan did cut down his office time and tried to be with Sam mostly…
A couple of months after Tara’s delivery, Sam got uncomfortable with severe abdomen pain, Maan rushed her to the hospital…
There was still 28 days for the due date… Sam delivered Mansi before time, and during the delivery she suffered a cardiac arrest and died soon after delivery…
Tara blamed Maan for her sister’s death, she argued that Sam would have survived if she was with them at Shimla…
Tara took Mansi with her threatening that Maan would kill her too . .
At that time Maan was so shocked by the loss of his wife that he believed Tara’s words and took the blame on himself…
Then only he tried to run away from his grave mistake, as he believed that it was all his fault at that time… after a week of absconding, Maan came back to Delhi and went into depression then…
Tara breast fed Mansi too along with her daughter, Rithusa… she took care of her like her own mother….
Maan recovered with the help of his family, Specially Annie and Arjun….
Maan was so badly affected by the loss and taken over by the guilt that he forgot that he was a father...
His wife left but his daughter is very much alive…
Maan had a tough time to get rid of the nightmares of killing his wife unknowingly that haunted him day and night….
He was actually scared to meet Mansi for he thought that he didn’t deserve to be a father for he had even failed as a husband….
Maan didn’t want Mansi too to suffer b’coz of his inability to take care of his loved ones… moreover, taking care of a baby is not easy, and with zero experience Maan couldn’t even think about, how would he dare to ask Tara to give his daughter back?
He didn’t have the confidence in himself then… he was not even in a condition to look after himself….
Even Dadi and Annie were only worried about Maan…
They couldn’t see him in pain, he was torturing himself for no reason, he punished himself and was at the verge of becoming insane completely….
Annie helped to pull him out of that misery with the help of a therapist…
Maan slowly started recovering….
Though he has come out of that terrible episode, he is yet to forgive himself for letting down his wife when she needed him the most..
Had he found about her discomforts earlier, then this might not have happened….
That’s what everyone said… specially Sam’s family….
They lost a dear member and were frustrated mainly because none of them was not there with her when she was battling for her life…
In order to save themselves from the guilty feelings they conveniently put the entire blame on Maan…
Maan took the whole responsibility on himself, so they had every reason to make him accountable for their loss…
Even Dadi wished to send Sam with her mother….
After a long struggle Maan is back to normal, he has started interacting with Dadi and Annie finally…
Annie asked her sons Saransh and to keep their mama occupied with something or other… that was their vacation assignment…
They were only happy to be from their parents and instead trouble their mama for a change….
Saransh, the elder one, was the real task maker… he eventually succeeded in pulling Maan out of the misery by making Maan work for him… that’s right… if MSK ever had a boss, then it would be Saransh only…
Annie was not wrong when she kept saying that Saransh is more like MSK… He had inherited the Khurana genes… he had the same attitude, same stubbornness, same short temper, same ego and same honesty…. But they are emotionally very weak… they show off like a strong personality with very little emotions, but they are actually very sensitive and break easily….
Maan had no answers for the mini version of himself, Saransh would pester Maan to play with her them…
One time he would ask to build paper rockets from different diy videos and wouldn’t stop until Maan made one that crossed the compound wall successfully…
The next day it was the hunt for the perfect kite .. the next day, a model boat….
His list was never ending…
Maan was irritated at first, but he couldn’t show his frustrations on the two kids…
He had no other go but to fulfill his nephew’s mission in order to get a break..
This kept Maan away from his own problems to some extent and he started to take charge of his life once again… just for Annie and his nephews…
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