Part – 5
Unaware of all the hungama the two girls were having a good time down south…
No one had any idea that the two would have set to explore new places on their own…
And they finally got to know about their secret journey from their train ticket bookings…
The police reached Chennai and looked for the girls in and around Chennai… .their return ticket to Delhi was booked a couple of days later….
But the two suddenly got interested to visit Hyderabad on the way back and have boarded the train already on unreserved tickets…
While the two girls took the train to Hyderabad from Chennai, Avika befriended a group of students from Hyderabad…
They were on a study trip and they shared their seats with the two girls who didn’t have proper seats…
A few friends in that group invited them to a tour of their city… most of them were boys..
Geet being shy didn’t interact much with them… .
Avika on the other hand is born and brought up abroad and got friendly with them in no time…
Avika trusted them and was happy that they got locals to guide so that they could visit lesser known places too…
After having shown them a few places which the girls did enjoy a lot their new friends had a surprise lunch arrangement for them…
They took them to someone’s apartment for lunch…
It was supposed to be one of the girl’s birthday treat, it all went well before some of the birthday girl’s cousin and his gang joined… they were little elder…
The boys were highly intoxicated… they were using drugs it looked…
Avika had a few drinks with them ignoring Geet’s warnings… .
After a few rounds Avika lost control of herself and one of the boys tried to misbehave with Avika … she was the easy target, she is from a foreign land where this is common… but then it should be with her consent and not otherwise…
Geet tried to stop him and he pushed Geet away…
Geet hit the door and was injured badly on the head… Geet got up gathering all her courage and hit him hard on the chest with a glass bottle… the boy was bleeding… the other boys ran away in fear…
Geet called the security and alerted the neighbours…
Luckily a few people came to the girls' rescue…
She called the police immediately…
Geet narrated the whole story to the police…
The senior police officer was such a good man, he helped the girls return safely to their homes…
Geet wanted the boy to be punished but the police officer patiently explained her all the risks which are going to affect only the two girls and asked her to just forget it as a bad dream…
Even if Geet could forget the incidents as a bad dream, the people of Hoshiarpur are not ready to forget it…
Having seen Geet with the head injury they started inventing new stories..
Many believe that she is a rape victim…
Even her family is skeptical about what ever happened in Hyderabad that day…
Brij kept insisting that they took Geet to a lady doctor soon before it’s too late…
What a family?
They stopped Geet from going back to college…
Avika went back to her parents…
After Geet narrated the story to Maan, she looks at him with a sarcastic smile… .
Maan: why are you smiling like that?
Geet: I know, you don’t believe my story, haina?
Maan keeps looking into her eyes for a while…
Geet feels embarrassed…
She can’t understand what he is searching in her eyes..
But there is sure a lot of concern in his eyes…
Maan: I don’t think you can lie
Geet is confused…
Geet: what?
Maan: I believe every word you said, I actually admire your courage and kind of like your free spirit
Geet: I can’t believe you
Maan: why?
Geet: are you from this world? I think you must not belong here
Maan: why is that so?
Geet: b’coz no one wants to believe me
Geet is really pissed off about that…
Maan: why do you care about others? It’s more than enough if you believe in yourself
Geet: for your kind information, the world doesn’t function that way
Maan: everything would be fine if you stop thinking about the world and start thinking about your life
Geet: it’s easier said than done
Maan: I know, but nothing comes without a price, haina?
Geet: hmm
Geet starts thinking about what Maan said…
Maan: I now believe that life is full of surprises
Maan feels for Geet, it’s not just him, life is not a garden in full bloom for everyone….
Maan is surprised to see her trying to fight against all odds instead of giving up like him, that’s something Maan should learn from this girl….
Maan develops an instant liking for her, somehow he has a soft corner for people who are in distress just like him… you feel a lot more better when you know that you are not the only one having problems….
Maan keeps looking at her in awe… she is still not tired of losing, she will sure run away again and go get her life, she is not the “run away” girl, but the “Gajini girl”, according to Maan… you go girl, Maan wishes that she finds her true happiness and has a lovely future just like her…
Geet: haan, my story should be a big surprise for you
Maan: not that, I came here to reject you while you were already planning to quash this proposal
Geet: what? Who are you to reject me? I reject you Mr., Naam kya hai?
Maan: reject hi karna hai toh naam jaanke kya karoge?
Geet: if only you told this in the morning itself, you could have saved us from all this drama
Maan: if only you told me that you are the girl whom I came to meet then itself, I would have gone back to Delhi by now
Geet: it’s good that at least now we know
Maan smiles…
Geet: aap ko neendh nahi aathi?
Maan: what?
Geet: mujhe lagta hai ki aap aaise hi bedtime stories sunthe raho toh subha bhi ho jayega
Maan looks at the watch…
Its half past 11 pm…
Maan: chalo tumme ghar chodtha hoon, tummare ghar wale pareshaan honge
Geet: hmm, maa toh zaroor pareshaan hogi, meine socha ki maa ko bathake aaoon, par woh papa se kuch nahi chupathi na
Maan: agle bar aaisa mat karo
Geet: uski koi zaroorat nahi hogi
Maan: kyun?
Geet: ab aaj ki kahani sunke koi ladhka aayega kya?
Maan: zaroor aayega, koi achcha ladhka jo tummare layak ho aur tumme bhi pasand ho
Geet: mujhe koi shadi nahi karni kissi se
Maan: kyun?
Geet: ladhki hai toh usko hamesha kissi ki sahare ki zaroorat hoti hai kya?
Maan: aaise kaun sochtha?
Geet: sab aaise hi sochte
Maan: toh tum kya sochte ho?
Geet: mein bas college complete karna chahti hoon, I will be the first graduate in my family irrespective of the gender, mere sare friends abhi final year ko kitna enjoy kar rahe hai, aur mein yahan house arrest mein hoon, uske badh kissi aur ki ghar mein permanent arrest ho jayega, I want to fly free like a bird, enjoy life for a few years at least
Maan: aur uske badh kya karogi?
Geet: woh phir sochte haina?
Maan: haan, ye bhi teek hai, phir tumme ek achcha ladhka zaroor milega
Geet: shayad
They have reached the Handa home…
Geet: chalo, aap se milke bahut kushi hui, agle bar Hoshiarpur aaye toh zaroor milna, mein chalthi hoon
Maan can’t believe that… she wants to meet him again even after all this? Maybe it was just a courtesy call and Maan is thinking too much about Geet, but why?
Maan keeps watching her…
Geet just jumps off the jeep and leaves…
Anupamaa
Kabhi Neem Neem Kabhi Shahad Shahad
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