Chapter 2
Silently maan went up to his room, carrying geet in his arms. Laying her on d bed, he went to get the doctor upstairs. Pammi bua went out of the house in anger. Servants were cleaning out the kitchen mess, Mr. Singh was silently guiding them. Darji and Papaji were on their way home, they had already got the news from Deepak. Everyone was waiting for geet's report with bated breath.
Doctor came out of the room after 20 mins. She straightly went to Darji and said, "Darji, jis baat ka dar tha aaj wahi hua. Ab geet kabhi apni phobia se bahar nai nikal sakti. It is impossible to cure her now." Saying so, the doctor left. Darji and Papa lost their color. Dadi was crying silently as maan sat on the bed very gravely. He simply eyed everybody to disperse, and the elders left.
A tear escaped from his eye, falling on geet's little hand. She was waking up. Rubbing her eyes, she stirred and saw him sitting beside her pillow. Geet placed her head on his lap and maan slowly caressed it. "Mishty, tum ko jali to nai lighter se?" he just asked her. Geet nodded no and maan checked her properly, she appeared fine. But seeing her look so sad, he was disturbed. He decided to divert her mind. He opened his bag and took out some files and spare typed papers. They were meeting notations. He helped geet sit up and said very softly, " Dekho sona, ye meri meeting ki papers ko file karne hai. Muje ek blueprint study karni hai, to tum pls meri files bana do. Documents ko tag lagayi hai maine pehle se." Geet nodded her head and went to the study table. The girl silently began working with papers and punching blocks. There was a large stack of papers, and she was really careful with it. Some two hours passed and geet was still busy wid d files. After finishing, she yawned and maan smiled hearing her. Nearing the study table, he picked her and sat on the bed holding his doll in his arms. She soon fell asleep. Then maan too closed his eyes as he needed rest.
At around 5 p.m they both awoke and freshened up to have tea downstairs. All were sitting at the table, enjoying hot cakes and green tea. Then Darji asked maan about the meeting records. Geet pat answered him, " Woh maine record files bana di Darji. Main dinner ke baad apko deti hoon."
Darji was surprised as geet knew nothing about office work. Then maan explained how she had filed away all papers in order. Elders were happy to know that. At least geet din't look so put off now.
Dinner was quite talkative, unlike normal days. Most ridiculous things came up and laughter echoed in the hall. Pammi bua and viren were forbidden to join the family dinner. They were to eat in their own room. Though even viren was angry about it, he could say nothing at that time. His mother was at fault, and he would have to bear the consequences.
Geet was smiling happily with her family while eating the food. Pammi burned in jealousy to see her innocent smile. Viren went to her and asked, "Kya hua mom? Itna gussa kis baat par?"
Pammi turned to him and said, "Viren, is ghar se tumhare liye bahot kuch milne ki umeed hai mujhe. Lekin jab tak ye manhoos ladki sab ki ladli bani rahegi, hum ko kuch nai milne wala.
Main tum ko tumhara right dilana chati hun. I swear, ek mauka mil jaye muje to mai is geet ko hamesha ke liye is ghar se dur kar dungi. Saath mei in sabki zindagi se bhi. Aaj mami ne muj par iske karan hath uthaya. Iska badla to leke rahungi mai. Jo bhi ho jaye par mai ise chorungi nai. Iski sari muskaan cheen lungi mai." Pammi swore to destroy geet and her happiness in front of her son.
Abi ke liye itna hi. Very late in the night. Promise to update soon. Pls juti chappal nai phekna mujh gareeb par.