MANNAT II
As all you have now come to know…I have finished the first part of "Mannat" or the story before Prem-Heer's marriage. Now I will be writing about their life after their marriage. For new readers, you do not have to read the first 37 chapters to read the following chapters. I am providing a brief summary (well, being me…it won't be that brief) of what happened in those chapters…this is also a recap for previous readers. Anyways, a few new characters will be introduced and I'm providing a character sketch below the summary. The summary is strictly from my memory, so if there are somewhat differences in what happened and what I wrote…please don't mind. I hope you all enjoy 'Mannat II'.
~Deepika~
Chapters 1-37 of 'Mannat I' can be found at the following link:
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/topic/1065557
Summary of chapters 1-37
This is a story of Prem-Heer...their families, their struggles, their lives…most importantly their love. "Mannat" begins with the introduction of the Maan Family. They are a tight-knit family composed of Balraj Maan (father), Teji Gill Maan (mother) and their children Heer (eldest), Ashlesha/Ash (middle) and Sunny (youngest). They are a rich Punjabi-Sikh family residing in New Jersey. After many years, they are returning to Punjab to attend Meet Gill's (Teji's younger cousin-brother/ Teji's chacha's son) wedding to Mahi. Heer departs for India a week earlier than her family to surprise her maternal family in Ludhiana. She is told her father's best friend (Lalit Juneja) and her mother's childhood friend (Gayatri Juneja) are also going to be in India. However, she is unaware that Lalit, Gayatri and their sons Prem (eldes) and Preet (youngest) are on her connecting flight, whereas Harman (middle) already lives in Ludhiana with his Dadi, instead of with his family in Michigan. On the flight, Heer meets and befriends Preet, both unaware of each other's last name, forming a brother-sister bond. Once reaching India, they head their separate ways, unable for Heer to meet the Juneja's. Upon reaching her massi (Inderjot) and her mausa/massar ji's (Sukhman) home, the only people that know of her plan, she begins to prepare for her surprise that she will give at Meet and Mahi's engagement that night. That evening, her aunt and uncle leave for the party, while Heer will come later. Instead of waiting, Heer decides to go to a nearby gurdwara, which can be reached by walking. Meanwhile, Prem's family also leaves for the party leaving him behind, so he could come later. He suddenly hears the sound of payals, and sees a girl going towards the gurdwara and follows her to the gurdwara. He sees her praying. Heer gets a bit uncomfortable and runs off, leaving behind her payal. To return her payal, he rusn after hr into the dark and the fields. After running for quite a while, Heer is about to step onto the road, when Prem saves her from being hit by a truck. He shotus at her and Heer's face is revealed as she blows up at him. After a while, both leave to find themselves lost. Despite not wanting to, they join together to find their way back to main road of Ludhiana. They encounter different situations and are misunderstood as husband and wife. Finally they are helped and are able to reach their destination, where they go their separate ways. Heer performs at the engagement, surprising her family with her presence. After the engagement, she meets her maternal family and then the Juneja's. Everyone is shocked to find that Heer has already met Prem and Preet, without knowing whose sons they are. The rest of the party, Heer was busy meeting guests and people that knew her or her parents, until she finally escapes. However, to her dismay she bumps into Prem. In a hurry, she takes him with her to the terrace. There, they hear people coming up the stairs, so they hide. They are shorrly caught by Preet and Heer's cousins. They are able toexplain themselves, causing all suspicion to disappear. They all head back to the party and enjoy themselves. The next morning Heer and her massi go to meet the Juneja's at their home. However, Heer is only able to meet Gayatri, Beeji and Preet. After a while, Heer goes to the top floor terrace to receive a call on her cell phone. Once she finishes she notices Prem sleeping. She takes the coffee from a worker and goes to wake him up. Since Prem is a deep sleeper, Heer faces many problems in trying to awaken him. Finally she puts his hand in hot coffee, which startles him causing chaos to erupt and Heer slipping and falling, which hurts her foot/leg as she blacks out. A doctor is called and Heer is instructed bedrest and prescribed a cream for her foot. Gayatri decides that Heer will spend a few days at the Juneja residence so she doesn't hurt herself more. However, Gayatri, Lalit, Harman, and Beeji are unexpected forced to go visit a relative and spend the night there, leaving Heer in the care of Prem and preet. During this time Prem and Heer resolve their differences and become friends. The whole day Prem, Preet and heer watch movies, then the boys cook for the first time and watch some more movies, with Prem and heer having sweet movies here and there. The next day, the Juneja's return and Heer enjoys herself with Gayatri, while looking at Prem/Preet/Harman's childhood pictures and hearing their childhood stories. The following day, HEer leaves for her maternal families hom/haweli in a nearby village. She enjoys the next week with them, until the day the Juneja's and Maan's arrive at the Gill Haweli. The night before their arrival, Heer has a nightmare where she is her 5 year old self and stuck in a fire in a haweli. Later the next day, she gets weird notions as if that did happen. Her family arrives and Prem-Heer have small moments with each other. That night is a welcoming party for the two families and during it Heer comes face to face with Daljit (her mother's friend) and her children: Manmeet (who has liked Heer forever) and Vishaka (who likes Prem). However, before the confrontation could become a disaster, Sunny saves Heer and all Heer's cousins and Prem's siblings go outside and discuss the matter. They decide that Prem-Heer will pretend to love each other, but everyone will be unknown to this fact. The next few days they continue with making Manmeet-Vishaka jealous, as well as Prem-Heer start to get closer. However, because of Prem, Prem-Heer face an awkward situation where Heer decides to avoid Prem. Preet realizes that Prem likes Heer and Heer likes Prem, but to get entertainment out of it and to make their love-story a bit interesting, Preet causes many misunderstandings and problems in the pairs lives as convinces both of them to make each other jealous. During this time, Karan, a neighbor of the Gills is introduced. He is a widows son and it is revealed that his younger sister loves Heer's Amar Mammu. Both join together, to bring Amar-Guneet together. One night at a party, Neel enters the scene. Everyone is excited to have Neel there, but Heer is the most happy. During this time, Preet & Prem feel that there's more to Heer and Neel's friendship, but both Neel and Heer clear that there isn't, but they don't tell Prem and use this to their advantage to make him jealous. Eventually, Prem and Heer confess their love to each other and Neel and Prem become very close friends. Heer also finds out that the dream she had wasn't a dream, but a image of what happened to her in her childhood. Her Kuljeet bhua had fallen in love with someone else and ran away to get married to him. Heer's father disowned Kuljeet and since Heer was close to her, Heer suffered greatly. To help Heer cope with this loss in her childhood, her Meet and Amar mammu brought Kuljeet to meet Heer, but had to run away when she almost got caught. The haweli caught on fire and Heer was stuck in it, but was saved by Gurmet, Kuljeet's husband. Heer had partial memory loss due to the injury she got from the incident. Kuljeet was there after never mentioned in the house again. However, Prem and Heer found out this truth from Kuljeet, who was a friend of Meet's wife, Mahi's mom. As soon as this incident was dealt with another problem arose for Premeer on the night of Meet and Mahi's wedding reception party. Due to a misunderstanding, they were engaged to Manmeet and Vishaka respectively. However, this was a scheme planned by Daljit, Manmeet, and Vishaka. After trying to convince their parents that they loved each other, they were unsuccessful and ran away to get married. Amar and Guneet got married as well, or otherwise Amar would have gotten married to Manmeet's cousin, Sanjana. Somehow, Heer and Prem's family finds out about the wedding and they have to return back to Ludhiana to find themselves being disowned by Balraj and Lalit, despite the rest of the family being okay with the weddings. This problem is also arised by Daljit. Chapter 37 ends with Prem-Heer (Premeer), Guneet-Amar (Gunamar), Neel, Preet and Ash leaving home forever.
Chapter 1-37 : https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/topic/1065557
Chapter 38: Pg. 1
Chapter 39: Pg. 4
Chapter 40: Page 8
Chapter 41: Page 11
Chapter 42: Page 14
Chapter 43: Page 17
Chapter 44: Page 20
Chapter 45: Page 23
Chapter 46: Page 25
Chapter 47: Page 27
Chapter 48: Page 30
Chapter 49: Page 33
Chapter 50: Page 35
Chapter 51: Page 38
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