Maaneet Scene-Wishful Thinking & Mo Upd 9/09 p147 - Page 94

Circle in the sand compled the circle in my mind!! I love it that the character of MAAN just goes on an upward curve in ur stories/ one shots........ This is the maturity that one would expect from a worldy man and he has shown it...
His voice devoid of emotions............-That line made me sad...... So true- when the hurt is too deep, at times we dont react outwards, but inside.. And yet over this pain, his first concern was for her... just her..... He wants to marry her........so no one talks ill about her!! He has always upheld her dignity without bothering about himself...... Woah Vrush, beautiful update...

I had a doubt - why ddnt she say that he married her for the land and he connects the dots.. But then I realised u have already done this in another update and every update of urs is unique.....

So no complaints 😊😊

OMG OMG OMG OMG..... Vrush that was soooo cool n neatly written.... loved the way u wove in the new promo......

Circle in the Sand – Part 2

He could not believe Geet had just asked him that. Did she not know why he wanted to marry her or was she asking why he wanted to marry her even after knowing she was pregnant. Did she not know that he would do anything for her, anything? Her dignity was more important to him than his pride and where she was concerned, he did not have any.

Yes he was shocked; it will take him some time to come to terms with Geet having been involved with someone enough to carry the man's child. But she was also brave, brave to oppose her family; the society to stand by what she felt was true. She had almost been killed not once but twice for taking a stand against everyone. He was going to support in her stand, he was going to support the truth. He just wanted to confirm one thing but he will ask her that later.

He asked a question of his before he answered hers.

"Why do you think I want to marry you, Geet?"

Geet stood there dumbstruck; he had thrown the question back at her. She had wanted to know what prompted a man to support a woman to the extent of taking on another man's child. Was it just her dignity he was protective about? Dare she think that his love for her was so selfless that the baby was part of her and he would want every part of her?

"Mein…woh….i think …" but she could not frame a sentence. Her mind had conjured up pictures of why he could marry her and none of them sounded convincing enough to her.

He held her shoulders then and softly explained, "I knew you had a past, I knew it would be earth shifting and I had promised myself that I will wait for your trust to develop to the extent that you would tell me, everything. And you have."

"You trust me right, then trust me when I say we are getting married and quickly." He put a hand to cup her jaw and looked at her with eyes that wanted her acquiescence.

She nodded not just as an affirmation to her trust in him but also to marry him. But she felt there was so much to tell him yet. There was so much that he needed to know but Maan, preempted her and pulled her in his arms to hold her to him and said, "Nothing and no one is going to go come between us Geet, I will never let anything come between us."

Geet pulled back slightly from the hug and said, "That is the reason you need to hear me out first, hear everything about my past."

She then told him everything from Daarji's authoritativeness to her father's inability to oppose him. She told him how Brij Virji had become the self-proclaimed moral police and how Channi had been the victim, because she had fallen for and married Gurvinder who was not from same sect of the society as them, of his atrocities in the name of family honor.

She had been married off against her wish because neither her Mom nor her Dad had enough gumption to oppose Daarji. She had wanted to study but they got her married to an NRI from Canada, in three days without knowing much about the guy. She had had a few hours with him one night and the result was that nothing more. At the time she had given herself to the man she had married but he had only abused her. Abused her trust, invaded her body knowing full well that he had a wife. She felt nothing, nothing for the man who had used her in the basest manner. She had suddenly grown up one day.

Maan took all this in and realized that Geet had not just stood up for herself but all those girls that were being abused by their families. She had taken a stance that would be a hallmark in women's emancipation. He knew he loved her not just for her innocence or her beauty but for her strength, her will to fight for the truth, to stand up against atrocity.

Maan realized he had found his answer that her marriage had been a family duty on her part. He had wondered for a minute if she loved the person whose child she carried and if she wanted to find him but he now knew that she did not want to meet him for her sake but for the sake of her child.

She spoke like a woman possessed and told him everything that had happened and how he had been instrumental in making her take tough decisions, how at every turn in her adversity, she had found him, his words prodding her to fight, to stand for what was right. It was because of him that not only she but her child were safe. She had put a protective hand on her belly as she had told him this.

"Is that why you want to marry me Geet? For gratitude?" he pushed, he knew she felt for him the same way he did for her but he needed to know, he needed to know that she needed him as much as he did her. His eyes asked her the question silently, if she loved him enough to marry him for his sake and no one else's?

Geet then got angry, "Gratitude? Is that why I would run to you when see blood on the floor, because I am grateful to you for saving my life, yet again? Is it gratitude when I say my life belongs to you? Is it gratitude that I feel you will be burdened by the weight of my life and want to protect you from it and have asked you to stay away from me? Is it? Maan aap itna hi samajh paaye hain mujhe? " Tears were now rolling down her cheeks and Maan felt contrite, shameful to have let his past cloud theirs, with his insecurity shrouding them. He went to gather her in his arms but she stopped him.

"No, if this what you think, I am fine, I don't need you to marry me. I don't need anyone. I have come this far and I shall go on my own." She blasted Maan, for once she seemed to be in control of their conversation.

Maan wondered how this had happened. How had she turned into this feisty woman who would not stand anything that was not right? He knew she was strong willed, that was evident but he will have to be careful with his woman and not to let the chip on his shoulder show else she would cut him down to size.

Maan wondered if he was back to square one, to convince her once again to marry him as now, he had let his insecurity affect their relationship.

She tried to leave and he held her wrist not letting her go.

He said, "we are not finished yet, not by far." As he pulled her back to him.