part 1
A girl is sitting at the window staring at the stars. Suddenly her phone rings, snapping her out of her day dream. She picks up the phone..
"Hello.."
"Hey where are you babes? We are waiting for you at the disc..."
"I cant come.. dad came home early so..." there was a sadness in her voice- sadness of cancelling her plans with her friends.
"you have to come Geet! You cant just back off now. We are all waiting for you and you r ditching us.. you promised that you will come..."
"I know I know, babes. But try n understand. You know dad...he'll never gonna let me come. So whats the point of asking..."
Girl on the other end of the phone is annoyed now.
"geet, I don't wanna listen anything. You promised you will come'"
"I know Stacy but.."
"no ifs and buts" she doesn't let geet finish her sentence. "make some excuse to your dad then..." stacy pleads
"but stacy'"
"its not like you have never lied to your dad, n don't tell me that GEET HANDA is out of EXCUSES!! Pleeeaaassseee" she begged.
"okkk, ill try."
"no try. I want to see u here in half an hour." Stacy said in a dominant voice and hangs up..
Geet is really scared that how she is gonna ask her father. She folds her hands and looks above "babaji! Please madad karna!"
Mohinder lal handa is reading a book in his study. Geet slowly walks towards her father, analyzing each and every word in her head that she is gonna say to him.
She reaches closer to him.
"D-D-Dad..." she stammers.
Mohinder looks at her from beneath his glasses. Geet controls herself. She silently thanks babaji that she is doing theatre and so she is a good actress.
"Dad," she tries again. "Dad, my class is meeting at the college for study group. Even our lecturer is coming. He is gonna give some important notes regarding exams. So I was thinking if I can go too...its really gonna b helpful for exams..." she finished with hope in her eyes.
"you know I don't like you to go out of the house after 10 pm" he again gets engrossed in his book.
"but dad, it's a study group. My whole class is coming. If I wont go, ill b left behind in the subject.."
"Geet, shareef ghar ki ladkiyan aadhi raat ko ghar se baahar nahin jaati hain."
Geet in her mind 'there he goes again!! I wonder what time he comes home when he was young..'
Geet tries again "but dad, main koi galat kaam to nahin kar rahi hoon. Yeh sirf study group hai, meri poori class hogi wahan par aur hamare teacher bhi honge.." geet sees Rano and calls her. "maa, please ask dad to let me go. It's a study group maa. All my friends would b there.."
Rano looks at geet suspiciously.
{Rano is like a friend to geet. She knows her daughter goes to discos and all but she also trusts geet and she knows that geet would never do anything wrong. Geet tells everything about her life to rano so rano also takes geets side. Rano knew that todays generation kids lies to their parents an do wrong stuff but she knew that geet is not lying to her and will never do anything wrong..}
Geet winks at her and rano gets shocked. Geet gives rano a puppy face and asks her for help. Rano agrees and goes towards mohinder lal'
"Suniye jee'."
"aadhi raat se pehle waapis aa jaana'" looks at geet and sees her dress. She is wearing a green knee length dress. "Aur kapde badal ke jaana.."
He gets up and leaves.
Geet jumps in joy and says in one breath. "thanku maa. Thanku thanku thanku thanku thanku. You are the best Maa."
"Geet, where are you going?"
"Disc Maa."
"What??!!"
"please maa, all my friends r going. I promised them i'll go too. Pleassseee" she makes a puppy face.
"ok. Par aadhi raat se pehle aa jaana. Warna tu apne dad ko to janti hai na, tere saath saath mujhe bhi maar daalenge!"
Geet runs towards her room and calls back "Don't worry Maa. Ill be back before midnight."
{when she said this she didn't knew what was gonna happen with her that night..that her life was gonna change forever after that night. Who knew that she will lose her parents trust forever. Who knew that because of this one night she will have to leave her parents, her home, her family, her country behind and search a new life for herself''}
Please tell me how it was
138