PART 3
Geet had started to frantically search for everyone without luck by then, but a few rouge eve-teasers began to stalk her scaring her, a few encounters later with them she ran frightened and banged into the 28 year old man who entered her town when Dev had entered but very far from them, the man who has the torn part of Geet's dupatta. She asked help from the stranger drinking a canned drink she banged into as she felt he was a respectable person but did not know that he was an arrogant one. This arrogant young man just shrugged her off his jacket to which she was tightly clutching; he just very rudely and harshly refused to help her, but in the process her amulet got stuck to his jacket zip and nobody was aware of it. Sensing no help coming in the arrogant stranger's silently expressed disgust, Geet started running to escape from those thugs. Fortunately or unfortunately (I can't decide which is the most appropriate at this moment), she fell into a pond near by; she had run into the adjacent forest where at the edge of a mound of earth her dupatta got stuck to a tree and while getting it freed she slipped over the wet mud and fell into the waters screaming for help as she did not know to swim.
Suddenly the arrogant but well built young man gets the message that the girl was in real danger as her dupatta which got stuck to the tree comes flying to him and he hears her screaming for help, and he plunges into the waters in an attempt to save her and turns out that he is the same guy Geet banged into earlier. She ran behind him for help again to get her to Salempur so as to reunite with her family after they had steered clear of the pond, even bearing to his arrogant and rude behaviour towards her. He got irritated with Geet's innocently done antics and continuous pleadings to help her, so he harshly made her sit in his jeep and left her at the highway cross-roads near Salempur. He got disgusted with her innocent yet continuous ramblings about how scared she is with her veerji and daarji. By this time the family had reached the town and had found out that Geet was missing so they trailed back their route, when they found Geet at the cross-roads. The reunion was kind of awkward as daarji was suppressing his anger as well as Brij veerji's, because for them it is supposed to be Geet's fault that she got left behind and warned her against it; Dev tried to be sweet and comforting but was cut by Brij veerji.
Geet's mind/ brain was continuously trying to force her heart to accept and love Dev, but somewhere her heart there was a rebellion which was on the verge of being suppressed. By afternoon after they returned, she was readied for her mehendi function in a gorgeous friendly-green outfit by her cousin and bhabhi. As she was getting ready, Brij barged in cursing Geet and bad-mouthing her, but this time she was not letting anyone suppress her. That young man had harshly and tauntingly told her that she was herself letting people ground her and she would remain the ever so helpless one till she wanted to change the situation herself; he kind of hurt her ego, aimed at the right spot so were her thoughts and mentally thanked him for the unknown help he did to her. Geet slowly and softly answered her brother back which angered him more but thanks to daarji calling him he left her. Rajji and Bubbly tried to console an upset Geet saying that a woman's fate was being suppressed and being beaten with no fault of hers, there was no escape to which Geet answered them defensively about her fate and encouraging them to think about theirs, she was unconsciously having a liking to that young man who helped her when no-one was there.
In the evening during the ceremony, to everyone's surprise Geet was looking as if an angel had walked down from the heavens in her outfit and she was behaving as if a new-to-be-bride would behave, shy and coy and sometimes stealing glances of her soon-to-be. She was excited to get married which was showing as somewhere inside her a ray of hope had crept in that her husband would love her and so would she, and since she had been trying to con her heart to love Dev, no one could stop her from enjoying life (that is what she was assuming as she doesn't know what is in store for her). The green clad angel was in a fix as to which design of mehendi should she ask the girls to put on her hands and to top it all her mother was also busy so were her aunt, sister and sister-in-law, then suddenly Dev happened to notice her restlessness and helped her choose one, which was put on her hands but then a certain urge to apply another particular design had crept into her which she did not understand. This urge overwhelmed her to an extent that made her believe she was destined to become somebody's bride and the relation was to stay intact till eternity, her mind mistook this certain somebody to be Dev but her heart protested against it.
The day of the wedding had arrived, much to Brij's annoyance Geet was not budging from the fact that whatever happened during the whole fair fiasco and Geet being left behind was not her fault, and the bride and the groom adorned with the best of clothes and jewellery were brought to the avenue the SHIV temple where a sacred fire-place and the mandap were arranged and the groom (Dev) was religiously paying ablutions to the sacred fire. Geet was being brought to the area when she was in mixed thoughts, confused thoughts whether to listen to her mind or go by her heart, but then though she was in a fix through out the ceremony some thing nice was happening which was noticed only by the priest of the temple. On the other hand, the arrogant and rude young man who had saved Geet from drowning was also there at that time in another section of the temple (though he could not see this section) to get to know the whereabouts of somebody he was searching. The nice thing happening throughout the ceremony which was witnessed by the main priest of the temple was that Geet was in a religious sense getting married to handsome young yet arrogant man who had saved her earlier and also has her amulet (meant for her soul-mate).
[P.S. Till I reveal his name I would like to call him arrogant stranger.]
PRECAP: WEDDING WITH WHOM??? AND WHO KNOWS WHAT??? IS IT A MARRIAGE OR NOT???
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GUYS JUST WANT TO SAY... GEET IS A BIT CONFUSED ABOUT HER OWN FEELINGS AS SHE IS NEW TO THEM... SHE AGREED TO THE ALLIANCE BECAUSE SHE FOUND THE GROOM'S FAMILY OPEN MINDED AND ALSO HER BELIEF IN THE INSTITUTION IS SO STRONG THAT NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE CAN NOT DO WRONG OR PLAY IN THE NAME OF THE SACRED INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE...
THERE IS ANOTHER REASON TO THINK AS SUCH IN THE PAST... I WILL REVEAL IT LATER BUT SOON ENOUGH...
SOME OF THE THINGS I HAVE WRITTEN IN BRACKETS ARE MY POINT OF VIEW... YOU CAN TAKE THEM AS HINTS TO FUTURE TRACKS...
Edited by LadyArwen - 12 years ago
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