New Maaneet SS: Untitled Part 1

I was on one of my shopping spree in Mumbai as I got a long weekend off my college in Pune. Meera and me had these kind of visits to Mumbai once almost every month..we just loved this city..who wouldn't ..so full of live and an undying spirit of living life to the fullest..When everyone would talk about Mumbai's spirit earlier,I would be like what is this so called"spirit" after all but trust me..once you are in this city than only you will understand what this spirit is all about-you can feel it in the air,,you can feel it in people around..how I just adore this city!..It was my love for this city that inspite of my busy and hectic college life,I managed to somehow plan a trip to Mumbai every month..just to enjoy the atmosphere..and what harm it can be if you shop a tiny-bit while you take the atmosphere in..😉

I was shopping in orbit mall and was looking for Meera as I somehow lost her😲..yes I actually lost her but thats not the first time😆.. you know how girls are..I did not even realize until I looked back and found she was gone..she must have entered some shop on the way..have you not felt like some shops just call you towards them like magnets..if you are a girl ,I am sure you must have experienced that 😛 Well being me,I was just walking carelessly looking for Meera and lost my balance over a spoon on a floor..now you might say-falling over a spoon!!..really 😛 but well girls, for your information if you are as carefree(I don't like the word careless🤢) as me and wearing 2 inch pencil heels in addition,they have the potential to do the trick and make you fall!

But back to the story..did I fall..well in my imagination I would have pictured me slipping and a handsome guy catching me in his arms😍..too much of a dream..huh?..well blame it on my addiction to daily soaps..On the contrary what happened is that I fell and dragged another person with me trying to save myself from the fall..(ya..I dare to try😡!) .. so the person I thought should have saved me but apparently he is no soap hero who even beat speed and logic to save their lady love from falling,who become superman to earn those dreamy eyelocks😳!!

So,here I am on ground cursing my babaji and trying to get up!..Well my babaji has his own ways to reply my cursings😡..what do I see..(ok too early to see the guy ..duh!)..I see heels of my lovely sandals broken..damn😭 I had spent quite a good amount of my pocket money on them :'(..life is such a bitch I tell you..and before I could even mourn on my beautiful sandals sad demise,I hear a person screaming at the top of his voice at me..ARE you bloody KIDDING me😡!!

I turn to abuse back the person and what comes out of my mouth is "'''''''.."..yes that's it..nothing..why you may ask?..its because of the person standing in front of me-Maan😲..yes its Maan..*OH my sweet babaji*..its the guy who was my very first serious crush..he was not my first crush but the only one I thought I had some real feelings for and not some teen age hormonal reaction!

It has been three long years since school ended and almost three years since I saw him or talked to him! We were very good friends back in school,..if I dare say I was only the girl who he used to share things with,fight with and talk about his future with!..Well well I know if we were such good friends then why did we not see each other at all after school..well to shock you further I might add,forget seeing, we had not even once conversed once in this age of internet and facebook(if you consider posting happy birthday!have a great oneJ and thanks as a conversation than we did converse over each-others birthdays😳 )..from facebook I knew he was studying in Mumbai and maybe if he ever checked my profile he would have known that I was studying in Pune..but well him checking my profile..well dream on Geet!

To briefly summon our journey as friends:

He was school dude in all sense-good-looking,school captain,national level swimmer,pretty good in studies too..all in all one of the most famous kids in school..and who was I..

Well I was a ..hmmm🤔..good person😳..well I did not had much on my list in school so what to say😆..I was average in studies, was a lil chubby initially(but I was cute I swear and I did lost all extra weight by the time I reached 12😛) and I could run very fast😎..

Ok don't laugh allright😒 ..everyone is not amazing!!..So apart from my long-list of outstanding qualities, I also had the quality of being a reserved/shy person..! I was not invisible in school,but ya I was not all about attention..I believed in giving others the chance to do so!(ok..if you are laughing then you are being mean to me now😒!)

So it so happened that we were in our first few days of class 10 and after getting enough scare from out teachers about the boards we were finally settling in the entire feel of new class and new classmates..Yes our school shuffled student among different sections every year and that is why Maan and me were in same sections for the first time..to add to my luck our class teacher made us sit according to her choice and somehow we were paired to sit together .. I had known Maan as he was little more famous than I was😳 and whether he knew me or not was not something I had no idea about until he introduced himself and asked my name when we were seated together..HUH😡!..so I gathered his knowledge about fellow batchmates sucked👎🏼!

We started off as strangers, then haters and soon we were friends..the transition was quite fast as we both loved playing pranks,..initially he started pranks on me,followed by my revenge of embarrassing him in front of entire class(interesting stories..shall tell you some day😉 ) and then some here-there arguments,fights and more pranks..Soon we understood,being the smarties we were😎 ,that being a team would be more beneficial than being enemies!

And so we became friends😊..still had many fights,arguments..but had loads of masti together😃!..As the years passed we became even closer friends ,,.. he flirted with all the girls except me(if you ignore few flirtings here and there and him getting shouting/lectures from me,than ya!) We were more of buddies but as time passed,like any other teenage girl I started having feelings for him..I realized it soon enough but was scared enough to express it to anyone..I did not believe in boyfriend-girlfriend relationships that time and ah well who am I kidding,I never thought Maan would ever reciprocate my feelings..these mixed reasons made me hide my feelings and carry on with what we shared ..As time moved on, I realized that hiding feelings was not as easy as it sounded,,..there were many instances where I shouted at myself for being so stupid in my behaviour-I swear at times I felt like I gave it away..but babaji was on my side..something or other saved me always..!

Things went on in the same fashion with our nok-jhok,masti,fights and before we knew it was last day of our school..I was among a lot of student who were crying badly as our beautiful journey of school life was coming to an end..that was the first time I was crying in school and in front of all..had it be in my control then trust me I would have not shed a tear in front of anyone..that is so not me..I am very picky about whom to cry in front of..and to be honest with you I only approve of my crying in front of one person and that's me!..It has something to with my reserved nature and something to do with the way I look when I cry,..,to put it elegantly, I do not look my best when I cry!😳

So it was odd crying in class and in front of all but if you may know, to save others from the misery of my face's view, I hid my face completely from any eyes' view..(I do have a big heart..thank you😊😛 !)..But well ,it was obvious that I was crying because half of my class was..ok..if not half then all the girls of my class were..talk about boys insensitivity!

Anyways you might ask why so much talks about this day..well because this day gave me one of the first amazing moments of my life..As I said I was crying,so Maan came to me and tried to cheer me up with his PJs..well it only made me cry more!,.you might think it was the PJs😆..though they were really bad, it was not his bad jokes that made me cry,''.

It was the realization of not seeing him everyday,not bunking classes with him,not arguing with him,not listening to songs in his ugly voice,not seeing him showing-off and flirting with girls and then coming to me and making fun of them,not sharing shamelessly his plans to marry some rich hot girl,not embarrassing me in front of the class by giving me flying kiss just to irritate me,not saying that I was his best and only girl buddy,not discussing cricket with him,not playing zero-cross with him,not making fun of teachers with him,not playing pranks with him,,''..all in all not being with him😭!..somehow it felt that it was all going to end and the feeling was overwhelmingly depressing!..I was in terms with not expressing my feelings,I was also in terms with having him just as a great friend but I was NOT in terms of not having him in my life😭..I cried and cried and he just sat next to me trying to calm me down..

The school ended and everybody started leaving the class..I finally managed to stop crying and as I looked around almost everyone was gone except Maan..he gave me some water and asked if I was ok..I stood up and smiled and said I was fine but few tears betrayed me and slipped again out of my eyes😭..then came the first amazing moment of my life.."he hugged me ", he simply hugged me tightly and assured that everything was going to be fine and that its only one journey that has ended and many more are yet to come..I hugged him back and again started crying..he patted my back and calmed me down..after a while we broke the hug and I wiped my tears and smiled and said thank you,..I also felt a need to say something more and all I could manage was that he was a great friend and I will miss him..he smiled and said that its just school ending and not our friendship..those words were like music to ears but still my heart squeezed as I had a strong feeling that it was not going to be the same..was I wrong?..not really!

Our next meeting was farewell party ..he was dressed in a suit and looked dashing..I myself was dressed in a saree and to be frank I looked quite hot that night😉😆..well that's not just my opinion-a lot (and I mean when I say lot ) of my batchmates were surprised by my looks.. I was very simple in school and on picnics and friends' birthdays,which were officially the only hang-outs with friends during those years of early 2000s,I dressed always simple and casually and never left my hair open or put any kind of makeup,..so I guess that's why they were all pretty surprised and I got many compliments which were enough to overtake the amount of any kind of compliments I received from my birth till that day(no kidding😳)

As the party started I was chit-chatting with my girlies and we were complimenting on each-others look as pretty much all of us wore a saree for the first time,'then we were commenting on guys and rating them on their looks,..so in short we were having a gala time😉..Till now I had only seen Maan and not got a chance to talk to him,infact to be frank I was so lost in my new-found admiration about my looks from everyone that I totally forgot about him which was contrary to the amount of time I spent thinking about how will he find me dressed like this!..Well soon the music started and it was all party music and we were dancing like crazy..even the fact that we all were wearing sarees did nothing to stop us!..My entire group was tired and so we all took a break and went to drink something..when we returned it was slow music and mostly the couples of our batch were on the dance floor with their partners..so we had our photo session with this person,,that person,this group,that group,..the picture frame seemed to be not large enough to capture so many people together😃..great times I tell you!!..Well then came Maan and that's when I realized that I have not talked to him at all today..now I swear I was not planning on that "ignore the guy and see the difference" game of chick-flicks,..I actually was too engaged in the entire evening to think anything..

Maan kind of complained and complimented me in his own way..he said that since I was looking good and getting attention I totally forgot him..he said that I passed him like thrice but ignored him completely!!IGNORED HIM😲..now that is such a wrong accusation😡..and cant he say I looked good nicely??..c'mon how can I even except him to say two nice things to me directly-have I not known him at all in these years*slaps herself on her head*

I made a "what the!" face and before I could reply he said "oh..so now u got attitude also"/..I swear I felt like killing him😡..I got angry and said that he could have come and talked earlier if he saw me..he made "oh..really" face and said that he did that unlike me who had no time for him*what the*!..I calmed myself down as I did not want to spoil my amazing night and said sorry and that I got so engaged that I could not spend time with him..that sorry seemed to calm down his "ego" and he said "ok"..we talked for a while and then we had few pictures with each-other and with common friends..he then out of nowhere asked me for a dance,,I instantly said "no" as a reflex..I definitely was not thinking that dancing with him was a good idea especially with my feelings for him which were becoming increasingly difficult to hide..he was taken aback with my no so I added that I am not a good dancer..I don't know what was with him that night and he kept insisting for a dance..and when I said"no means no" a little firmly, he got an evil smirk on his face which I knew meant trouble...and boy I was right!..he sat on his right knee and took his hand forward and proposed a dance to me😲..For a moment I thought I was dreaming 😍until I saw few batchmates making oh-ah noises🤪..oh God Maan is such a shameless guy..argh!!..he knows I hate this kind of attention..I told him to stop being such an idiot and to stop creating a scene..he was clear that until I agreed to dance with him,he had no plans of getting up and that anybody's stare did not matter to him as it made him only more famous*😡😡calm down Geet..killing = prison*

Ok..so I had no choice but to do as Mr. MSK desired..afterall Maan singh Khurana gets what he wants!! Maan seemed to enjoy my situation and said saying yes won't do and I would have to give my hand in his like they do in movies..babaji..meri takat ka kitna test loge!!..I did as told and we hit the dance floor..sweet romantic songs were playing and we started dancing..my one hand on his shoulder and his one on my waist and our other hands together holding each-other😳..the moment was more magical than my dreams😍 and the entire world seemed to fade..we talked and talked and kept dancing..like nothing else was there or like nothing else mattered..We stopped when the music stopped and dinner was called..we had our dinner together and I just wanted the time to stop😍..the evening came to an end and after bidding bye to all friends, Maan came with me to drop me to my car..this was the first time I saw something in Maan's eye for me more than friendship..he always cared for me and we had a great bond but somehow tonight was extremely special..we left to our homes and I could not stop playing the night over and over in my head..! I just thanked my babaji and stopped my thoughts of possibility of Maan liking me too..I convinced myself that it was just my imagination and I should not think too much!

Well that's for now..its my first attempt and I will try to continue later if people like it..be honest in your views and let me know even if you don't like it much! Thank You!

PS-if anyone can suggest a name for the story,it would be great😊