SS-Life partner,CHAPTER12-PG142DEC.9 - Page 38

He watched her from beautifully decorated stage as she came towards him surrounded by her friends.Her hands were lifting her lehanga slightly upwards so it could not tangle while walking ,exposing her beautiful feet with maroon painted nails and golden anklets hugging her ankles.His gaze moved upwards slowly now as his eyes drank beauty of his wife with sinful thoughts in his mind.. Her long slender neck..her rosy plum red lips..her little nose with diamond nose ring..her eyes...?????????

He scowled with confusion and amazement as he could not believe what his eyes were witnessing...He rubbed his eyes to confirm what he was watching was real.She was wearing "red colored sporty sun glasses" with her bridal attire..."what the f***"""his mind screamed...What kind of fashion is this...???

Other people present at the stage as well as wedding hall were trying hard to suppress their laughs after watching this strange ultra modern avtar of bride..Before she could cover the distance up to stage,Maan marched towards geet with long strides..They were standing few steps away from each other as Geet found herself lost in his aristocratic appearance.He was looking like a royal prince who would lift her in his strong arms like a flower...and who would take her away beyond moon and skies...

"What is this??"..Maan whispered in her ear..

hmm...what is what??? Geet replied still lost in him..

"These red shades,geet"..

"ohh...Aren't they looking good???,.,I was going to put on black but my aunt told me to wear red as they would match with my wedding attire..."

He was completely clueless now,,,"but why geet???Who wears "sunglasses" with lehanga choli???"He asked gritting his teeth..

Her prince was turning into the demon who used to abduct princess in fairy tales..."actually ..con,..conjunctivitis.."she stuttered.

"con..what???"Maan almost yelled

"eye infection...Maan"..She said with a baby face.

"oh lord..I am marrying to a" house of diseases"..First loose motions and now eye infection",,,He said aloud while turning his back to her and moved ahead..

"Maan... "she yelled..

Maan..Geet mumbled in her sleep and opened her eyes with a jerk..She placed her hand on her thumping heart as she gulped some water..."what a horrible nightmare..."she mumbled to herself wiping the drops of sweat from her fore-head..It was 5 am in the morning.

" Oh god..morning dreams always come true" Her mind screamed making her run to the bathroom to check the condition of her sore eyes..Redness was decreased up to 90%."Those eye drops were effective enough..".

Geet said with a sigh of relief.

Such nightmare was usual for a girl who was suffering from severe conjunctivitis just two days before her marriage.

Geet came back to her bed to put some more drops in her eyes. She wanted to sleep a little more as it was going to be long tiring day.It was her wedding day after all but sleep was long gone with dream..She closed her eyes as sequences of dream replayed in her mind..She was coming to stage,,Maan was observing her...his lusty thoughts...

"oh my god,,,what was that pervert thinking about me in dream..how could he??"..she said opening her eyes.." I should not marry him.." After some handful moments,her sleepy mind was able to contemplate that it was her thoughts instead of him,She hid her face in her palms with pink hue touching her cheeks,"I have completely lost it...How could i think so..this wedding thing is affecting my hormones very badly...I should control myself before i completely turn in to desperate wanton"...She left the comfort of her bed as moved towards the window to get some fresh air.

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Melodious voice of shehnai was filling the entire venue. Nobody was able to take their eyes off from divine couple on the stage. If Maan was looking like a prince then slight blushing smile on geet's lips were making her look like fairy sent from heavens..Aarav was not ready to leave his mami's lap despite infinite pestering by kiran..Geet was equally enjoying her little fan's attention..Two teary eyes were witnessing her daughter's happiness and praying to almighty to save her from all bad omens..

"Save these tears for her bidai"Mohinder said putting his hand around rano's shoulder.

"Our daughter is looking so beautiful"rano replied wiping her tears.

"Ofcourse she has got her looks from her dad"Mohinder said with a chuckle which made rano poke her elbow slightly in his ribs..

"oouch..and she has got her ninja skills from her mumma"His statement brought a smile on rano's lips..They were happiest parents on the earth..

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"You must be tired..give him to me"Maan said while bringing his lips near her ear. Shehnai was long gone..It was loud music thumping in the ears now..

"No..i am fine"geet replied while adjusting sleeping aarav in her lap.

"Common..he is in your lap since last 1 and half hour..Get some rest"

"No,,Its completely fi.."She could not complete when Maan started pulling sleeping aarav from her lap. Sudden force perturbed aarav's sleep little."maamiiii"he mumbled while clutching her duppatta in his small fists. Maan was busy pulling aarav towards him when geet asked him to stop in a worried voice making him give her a questioning look.

"He is pulling my duppata along ..pin will open"..Geet replied.

"ohh..let me help"..

Aarav's grip on dupatta was quite strong thus making maan to bring himself near her.His hands were near aarav's small fists in order to loosen when they touched the bare skin near her collar bone.Sudden contact sent shivers down her back bone..She looked in his eyes which made him stop struggling with aarav's fits..He raised his eyebrow in order to know whether something went wrong. She nodded her head in denial.."safety pin..did it hurt"???He asked with concern in his eyes and she felt something churning in her stomach.."no"She replied in whisper..."then what???"He asked again without breaking the eye contact... "tickling"she mumbled to herself.They were oblivious to their surroundings. They were oblivious to the fact that their faces were at mere distance from each other...They were oblivious to the two persons witnessing the incident on the stage..."ahem ahem..love birds..have some patience"..Kiran said in a teasing tone which brought the couple out of their dream world..

Geet was blushing profusely wondering why her heart was pumping extra blood towards her cheeks while Maan gave an uncomfortable smile..."Actually di..I was trying to loose aarav's grip..He is not ready to leave her even in his sleep"He said pointing towards aarav's hold on the dupatta

"oh..He loved his mami so much.,.mamu your rank is down" Raj said with a laugh

"yes jija ji..my rank is already down"Maan said while bending to touch his feet only to be stopped by Raj in the middle as he gave Maan a warm hug"I am not that old..Maan..How many times i have to stop u from touching my feet??" Raj exclaimed..

Meanwhile geet manged to get up with aarav in her hands Kiran took aarav from her, very carefully loosening his hold from dupatta as geet bent down to touch Raj's feet...

"Its ok..its ok..God bless you..dear"..Raj replied to her gesture."so..you liked our laddo??"He asked further with a smile.

She was completely clueless about Maan's nick name,,"I have not tasted yet,jija ji"she replied with nonchalance thinking their laddo as some special sweet..Maan was clearly embarrassed whereas Raj and kiran were unable to control their laugher...Geet was amused with everyone's reactions on her answer. It felt wonderful to watch her so serious hubby blushing..

"what is the joke ..I want to laugh too""She asked Maan in his ear to which he replied nothing..I think he ask didn't understand the joke,,i must ask di and jijaji...

"di...why are you guys laughing,,,i did not understand the joke"..Geet asked little loud...

"oh,,,act..ualll..y...la ..dd..o..."Kiran was laughing hysterically..."you tell her raj.."

Raj wiped the tears from his eyes due to hard laugh."He is laddu i was talking about"..He said pointing towards Maan...

"what..?? I still don't understand" geet replied moving her gaze from Maan to raj,,

"laddu is his nick name...geet"..kiran replied still laughing..

It was her moment to wish for being swallowed by earth..She looked everywhere except in the eyes of three people surrounding her..

"look..di..that fatso aunty in off white saree is doing very funny dance moves"Geet said pointing towards the DJ floor..It was her old trick to divert the attention of people in such a moment to kill the embarrassment..There was a lady in her sixties on the dance floor trying hard to mimic kareena's moves in chamak challo..It was a funny sight indeed. But strangely no body laughed except geet

..common guys laugh,..it is funnier than your stupid private joke...Geet thought as she waited everyone to laugh."Isn't it funny??"she repeated looking towards Maan. He gave" i-will -kill- you- if - u - dont- shut- your -stupid-mouth-now " look to her.

"She is my mother"Raj replied in a serious tone..

Geet wanted to leave the place right now..' why me God,,why always me"Her heart complained to God..

Tears threatened to fell from her eyes."i am sorry,jijaji"she said with chocked throat..."i am really really sorry...i was unaware.."She was at verge of crying.

"Its ok..geet..I know my mother is a pathetic dancer..you said what you saw,,,don't feel bad" Raj tried to ease the situation with his words

"but..i should not..I am really sorry,jijaji"

"its ok no.,,enough of your apologies..now smile.."

Geet smiled a little in response.."

kiran. lets stop mummy before she worsen her sciatica pain..She never cares"Raj told Kiran as they left the stage with their sleeping son.

"Be careful with your words next time,especially with jijaji's family,I won't tolerate that whether it is intentional or not" Maan said in a harsh tone to which geet nodded meekly.

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Their faces were glowing in an orange shade due to sacred fire glowing in the mandap.Fire was witness to their union as husband and wife,to the vows which they took while moving around it.Those vows filled geet's heart with a strange belongingness towards Maan which was absent till now. She felt connected somewhere to him,as both of them repeated priest's words after the seventh phera...

.""We have taken the Seven Steps. You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours. Hereafter, I cannot live without you. Do not live without me. Let us share the joys. We are word and meaning, united. You are thought and I am sound. May the night be honey-sweet for us. May the morning be honey-sweet for us. May the earth be honey-sweet for us. May the heavens be honey-sweet for us. May the plants be honey-sweet for us. May the sun be all honey for us. May the cows yield us honey-sweet milk. As the heavens are stable, as the earth is stable, as the mountains are stable, as the whole universe is stable, so may our union be permanently settled." {Courtesy-Google}

She was bound to new relations today as well as she was leaving behind some.She could hear the silent cries of her father's heart during kanyadaan. She could feel her mother's anxiety.But still they were happy. "Happiness"and "Sadness" were masking each other during the whole sacred ceremony,for Handafamily.

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He looked at her tear stained cheek.Fresh tears were still flowing down the cheeks though her sobs and hiccups were silent.,Her nose was red,so were her eyes. Maan wanted to soothe her but was unable to find right words. He looked outside from window of the car. It was zooming pass the trees and other objects in the darkness of mid night without much traffic hassle to be suffered by the driver.He closed his exhausted eyes and events of "bidai"replayed in his mind. Geet's childish cries,helplessness,anxiety in her parents' eyes making him open his eyes atonce.He felt guilty for being not capable of sharing her sorrows at that moment, and especially for being curt with her on the stage.He wanted to apologize..

"I am sorry,geet" Maan said looking in her direction.

'It does not matter ...we are married now"She replied looking outside the window.

"hmm????" he scowled.

"what hmm??..your sorry does not matter now...it can't change the fact that i am your wife and can't live with my parents any more..you should have said this "sorry" before then it might have changed something.,..But you know its not your fault solely..my parents are equally responsible..They had married me to you..They had sent me away,,,They were crying..They were letting me cry still they did not stop me...

She was angry..She was in pain..She was frustrated. and She was speaking in flow without realizing where,to whom and what she was saying.She was venting her frustration on her life partner.With each word her pitch was increasing making driver look in the rear view mirror. Maan was listening her plea without any clue what to say...He was looking towards her and she was still looking outside the window with her continuous speech when driver suddenly pressed the breaks.Sudden jerk made her fall towards front seat. ."Be careful,driver"Maan instructed strictly..

It was then she realized what she was doing or what she was saying???

" I am sorry "Geet said lowering her gaze..

"Its ok..i can understand"

"no..how can you understand??..you have to be girl for this...you have to leave your parents for this,,you can never understand"she said in hushed tone.

"yes,,i can't understand your pain,,,but i can understand uncle's pain..i can understand auntie's pain..I know how does it feel when you send your daughter away,,when you send your sister away"he replied looking straight in her eyes" and believe me your tears will hurt them more..so please stop crying,geet"

She felt like his gaze penetrating her soul,making her more aware of pain other than hers.."hmm.."She replied still looking in his eyes...

"your eyes are red,,specially left one is more red."he asked..She was rubbing her left eye continuously. Infection was not healed properly yet,,

"actually..its conjunctivitis"Geet felt like her dream coming true..She was waiting for him to reward her with the title of "house of diseases"..But to her surprise he gave her his neat white hankechief as he spoke.."stop rubbing it with your hands,it will worsen the condition..wipe your tears with it"She followed his instructions.

"You use some eye drops??"he asked

"yes.."she told him the name"

"you are having it now???" She nodded negatively and cursed herself for not listening to her mother when she was ranting to keep the eyedrops in her handbag.

"hmm" he replied. He instructed driver to stop at nearest chemist's shop and get the medicine.She was still rubbing her eye with his hanky.It was irritating him but it felt less irritating to him than her tears.

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Driver was outside to get the medicine leaving the new weds alone in the car.Geet was still wondering why he said sorry at that time,,She cleared her throat to catch his attention as he was busy with his cell phone,.

"why were you sorry at that time???"she asked

",actually,,,i behaved curtly at stage,,,that's why.." he replied.

"ohhh,,its ok..anyone would act offensive when it comes to his/her family..if i were at your place i have acted more violently..you acted very calm instead,.,and jija ji,,he is a saint..He forgave me so easily...really very sweeet of him"she was going on and on...

"she is indeed a chatter box,he thought.

"i swear i had punched someone if i was at his place,,,you know i felt you love his mummy more than him,am i right??'she asked him.She felt like calmness leaving his eyes,,Her words has disturbed him for sure..." I love my sister"he replied without any emotion in his voice..It was enough to make her mouth shut for a while.

He did not know whether it was effect of eyedrops,or her speech which helped her to let out her frustration ,she was sleeping clamly now with her head on his shoulder and her one hand encircling his waist. He was still like a statue though his back was aching but he did not want to disturb her sleep.,He felt satisfied with little comfort that he was giving her that moment.

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