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Chapter 79
Great! Now, what should I do? Two people are mad at me because of my stupid decision. Thank god Anamika can't speak or understand what is happening or else I had to mannofy her as well. ugh this whole marriage thing is so difficult. I have to think of some ways. It is night now and both are no where coming near me. Geet spent her whole time with Vicky, feeding him, playing with him and talking to him while I just sat there quietly not knowign what to do ro say.
Both pretended as if I was not even there at all. Vicky kept his hold on to Geet, he followed her whereever she went holding on to her sari pallu. Geet tried to make him understand but he wouldn't listen. Once in a while, Geet would look my way letting me know how bad I did. I felt like a kid in a school getting scolled by the teacher. Awesome! I had to do something quick.
I slowly walked into my room to see Vicky playing with Anamika while Geet straighted up the room. I coughed so I can get both of their attention but no one looked my way. This is harder than I thought. Giving up, I steped inside the room knowing I was standing in an enemy ground. Both look my way but turned their heads quickly before I could even speak.
"I uhh got something for you both"
When getting no response he puts the tickets on the able hopoing it would catch their eyes. Geet looks at the tickets from the corner of her eyes and waited for Vicky to notice them. His eyes lit up seeing the name.
"Disney world?"
Maan sighs at least he got some kind of response from someone. He looked at Geet who still had her head turned the other way but he knew she was paying attention toward him and Vicky.
"Yes, Vicky. Next month we will be going to disney world and stay there for a whole week and see fireworks for fourth of July."
"Wow. Yay!!!" (He goes and hugs Maan around his waist.)
"Do you forigive me?" (He tried not looking at his brusises which only pained him)
"yes but don't do that again. I don't want to go far away from you."
"I know. Am sorry. Never again. Now, why don't you go online and see what you would like to see when we are there."
"okay"
Geet gasps looking at Vicky running toward Maan. It was so easy to mannoy him with a bribe. He is a kid after all, a kid who will leave you hanging for a sake of a trip. I looked at Maan in anger as soon as Vicky left. I heard him walking towards me in slow movements. I just stood at my place hoping that he would go away.
"Geet. Am sorry. I didn't mean to cause this much pain to you both"
"you didn't mean to but you did. I have never seen Vicky this scared. I know you want him to be independent but at what cost? A cost of loosing your own brother?"
"I know I made a bad decision and believe me I would take it all back if I could. I won't repeat this mistake again. I will uhh home school him if needed."
Geet looks at him with tears. Maan steps closer to her and wipes them away.
"Please don't ever take my Vicky away from me. It will pain me more than it will him. Please, promise me."
"I promise Geet. Am sorry" (He hugs her tightly. Geet wraps her arms around his waist while crying.) I will never do this again. Beleive me.
"I get to choose his schools from now on and you will not say a thing"
Maan smiles "Okay. You do whatever you want with him"
"really?" (she looks at him with a pout face. He wipes her tears again and nodes his head yes) "Okay. Good. Now, as for the punishment from both of us. You have to cook the dinner for both of us without using any cookbook or any devices. We both want Indian food." (Maan looks at her shocked. Geet smiles and leaves the room.)
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Maan stood in the kitchen wearing an apron. He didn't know where to begin. Indian dishes were his main weakness. If she had asked for continental cusine than he would've made so many dishes with different varaities. But Indian dishes were so complicated. So many rules, so many spieces to know for just one dish.
Geet stood at the doorway smiling looking at his plight. She wanted to go and help him bu he needed to be taught a lesson for what he had done. She motions Vicky to go in the kitchen for help but not before whispering something in his ears.
"Bhai do you need any help?"
"Vicky, you can sit outside. I will manage besides when your di finds out than I will be in more trouble"
"Its okay. Di told me to help you." (He motions Maan to bend down) "I have grabbed a recipe for you" (he whispers in his ear. Vicky shows him the recipe. Maan looks at it suspeciously)
"How did you print this?"
"ohh I looked into the recipe book and went online. This will be easy to make right? In the book, the picture of this recipe looked so good"
"Vicky, this is hydrabadi biryani. Did you look at the number of steps?"
"No. I just looked at the picture"
Maan takes a deep breath trying to control his anger. He had to pick the hardest recipe on hand. What should I do? Make this or think of something else? If I don't than am sure Geet won't stop teasing me. Ohh god what should I do? I used to have many cooks working for me now I am a cook.
Vicky runs out with a smile and high-fives Geet. Geet hugs him and kisses him on his cheek much to his dismay. She looks toward the kitchen with a smile. "Now, lets see how you come out of this."
"Bhai where is the food?"
Geet and Vicky sat on the dinner table waiting for Maan to serve them. She was excited and scared at the same time. God knows what he might have done inside. I wanted to go peak inside but he had the door shut and locked. If she had needed something than he would open the door just enough for her to grab hold of the item. This made her curosity increase even more. Now, it was time for dinner. As he had said before it was going to be ready in 10 minutes but that 10 minutes passed by. Now, it has been half hour since both sat at the table lookign toward the closed kitchen door.
"am coming"
Both roles their eyes. This was the same line they kept hearing all this while. Finally, after few minutes the door opened. Vicky and Geet both laughed seeing his state. His appron was filled with aata and stains. He brought a trolly with their covered plates. He sets them before them before taking away the cover. Vicky and Geet look at one another and than at the food presented to them.
"What is this?"
"I call it pasta briyani."
It was a dish filled with rice and pasta, which didn't look appeasing at all. Also, the smell didn't help either. Maan smiles at both of them handing them a fork.
"This is not the reciepe Vicky gave you."
"I followed it exactly with what he said I just thought since we didn't have any meat on hand; I subsitute it with pasta. Also, I didn't know some of the spieces mentioned so I also subsitute it with what I thought would fit. So come on guys. Eat."
"umm Maan I think Vicky should feed you first since you made all of this with such effort."
"No, Geet its okay. You guys eat first. I made it especially for you guys."
"Yeah but you are the cook so you should inaguriate your cooking first."
"But I made it for you guys so you guys should try it" (Maan held a spoon in his hand taking some of the food. He brought the spoon near Geet's mouth waiting for her to open)
"Bhai let me feed you."
Maan looks at him with a smile. He opens his mouth waiting for Vicky to feed him. Geet makes an O face giving Maan the perfect opportunity to shove the food in her mouth. Her face scrunches up in disgust but had no option but to eat in front of Vicky who was looking at him with a big grin. After few seconds, when her slow taste buds kicked in, she realized the food wasn't that bad. It was werid but still edible.
"Well, how is it?"
"Umm good."
Maan sighs in relief and takes a bite of his food fed by Vicky. He looks at Geet who was smiling at him. He gulps his food down. Vicky was about to put the food in his mouth when Maan stopped him.
Vicky don't eat that, why don't we all go out and eat and also have some ice cream like I had promised before?
"Thank god he mentioned food from outside. I don't think I was about to handle another bite from this mess. I don't know what he did but this is defenitally not what I had planned. I knew Maan was too proud and had a big ego to accept his defeat that is why he put up this whole charade."
"I know Geet you were the one to send Vicky inside the kitchen to fool me. I know you wanted to test me to see if I could make this food but maybe you forgot you are messing with me. Maan Singh Khruana. I never accept defeat."
Both fake smile toward each other wrapped up in their own thoughts.
"Vicky, since you said you found the reciepe why don't you spell biryani for me?"
Geet looks down in worry. She will get caught right now and if Maan finds out that I was the one that did this than god knows what he will do. Vicky unaware of the war between the two looks at them confused.
"biryani?" (He asks in confusion)
"yes, the recipe you gave me. How do you spell it? I want to look it up online later"
"Maan how hard is it to spell biryani, right Vicky? Its BIRYANI. See how simple it is to spell it?"
"Yeah, its biryani"
Maan sighs knowing his plan has failed but he wouldn't give up. Geet gets up to go to put the dishes away. Maan quickly blocks her way before she could even see the kitchen.
"Don't go there. I will uhh take care of the dishes. You both get ready"
"I am ready and so is Vicky and Anamika. Its you that has to be ready."
"I am ready as well." (Geet looks at him from up and down. He was covered with all kind of things. His clothes were messy and she knew there was no way he would be seen in public like this.)
"you are going like this?"
"Yes, any problem?"
"Your clothes. You need to change them."
"Uhh no...I am okay besides its just little food stains. You can't even see them. Now, enough of this. Go get Anamika while I pull out the car."
"But Maan..."
"Vicky, your di won't let you have any ice cream if she keeps standing here"
"Di come on. Am hungry"
"Okay. Fine. Am going"
She walks toward the stairs slowly hoping Maan would leave with Vicky to pull the car. Just as she was half way through the stairs both left. She waits couple of seconds before running down the stairs toward the kitchen. She wanted to know what he was hididng. She slowly opens the door, peaking her head inside and her jaw fell to the ground. The whole kitchen and I mean the whole kitchen was a mess including the celling.
What the fish happeend here? I had asked him to make a biryani for food not litterly make biryani of the kitchen. Babaji yeh maine kya kar diya. She screams when she felt soemthing wet hit her shoulders. She looks up at the celiing to see some brown liquid driping down. The gas was covered with rice from all around. The pot that he was cooking in stil had some rice gradually spill over the gas and the floor. The sink was covered with dishes, knives, spoons, and blenders. She holds her head getting dizzy with alll of this mess.
I was trying to give him punishment instead he gave me a punishiment. Never again. I will never ask him to cook. I have to train Vicky on how to cook. What will he do when he gets older? His wife will starve to death. No. I will make him a better cook.
She runs out of the kitchen when she heard their voices. Maan looks up the stairs and sighs in relief knowing he kept Geet away from all the mess. He quickly dials someone asking them to clean the kitchen the way it was before by the time they return. Geet comes down carrying Anamika. All leave to go and eat. Maan and Geet both look toward the kitchen, respectively with worry.
After three hours all came home. Geet uses this opprotunity to go toward the kitchen under the pretense of water. Maan follows her. She opens the door with a smile but got the shock of her life. The whole kitchen was clean from top to bottom. It looked like Maan had never stepped into the kitchen at all. Everything, the dishes, the gas, the floor, the ceiling was all clean.
She looks at him with anger. No wonder he was stalling us at the resturant and ice cream parlor. Through out the whole way, he would pretend his car doesn't work, or the food he ordered didn't like and ends up ordering more food, using Vicky to run around the restuarnt causing a mess. He even used his daughter so that they don't get back home that easily.
She stomps on his foot before walking away with anger.
"dhust dhanv"
Precap: You know Maan my mom had taugth me how to dance.
Really? Will you dance for me?
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