MG-FF What does she want? Thread 2 Chapter54 pg134 - Page 45

Chapter 48

...do you have anything to say?" Maan asked.

"Will you put on your shirt? It" she said pointing to his bare chest "I mean...you are distracting me...I mean you must be getting cold. Please put on your shirt" she said blushing, and looking in the other direction.

Looking at her in amazement, Maan grabbed his vest and shirt and quickly put them on. "Is that all you have to say?" Maan asked somewhat annoyed. He had just poured out his heart to her, told her how he felt, and she was concerned with his shirt??

He stood up from the bed "Maybe I should leave..." Maan began to say but stopped as he heard Geet speak.

"I am so confused Maan...Life doesn't always follow the path we plan does it?" Geet said somewhat sadly.

Maan sat back down on the bed beside Geet and turned her around to face him. Holding her shoulders gently he said "Geet, talk to me...tell me why you feel this way"

"I don't know. I mean I thought I knew what I wanted in life, but now I am not so sure. I was given an opportunity to get educated...that gave me an ambition to work. I think I said this already to you. Marriage was not on my agenda, especially not an arranged one...I suppose I thought one day, while working, I would meet someone, be attracted to him and fall in love" Geet said.

"So, marrying me, interfered with your plans to work and fall in love?" Maan asked knotting his eyebrows together.

"Yes, I mean No...I mean...I don't know" Geet said helplessly.

Maan observed her silently, listening to her every word as she continued. "Marrying you came as a shock...I was not ready for marriage, to anyone...and come on Maan, be honest, neither were you...you told me so yourself, that you weren't ready to get married. We were both forced and we would make the best of a bad situation. You would compromise your status for me and I...I would compromise my dream...but would that make it a happy marriage, Maan? And before you say it, attraction cannot sustain a marriage. Maan there would never be an "us"...we don't have that relationship and understanding. And I felt we never would, if we were both compromising so much." Geet paused to take a deep breath, then continued "Ms Roy, made me realise that...I know what she said was wrong and how she said it was wrong, but she only validated things that were playing on my mind, that I had no right on you, that these symbols of marriage were meaningless, so I made a decision"

"The decision to leave me or free me from obligation?" Maan asked

"Yes"

"But why return your mangalsutra? I suppose for you it held no meaning"

"No, Maan. I know the significance of a mangalsutra...and it was not an easy decision to remove it... but I thought you would not accept a letter on it's own...seeing the mangalsutra, you would think I was serious..."

"And seeing the mangalsutra, I wouldn't try to find you?"

Geet just nodded in response

"Well that didn't work very well did it?" he said sarcastically.

Geet looked to the floor, unable to meet his gaze.

"And you made this decision to free me from any obligation, without consulting me?"

"Yes"

"You made a decision about us?"

"Yes"

"Geet, how did you make a decision for us...you said there was no "us" and we didn't have that relationship?

"Wo, I mean..."

"Geet, you made the decision about me, and about us, because you felt you had a right over me"

"Wo..." Geet couldn't think. He was confusing her even more. "Maan you are misunderstanding me."

"No, Geet you are misunderstanding me...and have been. Rather than wait to discuss our relationship, you decided to end it", he said animatedly standing up from the bed. "Did you not think, I had a right to be part of the decision process? Well Geet, I don't agree with your decision. I did not and have not broken our relationship. For me our relationship is still intact. Here, this is yours" he said putting something in her hand.

She looked down at her palm and gasped when she saw her mangalsutra. She was too stunned at his words and actions to say anything.

"You said it was your ambition to work. Do you not remember our conversation in Hoshiarpur, when I said, I would support you if you wanted to work?"

"Ha, but..."

"But what Geet, you thought I was lying? Why would you think that?"

"No, I didn't think you were lying...

"No you didn't think Geet" Maan said sadly.

Geet stared at Maan and Maan met her stare.

He thought silently for a while then said "So the only reason for leaving me was that you wanted to fall in love". Smirking at her he leant down and whispered in her ear "Well Mrs Khurana, I will make sure that happens" and kissed her on the cheek.

Geet's eyes became wide and her heartbeat rose at his last comment. Had she heard him correctly?

"Thank you for dinner and patching me up. I will let myself out. Good Night Geet, see you soon" he said leaving her in her thoughts.