PART 42
It was afternoon and geet kept looking at her left palm which was bandaged. Though the wounds weren't deep, but they had made little-little punctures on her skin where they pricked, thus paining as hell. She looked up at her babaji and said, "Are you kind of taking revenge on me or what, huh!!! Since morning, everything is going upside down, nothing had happened the way I had thought, all those dreamy things they show on TV, none of that, thinking of them, look at him babaji, he isn't even looking at me and just busy with her since morning, koi first anniversary pe aisa karta hai kya??? Ha aap hi bolo!!!"
She looked down at her vibrating cell and saw it was suhana's call. "hii dii" geet said sulking over her palm. "geet did you really picked the call or am I imagining???" suhana's voice was full of anger now. "why did you said that dii" geet asked, little shocked wondering what had she down now??? "oh you don't know what I am saying ha!!! Did you even remember that since last 2 months you hadn't received my single call, forget mine, not even your jij's call' do you have any idea how worried I am" suhana chided geet.
Geet looked back in her recent calls and found loads of miss calls from suhana. Even more than 100 miss calls were from suhana and ishaan, geet bit her tongue as she realized she was damn upset then and hadn't received any call then except nakul's, so she had even avoided suhana's call. How much selfish can I really be, geet thought, realizing she always ends up hurting one or another. In the hope of saving one relation, she had ignored all other important ones in her life, let it be her dii, jiju, friends or any one else.
"sorry dii" geet said holding her ears, as if suhana could see through phone. "don't sorry me this time geet, you neither told me your exam result, neither received my call on your birthday, neither wished us on our annniversary nor told me what's going on with your life. Thank god maan ji used to tell me once in a while about you, warna I would have literally came down to Mumbai even in this condition"
Geet got upset as she realized how much hurt she had caused to suhana, but then the thought that maan cared for her family, was more than enough to lit her back. She looked at him from the corner of her eyes as she thought, kitni fikr karte hai meri aur meri parivar ki, still tries to portray ki he doesn't care, dusht danav kahi ke.
But then a thought struck her mind, as she realized what suhana said, "this condition, what does she mean by that" "oh yeah don't talk to me now more, you don't even know about my condition" suhana pouted, making geet realize she had actually voiced her thought loud. "umm sorry bola na, tell me kya hua hai apko" geet literally pleaded to suhana hoping everything is alright.
"wo umm, wo geet' i' i' I mean you are soon going to be maasi of a little baby" suhana confessed as her cheeks really turned pink with the thought itself.
"really dii, awww am so happy' kitne months hue abi" geet asked as she exclaimed in exctement and made a dash to maan to break him the news. "maan maan!!!" geet exclaimed as she went near him.
"hmm" he said as he continued studying the figures. "suno to" she said grabbing his arm. "dii is gonna be a mommy soon, yeah, isn't its exciting" she said literally pulling him by his forearm. "yeah I know that geet, its already been 3 months now, by the end of the year, we will have a baby in the family", he said as he looked at her for a while and then went back to his work.
"you knew that already" she exclaimed not sure whether asking or stating him. "hmm" he replied as he took the cell from geet's hand and moved out to talk to suhana. "so hows mumma and baby doing" he asked as he settled himself in living room. "they both are fine maan ji, by the way, happy anniversary.""thankyou " he replied with a smile.
"so any improvement ha???" suhana asked as she felt a little happiness in his voice and then they are together on the D-day so it was obvious.
"umm no yaar, precisely she is confusing me and being a mystery now. Atleast earlier she used to tell me whats going in her mind but now she just does everything but doesn't say anything. God help me!!!" he sighed. "why don't you ask her directly then???" "I am scared now. She just loves to throw bombs whenever I had asked her anything, so I am better not going to ask her this time." Though he tried to say in a humor way, but his pain still surfaced in his voice.
"want me to talk to her???"
"I don't know, as much as I don't want anyone to force her in anything that much I want her to be with me too. and then her pulling over today, and that too with roses and that happiness in her eyes makes me more confuse, so this time I am not going to dwell over her acts"
"why didn't you told me about dii's pregnancy" geet argued after he kept the call. "umm you weren't receiving any call, so how would had she told" he stated the oblivious. "but that was for others, you didn't even called once and neither received mine too" she replied with a puff.
"geet one side you ask me to stay away from you, and when I really do that, you question me on that" he said with anger now. "but it isn't that you agree to my every word, is it??" "but I had always fulfilled my promises to you" he said his eyes intense now.
"oh if its so then why didn't you went and get married to some another girl ha, promise was abiout marrying not stop talking" geet said in cue, but then immediately closed her mouth as she realized what she had said. "Not again!!! Gyi bhais pani me" She thought.
He turned around, his face cold and stern, as he spat, "I would have definitely married and fulfilled your promise, but in india its illegal to marry again if you are already married, and divorce to tumne dene ka promise lia nhi tha"
"aap to is shadi ko nhi mante na, to divorce" she somehow spoke those words as she really wondered, would he had really moved on if it wasn't illegal.
"galat, phir se galat ho tum geet. Is shadi ko tum nhi manti, na ki mai. aur jis shadi me vishwas nhi rakhti uske divorce ko kya manogi" he said. He knew he was being mean by saying those words but he has a limit to endure and she had crossed every limit now.
"par ab sab" she said, but was stopped by his glare.
"not a word more geet. I have heard enough, not a word more", he said as he marched back in his room, closing the door with a thud
"par ab sab badal gya hai maan" she said as she again went to let out her tears for the third time in the day.
It was late noon, around 3 when geet realized that maan hadn't had his lunch yet. She immediately freshened up and moved to kitchen only to see maan and sameera in the kitchen. She didn't liked that even a bit and moved in kitchen.
As maan saw geet, he immediately excused himself out. Geet tried to say something but he was gone. She looked at sameera who was reading some recipe. "what are you doing here" geet asked surely not liking some another woman in her kitchen.
"wo we were just planning to cook pasta today, so I am just reading its recipe" sameera replied as she took out the ingredients for it. She was moving in the kitchen as if its her own, knowing perfectly where everything was kept. "but I was planning to make alloo parathas today, its maan's favorite" geet replied confidently.
"no geet, maan loves Italian more than Indian, and parathas are something he eats only when he doesn't have Italian, otherwise, Italian is his life" sameera said her voice enriched with confidence f knowing maan better. "no you don't him then, he just loves my aloo ke parathe" geet said in a challenging tone.
Sameera shook her head with a smile and said, "how about we both make our dishes, and the one whose maan will eat, will know him better" "deal" geet too replied confident that she will win.
She moved to the lower cabinet to take out the container containing flour, only to find it empty. She looked all the cabinets searching where that vessel went but couldn't find it. "what are you searching' sam said after few minutes of seeing geet's struggle.
"For the flour" she said as she kept looking through cabinets. "oh tahts in the top most cabinet in the left" samera replied in a second making geet stop in her movements. She immediately opened the cabinet only to find it there. Wow now this creature will tell me where my things are in my own house. Which idiot kept it up there, now how will I take it down.
"geet move aside I will bring it down" sameera replied as she showed her height to geet. "umm no, its fine, I will bring it down myself" geet took a stool and stood upon it to reach till that cabinet properly, but still she was little short.
She tried to lift that vessel, but it was heavier than she had thought and it just disbalanced her making her fell down and the vessel too slipped from her hands, pouring its content on her, giving her a flour shower from top to bottom.
Sameera got shocked for a while and then burst out laughing seeing geet's condition. She looked really funny, completely white. The voice of something falling caught maan's attention and he immediately came out only to see geet sitting on floor covered with white flour and sameera laughing out loud on her.
His own laughter released seeing her condition as he came to stand by sameera. Geet felt bad seeing him laughing on her, she had expected him to come and help her and here he is enjoying her condition. She pouted looking at maan, and then stood up form floor.
"geet you are looking like white face monkey in this condition, hai na maan" she said as she raised her hand to give him a high-five for which he conceded too. geet's mouth turned O shape as she saw him conceding with sameera. She picked some flour in her fist and marched toward sameera to give her a taste of her medicine too, but maan saw her move and held her on time by her hand.
"geet what are you doing" he said as he tried to control her, but she kept fighting trying to reach sameera who ran in the hall. "how dare she call me monkey, and conceded with her, mai use nhi chodungi" she hissed as she tried to release herself.
"she was right, you do look like a monkey like this, amd if itni he problem thi to why you showered with flour ha!!" he said as he released her after feeling her calm down a little. "you are making fun of me, that too in front of her" she said as she complained to him. Sameera's taunt didn't felt bad as much as his giving support to sameera. If he had come to her rescue, it would had hurt but his laughing with that sameera hurt really bad.
Sameera too came back when she didn't saw geet running after her, and looked at geet who was standing there and had messed up maan too when he had tried to hold her.
"geet stop acting like a kid now, see what condition you have made of the kitchen and mine too!!! now could you please go away and clean yourself and let sameera make some food for us, I am really hungry" he said his voice strict.
Geet nodded and moved for her room, trying to hold her tears, which were spilling out fourth time on the very day. On the way to her room, she heard sameera saying that she will make pasta soon. She went directly in washroom, as she stood in shower with clothes as she wondered why everything is going bad with her today.
She came out after half an hour only to see man and sameera sitting on dining table, as maan appreciated her cooking, saying it's the best food he had ever had. Sameera smiled at him at the appreciation and that's when she saw geet coming out. "geet come have food" sameera invited her again, in her own house.
"umm no, I am not hungry yet", geet said as she went back in her room closing the door. "I think she is angry on me maan" "its nothing like that, she isn't hungry that's it" maan said though he knew she was angry on him more than she was on sameera.
"umm no maan, i think mine laughing over her hurt her and then few minutes she had challenged me that you will love her parathas more, but since she couldn't make them, had added the fuel in her anger. I think I will go and apologise" sameera said as she stood up to go to her room when her cell vibrated.
She looked at the caller and at maan and said, "maan its from office, I have to go urgently' please could you talk with geet on my behalf" she spoke pleading. "umm" he said, as he waved her good bye and she left after troubling half of the day of geet.
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