SS- SANEYEEKA #2 EPILOGUE (by ritzy di) Pg-77 - Page 25

He woke up lazily, searching for her warmth. He wandered his hand to hold her but he could find only emptiness.

"Geet..", he called drowsily. There was nothing but silence. He opened his eyes slowly adjusting to the light and the first he saw was her flute lying on the bed. Why was it that whenever he looked for her, her flute will be the first one to find him? It had happened so many times that he had now started hating it. He looked away, irritated, calling for her, but there was no answer. He thought she might be in washroom and waited for her. A complete silence surrounded him in the broad daylight. An eerie silence it was that left him restless. He got up, slipping into his tracks and vest and looked around, "Geet...where are you?"

She looked so calm...yet again! That mystic aura surrounded her was back again. She was so calm as the ocean...her face had no sign of worry or anything, rather a sweet smile, "mein tho bas yahin thi...aapne dekha hi nahin"

He hugged her close to his heart, "tum kahin mat jaana samjjhi!"

It was then she realized she had been holding it close to her heart. She smiled and made him sit on the bed. She went and picked up and flute and sat beside him. He was fuming practically. She extended the flute to him, gesturing him to hold her. He glared at her and turned away. She stuck closer to him, firm on her stand.

"Maan...', she called out softly. He turned to her in a jerk and snapped, "what?"

"just listen to me once.."

He gave a stern look to her...what was she even thinking? He had almost died in those 10 minutes and here she was carelessly and casually asking if he was okay? He could have almost blasted at her when she placed her head over his shoulder and kept the flute on her lap.

He was so confused...suddenly she is giving away her most prized possession. He looked at her quizzically when she straightened herself, "mere liye please! Whenever you will feel sad or hurt or lonely, just hold her close to your heart...she will take away all your pain and loneliness and all the negative feelings...'

"Maan ek bar...sirf ek baar, kuch mat sochiye aur bas go with it...please..", she almost begged. He sighed and hugged her tightly again, "I will do it only if you promise you will not disappear like this again"

She laughed, "mein tho backyard mein thi...aap hi pareshaan ho gaye"

For the first time he wasn't convinced...he felt a certain kind of detachment...he didn't know what was it or why was it...but he just felt that.

Maan again felt that detachment... he was a little a worried. It was as if she is just giving up on something. he knew Geet would never ever hide anything from him. He trusts her blindly and she never let him down ever...but then sometimes her weird talks started bothering him. He didn't know whom to speak about it...but he kept a close watch on her. She was pretty much the same...nothing changed since the day she had come back to him.