Aaj ek impt meeting hai geet. u cant go early. Waise bhi tum aaj college se late ayi ho and u have to give presentation for that new project IE has got. Vo Mr. Desai vala project ki planning ki tumne?

She made a pout and twisted her lips.

Mein ghar ja rahi hu.i have lunch plan with daadi. I have a get together in evening so I cant come back after lunch.

Geet I said no leave.

Good bye.

Geet this is no way to behave. Its not your home.

But im ur wife and u own this place. mujhe ek leave bhi nahi mil sakti.

Geet this is non proffessional behaviour.

Ek din.

Tumhari marzi. Meri baat to sunogi nahi.

Ravan.

She left the office making faces.

Geet did maan wish u?

Daadi dd ko kaam k siva kuch bhi yaad rahta hai kya.

Ruko mein khabar leti hu unki.

Nahi daadi aap unko yaad mat dilaiye. Promise.

Geet unko kuch yaad nahi rahta.

Mujhe maloom hai aur main khud unko bataungi pehle office se ghar aane dijiye.

Ok. Then lets enjoy the meal unki baat kyu kare. Vo lunch kliye aate bhi to kahte haso mat, aap log itna halla kyu kar rahi hai…blah blah… hamesha serious.

Sahi ravan ki tarah.

They both giggled.

~.~.~

Maan was in spoilt mood and many got scolded that day. He was behaving awfully as geet had left without rhyme and reason.

He walked out of the lift and found a total mess. A cake box had dropped on the ground making a total mess with the cream spread all over the floor. Pinky gasped and sucked in her breath as she stood near it with teary eyes. All sorrow of spoiled cake changed within seconds into fear seeing Maan Singh Khurana's fuming self. His eyes bored her and without even uttering a single word he took away half of her life. She clutched her mobile looked once at the cake then at maan. She sucked in.

What is this mess??? He growled.

Sirr sirr… vo… actually…

Adi walked in. he was too baffled seeing the mess and lost his composure over pinky.

What did u do? Now how will we get the cake for the party? u spoiled her bday…

In my room both of u and get this cleaned right away.. I dnt want any such mess in my office.

Maan strode like a rampant elephant to his room.

Aaj to cake bhi gaya aur job bhi..

Pinky how cud u do this.

Sir vo cake delivery boy se leke mein ja rahi thi aur sasha maam ne mujhe push kar diya aur cake gir gaya. Muh bana k sorry bola aur chali gayi.

Jab tak mein uthi aur cake ko clean karne ka socha Maan sir aa gae. Ab kya hoga?

Abhi to unke room mein chalo fir dekhte hain.

Both stood with their heads dipped ready for a full grilling session.

This is my office not a party hall… what is this cake for?

Siiirr vo actually…… after office geet ka birthday party tha to cake ka order yahi deliver ho gaya. Sssorry sir…

Maan was instantly taken back.. he didn't utter a word.

#thats y she was behaving with so much attitude in the morning… shayad mujhpe naraz bhi hogi… but how will I know her B'day..she never told me… actually we never talked about these things..families etc… she will give me full tantrums today… I will have to make up to her somehow#

Sorry sir.. fir aisa nahi hoga..

Ok leave go back… now y r u crying pinky? I havent even scolded u…

No sir no sir… vo mujhe laga aap daatenge aur fir cake bhi spoil ho gaya……sab mujhe daatenge vo cake bhi spoil ho gaya.. ab to geet ka favourite cake bhi nahi hoga.

Its all ur mistake pinky.. u spoilt it.

Whats the problem adi?

Siir kuch nahi sir vo actually they give the cake only on advance order. It was her favourite. So we will make other arrangements.

They turned to walk out of the room.

Adi tell me the flavour and bakery.

Sir.

I will order it.

Walnut chocolate cake from baker's corner in CP. Sir their no. is

Adi I have ordered it.. it will be delivered in 2hrs. just call them and tell the venue. Pay it on my account.

Sir we can manage.

No I have paid extra for it. do it as I tell u.

Thank u sir.. actually we have arranged a party for geet… sir all friends..

Yash entered.

Aah I know im late but the party was planned yesterday only… so a late invitation. We know that u dnt come to personal parties of employees but geet wil be very happy if u come to her b'day party. we have organised a small party if u will come even for sometime…

I have a meeting in evening I will see after that.

Ok.

~.~.~

Maan got down of his car in front of the restaurant.. a simple one nothing to what maan was used to. If he wud have organised a B'day party it wud have indeed be much high fy.. but geet was never into pomp and show she liked things simple.

He smiled as he again read the msg from the bank stating usage of credit card by geet. so she paid the bills for today from the card.

He went to the rooftop venue using the lift. As the lift opened he saw a small crowd of youngsters… most of geet's college friends chatting. The first urge was to go back. #my first plan was better a dinner after the party or a drive wud have been better… how im going to mix with this group. But by that time geet will think I forgot her bday.. so let it be#

He scanned the crowd and soon found geet laughing with some of her friends. most of the guests were from her colege and only a few from office who were really close to geet. he made his way to geet who looked gorgeous in her olive salwar kameez.

Aap?

Kyu nahi aana chahiye?

Nahi..magar…

Thik hai mein chala jaata hu. Mein to bas Bday wish karne aaya tha.

Nahi….. I didn't mean that. I was just surprised to find u here.

Pleasant or unpleasent…

Aap bhi na… subh aapko yaad nahi tha to

Yeah I didn't know in the morning…

To…

Haan to…

Aap yahan kyu aaye hai??

Geet…

Wish to kar dijiye na…

Oh .. HAPPY BIRTHDAY…

Sam was seeing this small talk from a distance. She cudnt hear but was surprised to see Maan after years and that too in geet's party. she didn't know there was some connection. Maan too didn't see her as he was so engrossed in geet that her piercing eyes were oblivious to him.

Sam approached them to catch the story..

Hi maan.. long time.. so how are u? sam said in her sexy tone as if they were best buddies.

Geet was initially surprised of maan knowing sam but the instant thought was they must be acquaintance from high society parties.

But when she looked at maan she was taken back by sudden change of his expression. His soft eyes which were smiling uptill now had turned into firepits. He tightened his jaw.

I will catch up with karan. Saying this he left them in confusion.

By now he had become the cherry on the cake. Each pair of eyes admired him. the girls were swooning over him just by his looks and as the word spread that he is Maan Singh Khurana the swooning increased.

As he talked to karan, adi and pari, geet approached him followed by sam.

It's a surprise to find u at a party for youngsters.

Karan joked – then u consider us to be oldies… kya adi?

Nuts said sarcastically– tab to tum bhi oldie hi ho sam… waise we didn't fix the age to come to party but sam whats ur age?

Adi – hehehehe

It was enuf to shut sam's mouth for sometime.

Yash - Well many of the girls want to be introduced to u. he introduced his classmates.

Maan – meera nahi ayi hai kya yash?

K – haan warna jis tarah se tu naam le raha hai she wont talk to u for another week.

Everyone laughed.

Waise meri gift.. dedijye. Geet said pointing to the small gift box in maan's hands to distract his attention from the girls.

Yeah I forgot. Here.

Some of the girls urged geet to open the gift as they wanted to see it. It was beyond geet to make excuses. She looked at maan and he blinked his eyes for her to go ahead.

It was an I phone latest version.

The girls were happy as they looked at it.

Sam – a simple I phone from maan singh khurana. It doesn't suit u. I thought it wud have some expensive jewellery piece or like..

But I like it my old phone was not so good.. thank u.

Most of the girls thought it to be a good gift coming from simple backgrounds. But maan was a little touched.

Nuts intervened again. When will u cut the cake? It is tempting me. jaldi karo varna mein kaat dungi.

geet was surrounded by friends a s they moved to the table. Many were trying to find a place next to maan and seeing this maan moved back a little to avoid them.

Geet cut the cake and with the first bite in her hand she looked for maan. Meera had marked her small eye talks with maan. As she saw geet is looking for maan and he is expecting the cake too she intervened. Before geet moved in his direction.

Meera – I get the first bite. And she took it from geet.

She in return fed her. soon yash smashed a bit of cake on geet's face from behind. And the smearing session began. The crowd got busy in this. Maan was a little disappointed with geet not coming to him and he moved a little further back to avoid all the mess.

U dnt need to tell me what im and what I shud be……

He moved away but sam followed him.

Maan I was always ur type… matured beautiful.

Maan was loosing his temper. He turned and started walking away from the place. he didn't want to create a scene and that was what sam was pushing him to. He loosing his temper and she making full use of it.

Sam hurried behind him and followed him to the lobby where the elevators were.

Geet saw him retreating towards the exit and excused herself to follow him.

Sam – maan try to listen to me. we can talk for sometime.. for old times sake.. we were friends.

Sameera kapoor never call me ur friend.

Geet entered.

Sam held his shirt and tried to come closer.

Maan listen to me.

He snapped her hand away from his shirt and jerked her. dare not u touch me again. Mujhse baat karne ki koshish bhi mat karna.

Sam looked at geet who stood in the doorway looking at them. Maan turned to look at her she had tears surging into her eyes.

Geet suno…

He looked at the cake piece in her hand which she had crushed in her fist. He rubbed his temple thinking what to say.

Maan meri suno. Sam urged maan taking up the confusion in her favour.

Meera entered looked at the trio and pulled geet out. Geet lets go everyone is waiting for u. tu yahan kya kar rahi hai…

Geet walked dumbly as meera pulled her out. She turned to look at maan. Maan didn't see her looking at him. he pushed away sam and stepped into the elevator.

Geet come we will clean the mess. Look at ur face its cream all over.

Geet touched her face and they walked to the washroom. Meera helped Geet clean her face. After that meera was cleaning hers while geet checked her new phone.

She smiled.

Itna muskura kyu rahi hai?

Ye dekh apna no. kis naam se save kiya hai… she showed her the mobile.

Two no.s had been saved one of daadi and the other maan's own with his photo under the name SARU.

Meera's expression changed instantly.

Saru??

Haan.. meine aaj socha tha aaj mein tum logo se intro karva dungi par… vo chale gaye.

Meera looked here and there. Sorry geet mein beech mein aa gayi shayad isiliye.

Matlab?

Meine dekha tha tu first bite uske liye le ja rahi hai aur mein beech mein aa gayi. I purposefully pulled u out of the lobby also. I always wanted u to take interest in ur marriage and hubby. Ur interest in him was very obvious to me so I tried to distract u. infact I was about to talk to u about that. But who knew he is ur husband. Im sorry. U wud have clarified so many things.

Its alright meera. I was just stunned by the way sam talked to him.

Oh he is so hot types.. so sam was trying her luck over him.look he has made such a nice collection of songs for u in the mobile.

Yeah all my favourites and that too placed so nicely under different headings.

Use tumhare saare favourite maloom hai. He pays lots of attention to u geet. tu hi sochti hai ki vo dhyan nahi deta. Just look at the detailing he has done.

Yeah.

Geet still tensed with sam..

Not exactly but they knew each other for sure warna sam waise nahi karti and maan was trying to avoid her.

Did he talk to her.

No infact he snapped her hand and pushed her away when she tried togo close.

Geet u know sam's chipku behaviour. Its better u talk to maan. I dnt mean u question him but u cam ask him about sam sometime later.

Hhhmm.

But geet as far as I have heard maan was just not interested in marriage to tum dono ki shaadi..

Geet told her how daadi tricked him into it.

That's y he was so arrogant in the beginning.. aise mein to geet anyone wud take time to adjust. Uske liye to larkiyo ki line thi and then he was married to u without even knowing u. arranged marriages mein to time lagta hi hai. So relax… im also so relaxed.. aaj use dekh k I felt he likes u so it just fine..

Hhhmm I too think so. But I wanted to tell the gang.. warna yash aur karan kaise react karenge I dnt know.

Its better u didn't introduced him at once. First tell them about him and then introduce him. achaanak se they may react weirdly.

Hhm to aaj party k baad I will tell them. Hai na?

Good. Waise geet things are moving very nicely bas sab acha ho jae.

Geet enjoyed every bit of the party. sam was getting restless seeing geet's composure she wanted to know about geet and maan and all she got to know was she worked for him. sam knew maan wud never go out of way to come to his employees party especially after the serious demeanour he had taken after their break off.

She gathered a few girls and started talking about maan. #whatever is in geet's mind if maan rejected me geet cant have the pleasure of him. no ways I wont let it happen#

U know he is a very hot shot.

How do u know?

Oh we studied together and were very close friends.

Really?

Oh yes so close that we wanted to get married.

These words struck geet and meera. Not many persons were left as party was almost over so everyone present had an ear to what sam had to divulge.

We were really close u know all possible ways.

So y didn't u get married..

Oh his mother wanted to keep everything in her control. U know mumma boy types.. his younger bro got married first and he is all into his wife. She was insecure as maan loved me a lot and she saw to it that we dnt get married. High society woman have different thoughts… she wanted to rule the family and maan proved to be the obedient son. We seperated. That's y he doesn't want to get married now. He never will. He still loves me.

Is it true?

Geet fell numb. Meera held her hand and squeezed it.

Oh yes we shared everything even bed. He is an animal u know.. unsatiable. If u dnt believe me I can tell u he has a black mole near his abs visible only when he is shirtless. If u ever get a chance check it.

Still seeing not a word from geet sam was satisfied that she knew nothing about maan and was not involved with him. and even if she had inclinations sam had just ruined all chances of it.

Sam smirked.

I was always apple of his eyes. a position noone can take.

Tears stung geet's eyes. sam took full pleasure in describing maan as a casanova. Meera held her tight as slowly the crowd started dispersing.

Sam came to geet before leaving. He is just not ur type geet if ur interested in him just forget it. He is too hot for u to handle.

Nuts – thanks for the advice but geet has better things to do than get involved with her boss.

As sam left.

nuts - Bitchy girl…apne aap ko kya smajhti hai… but I have my doubts she said the truth. I dnt have a penny of faith on her. she is a bundle of lie.

Geet smiled seeing some support.

Meera squeezed her hand and whispered. Not now geet. sam has spoiled his image. Telling about him will ruin his image. Hum baad mein bataenge.

Pari – I have worked for DD but never seen him looking at girls. If he was sexy and the type she was emphasising upon he wud show it even once.

Pinky – yeah girls are ready to fall for him… but he never has time.

Karan - whatever be it pari just maintain some distance. The way she said all he sees is body I didn't like her. even if she is not 100% rightbut she has studied with him for 3 yrs she knows him better. Y take risk..

Meera – ye karan k sath kaun thi?

Pari.

Hhmm so big bro ko koi pasand hai…

Haan they seem to like each other.. kuch time aur and I think they will start dating officially.

Good.

Adi before leaving made the final comment – as far as I know sir girls even highly placed woman are ready to sleep with him.. some of them make it so obvious but sir is a man of integrity. I dnt believe such crap.

Geet tu abhi bhi tense hai? Dnt worry I will pacify yash. He will aprove of maan.

Meera something else is bugging me.

What?

What if there is some truth to sam? I mean what if they loved each other. Maan loved her. that's y he was not ready to accept marriage.

Tune uska reason suna.. uski mom.. I think his mom died sometime before ur marriage.. to agar maan usse pyaar larta to shaadi kar leta apni ma k death k baad.

Par..

Geet tu maan se phuch kyu nahi leti..

Yeah I think I must ask him.. saare problems hi finish.. kahan hum age barhne ki koshish kar rahe hai aur ye past humko aage jaane nahi de raha.

Geet have faith. Talk to him.

Yeah I like him meera but if he likes sam I will move away.

Geet… is sam woth that.. u have seen herhow she flirts with every next man.

But if he likes her then im ok with it.

Geet decide sensibly and plzz koi decision lene se pehle mujhse baat karna. We will discuss it. Ok.

Ok. Mein aaj hi maan se baat karungi chahe jo ho jae. I need to know what he wants.

im better today.baby is also fine..next update on maanday..

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maan's birthday gift