Part 12 – THE REPLACED BRIDE…..
The reaction was as she had expected… all were stunned and were silent beyond words to see geet with maan in the mandap… and as geet had asked there was no media in there to maan's annoyance…. But he had no way other than to accept it because he was not even asked about it and the reason he was given???? Because geet hated media ….. and his family mad a issue out of it…. The great mrs. Maan singh khurana hated media…… and what was her reaction???? Nothing….. absolutely nothing….. since the time they had been taking the phere…. She was utterly expression less and now she was standing beside him as still as a statue and was talking on her phone and did not even glance once at any one.. not him and neither his family except ofcourse his grandparent and his siblings….. but him???? Not even a glance…..not a single glance….. huh!!!!! How frustrating….. and when his family came to congratulate them….. he was his own arrogant self and was stunned to find that geet was even more arrogant then he was and did not bother to smile at them…. Not that she was smiling at anyone at all….. it looked as if she did not know how to smile….wowie…….
Maan – geet?????
Geet – hmm….
Maan – why are you not smiling??????
Geet – why should i???? so that your family can make a issue out it……. She was truly irritated…
Maan – excuse me….
Geet – don't act as if you heard nothing maan …. If not then please hear what the bloody hell your family is speaking about…
She was angry to a very extent and that evident in her eyes….. she had turned red….
Maan – and can you elaborate it????
Geet – I don't need to …. You know your family than you can easily guess it
Maan – whats the problem geet????? Why are you talking in such a way?????... he was too annoyed
Geet – can we please not talk now???? I am really in a very foul mood and talking with you I will snap at you….. which I really don't want to …..
Truthfull… maan thought…. And when he actually tried to hear he came to know the reason for her foul mood…. They were talking about the past…. What had happened 13 years ago…. And this s what he hadn't expected to talk them about…… how can he forget that they had a past that would all like to talk about.. how can he be so stupid???? And of course he was aware of how much it had effected geet and her foul mood was expected and he was also glad at least she was truthfull and did not extend it…. He was angry now…. Why did they had to talk about it now???? Remembering the past was not a good sign and now when their marriage was not even registered was very bad…. Absolutely bad sign…. All were gossiping and geet was standing all silent and had a distant look in her eyes as if she was remembering something ……
Hey princess….. abhay came up to her and hugged her….and she returned the hug….
Geet – what are you doing here????
Abhay – what do you mean????
Geet – you know what exactly I mean abhay….. what are you doing here?????
Abhay – dad has sent this …..
And he handed her a folder and she went through it….. and signed the papers….
Abhay – mishty…. Are you mad???? Why did you sign it????
Geet – dad wants it…. And he will get it…..
Abhay – but …..
Geet – abhay …. No discussions in this topic …. She said in a straight tone….
Abhay – fine…. *sigh*…. I just think you know what you are doing ……
Geet – I do know abhay…
Abhay hugged her again …. You don't have to do this…..
Geet – I have to abhay…. I have taken a step and now its time to pay for it…..
Abhay - I have to go…. We have the flight in one hour….take care….
Geet – k… bye…. Abhay….
Abhay – yah…….
Geet – take care of dad….
Abhay – sure sister….. anything for you…... you will be ok… wont you????
Geet – I will be… promise…..
Abhay – you will cope up… I know…. You are strong….. I know….. you will win back everything… I know… you will be fine…. I k now…. But still…I am your brother…. I cant help it….. you have gone through many things princess…. It terrifies me to see you in this condition…. Again…. I have seen you in worst condition ….. every one is more upset than angry…
Geet – hey don't worry…. You will get pimples….. and all will call you Buddha…..
Abhay – shut up princess…. Shall I talk with dad???? Or bhai or di??????
Geet – no need abhay…I will deal with it myself….. now go ….. else alena will come running and say geet my husband is with you…. Now go and catch your flight ….. and when you guies reach there give me a call….. bye….
Abhay – bye ….… can I ask you one thing??? Please last question????
Geet – are you again that 7 year old brother of mine????
Abhay – yah…. Why cant our past leave us??????
Geet – it never leaves us dear…. We have to live with our past….
Abhay – you wont leave us again alone……
Geet – never abhay ….and just smiled and waved him a bye…….
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Abhay went away leaving a emotionless geet back again…… but aleast now she was smiling….. let it be little but still she was…. Ok!!!!! Fine…… maan was fighting…... a guilt that he had not felt when she was angry he was now feeling seeing her smile…. He didn't knew what was in that file but what ever it was …..it was not good…..
Dada – geet….
Geet – ji…..
Dada – beta whoh maan ki ek behan hai tara….. whoh usa mian rehti hai ane pati ke saath…. Jab use pata chala ki dulhan badal gayi hai toh….
Geet – so is it an interrogation time????
Dada – a sort of…. Bahut strict hai…. Sab use darte hai… even maan….. jyada hasi use pasand nahin…..iiin short whoh thodi maan ke type ki hai…… and her husband is even more strict than she is…. He doesn't likes girls too close and expects a limit in every thing……
Geet – lady hitler and musolini??????
Maan – a sort of….. wait it means you call me hitler?????
Geet – of course khurana….. all do…. Specially your employees….. they call you even khadoos…. Yah…. So sweet of them ….
Maan – if tara will hear these then she will…..
Geet – scold me???? Anyuways where is she?????
Maan – behind you….. and then geet turned back and was shocked to see a family standing there… and they too had the same expression….. geet walked upto them ….
Geet – I don't believ it…. td???? dj????
Both – kiddo?????
Tara – what are you doing here????
Geet – I don't believ it….. you are hitler's sister and brother in law…. Jesus…..
And then she hugged tara tightly…..
Dhruv – hello… I am also here……
Geet went and also hugged him…..
Dhruv – so you are the one???? God when I recieveed maan's call tara was sitting on my head and we were ready to come and kill that girl….
Geet –wow… total planning to land up in tihar jail….
Tara – first kiddo… we really need to know what happened…
Geet – ask hitler…..
Tara – I will….. but you know… I am so happy that you both got married….
Just then two small kids poked geet…
Hey aunty…. We are also present here….
Geet – oh!!!! Yes prince and angel…… ad n picked them up….
Angel – you are looking gorgeous…..
Geet – thankyou….
Prince – and how are we loking????
Geet – hmm…. let me think… handsome prince and angelic angel……
Both – we love you and kissed her both the cheeks…..
Geet – td… why don't yo u go and clear the confussion created there……
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She was their junior in London business school….. had known them since 12 years…. She was the one to give them idea of eloping away ….. she was called kiddo by them … and called the td i.e tara didi and dj- dhruv jiju….. she was just like dhruv's younger sister…… helped dhruv in his business….. and was angel's and prince's faviorait aunty who were currently sitting on her lap and were eating chocolate …. These were too much for him to digest…… not only maan but many were disturbed by this piece of news …. Because every one knew the anger level of tara and dhruv which was 100 times compared to that of maan's…. and all were more afraid of tara than maan because of both personal and professional reason …. Professional because she was one of the major shareholder of the khurana construction and was also the eldest khurana…. She was more rude and more brutal and more of every thing than maan ….. and had a aura around herself than every one feared….. and the most fearful fact about her was that maan himself feared her….. so every one was shocked when geet went down to hug tara and dhruv….. dhruv rather was a man who was as cool and as dangerous as a snake….. what he would do in the next moment was always unpredictable … and the most fered thing about him was that he hated girls who threw themselves at thim….. even he had literally sclapped few of tara's sisters when they tried to go closer to him and had beaten the shit of many guies who even looked up at tara or his childrens so when ever they came everyones eyes were down casted…. And by geets close connection with the literally shook them…… but will they leave a chance to pinch her???? She might have strong relation but she was the same girl whom they had forced to leave the house 13 years back and they can do that even now….. and her main weakness was that she was a Christian…… and they would take full advantage of that fact…… and they did that but to face the ground ……
As the rasams were there …. Both the couples were made to sit and the rasams were done…. By now geet had come to know that dhanraj khurana was the 2nd brother and his elder brother was called bade dadaji and his bhabi was called as badi dadi and his younger brother nad bhabi were called chote dadaji and choti dadi…. And they were famous as dadaji nad dadi….. she also had the fair idea what they are going to do … so while they were sitting together….
Maan – geet …. U ok????
Geet – yah…. Why????
Maan – you are smiling….. anything going in your mind…..
Geet – wow…. That time I was not smiling and you had problem and now tha I am then too you have…. Anyways leave that….. your family is going to pull a act here…..
Maan – what????
Geet – they are going to do some thing funny….. with me…… just watch…..
Maan – how can you say that ????
Geet – I can even bet my life on it….. by the way do they know that I am the replaced bride?????
Maan – excuse me……
Geet – I mean do they know that you were about to marry some one else who just ran away an di sat in here???
Maan –yah everyone of them …. Sabne sameera ko dekha hai….. and then they saw you in the mandap instead of sameera……..
Geet – fine….. awesome………so now the countdown begins….. 5…4….3…2…1….
Badi dadi – prithvi…. Sameera kahan hai?????
Prrithvi – whoh badimaa… sameera mandap chodke bhag gayi…. To geet….
Badi dadi- Agar isi ladki se saadi karni thi toh us din saadi toodi hin kyun????
Choti dadi – itna tamasha karna ki kya jarurat thi????
All looked at geet who was slightly smiling a mocking smile…..
Geet – didn't I tell you????
Maan – so why are you silent??? Why don't you say some thing?????
Tara – yah kiddo…..
Geet – come on td…. I want to hear what more they can say about me….. you know I really want to know ….
Dhruv – let her do what ever she wants tara….. you know her better…. When she will open her mouth no one will be able to say any thing…..
Geet – right…. So now I want to enjoy the show…. Everyday we don't get to hear it….
And as she said many people said many thing about the past …. And all the time she was sitting still facing them ….. after some time ….. when they ran out of words to speak….. as a response geet just yawned and all were surprised by her reaction……
Badi dadi – yeh kya batamizi hai….. is ladki ko tamez kisine nahin sikhaya kya????? Maa-baap toh hai nahin….. upar apni religion ki bhi nahin hai….. sanskar kahan se aayenge…... sab savitri teri galti hai…. Kya jarurat thi is ladki ko bithane ki…tewar toh dekho…. Videsh se aayi hai….. aapni jubani toh bolni aati nahin… tere hin wajah se……
And she went on …. All were terrified of badi dadi…. Her words could kill you alive…. And all were terrified of her ofcourse except tara and maan ….. but were silent…. And when it really exceeded and geet was still siting there with a straight face….. maan was then really confused as what to do and how to react...
Tara – bas dadi…. Saadi ke ghar main tamasha mat khada kariye…… aur ek sabd nahin…..
Vedika (badi dadi's badi bahu) – whoh teri dost hogi tara….. for us she is just a replaced bride…….
Maan – dadi agar sab rituals khatam ho gaya ho toh main apne kamre main jaun???
Dadi – tara…. Dono bahuon ko unke kamre mian le jao…..
Vedika – is ladki ko maan ke kamre main le jane ki kya jarurat hai????? Yahin kahin phenk do ……
Dadi – bas vedika……
Badi dadi – thik hint oh keh rahi hai…….. tumhari ghar ki izat toh bach gayi ab is ladki ki kya jarurat?????
Tara – dadi…. Main geet bhabi ko veer ke kamre mian chodke aati hoon…..
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Maan entered the room . he was shocked at the response he got from his family…. He had expected reaction from geet and also from his family….. but he had not thought that they would go to such extent to insult her…… and what worried him the most was the lack of response from geet…… he remembered the last time she had not reacted and her action had sook everyone because she had walked out of the house……. So he had taken extra care to take her pic out of his room…. As he entered his room….. he saw her standing near the window …. Her duppaata was lying in the couch…. Her jweleries including the gajra was lying in the table….. her bangels were lying there with her watch kept in one side with mobile and her hand bag was in the couch….. her hairs were still tied in a bun and her back was clearly visible….. he realized that she was wearing her chian and the mangal sutra still….. it gave him a new hope…. controlling his urge to touch her back he tried to start a conversation….
Maan – geet….
Geet – sleep maan… it had been a very tiring day….. change and sleep …. We will talk tomorrow….
Her voice was totally emotionless and had a sharp edge to it….. which said end of the conversation….. maan was taken aback but thought of giving her space…. And went to change….. but when he came back he saw geet was still standing in the same place…. And he went to take the cusion to sleep in the couch when geet said without turning back…..
Geet – no need to sleep in the couch … you can sleep in the bed…..
Maan – par tum….
Geet – you don't need to worry…..
Maan sept in the bed…. And switched off the light and waited for geet to come and sleep…. After some time she turned back and picked up her mobile and then walked out of the room switching off the remaining light and went to the adjoining balcony……
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