SS Divorce (MG) last part page 120/31stDEC'12 - Page 37

They were sitting in the big drawing hall, an uniformed girl served them tea and eatables, and asked them to wait for few minutes.

G: whose house is this?

NT: any guesses!!

G: may be um let me think (she looks around) the house looks big, may be as big as KM, tastefully decorated, (on looking at the portraits hanging on one of the walls) but I don't seem to recognize these people.

NT: you have not met her

G: who is she?

NT: Sameera!!

G: Sameera, the name seems familiar, wait, is she the same Sameera who was engaged with Maan once?

NT: yes

G: why have you brought me here?

NT: there may be some things that she might know about

G: Maan, so here I am to discuss why I failed? (she stood up anger evident in her eyes)

NT: (pulled her to sit) look, just talk to her, she is a good person

G: no ways

Just then someone entered the hall; NT smiled at her and gave Geet a pleading look.

NT: hi Sameera

S: oh! What a pleasant surprise! How are you NT?

NT: I am good, how about you?

S: all hail and hearty, and (she turns to look at Geet) you are?

NT: she is my friend

S: hello, I am Sameera

NT: Mrs. Sameera Bakshi, and she is Geet

S: as in Mrs. Geet Khurana

G: no, just Geet

S (gave her a puzzled look): it's ok if you want to be called just Geet

G: its not that Sameera, its just that I am not Mrs. Khurana

S (confused): pardon

NT: DIVORCE

Sameera gave her a baffled look, and suddenly sat on the sofa

NT: are you ok?

S: yes, NT can I please talk to her alone?

NT: yes, why not?

G: no, you are not going anywhere

NT: I'll just be back in an hour

G: please

NT: may be this will help you

S: I don't bite Geet

G: I know

S: then just an hour

G: ok

NT left and Sameera showed Geet to study.

The ladies sat for few minutes in silence then Sameera stood and walked to close the door, she was an elegant lady very beautiful.

S: Geet Maan and I were friends since always; we studied at the same boarding school.

G: um

S: we were very much used to each other. When Mr. Pratham Khurana, Maan's father had this fatal accident, he was called back. Dev was younger one so it was Maan who went; we were just 14 yrs old. He did not come back to the boarding. His father died and he wrote to me telling me that he will not come back and continue his studies from his hometown; he also needed to help his mother and grandfather to look after business. I was ok, and so was he. We met every time I went back for my vacation. As time went we started liking each other and we also dated. Soon we told our families that we want to get married. Everything was going smooth. As days passed and weeks went I found that his mother was quite abnormal, she was too nosy, she use to find faults with me. You may also have noticed how rude she sometimes is;

Sameera paused and drank water Geet kept quite all the time, knowing well how hurting that would have been for Sameera

S: every time Maan went for some conference, she would just create a scene, and during those days she would call me quite often to KM and make me realize how incompetent I were, soon I gave up and finally during one of the conferences he went for she even made sure to make my mother feel bad and that was the last straw