A Single Breath – Part 29

After Maan left, Savitri came to Geet. She was very sad to know that Maan hates his father. She knew it was natural, yet it was unbearable.

“Geet”

“Aunt you?” Seeing Savitri in her room, Geet suddenly gets shocked.

“I heard your words. I know that Maan hates his father, and this is also natural. Throughout his life he has longed for his father’s love. He only knew that his father was  Fed up out of poverty. He left us and went away. I used to try hard to hide my tears and sorrow with my son. But I couldn’t hide. Since then Maan was fond of making money, So that he could find him and bring him home. So he took a police job. He tried hard to find his father, but failed. And when he met his father and the truth came to him, he was heartbroken. He only shows his smile from above but there is a lot of sadness inside. My Maan has completely broken Geet.” Savitri almost cried. Geet couldn’t bear her tears.

“Can I help you aunty?” Geet asked lovingly.

“I came here to ask for help, my dear”

“Yes, aunty. You are like my mother. I will help you in every way.”

Savitri had a desire to make Geet her daughter-in-law. She also knew that Maan also likes her. So she thought this was the right time to ask Geet herself. She was going to ask her question only when someone’s voice was heard from downstairs. Perhaps it was Jagan. Both Savitri and Geet became alert.

“It is not the right time to talk now. Now I go. You too sleep” Savitri said and went back to her room.

On the second day, Jagan kept thinking about the previous things throughout the day. He did not have any option now. The lawyer’s words were disturbing his mind. Seeing his family in front, he thought  that if Geet was alive, he would have married her with Maan. The property of the house would have stayed in the house. Now he had only 10 days left. After that all this property will go to the trust. His heart was sinking.

He wandered like a madman from here to there throughout the day. Turning the files over, he was looking for a way out. How many times he even called the lawyer but he did not get the right answer from anywhere. Now nothing could happen.

 “ In 5000 Rs. Will I make my living or both of them?”, Sitting in his room at night, he was thinking the same. He was not feeling sleepy. His heart was scared in the name of leaving this richness. Then it seemed that some sound was coming from the room above. He remembered the ghost of Geet. Now he was scared even more. He started remembering all the things from the previous night. He closed his eyes with fear and started remembering God, then one thing struck in his mind.

Jagan devised a trick to check whether his suspicions were true. He went to the main switch of the house and turned off the lights of the whole house. The guard swung into action. He was about to go for investigation with a torch, then Jagan went to him with a torch. And asked what happened

 The guard said that there might have been some problem in the main switch. He is going to check it. He was about to lift his flashlight when Jagan said he had a torch. He will also go together. Both started to do power checks.

 The guard was checking in the power room when Jagan extinguished the torch. It was completely dark now. The guard got scared.

“Sir, show the flashlight, sir,” he said in a panic. But Jagan did not reply.

 “Sir, where are you sir?”, the guard was very scared. Then Jagan played a ghost ringtone on his mobile. Suddenly, the guard got scared even more after hearing the ghost sound. He started reading Hanuman Chalisa.

 “Are you very scared?”, Then Jagan’s voice came. He stopped the mobile.

“Yes sir, I was very scared. Why did you make this joke with me. I am so afraid of ghosts,” Guard said, trembling in fear.

“But you are not a coward. Are you so brave? That’s why yesterday, before me, you were in a hurry to go and see Geet’s ghost? Hmm’.” Jagan turned on the main switch,

The guard understood Jagan’s trick. Now he was completely trapped.