Prologue
The whole house is decorated with flowers and ornaments. There is a mandap in the centre of the living room.
Everybody is busy in doing some chores. The pundit is uttering the mantras.
The pundit says to a guy standing nearby
"Call the bridegroom"
"Jee punditji." And the guy goes inside and brought with him a nearly 10 years boy dressed in a little sherwani and wearing a sehra.
The guy made the 'boy' sit in the mandap while the little kid complains "Dad! Why do I have to wear these flowers? I can't see anything!!" the boy said innocently indicating towards his sehra.
And his dad takes away his sehra from his face. The boy is very beautiful but there's a hint of arrogance in his eyes. The arrogance that he has inherited from his father.
The pundit asks the boy "Beta, aapka naam kya hai?" [whats ur name?]
The boy lifts his chin up in pride and says "Maan Singh Khurana."
And the pundit gets back into uttering the mantras.
After few minutes the pundit asks them to get the bride.
Maan's father indicates towards a lady and says "Bhabi, Geet ko le aayiye" [get geet]
And the lady gets a 5 year old girl dressed in a little red bridal outfit and make her sit next to Maan.
Geet looks at Maan and says in a baby voice "Maan, thou all altho doing the puda?" [Maan, u r also doing the puja?]
Maan looks at her but says arrogantly "Hmm."
After some time geet says to her mother "Mom, when will this puja finish?" and then geet's eyes fell on her father who was glaring at her angrily and she gets mum. Geet is very scared of her father.
And then the marriage took place smoothly without any interruption from anybody without the knowledge of both bride and bridegroom as what was happening. For both of them, they were part of strange kind of puja in which they had to dress gaudily.
They didn't know that this one act of theirs were gonna change their lives in future forever.
In the end the pundit asks both of them to take the blessings of the elders and announced that from now onwards Geet Handa is Geet Maan Singh Khurana.
The name of Geet with his name ticked something in Maan. He felt as if something was wrong.
And then the pundit says "From now onwards you both are husband and wife."
The words sink in Maan and he realised what was happening here. They were not sitting in some puja, they were getting married!!! He was not old enough to understand the real meaning of marriage, all he knew was when you get married, you have kids.
He looks at geet frowning angrily and takes a step back. He was himself a kid, how the hell he was gonna take care of other kids??!!!
While on the other hand, Geet was too young to understand as if what has just happened. She was just happy that the puja is finished and now she can go and play!!!
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Ok friends...this is also one of my random stuff...actually found it on my phone notes that i wrote some months ago, but never posted it! it was before the OS: Love knows no bounds. As you have realised that this is also about child marriage...so the idea is taken from that... but the story and concept is different!!!
well I'll try to continue it after my wedding😳
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