They say you only fall in love once,but that can't be true..

               as every time I look at you,

         And I fall in love all over again...

"Nandini.."his words were nothing more than mere whisper but it was more than enough to be heard by the other person who was holding the jar along with him...

...that jar which was full of fireflies..

...who were celebrating the existence of true love by glowing too brightly.

Though he didn't look up but he could feel someone's gaze on himself..

...or to be specific...

...he could feel her gaze on himself..

Nandini...

Manik's Nandini..

..his shining star.

He finally looked up at her while getting back on his feet only to find her gazing back at him with amused expression.

"Manik.."was all she could whisper when he finally stood in front of her.

Manik so wanted to scream at her..

...he so wanted to get angry on her..

..in fact from the last couple of days he had been practising the things that he would say to her when he will meet her again...

...he learned some great dialogues too which would represent his anger..

...he thought he was prepared for this...

..but of course he wasn't at all prepared this.

Nandini's expressions..

Yes..

The moment their eyes met..

...something changed between them..

...which he experienced as well.

All of a sudden it felt as if they came up for fresh air after being drowned in the deepest point of oceans for eternity...

...as if some sort of burden was lifted off their shoulders and all they could experience was the feeling of liberation...

Nandini's eyes started to brim with tears as she gazed back into his eyes...

But her tears were more than enough to send him into panic mode..

...all his anger...

...all his rage..

...evaporated like a puff of smoke as he saw tears streaming down her eyes..

"Nandini..."he immediately covered the distance between them and cupping her face started to wipe her tears away.. "what happened..tum ro kyu rahi ho.."

His words..

..in fact..

..his care...

..the worry that was present in his eyes for her made her feel even more guilty...

..as a result she couldn't take it anymore and the next moment she ended up hugging him without even caring about the fact that there were too many watchful eyes on them at that very moment..

..but she simply didn't care anymore..

...because all she needed at that point of time was..

MANIK..

..and...

...MANIK ONLY.

Her actions took him by surprise too. He could see that every one around who were present around them was looking..

...rather...

...gawking at them only.

He tried to say something but he couldn't as she hugged him even tighter that was more than enough to make him forget about everything else that wasn't them.

In fact her presence alone was more than enough to make him forget about his own existence.

Though he was shocked for few moments due to her actions but it didn't take him much time to realise the real reason why she was doing what she was doing..

...in fact it took him even less time to behave exactly like her only...

...as finally he got struck by lightning of realisation...

...that she was finally there...

...in his arms...

...for real.

It wasn't a dream..

..but indeed reality..

HIS REALITY.

His hope won..

...as his shining star came back to him...

...to shine brightly for him.

But what truly made him even more ecstatic was the fact that even she was feeling the same..

..yes..

...even Nandini..was feeling exactly the same thing...

...that she was in her MONSTER'S embrace for real.

This wasn't a dream..

It was indeed real..

..it was their reality.

All the fear..her apprehension..her nervousness that was filled in her mind from last couple of days..everything that she went through it just evaporated like a puff of smoke..

...leaving a calm and a soothing feeling behind.

She was so happy that she didn't even realise when her grip on him tightened which Manik lost his mind too.

He didn't care anymore that he was supposed to be angry with her..

...he didn't care that they were indeed standing in the middle of road under the watchful eyes of every stranger that was passing by..

..he didn't care that he was supposed to reach SPACE on time..

..he just didn't...

..because all he cared and cherished that indeed his shining star had returned back into his life and right now she was in his embrace and he was hugging for real.

So without wasting another moment he hugged her back to by engulfing her in his strong arms..

...only with one desire in his mind...

...to never let her go...

...ever..

They both knew that they had tonnes of issues that they both need to sort out..

..but they simply let it pass only to deal with it later.

They decided to cross the bridge when they absolutely had too..

...but for now...

..they were too happy being lost into their own world..

...which was their perfect piece of forever.

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**Those who were waiting for MaNan's tashan..

...next chapter will be for all of them.

I am giving daily updates..in fact sometimes back to back updates of his story..

..so it really disturbs me when I see messages like UPDATE THE NEXT PART SOON../ WHEN WILL YOU UPDATE / NEXT CHAPTER PLEASE.

So I am requesting to stop putting these kind of messages as I am already giving back to back updates and this is the best I can manage..so sorry I cannot update any faster then this. This is all I can manage.

Hopefully I have made my point crystal clear..

Thank you.**