Nandini's POV

"Ready Mukti?" I asked her and she nodded in agreement.

Abhi bhai was gonna give us a ride to Alya's place, on his request oops sorry on his order may I tell you.

"Bhai, why didn't you just let me drive? Main aapki Mukti ka bohot accha khayaal rakhti!" I joked.

He chuckled in reply, "I know baba.. Tu nahi toh aur kon rakhega meri muku ka dhyaan," He gave me a brief smile as he put the key in the ignition, "But if I would've let you drive na, toh I would've missed this 20 precious minutes to spend with my wife." He said, winking at me through the rear view mirror and held Mukti's hand in his. I shook my head still smiling at the couple as Mukti slapped his arm playfully then gave him a kiss on his cheek.
They both never cease to amaze me. I can literally imagine these two behaving exactly like this even in their 70s.

I turned towards the window to give them privacy with my earphones plugged on and let my mind wonder off to Manik's thoughts. I thought about the way he was with me today, so caring, so sweet. But the thing that is stuck in my head since he'd said it, is,

'I won't force you ever, to be my girlfriend'

I was actually a little scared about the girlfriend thing, but his words helped me calm my nerves. Not that I didn't trusted him or had faith issues, it's just every girl gets a little worked up thinking about this topic.
I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I didn't even realize when we had arrived. We bid bye to Abhi bhai and went in without ringing the doorbell as it was already open. But immediately regretted it.

"Sheesh, guyss!!" I shouted and closed my eyes with my hands, as Mukti did the same.

A few seconds later, I heard shuffling and someone clearing their throat. I peeked through my fingers and saw Dhruv and Alya standing with their faces flaming.

"Seriously guys! Tum dono ko bhi yehi time mila tha to make out." Mukti teased making them go even redder.

"Nahi wo I was just going so, um.." Dhruv tried reasoning out when I interrupted him.

"So it was just a small goodbye kiss which turned into a heated make out session, right?" This time I teased and he groaned before quickly waving at us and leaving.
We joked around with Alya a little bit then decided to leave her alone now.

"By the way, where is Dhruv going?" I asked helping Alya in setting up the food and pillows.

"I told him to go for a night out.. Did you thought we'll have a girls sleepover with him in the house!"

"But it didn't look like you wanted him to leave, a few minutes ago, did it?" I said laughing and she blushed furiously.

"Guyss.. Bas na. Bohot ho gaya." She whined like a baby.

"Kya bohot ho gaya bhai?" Navya asked as she entered with Sanjana through the main door.

After we all hugged and greeted each other, I explained the scene we'd witnessed a while ago causing Navya & Sanju to fall in hysterics and Alya's face to turn into a beetroot.

Alya huffed, "You guys are so mean," She pointed at us but smiled and stood up, "I'll go and bring some wine for you three-" She pointed at me, Sanjana & Navya, "and tea for us-" She said as she gestured towards Mukti and herself, "Will that be ok?" And we all nodded.

"Ok Lemme help you.." I suggested and we both went to fetch the decided drinks.

"Hey, has Dhruv gone for a night out alone?" I asked her as I took out a bottle of red wine from the fridge and three flute glasses from the cabinet.

She poured the brew into two large mugs and replied to my question, "No.. Along with the other boys, obvio!" She shrugged while opening 2 packets of sugar and putting them in both the mugs.

"Ohh.. Other boys as in, Abhi bhai included?" I asked when we had returned to our original place on the couch. She gave me a nod as an answer to my question and plopped a strawberry, coated in chocolate, into her mouth.

"But why didn't he tell us then?" Mukti asked taking a sip of her brew.

"Because usse pata hi nahi hoga. This Dhruv na! He said he'll just go and pick everyone up in his car, so he didn't even bother asking anyone. It was kinda spontaneous.." She shrugged

"Achha forget about them na guys, it's supposed to be a girls' night." Navya whined finishing her glass of wine.

"Ok so lets play a game," Alya exclaimed, "We'll ask each other questions, anything actually, and if we're not satisfied with their answer they'll have to do a dare given by all of us.." She looked at us with her eyebrows raised.

"Cool."

"I'm in."

"Me too"

"Fair enough!" I too gave my reply when I noticed a cute li'l teddy in Navya's hand. "Hey Navu, that teddy's so cute.. But where'd that come from? It wasn't there when you entered." I said as I watched it in awe. There's one thing 'bout me and that is, I absolutely adore soft toys.

"It was in my bag.. Actually Cabir bought this for me today.." She told me blushing and we all replied in a chorus of 'Oohs'.

"Aww, that's so sweet of him," I said hugging her from sideways, "But why all of a sudden?"

She shrugged, "I don't know. Even I asked him the same but he said can't he give me gifts, and that when he saw this at a store he thought of me and just bought it.."

"You guys are so cute!" Sanjana cooed, to which we all shared a laugh.

"Now can we pleeaasee start the game." Alya asked impatiently, extra stretching the please.

"Ok I'll go first.. Hmm, What is your biggest fear in your relationship?" Mukti asked Alya.

Alya hesitated for a moment before replying, "I-I sometimes think what'll happen if Dhruv got fed up with my tantrums or what if, what if we fell out of love.."

"Aw, Alu.." I went and hugged her while Sanjana and Mukti held her hands and Navya rubbed her back, to comfort her.. "Listen, you cannot just fall out of love when your love is true. And I'm damn sure your love is true, in fact all of you guys' love is so adorable.. I look up to your relationships, so just throw that stupid fear of yours outta the window, Ok?" I told Alya truthfully and was instantly attacked by their group hug.

"Oh guys, don't make me emotional now. C'mon let's-" I was soon interrupted by the doorbell. "-continue. Who could that be, Alya? You having any visitors?" When she shook her head, I got up to open the door.

"You guys?! Tum log yahan kya kar rahe ho? Didn't Alya tell you we're having a girls night, which means boys are not allowed!" I crossed my arms as I glared at the 5 idiots in front of me.

"Woah. Calm down mere sher" Cabir said and petted my hair. I swatted his hand and sighing let them in.

"What the hell are you guys doing here?" Alya huffed with her hand on her hip.

"Arre tum sab aise kyu chilla rahe ho as if we have done a crime!" Manik asked narrowing his eyes.

"Ji haan. It is a crime. How can you guys crash into our girls' night.."

"What is this 'Girls' night'? Kabse laga rakha hai 'Girls' night'!!" Varun now said waving his hand in the air.

"We girls' just wanted to have some fun together." Sanjana said standing next to me glaring at them.

"And you guys couldn't tolerate that!" Navya groaned from the couch.

"Guys, guys relax!" Dhruv tried to stop us but before he could we all started speaking at the same time. Shouting, blaming at glaring at each other.

"SHUT UP!" We all stopped hearing Mukti and Abhi, creating pin drop silence in the room. "Uff, guys! Bache ho kya.. Ok now you boys are gonna go upstairs and do whatever you wanna do but you won't come down. Except for the kitchen." All the guys nodded together. "And we girls, would be downstairs doing whatever we wanna do but won't go up. Except for the restroom." All the girls nodded. "Deal?"

"Deal" We chorused and took back our places.

"Let's continue now. My turn! Kiss, Marry, avoid. With Ranbir Kapoor, Salman Khan and Shahid Kapoor." Alya said to Navya.

"Easy. Kiss Shahid Kapoor, Marry Ranbir and Avoid Salman Khan." (P.S. No offense to Salman Khan! Or his fans.)

All the girls screamed at her answer. Some in agreement and others in anger.

We all played for an hour or so when again my turn to answer came.

"Ok moving on. Nandu, Kill, Marry, Hookup. With Manik, Varun and Vishal." Navya said looking at me with a smug look.

"Wait, but who's this Vishal?" Sanjana asked after drinking her wine.

"He was Nandu's colleague in London. And Nandu had a huge, I mean really HUGE, crush on him. And you won't believe kab tak. For a whole year." Navya giggled, enjoying embarrassing me.

"Navyaa.."

"And-And she used to gush about him all the time. Vishal this, Vishal that, OMG Vishal called me beautiful today, He kissed me-"

"Ok that's enough. I think they got the point Navya!" I scowled at her while all the girls laughed at my embarrassment.

"Achha ab answer toh de Navya ke question ka!" Mukti smirked at me.

But before I could answer, Sanjana tapped my shoulder and pointed at the teddy bear in Navya's hand. I furrowed my eyebrows together and saw what she wanted me to see.

Manik's POV

"....Vishal called me beautiful today, He kissed me-"

What?! Someone kissed her. Bu-But I thought it was her first kiss with me. 

"Wohoo, looks like our Nandu has a crush!" Cabir said and wolf whistled.

"Crush! Huh! Bullshit! She was totally crazy about that guy. Crush is an understatement!" Varun said scoffing and I instantly clenched my fist. Crazy, my foot! Muh na todd du saale ka!

"But ab toh nahi hai na.. She's over him!" I snapped crossing my arms while all the guys laughed at me.

Currently we were listening to the girls' conversations. How? Well, Cabir today gifted a teddy bear to Navya with a microphone in it. So now we were all enjoying listening their talks.
We found out things like Sanjana had her first kiss with a guy named Rohan, when she was 17. Mukti has a fear of Jokers. Nandu wants to go on a romantic date with me......not. Unfortunately she wants to go with Parth Samthaan. Seriously!? And apparently when Alya was asked what she'd do if she had 1 million dollars, she said that she would spend all the money on shopping. Uh...no comments! Also Navya's weirdest dream was that Cabir was dressed in a feminine outfit and Navya was painting his toe nails. Again...no comments.

All of a sudden we heard a bunch of loud footsteps coming upstairs.

Uh Oh.
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Hiii amazing people. ❤

I'm so lucky to have such patient readers. First of all Happy New Year to all of you. May all your wishes come true. So c'mon let us all have a wonderful 2k17 !! 🎉🎊

Now the most important thing, I'm sorry. BIG WAALA SORRY. Kaan pakadke. But I'd say please last time maaf kardo. Either consider it your new year gift to me or better it's my BIRTHDAY today.. So please maaf kardo and mujhe mera birthday gift dedo! 😘

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~Anya