Manik's jealousy-fueled, rain-soaked, you-can't-love-anyone-but-me kiss leaves nandini a puddle of goo. At home, ashlok is announcing their departure from the house, throwing everyone up in arms.
Just then, manik and nandini arrive home, sopping wet. nyonika sends them upstairs, but a servant rushes up to manik: " nandini is leaving!"
At that, manik does the unimaginable. He takes nandini by the hand, sweetly interlocking their fingers, and announces that they have something to say.
Manik: "I want to marry nandini"
Nyonika squeals louder than twenty fangirls on speed, hugging nandini and jumping up and down. Her statement to her son: "manik malhotra, why are you so awesome right now?"
Upstairs, manik says goodnight and nandini stops him for a moment, scared that when they wake up, he'll go back to being cold Robot Boy. He backhugs her and casually tosses out, "Should we sleep together then?" She buries her face in his chest, saying how much she likes him and that she never even imagined he'd like her back. manik: "Neither did I."
Back at the restaurant, harshad laments his stupid pushy move on nandini earlier. He packs a lunch for nandini and heads to campus to apologize...only to find a poster announcing Nandini and manik's promise to marry.
Elsewhere on campus, manik breaks the news to alya, who shows her disappointment, but basically acknowledges that everyone knew he liked nandini, but him. She even understands exactly why it was so hard for him to realize it-because nandini was the first problem he's faced that he couldn't solve easily, unlike everything else he's ever encountered.
Manik admits to having a really hard time with it, but now that he's surrendered completely to nandini, he's happy. And it shows on his face.
He apologizes to alya, and admits that he really did think they were a good match, and that he felt comfortable around her. alya puts two and two together: he ran away from the discomfort of his feelings for nandini, and took shelter with her, where he felt comfortable. she plays it cool, congratulating him even while her heart is breaking.
Nandini laments not being able to tell Harshad herself, but he's hurted too much to take her calls. Alya takes out her heartache on a few hundred tennis balls, and aryaman steps up at just the right time, as a shoulder to cry on.
Harshad takes to the river for his bout of angst, complete with beer and a song. Nandini's heart weighs heavy all day too, knowing how harshad must be feeling. She comes to the restaurant where harshad worked part time after closing, and when she appears, harshad braces himself for impact. He tries so hard to put on a brave face, to keep her from saying the words out loud...
Just then, manik walks in, declaring that he likes nandini, and asking for harshad to let her go. That just raises harshad's ire, knowing how badly manik has treated her for a year, but then nandini finally speaks up, and puts the nail in the coffin. Nandini: "harshad saxena, I'm sorry. I'm sorry and I'm grateful."
She starts to say the rest, but harshad turns around, telling her to stop. He gets it. He knows. He's always known, of course. With his back turned, he says, trying to lighten the mood, that nandini has horrible taste in men, and that even if she regrets it later, he won't go back to her.
He turns around with these words: "manik malhotra, don't forget that I'll be watching you. If you make nandini cry, I'll make you cry blood." manik takes the warning to heart, and nandini looks up at harshad, so sorry to cause him this much pain.
Sanjana and mohin comes to the restaurant after getting the news from nyonika to find harshad a mess, and comforts him. Harshad finally lets himself cry, saying that he wanted so much to call nandini's parents "Father and mother."
alya's grandfather is about as happy for the couple as you'd expect, and he decides to pull out of the investment without any qualms. But manik shows up at his office to convince him otherwise. And then...he decides to invest and save the company.
At home, ashlok announces that it's time for manik to leave the company...and go pre-med. As his last duty for the company, he launches the new game. As alya and harshad watch in the wings, alya is reminded of his awesomeness and harshad is spurred on to become just as impressive a man.
Nandini receives her grades, and it's bad news all around. She whines to manik that she thought she had brought her scores up enough to get better final grades, and he just replies that she must've miscalculated.
She looks to him for answers, and he just tells her that she got herself into this mess, and she has to work to get out of it. Defeated, she asks if maybe she should drop out.
Manik nips her pity party in the bud, pointing out that while other students poured their sweat and tears into studying, she's wasted all of her time in fruitless pursuits. He asks pointedly what she'll do if she doesn't go to school...have more time to follow him around? He basically tells her to get off her ass and work hard at something, otherwise she'll have nothing.
Manik further points out-that to her, it doesn't matter what she does. And THAT is upsetting. If her dream in life was to be the best mom in the world, that's an admirable dream. But it's not-it's to be whatever, whenever, as long as it's with manik.
But nandini, stubborn girl that she is, just gets mad at manik for pointing out her faults, and threatens to move out. He does the exact wrong thing, laughing that she's got nowhere to go. That just fuels her defiance, and she leaves, declaring that she'll go to another man. Nyonika worries, but manik tells her that it'll be good for her, to be away from him for a while, and to focus on herself.
Nandini heads over to her girlfriend, who give her the best kind of support-beer and girltalk. She stays at navya's house, and although she misses manik like crazy, the second she spies on him at school and sees him smiling without a care in the world, she decides to stand her ground and not return home.
Mom frets over nandini, but manik insists that they let nandini deal with this on her own.
Nandini wanders the streets for a while, having been kicked out of navya's house because of visiting family. She walks and walks, finally letting the anger subside, and coming to a conclusion. Perhaps what manik said was right: she's always lived for him, and never thought about what she wanted for her own future. She decides that she can't return like this, and that she wants to marry manik as someone who is equally impressive and worthy.
Nandini takes a job at a local restaurant, and after finding out where she works from navya and shahid, manik shows up for lunch. Nandini tells him that she's thought long and hard about what to do with her life, and what she wants to be. She's come to the conclusion that she wants to help manik and be by his side, so she's decided to become a nurse.
Manik smiles and holds her tight, telling her to return home now. She sighs in relief, saying that she truthfully missed him like crazy. He knows, and makes it all okay with his embrace.
Once home, the family is back to its usual bustling chitchat, until nyonika declares that everyone needs to clear their schedules for next Wednesday. What's next Wednesday, you ask?
Why manik and nandini's wedding of course.