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Chapter 2

Nandini's POV...

"The Scarlet Town...our town is one of the ancient town considered to be here on this land. Previously the town was called as the town of angels!..." Professor Martha, the history teacher continued to lecture us on the so called history of our town and I was least interested in it.

I scribbled the random digits, emojis on the last page of my notepad and chewed to my chewing gum slowly.

"Chewing gums are for eating Amore!"

Manik's voice rang in my head and suddenly the chewing gum in my mouth tasted bad.

Tearing a small piece of page from my notepad I spit the chewing gum over it and hide it under my desk quietly.

The mocking laugh of those five badass people resonated in my ear and I made a distasted face.

Suddenly I realized the unusual silence in the class.

Prof. Martha was not speaking anymore and I raised my head to look at her only to gulp tightly because she was staring at me with hard eyes.

"May I ask the reason of your disinterest in the lecture Miss Murthy?" She snarled at me with furious eyes and I bite my tongue.

Ho gaya kachra!

"Wo! Ma'am! I am very much attentive towards your lecture!" I spoke trying to act confident while Mukti and Alya sighed behind my back...

Nothing new!

I know I'll be kicked out in next few seconds...

"Oh yeah? Then please tell me what I was telling to the class? Would you like to come to the rostrum?" She mocked at me with you-are-so-gone look and I mentally rolled my eyes.

She knew I wasn't attentive then why the hell she was trying to embarrass me more?

Just tell me to get out and I'll happily do..

"History of Scarlet Town!" Alya whispered from back in my ear and I nodded silently.

"Miss Saxena!! Don't help your friend!" Prof. Martha barked at Alya and I got up before she could scold Alya more.

"It's ok Prof. my fault! I wasn't attentive! And I am sorry for that!" I immediately accepted my fault and apologized.

"Very well Miss Murthy! Do the honors of leaving my class quickly and come back when you are feeling interest!" Prof. Martha hates me since I was in junior section because once she slapped me and I cried. Because of my crying Daddy came to school and he had a good fight with Martha...

Now Daddy was not there to protect me so I didn't want to get in a fight with Martha...

It was good that I should leave the class...

"OUT!!" She shouted at me with a smirk and I picked my bag up.

I looked back at my friends and they were begging with eyes not to leave but I needed to.

Quickly I wore my bag and without giving a single glance to Martha I started walking out of the class...

As soon as I left the class I heard a roar of laughter breaking inside and I held my head up.

Nothing new...

Even in junior section everyone used to laugh at me...

Nothing new...

I gave myself tasali and started walking in the corridors quietly.

I don't blame life...I don't blame anyone for all the sh!ts happening in my life...

It's all me of course...

Aunt Maria says everything happens for a reason...

So my life being miserable stands for a reason?

Is there any way to get away this constant ache which is in my heart all the time...

The pain was sometimes too much to handle...

I walked around the whole campus just to find a place where I can hide and get away from all the people who were staring at me...

I switched off my phone too because I didn't want my friends to come running behind me out of pity...

Finally I found a quiet corridor and a room at the end of it.

I slumped near the door along the wall and sighed in relief...

I was tired...

I was tired of walking alone...

I was tired of thinking...

I was tired of being told over and over again that I was such a disappointment....

I was tired of getting scold on each small thing from Big brother...

Why everyone wanted me to be perfect?

I can't be perfect...why this world don't accept me the way I am?

Nobody tells me that I am okay the way I am...

But yes...

There was only one person who made me feel special...

I wish I could curl up in his arm and he would hide me in his embrace...

At least he made love to me...

At least he made me feel beautiful...

I wish you can be here Mr. Unknown...

That meant nothing to you that you never come back for me?

I was heartbroken...

Maybe for him it was just a one night but for me...

He became my every thing...

What will I say to him when he'll come in front of me?

Nandu you don't even remember his face...

You won't be able to recognize him...

My heart dropped into my stomach and I rested my head against the wall...

Thoughts and thoughts...

I was so tired of thinking...

Shh! I'll not think anymore...

I closed my eyes and started taking deep breaths.

The peaceful silence of the corridor was so deep that I could hear my own heart beating softly against my chest.

But suddenly the peace got disturbed as I heard the strumming of some music instrument...

A guitar...

Who was playing it?

I wondered and looked around for the source. Soon I realized that the sound was coming from the only room. I was leaning to its wall and the door was slightly opened.

Sajda tera kar na sakoon,

Woh bandgi kya bandgi,

Tere bina jeena pade,

Toh zindagi kya zindagi,

Suddenly someone started singing with the guitar rhythm and my heart was caught up in my throat on the intensity of the voice...

So much of pain and anguish was being held in that voice...

The voice sounded familiar.

Kya rang laaya dil ka lagana,

Goonje hawa mein,

Bichde dilan diyan duhaiyan,

The voice continued and my inside trembled...

I felt the song piercing inside my heart and felt every bit...every beat...every word of the song...

Each word drop tiny bombs on my already wounded heart and my hand automatically reached my heart.

Ve badi lambiyaan si judaiyan,

Whoever was singing was in pain and I felt that his pain was directly transferring to my heart.

The pang of separation aroused in my heart.

I knew that the guy who was my first didn't need to stay whole night with me and had to be the first man I'll see in the morning but I so wished him to be there...

He left me...

I didn't deserve that didn't I?

Tere nishan yaadon mein hain,

Tu kyun nahi takdeer mein,

I held my erratically beating heart close and breathed deeper.

I needed to see who was singing with such pain and sadness.

Taking a deep breath and gathering loads of courage I tried peeking through the slightly opened door.

Nadaan dil hai dhoonta,

Gurbat teri tasveer mein,

The guy who was singing now holding a picture upto his face but I didn't fail to recognize the clothes...

My breath was lost when I realized who he was...

The style and his aura can't be mistaken...

Oh no...you gotta be kidding me...

MANIK MALHOTRA...

Mumkin nahi hai tujhko bhulana,

Dekhe khudaya do aashiqan diyan tabahiyan,

Ve Badi lambiyaan si judaiyaan,

Judaiyan judaiyan,

Ve badi lambiyaan si judaiyaan,

I stared at him like a fool and finally I saw him crumbling the picture in his hand.

His face was visible and it was twisted in pain...

The guitar he was holding I could see his grip tightening over it as he sang once again closing his eyes.

He looked so handsome and so HOT!

Wait what?

I practically ogled at him...I realized he has a girlfriend?

Oh...that means he is not single...

And I had no right to stare at him.

Why would he even notice me...I was no special moreover he and his friends they...mocked at my T-shirt...

My heart once again dropped in my stomach and I saw him finishing his song...

Now he was slowly opening his eyes and something shone over his right cheek...

OMG...he was...CRYING?

Did I really just see a tear on his cheek??

He was crying for his girlfriend?

Something stirred inside me and I backed off back with the wall hugging my knees...

A man crying for his girl...

She must be so lucky.

What else can be beautiful then that...

Manik Malhotra was crying for a girl...lucky one...

The feeling that I'll have no one to cry for me made me super sad and my eyes got teary.

I let few tears slip down my cheeks and unintentionally peeked back to see if he was still crying but to my dismay he wasn't there...

I bite my lower lip and got up from the floor sneaking inside the room.

Where did he go?

He was right here few minutes ago. And I very well remember I didn't see him leaving the room either.

Looking around the room keenly I quietly placed my bag and my bottle on one of the table.

His guitar was still lying near the stool on which he was sitting moments ago resembling to some geek god...

I slowly walked towards the guitar and stared at it for few seconds before reaching for it. I picked it up and felt it immensely heavy...

Woaa! Manik is a tough guy to handle it though...

I didn't even know how to hold it properly...

Smiling softly to myself I traced the features of the guitar and noticed the pattern which was crafted over it...

A red tear drop...

RED tear drop?

Tear is white...it was red...

That means it was a blood drop...

Ouch...looks deadly...

I shrugged and tried to hold the guitar properly when...

"You shouldn't be touching my things Amore!" His husky, panty-dripping whisper touched my ear and I went still...

Damn...he was breathing right over my ear and I my breath stopped...

"I...! I ju—just!" I tried to muster up words but nothing came out because I felt his hands covering mine over the guitar as he very casually helped me to hold it properly...

DAMN DAMN DAMN!

His manly, intoxicating, and very very seductive cologne scent hit my nostrils causing my head to go wobble-gobble. I was afraid what if my knees buckled down...

"Hold it like this...see?" He whispered in my ear and I could feel his lips over my skin...

Jesus!

I really needed holy water.

"You know!" He whispered again and strummed my fingers over the strings. "You shouldn't be eavesdropping!" His voice turned into dangerous one and I gulped...

Was I in trouble?

Definitely I was because now he was placing the guitar back and as soon as he placed the guitar back he made me turned towards him with a jerk...

"You were eavesdropping amore!" His dangerous voice made me stare in his gorgeous beautiful eyes irresistibly and I stood numb. He too stared back for few seconds before leaning closer and cupping my cheek very gently with his soft palm...

God...his touch was so so so soft and caring...

"You were crying?" He asked softly stroking my cheek with his thumb and tried to swipe a dried tear away.

How did he know I was crying?

"How do you know I was crying?" I blurted out and he shook his head with a small smile...

"I know you more than you know yourself Amore!" He spoke in a loving tone which left so many butterflies fluttering in my stomach helplessly.

"How?" I asked lowly. With one hand he was cupping my cheek and other slid through my waist as he hoisted me up like a doll making me sit on the table. He himself stood between my legs!

"Because you are mine since eternity!" He told me softly and very casually while I stared at him with wide shocked eyes.

What the hell he was talking about?

"Yours? And eternity? I am just 18!" I spoke innocently and he threw his head back letting out a soft chuckle.

What a beautiful laugh he has...

"But still it's an eternity Amore! Yes you are 18 but you are mine!" He spoke recovering from his laughing session and I was confused again...

"What are you saying? I am not able to understand anything!" I spoke lowly once again feeling a fool because I was not able to understand the situation again.

"Hey hey! Look at me!" He spoke lovingly shaking me to look at him when he found me sad. "You don't need to understand this abhi! When the time will come! You'll get to know everything! I promise!" He spoke in such a romantic loving tone and caressed my cheeks with such love that I felt miserable in his arms.

He was so so familiar...

His touch was so familiar...

And what the hell was I doing with Manik Malhotra and what the hell we were just talking?

"You are so familiar!" I spoke raising a hesitant hand to touch his cheek and finally made it.

"Am I?" He asked softly snuggling in my touch and I nodded with a small smile...

"Why did you cry?" He asked and his eyes held something...a spell maybe that I felt a strong urge to tell him everything...

"Because I have no one to cry for me just the way you cried for that girl in the picture! I want someone in my life you can cry for me! I also want to be the lucky one!" I spoke reaching the heights of sadness and I could see Manik's eyes turning painful...

"You are the lucky one Amore! Don't think like this!" He whispered shaking his head and cupping my cheeks.

I wanted to stop speaking but my tongue didn't stop.

"I am so tired and alone!" I whimpered sobbing lowly and Manik again shook his head telling me not to cry while my chin wobbled badly.

"No Amore! Just hang on for few more time! You are not alone! I have your back! I have got you! Am here! I won't let you get tired! I will steal you away!" He spoke lovingly staring in my eyes and I smiled like a fool trusting to his words...

"Aik baat pochon?" I asked lowly holding ti his hand and he smiled nodding his head.

"Why are you so familiar? Do we know each other?" Okay! I can't ask him directly if he was the one who made love to me...

He just smiled at me and leaned closer until I found his lips touching to my forehead...

Damn!

It burned my skin and I gripped to his blazer tightly.

He backed off slowly and I smiled like a mad woman staring at his face but now his smile was gone...

"I am so sorry for doing this to you again Amore! But now is not the right time for you to know everything!" He whispered in a painful tone and I failed to understand his meaning until he cupped my cheeks again.

"Listen to me, my LOVE! You came into this room accidently! You didn't hear to Manik's song! You didn't see Manik here! You didn't have a romantic conversation with him either! Close your eyes and open them when I'll be gone!" He spoke in a dead cold serious tone and I closed my eyes on his command only to open them back again...

Wait what??

What the hell am I doing in this room?

And why am I sitting on a desk?

Sh!t!

I was kicked out of the class and now am hanging out in here...

Damn Nandini! Such a fool you are!

Mukti and Alya must be searching for me...

I should get going...

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"God Nandini! I so wanted to kill Martha! When she misbehaved with you! I swear if she did this to you next time! We are gonna report her!" Mukti my lady Hulk was so angry and I giggled shaking my head.

"It's okay Mukti! I am used to it!" I told her casually as we walked towards the canteen.

"Okay just leave it! Tell me what are we gonna eat today!?" Alya asked tying to cheer our moods and I made a bad face.

"I have cheese macaroni sandwich in my bag! Bhaiya has made a rule about not eating from canteen! So...!" I spoke with a sad face and showed them my lunch box...

God...it was so embarrassing,,,

"Aww its ok! Brothers are always brothers you know! Come inside at least join us!" Mutki said shrugging her shoulders and soon they were dragging me inside the canteen.

As soon as we entered the canteen both my girls gasped...

"They are here!" Both squeaked and I too looked around.

I quickly spotted them sitting on a table and all five of them were laughing on something.

I rolled my eyes and it didn't take them another second to spot us.

"I hate them!" I whispered lowly and now my girls dragged me towards the table nearest to them.

"It's our chance Nandu!" Alya scolded me and I gave her a glare.

Like seriously even what happened earlier she still thinks that any of these five will date me?

NO WAY!

Now we reached the table near to them. Alya Mukti waved them a hello to which all of them replied with equal excitement except Robbert. He was busy in some book.

"Hey Tweety Bird!" Cabir...the asshole waved at me with his ugly smile and I so wanted to punch him in the face.

I ignored his comment and was about to follow my friends sitting on the chair when he suddenly got up...

"Wait wait!!" He shouted loudly stopping me from sitting on it and I stopped with wide eyes.

"I know I shouldn't have made fun of your T-shirt! Please accept my apology! And sit on this chair! Come I'll hold this for you!" He suddenly became the gentleman and looked at me with puppy eyes which worked instantly.

I have a good habit I forgive people very quickly.

I stared at him for a second and looked at my girls who nodded at me to forgive Cabir.

"It's okay!" I muttered softly and walked towards the chair he was holding for me.

I sat on the chair. But as soon as I sat I felt something sticky under my butt...

My eyes widened and I tried to reach the thing which was feeling sticky.

My eyes bulged out of my saucers when I realized I sat on a CHEWING GUM!

"What happened, Tweety Bird?" Cabir asked from behind innocently and I felt myself a fool to trust his apology...

I got up with a jerk and all the chewing was now stuck to my new jeans...

"Chicken!!!" Cabir broke out into fits of laughter when I tried to hide the chewing gum and my girls stood with me.

"What do you thought? Cabir Dhawan will apologize?" He mocked at me.

He and his friends started laughing so loudly so was the whole canteen while I stood like a fool all embarrassed.

My eyes darted towards Manik who was laughing staring at my face...

Why my heart didn't want him to laugh at me...?

His laugh hurt me the most and throwing all my things on the floor I run out of the canteen wiping to my tears...

The fact hurt more that it was the same chewing gum which Manik had eaten from me...

I hate him...

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Phuuuf!! I am generous I know!

Nandini dreamt off Manik? No!

I think he compelled her to forget him didn't he? What you think?

And Cabiraaaaa! His pranks...

Our poor Nandu!

And Manik is acting so senseless!

I so hate him! :D

Lolz that's a joke though...

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