Few hours before

Arya came to nandini's room and closed the door with thud.shouting

Ar: wth nandini why didn't u tell.me that manik.is the one.....(pissed off)

N: Kia btati tmhe ke kon hai wo......(she retorted)......woh jis ki waja se mein aaj yahan hn....ya wo jis ne mere baap ko maar dala.......(her voice choked) ya wo jo mere phle mohabbat tha (lost)

Arya looked at her shocked unable to believe what he just heard.......she was stating about her luv ..... what does it mean do she still luv him.....

Ar: nandini yaar Idk what to say.......but u know naa I will support u in every decision whatever it is (placing his hand on her)

N: I know arya......thats why I share my everything with u

Ar: how do u feel being here.......seeing manik after so many years (he wanted to break manik's bones but still he was asking about her feelings bcz all he wanted was her happiness only)

N: Idk i literally don't know how the hell m feeling (irritated)...... at one moment i just wanna kill him but u know what even after all this we ate together last night....he cooked food for me and I kind of enjoyed it (little hesitance in her voice as she was thinking about arya that what would he feel about her after listening all this)

Ar: hmmmm (pressing her hand as in a gesture that he was listening her )

N: Idk I shouldn't feel like this but I felt bad when Abhi punched him misbehaved with him (she was now irritated bcz of the things happening......her heart..... it wasn't in her control which was making her frustrated....she had tears in her eyes)

Ar: it's okay relax nandu sb theek hojaye ga (hugging her)

After she composed herself he thought to give her a reality check

Ar: ummmm nandini I don't want more sufferings in ur life but I think that u still have feelings for him (in a serious tone)

Her face went pale at the revelation but then she said

N: arya I wanna sleep.....niklo mere room se (pushing him lightly avoiding their eye contact)

And then they were standing at the door...nandini still pushing him while he was cracking jokes to lighten her mood.......thats when manik saw them and misunderstood it

Other side

Manik was standing there hitting his foot with wall while blinking his tears time to time to stop tears from coming out.......after few minutes he went towards kitchen and grabbed bottles of alcohol......he was passing by the corridor when he saw his image on the mirror.......dishelved hair....eyes red showing his inner turmoil and water glittering at the corner of his eyes.......he sighed and went away ignoring it..well after all it wasn't new to him.........he opened the door of his room by kicking it with his foot and went towards the balcony while drinking the alcohol......he was drinking bottle one after the other but his pain was still there.....he wasn't able to forget that scene......laughing nandini and arya.......punching arya on his stomach...........he closed his eyes in pain

Ayee khuda kab tak....kab tak ye sab chale ga....kb tak mjhe apne gunaho ki saza is trah mile ge.......kab tak mjhe ye sab bear karna pare ga......thakk (tired) gya hn mein......nhi sehna (bear) hota ab....... ghalti to ho hi jati hai insaan se......bhool gya tha ke mein insaan hn khuda nhi......zaalim (cruel) bn gya tha.....(tears rolled down his eyes making her cheeks wet)..... lekin ab mjhe ehsaas hogya hai but ab tak mere zindagi wese hi hai....logo ka behaviour wese hi hai.....nandini move on kar chuki hai......she doesn't luv me....she moved on so easily.....itni bari Saza mile ge ab mjhe.....mein jis ko chahta hn whi Mjhe chor ke chala jata.....kyon kyon God kyon

(he said in slurry tone throwing the bottle away.....helplessness could be seen from her eyes)

Next morning

Manik woke up with a heavy head....he moved his hand on bed and his hand found some greasy fluid like substance....he turned his face to see the thing and as soon as he saw it he mouthed

Ma: ahhh yuck (while retracing his hand bcz it was vomit.....yesterday night he had vomited on bed bcz of too much alcohol consumption.....he recalled everything....he was still in his thoughts when suddenly he felt nauseatic and ran towards the washroom to puke everything out.......after puking for 2 to 3 times he felt drained and rested his head on wall......later he went to sink to wash his face.....after freshening his headache was relieved ......he asked the servant to prepare breakfast and then changed the bed sheet.....he moved towards the kitchen and he was on door when he had to run to save that servant from falling......he grabbed a water bottle and give it to him....after few minutes servant composed himself and then manik asked

Ma: theek ho??

Servant: nhi wo bs aise hi kbhi kbhi hojata

Ma: breakfast Kia tha aap ne

Servant: wo baba aap logo se phle hm kese kha skte han kuch

Ma: kitni baar Kha hai aap ko kaka jab dil kare Kha liya kare....(scolding him a little)

Then manik folding his sleeves moved towards the stove to cook some food for himself and servant.......all this was witnessed by 2 pairs of eyes who were stunned at the sight.....manik turned around holding his breakfast and found navya and Abhi standing at the kitchen door in their jogging tracks....manik offered them but Abhi in slightly rude way rejected his offer and went away....navya gave a helpless look b4 running behind him.......abhi was looking look strides when navya said

Na: bhai stop....bhai (he said holding his arm)

Abhi turned towards her to listen her when she said

Na: bhai wo i wanna say that don't u think we r too harsh with him.......may be wo aisa n.a. ho jaisa hm soch rhe han....may be wo change hogya ho.....abhi aap ne dekha the n.a. wo mukti bhabi ke servant se kese baat kar rha tha........ it's rare bhai kon apne servants ka Khayal rkhta hai ( conveying her thoughts)

Ab: navya bache u don't know such kind of people....they can do anything like anything to gain someone's sympathy......

Mukti who was cming out of her room listened all this and like always her anger rose and she said

Mu: Abhi (calling him which startled both of them) what would u do it u find out that my parents r responsible for ur father's death (folding her hands )

Ab: (having no words to answer he was just looking at her face with a glint of shock.....what did she just said)....... Kia keh rhi ho mukti

Mu: no answer my question (she said looking at the brother sister while they exchanged looks)

Ab: Idk.....( mukti just raised her eyebrow in response *like seriously* ) to which Abhi added further.......may be may be i would have destroyed ur family.....i would have destroyed u also probably for revenge

Mu: (going close to him)..... that's what manik did (looking straight in his eyes)

With this mukti went away after giving them disgusting looks while Abhi and navya had their eyes wide open trying to digest the information

Arya and navya talked to each other about MANAN and they came to conclusion that they should do sth for their reunion

At night

Dhruliya and Cabti were chatting in the lounge when narya (navya and arya) came.....fab 4 stopped talking and looked at them to find them serious.....they straightened up and asked the matter

Na: wo bhabi we came here to talk about sth (fidgeting with her fingers)

Mu: yeah what happened

Ar: (sensing navya's uneasiness)....... wo bhabi the thing is we wanna talk about manik and nandini ......
I mean the thing is navya has observed manik and according to her he is completely opposite person of what was told......and on the other side i had talked to nandini and I think she still has  feelings for him (he conveyed everything while everyone gaped at nandini's part of information)

Al: so u guys wiĺl support us now........ (excited)

Na: yeah we will but we wanna know one thing....... we know nandini can't lie to us so why manik did it......why was he like that......

Fab 4 exchanged looks and cabir initiated the convo

C: ummmm we can't tell u the details of it.......wo manik is very secretive about it as in no one except us knows about his past........but we can tell u guys one thing that he has suffered a lot in his childhood......life wasn't fair with him.......umm and about nandini....manik wasn't at fault at that time

Ar: so u r saying that nandini is lying (little angry)

Dh: no we didn't say this....lets not get into this focus on the main thing and u will get to know everything with the passage of time (acting as a mediater)

Na: so what's the plan........

Mu: the problem is he is not reacting to anything.....

Ar: he will bhabi..... I just have to make him more angry a little more jealous (smirking)

Fab 4 : what (a little confused)

Arya told them yesterday's event and fab 4 was happy that manik had started reacting at least............

C: but again what is the plan.....how will u do it

Why don't we go to clubbing and everyone turned their heads to find the source and their mouths hung open seeing Abhi in front of  them

Mu: Abhi do u know what r we discussing

Ab: yeah I was listening to ur conversation (everyone gave him a glare)..... I know it's not a gud habit but still it's gud for all of us...... mukti after our conversation i thought about all this and came to conclusion that I was being extra harsh to manik........so m in....... I think we should make both of them realize that they luv each other

Mukti stood up from her place and jumped at Abhi saying

Mu: tysm Abhi.... I luv u (hugging him)

Ar: bhai both luv eacother but they r not ready to confess

Al: hm Kia
liye han (winking at everyone)

Next day

So they all made MANAN agree to accompany them....at first manik resisted bcz he had too much work to do..... for mukti's engagement he was away from Mumbai and it only increased the work load......but then on other side was fab 4.....they emotionally blackmailed him and at last he had to agree......... they were at club chatting laughing.....abhi was gentle towards manik which amazed him but also made him happy.......nandini and manik both were again behaving like strangers.....nandini didn't even find
the need to look at him for once...........soon abhti moved towards the dance floor and dhruliya followed them.......cabir asked navya for dance and they too went leaving MANAN and arya alone.....arya could sense tension in b/w the duo and he found it the best opportunity to execute the plan.....so he asked nandini for dance to which she happily agreed.......manik gripped his glass more tightly watching all this....he was feeling like a third person who must be disturbing them.....so he quietly got up from his place.....he didn't feel like fighting for her.....when she was happy then who was he to stop her......narya went to dance floor and they started dancing romantically.......and everyone got excited to see some action by manik....they were sure that sth would happen .....nandini was getting uncomfortable at the steps but still she ignored it thinking that arya wasn't like this......morover she couldn't go back to the place where they were sitting bcz manik was sitting there and she didn't wanna see his face.......so she plastered beautiful smile on her face and started moving her body according to the music playing on

On the other side manik's eyes were glued at narya watching them dancing romantically having smiles on their faces......it hurts manik's heart stated but when didn't it happen........his life was like this from past 10  years.........

It hurts when u realize that the people u can't live without can live without u happily

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veryone was waiting for manik's  next move but he was sitting at his place drinking uncontrollably......dhruliya decided to instigate him so they went towards him and dhruv said

Dh: manik thje jealousy feel nhi horhi....nandini kisi aur ke sath dance kar rhi

Ma: yaar koi to kush hona.....mere life mein to kbhi kushi ani nhi nandini kush nazar arhi toh let her be (smiling painfully)

The worst kind of pain is when u r smiling just to stop tears from falling

Al: manik (shocked)

Ma: u know what aloo...... I waited for nandini for 5 years but not for this (he choked looking at narya.....a smile still playing on his lips while one or two tears dropped down his eyes.......)

Ma: m sorry guys wait (he placed his hand on eyes while tears started falling continuously)..... dhruliya looked at eachother helplessly.....it hurted them to see manik crying like this.....dhruv came in front of him so.that no one could see manik crying.....

Ma: (after wiping his tears he said)... hmesha hmesha I try to control myself but aisa hi hojata.....dont know why I can't control myself

The duo hugged him and aliya said

Al: we r always there for u manik......

Dh: relax buddy plzz (gripping him tightly)

Al: let's dance (trying to divert his attention)

Ma: haan jao tm dono enjoy karo m fine (patting their shoulders)

Dh: to bhi hmare sath arha hai (pulling manik with himself...manik stumbled at the sudden pull but then stabled himself.......)

Aliya and dhruv held his hands and started dancing

Imagine manik in place of cabir

Soon Cabti joined them and they danced like they did in show

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