~ 🄾🄲🅃🄾🄱🄴🅁 11, 2021 ~

"Happy Birthday Nandini!!!"

Her birthday had officially commenced with all wishes from the community members spamming on the birthday wishes channel on discord. Her face lit up with a wide smile as she went through the wishes, touched by them as she knew all had taken out some moments from their busy schedule, just to wish her and she was indeed thankful to all of them. What a wonderful start to her birthday, she thought and lied down on the bed, replying to all the wishes.

"On what rollercoaster ride would the community update of my birthday send me on?" She wondered, trying to guess which all places she'll be transported and/or teleported to in the update.

"It would take you on something you'd never have imagined!" a voice whispered, startling her! She looked around but spotted no one. Maybe she was just too excited and had begun to imagine stuff!

"Calm down Nandini! There's still time for the community update. Just get some sleep" She lied down on the bed and closed her eyes. Just then a cool gust of wind brushed past her face waking her up.

"You really don't want any adventure for yourself Nandini? Want to just read the community update and not experience it?" A voice whispered again.

Excitement, anticipation and slight fear rushed through her veins at this sudden unexpected occurrence. "I do! But how?"

"Leave it to us." She heard the voice say and before she knew it, she had been lifted from her bed and was made to stand in front of the mirror. Hues of blue surrounded her, enveloping her completely. For a few seconds, all she could see was blue mist all around. The mist left her as suddenly as it had come and Nandini was left gawking at the mirror! It wasn't her in the mirror right? The girl in the mirror looked like a princess, wrapped in blue silk and transformed from head to toe. It took a few more moments for her to believe it was her in the mirror after which she twirled around happily. It really felt great!

"You're looking beautiful Nandini." she heard Pahul's voice say.

"Thank....." She began to say as she turned but stopped midway when she couldn't spot anybody. Her brows furrowed in confusion.

"Where are you Pahul?" she asked

"Right here." She heard her say and soon enough the wall behind her bed opened out and all the community members entered her room.

"Wish you a very Happy Birthday Nandini! May God bless you! You're really looking amazing! Here, I've brought a gift for you" Pratyusha said as she stepped ahead and hugged Nandini. She then handed over her gift and it turned out to be her first published novel which happened to be an improvised version of Into The Depths Of Time!

"Thank you so much Pratyusha!" She said ecstatically and safely kept the book aside. She was then wished by the other community members and received numerous gifts, all her favourite.

"Ahh I got late!! The birthday girl has already received the gifts even before cutting the birthday cake. Sorry Nandini, I really got late", Virat Kohli said as he entered the room with the birthday cake in hand. Nandini couldn't believe her eyes. Her favourite sportsperson had brought her a birthday cake!!!

He placed it on the table and handed over a gift bag. Nandini took it in daze and looked inside. She put her hand in and pulled out a card.

"This card is from the three of us. Wish you a very Happy Birthday!!"

"Thank you!!"

The next thing was a t-shirt with his signature on it.

"Thank you so much for this!!" she squealed excitedly.

It was then time for cake cutting. Amidst all singing the Happy Birthday song, she blew the candles and cut the cake. She then fed it to all of them. Virat then bade goodbye as he had to be there to take care of Vamika since Anushka was keeping a little busy.

The lights in the room dimmed and created a different ambience. Soft melodies played in the background even as all swayed to the slow rhythms, enjoying the vibe set. Right from Yeh Haseen Waadiyan to Dil Ibadat, all of her favourite songs played and she along with the others, sang and swayed.

The music session was soon done. The community members bade goodbye and left the same way they had come. The wall then closed back. With a loud sound, the window transformed into a door to another room! She walked into it and was astounded to see what it was! It was a hands-on styling session with robotic miniatures and she thoroughly enjoyed styling with them.

Just as she stepped out of the room, red mist covered her all of a sudden and when it cleared, she found herself in the climax scene of 3 Idiots and got to interact with Rancho, Pia, Raju and Farhan as if she's just another character of the film!

She had a great time with all of them as well as they teased Silencer together. Rancho or to be precise, our Phunsukh Wangdu also showed her around his innovative school and she received an invite for Pia and his wedding, personally signed by him!

And then, before she could realise, she was transported across prominent scenes of Veer Zara, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun etc and got to interact with the characters! And then, just as she was transported back to her room.........

The loud ringing of her alarm woke her up, jerking her out of her dream! Yes, it was all a dream! Before she could do anything more, she heard her phone ping with a notification. She opened it and it turned out to be the community update. She opened it hurriedly and recognised all of it to be exactly what and how she had dreamt!

"Still think it's a dream Nandini?" a voice whispered and she looked around in bewilderment! That was when her eyes fell on the gifts lying near her bed. So it wasn't a dream after all...

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𝙵𝚘𝚛: Nandini_001
𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝙱𝚢: Psr1403
𝙴𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙱𝚢: pahul_gpk