Manan : Does love bind you?

Does Love Bind You?

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Published Date : 13th January, 2021

Title : Does love bind you?

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As the hands in her wrist watch strike 6, she sits waiting for him with the bag beside her. She takes out a book from her bag and is about to turn to the page till where she read when the book is snatched from her hand.

It takes her a moment to process what happened and as soon as she comes in term with it, she throws a sharp glance upwards and the moment her eyes are blessed with the familiarity, all her anger subsides and a smile adores her face. She silently picks up her bag and makes space for him to sit.

She looks outside the window adoring the view when suddenly it starts raining.  Her eyes shone with happiness. She has always been a nature lover and especially someone who loves rain. Her this moment of serenity is disturbed when a small box appears between her eyes and the view outside. Her eyes dart towards the hand and realises it was the one that she is used to seeing. She looks up at him, and he passes her his prettiest smile ever and hands her that box. She slowly opens that and sees a note which read,

“Happy birthday Nandini! There is no gift here. Aha until you consider me as a gift! (≧▽≦)! Just a reminder, I love you!
- Manik”

She looks at him and he forwards the other box which he brought out of nowhere. He hands her the second box. She opens it and her eyes are blessed with yet another paper. She unfolds it and sees that it was a handwritten letter.

She starts reading it,

“To my favourite human
( that is me myself, you know kyunki main khud ka favourite hoon)'s  best friend Nandini,

She chuckles but goes on reading,

“I don't want to go all cliche on your birthday but you, my girl, are precious. You mean a lot to me, ( a lot but not the world) because food comes first please and you know that ( ꈍᴗꈍ). Probably words would never be suffice for you. Not gonna write a big letter so that I do have something to write the next time too haina. Can't repeat the same sentences everytime. *nervous laughter*

This is to all those night-outs where you almost burnt my kitchen with your amazing MasterChef skills, and to those lunch dates where we used our maths skills to divide the bill. I love you.
Only yours *winks at you*
- Manik

As on que they hear the announcement of doors opening and after gathering all the stuff move out of the metro. Since it was raining, so they hire a cab and go to his place. Getting down from the cab, they make a run towards the door. The moment they enter the house, the rain starts to subside. They look at the sky and laugh. He sees her soaked in rain and asks her to freshen up and by then he orders food.

She goes to the guest room, freshens up and gets changed into comfortable clothing. Around half an hour later, she moves out of the room and sees the dining table all ready with the pizza boxes. She gets all excited seeing pizza but her what catches her attention is a covered plate with a smile (｡･‿･｡)ﾉ♡ drawn on top of it kept near the boxes. She lifts that plate and sees another chit. She sighs and opens that chit. It had the words “Turn around” written.

She chuckles thinking of it to be another prank by Manik but nevertheless turns around, only to gasp in shock. There he was; Manik; sitting on one knee with a ring in his hand. He looks at her with a smile and asks for her hand. She still with her mouth hung open, in a state of shock gives her hand. He slides the ring, gets up, and jerks her shoulders, bringing  her back to the reality. She looks at him and then her gaze falls on the ring. Her expression of shock turns to confusion when she notices that he slid the ring in her index finger. She looks at him, and he holds her hand and brings her ring finger closer to her eyes. She closely looks at the ring, and sees Nandini engraved on it.

He sees her staring at her name on the ring with an expression that was too hard to decipher and says, “My best friend, already has my name on her ring finger, which is considered a sign of love. But I want her to love herself completely first before loving me or for that matter anyone else. Actually she does not really have a choice  since she is already married to me. Oh did I forget to mention who this 'she' is? Oh well, surprise, it's you. To the woman whose name means 'bringing joy', and to the woman who actually fills my life with joy by just being there, this is to you, my 'Nandini'. I want you to give yourself the love and care you deserve. So here is your birthday gift.

He hands her an envelope, and as she opens it, a smile gets added to her tear stained face. She looks back at him holding the ticket to Paris, the place topping her bucket list and the place she has always wanted to go to. Without a second thought, she hugs him, as if she wanted the hug to convey those million little things running in her mind to him. As on the response, he tightens his hold around her and slowly whispers an ‘I love you!’.

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