PLAYING YOU (#2)

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

"No Manik. You don't have to be so blinded by her love. She is lying i know." Mukti kept on blabbering.

"Mukti listen to me." Manik turned her around, "Whatever she said is the truth. I did this to her. She is not lying." he spitted the truth.

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"No this ain't true. You are not like this." Mukti found it hard to digest that her brother could be such a jerk for his own benefit. It was difficult for her to picture her best bud, her everything do such a thing to a girl for who, Alya, a raging bitch.

"I did. I did all of it and i am guilty about it." Manik turned to Nandini, "I wanted to tell all of it to you over and over again. I had dropped that path soon after i realised i-" he got cut midway.

"Don't! Don't say it." Nandini warned.

"I fell in love with you nandini and that's the whole truth. I was blinded by Alya's fake love and affection cause i was an emotional fool. She used me and i let her do that because i accept it now. I was longing for love and a warm shoulder and she became that. She replaced the love mom promised me with that someday would walk into my love but after i met you i realised that it was not her. It was you. It had always been you. I love you and i am so sorry for everything. You have to understand me." Manik begged nandini as he held her hand.

"No you don't. You loved money and power just like a spoilt jerk that i thought you were since the first day i met you but i was a fool to believe that it was all a facade but the truth is that all this care and fake love is your facade. Your trap you had set to get all my dad's hardwork just so you feel powerfull and untouched." Nandini snapped back turning to her father.

"Dad i wanted to tell you everything. The minute i found it. Watching you get happy for my maried life had been a knife through my heart each second but i love you. I didn't waned to loose you. If anything had happened to you i wouldn't have forgiven myself." Nandini cried.

Manik felt like a man hanging from the ceiling fan trying to breathe as much air as possible to keep him alive. Nandini was his air and he was gonna loose her. His worst nightmare was coming true and she was gonna walk out of his life. He moved ahead to stop her when a sharp force turned him around and it felt as if he was hit by a rock. Everyone was shocked to see Mr. Malhotra planting a slap on his lovely son's face.

"Why? Why did you do this? Didn't i raise you right? Why?" Mr. Malhotra shouted asking for answers.

"Because you made me do it. It was all you. Because you were never there for me and i felt lonely. When my mom was dying on her bed with no medication, intead of building up a hope you were busy building up a new family to keep your legacy and life going. You were busy spending nights with Neyonika when i needed you the most. When i neede you to hold me and say that mom was going to be okay. It was me who held her hand while she took her last breathe. I closed her eyes that stared right through me when her soul left her body." As the emtions came out through Manik's mouth the entire hall went silent and the only sound there were sobs of every human present as they felt a pain they never knew this man was holding up. Our entire life if girls get a hard time from the society then so do boys, pressurised to raise a right career and reputation so that they can help their family out and worst of all the saying that says 'Men don't cry', 'Men shouldn't express themselves.'

"i needed somebody and i found alya. I thought she was the key to my happiness but no she betrayed me like everyone. nandini walked into my life and no i am not lying when i say that i love her. I do." Manik continued as he took a glance of Nandini, yes she did know what all he did but not what all he went through, "I was broken again and she started mending me. I was happy to start a fresh life again but maybe my stupid ass destiny never liked me being happy. Right before the day of wedding Alya came upto me and said that she was preganant with my kid."