BROKEN - to be healed by her (manan ff)✔️

83 : Repercussions...

Cabir's pov:

I popped up at Manik's place, it had been day's since I last saw him only to be rewarded by a dreaded silence.

" Cabir baba, voh yaha nhi hai!" kaka spoke while I glanced confusingly around.

" yaha nhi hai matlab...?" and so did everything dawn upon me, so much was going around and I had been oblivious all this while.

" voh vaha chale toh gaye....par najane  kya ho raha hoga!" sweat beads dominating most of his forehead, he stuttered.

I was taken aback would be an understatement, palming my face nervously. I met the lingering unsurety in kaka's eye before hurriedly making my way to Mehra mansion.
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Nandini's pov:

Aren't sunsets supposed to be calming, they sooth one's soul...or at the very least makes it all seem just bearable enough, so why couldn't I feel it. Why did the restlessness refuse to leave my side more so with every passing second I felt it walloped me more than the last.

It had been my escape, it helped me elope through it all then when at this moment I needed sanity to hold me tighter than ever why did it refuse to show up. Even the beauty seemed akin to chaos.

And the tears! Oh the tears your best ally and lethal traitor, orating a story of their own only when it fits them right with no consideration of your fears or laced desperation of ambiguity.

My ocean of thoughts had a part of me drowning with every moment passed.

" NANDINI!" a familiar yell broke my loop distracting my nominal sunset view from the far end of the luscious greenery at the Mehra's.

" Cabir..." a soft whisper smuggled it's way out.

" Nandini...Ma–nik!?" he huffed as if had ran a mile, struggling to catch two simultaneous breaths together and so with just that one name my tears had no stopping.

" Nandini..what is it? Is Manik okay? Are u okay? Did something happen....did...did Manik...do anything...in his anger!? Where is he!?...okay..okay look..Nandini..please don't cry whatever that is we'll make it better...just don't.." he ranted partially nervous anticipating the worse, and half worried at what could be so harsh...in mere two unsure steps, I crashed at his chest not having it in me to hold back anymore..I wept and wept while he stood comforting me as warmly as possible.

" Cabir....Cabir...Manik–voh Avya di....how can people be so cruel–so cruel" I fumbled after a fair moment, trying hard to put words together.

" Nandini...look at me shuh...calm down...calm down okay....kya hua hai?  Tum pehle rona bandh karo. Please stop crying, tumhara monster mere gaale padh jayega if he gets to know I let u cry so much." letting a forced chuckling he wiped my tears as he spoke, ironically his crystal eyes and those stagnant tears said otherwise.

" Cabir...did I mess it up? By getting Manik here? Was it too much for him, did I go too harsh on him throwing him away in the same dark place, he had been years ago!? I don't want him to lose himself Cabir...I'll die a thousand death. Just with the thought of him down the same lane sends shivers down my spine...I cannot..." my incoherent tears portrayed just how I felt.

" No. Nandini hear me out loud and clear, you did not mess it up! Infact it was brave of you to get him here when we all know how unpredictable Manik can get. Honestly, it was necessary Nandini..it's been years since whatever happened and as much as Manik's anger is justified he cannot be dwelling on his past for all his life. Even after all these years a major part of him is still living in the past and that is consciously or unconsciously hurting him more then he realizes. He needs to let go, he needs to move on and choose peace.