Manan - Hold My Hand

Chapter 32

Manik lay down on his bed with her confession running in his mind.

He turned to his left side before turning to his right side and then sat up on his bed frustrated.

"Ughhh why can't I get it out of my mind. She said it's a crush and nothing will change then why am I so affected.",He said annoyed running his hand through her hairs.

Manik tried to block out his thoughts and picked his phone to distract himself.

He opened his social media and starts checking out the posts. He saw friend requests from many peoples including Ishaan's friends he met last week.

He accepted their friend requests and clicked on Ishaan's profile to check it out.

His eyes fall on the picture of his and Nandini. They looked so good together. He read the caption and the comment that was displayed first before frowning and moving on to the comments section.

They were filled with comments from people mocking Nandini and insulting her. They have written various stupid things for her.

He moved to Nandini's account and saw it was deactivated and frowned.

"Did she deactivate her account because of the trolls?",Manik thought as he checked her professional page and saw the comments were turned off.

"Is it happening since the rumour? Why didn't she tell anything to me?",Manik wondered as he frowned and shuts his phone.

"She likes me but she shares things with Ishaan. Why can't she tell me about it?",He thought little upset and lay back on the bed.

Oscar jumped on the bed beside him and Manik pet him.

"She is so confusing.",Manik said before trying to sleep as Oscar cuddles with him. He had lot of work to complete. Shravan wasn't being easy and creating troubles for him.

Navya knocked at Nandini's door.

"Wake up or you will be late again.",Navya yelled and Nandini frowned as she pull the covers down.

She wasn't looking forward to the day. She wasn't ready to face Manik after her confession yesterday.

She pulled herself together and got dressed in a white suit shorts paired with a black strapped top. She put up her blazer and glanced at herself and smiled as she left her hair open.

She had put an extra effort to get ready today not wanting to show she was heartbroken hearing no reply from him.

She had breakfast and drove to her office.

Aditya met her half way and gave her the coffee.

"You look better than how you left.",He teased and she rolled her eyes at him.

"If it isn't my favourite person in the world.",She heard a voice that she was quite familiar with and stopped in her place and closed her eyes hoping it to be a dream.

She could hear people gossiping around them.

She turned back and faced Nikhil with a forced smile.

"Welcome back Nikhil.",She said him and he walked closer to her.

"Give me a hug sweetheart. It's been long.",he said coming closer and hugging her.

She frowned and tried to pull back soon.

"I am sure you missed me too.",he said pulling back with a smile before looking at Aditya and giving him a smile.

"Your office is prepared. Man.. Mr. Malhotra had asked me to hand over the production duties of the latest collection to you. If you are free, we can have a meeting later about it.",Nandini said him wanting to wrap it as soon as possible.