Entangled

Part 7

Next day, when Manik and his friends met, they started discussing the ideas they came up with, to deal with Nandini.

        Cabir : "Mukti, how do you want to deal with that girl?"

        Mukti : "I don't know. I couldn't think of anything."

        Cabir : "We can torture her in the name of ragging, what do you say?"

        Mukti : "I told you that she isn't scared of ragging."

        Cabir : "Hmm..  what else can we do?"

        He looked at the rest of them.

        Cabir : "Dhruv doesn't want to hurt anyone, so he wouldn't have come up with any ideas. How about you Manik, do you have a plan?"

        Manik : "Not yet. I underestimated her and my plan failed once. I don't want to repeat the same mistake again. First, we have to find out the strengths and weaknesses of our enemy, before making any plans to bring them down. So as a first step, I collected her current details from the office."

        Manik : "I couldn't find anything much there, it shows Mr. Gujral as her guardian. She is here using his influence. Do you have any idea who it is, Mukti? There is one thing I didn't understand. You told she was a fresher last year, then how come she is still a fresher. Is she so weak in studies?"

        Mukti : "I don't remember having heard that name from her. As far as I know, she was a scholarship student."

        Alya : "That girl seems to be very cunning to me. She would have trapped that guardian too. May be she has taken whatever she wanted from him and is here looking for her next scapegoat. Pretending to be a fresher may be part of her plan."

        Alya : "I feel we should teach her such a lesson that she should never think of trapping anyone in the future. She should know how it feels when someone snatches the person who is dear to you. What do you say Mukti?"

        Mukti : "I don't know if that will make me feel better. I just want a closure. I want to move on in life."

        Alya : "Believe me Mukti, it will definitely make you feel better."

        Dhruv : "How will inflicting the same pain she went through, on someone else, make her feel better?"

        Alya : "Dhruv, we will be taking revenge on her. Haven't you heard revenge is sweet, it will give Mukti the closure she is looking for."

        Cabir : "Wow Alya! What an idea, why couldn't I think of something like that? So, who are we going to snatch from her?"

        Alya : "That's because you can't think of anything beyond ragging."

        Mukti : "There isn't anyone we can snatch from her. Her mom passed away when she was little. She herself doesn't know where her dad is."

        Alya : "How about that guy, Arya? What kind of a relationship did they share?"

        Mukti : "He was like a mentor to her, and she seemed to respect him. But now, I feel as though I don't even know who she really is. He cared a lot for her, but I don't know if she really cared for him in the same way. She knows him only as long as I know her. When she can cheat me, do you think it will matter to her if we try to snatch him from her."

        They were still thinking what to do.

        Alya : "I have an idea. We can introduce someone new in her life who can make her fall in love with him. After confirming that she is  fully into him, he can dump her, and she will be heartbroken. That will be the perfect revenge."