Entangled

Part 29

It was night time and Sunaina and Nandini were sitting in the veranda. Sunaina saw a shooting star and pointed it to Nandini. Nandini looked at it but didn't make a wish. Sunaina had her own issue too, but since she had met Nandini and seen her state, her issue seemed minor in comparison. Sunaina thought that Nandini didn't believe in it, so she wished on Nandini's behalf.

        Sunaina (in mind) : "I wish she recovers fully and gets back to how she was earlier."

        Manik who was in the terrace also saw the shooting star. His friends made a wish usually on seeing a shooting star, but he didn't. He felt that he had everything he wanted. The only issue he had was his parents' behavior towards each other, but he had accepted it as something that wouldn't change. Manik remembered the time he had pointed the shooting star to Nandini.

Flashback :

        It was already very late and Nandini wasn't able to get an auto. Manik offered to drop her and she accepted. She had known him for a few days by then. On their way Manik saw a shooting star.

        Manik : "Look, a shooting star."

        Nandini looked at it but she looked away immediately.

        Manik : "Don't you believe in making a wish on seeing a shooting star?"

        Nandini : "I did, but not anymore."

        Manik : "Why? .. Weren't your wishes fulfilled?"

        Nandini : "They were but not in the way I had expected. It would have been better if it wouldn't have been fulfilled at all."

        Nandini believed in shooting stars because her mom believed in it. From her mom's dairy, Nandini had come to know that her mom had wished for a family because she didn't have one. Her mom believed that her wish was fulfilled, but she didn't know the truth of her husband and she couldn't stay with Nandini for long too.  Nandini had wished to meet her dad, she met him too, but that meeting had changed her life completely.

       Back then Manik didn't care for her or her wishes. He had brought it up just to strike a conversation. He wasn't into making a wish, if he did probably he would have wished for her downfall.

Flashback ends....

        This time he wished on behalf on Nandini.

        Manik : "If wishing on a shooting star can come true, I wish all her sufferings come to an end and her future is filled with happiness."

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        Nandini and Sunaina were having a conversation. Nandini had met people who cared for her and also people who hated her. The ones who cared for her had given different reasons.

        Harshad's dad had caused the accident so Harshad was making up for it and he had accepted Nandini as his sister wholeheartedly. Arya and Nandini bonded because they were in the same situation when it came to their families. Arya had his uncle at least who cared for him, but Nandini didn't have anyone then. Navya cared for Nandini as a good friend, and Manik had helped her saying that he was returning her favor for having saved him. Nandini wanted to know what was Sunaina's reason.

        Nandini : "We didn't even know each other well when we were in college, then why are you so concerned for me?"

        Sunaina : "May be not that well, but I knew how you are. Do you think only you have the right to be concerned about others? Can't others be concerned about you without a reason?"