MaNan : Moon Light

3. Little by little

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Nandini hates working out, there is a reason why she became a drug runner instead of joining Mukti's gang though being with Mukti means she is protected full time. 

But still, she did not choose it, and it's because she is not good at fights. 

Maybe it's due to getting abused from time to time since she was a child, Nandini finds it hard to fight back and hates getting beaten up. It reminds her how weak she actually is and she hates that feeling.

But training with Mukti means Nandini keeps getting reminded that how weak she really is. Mukti says she will get better with the training, but for Nandini, it's like getting punished again and again. 

It's been two weeks already and she is not getting only physical training, no, Mukti started the combat training and this is Nandini's worst nightmare. Combat with Mukti is a nightmare because she is not the person who will show mercy just because Nandini is sweating like hell and crying in pain. No, Mukti will train her more at that point, to increase her stamina. Still, Nandini doesn't like fightings and still hates fighting with Mukti. 

But the thing is even though Nandini is on the edge of falling down or stamina is no more there, Mukti is still standing in front of her yelling at her to get up. She hates that Mukti is going easy on her and even then, Nandini is failing.

After every training, Mukti will make her sit and puts the pain reliever patches on her muscles where she got hurt, then will apply ointment if she got any scratches or tears in the skin. Nandini can see that even Mukti gets hurts sometimes, but she has never seen the older treating her pain as carefully as she does for Nandini. 

This makes it even difficult for Nandini, she wants to resent Mukti's hardcore training, wants to rebel against her but when Mukti starts with, "Kid, your timing is slow but you are fast, use it to your advantage", like a good coach after their session she tells her weak and strong points, Nandini starts to dwell upon them internally.

Nandini is trying to understand Mukti but the older never shows what she is thinking and very bad at expressing, so it's hard. Still she can see herself getting better by every day but again to this day, she didn't won even once against Mukti. 

Of course, Mukti is someone who is trained well since she is a child and with her long limbs and legs, she can knock out the opponent within seconds with her unbelievable core strength.

As Mukti said it is getting somewhat dangerous these days, like some brawls and quarrels with other gangs, though Nandini has not experienced anything and to this day, she still thinks that Mukti is just overprotective of her.

After the intense training, Nandini has to do her job, and Mukti busy with her work. Like every day, it's the same schedule and she has to do nothing except what she is used to do. No one troubles her, but lately, her work is reduced a little because of the new members in the gang who are runners too. 

In the early days, she used to go home as soon as her work is done, but these days, no, she is not doing it. Because for the first time, Nandini has a friend, maybe not close but still in this strange city, she is happy that she has a person other than Mukti whom she can trust.

Cabir works for Skulls but he is not an important person, he is just a drugs supplier like her and Nandini doesn't want to care about their gang rivalry. It's been a week or so since she met him again while delivering those envelopes and he is the one who approached her smiling brightly. Then treated her a meal, not a big thing, just some cheap restaurant where there are a lot of people and limited dishes served but the food is tasty.