Imperfectly perfect 🖤

Chapter 13

I got up and put her on the bed but she grabbed my hoodie pulling me making em sit beside her

"No don't go please no"

"Shh im just going downstairs to talk to cabir" I said and she shook her head

"No no please"

"Okay relax, breath" she grabbed my arm like I would leave if she didnt

"Nandini don't you dare get hyper, this is not correct, this is your 7th panic attack in 3 weeks" Navya said firmly and I looked at Nandini

"Not cool bhabhi, I thought you were on my side" she said catching her breath

"7th panic attack" I asked and she looked down

I knew it was true, she leaned on my arm as I caressed her hand that was in mine. A silence fell in the room, I could hear nandini breathing, she was thinking, I could tell because her breathing is different when she thinks like this

"I don't wanna do this" she said

"What do you mean" cabir asked

"I love you bhai, I really do. You are my mother, father, brother, sister, you are my eveyrhitng but so is manik. I cannot live without him please bhai try and understand" she whispered

"No, you guys betrayed me, left me in the dark and then ic catch you two almost fucking int he kitchen, how do you think I feel huh, what would you she done if you walked in on me fucking your best friend nandini" he asked and I flinched at the choice of words

"Your words cabir, she is 24" I said

"Don't manik, I am already struggling to not kill you right now" he said

"You are married to my best friend bhai, but I never went rogue like this" she said

"You knew her for one month before I married her" he said

"But she was still my best friend"

"It's different. You don't know how it feels to walk in on the two people you love like that and the amount of pain I felt cannot be expressed and you two will never know what it feels like" he said and nandini teared up again

I knew I had enough and even thought the words I was about to say I never would have but its necessary for him to know no matter the results were gonna be. Navya sat against nandini on her other side caging her between herself and I.

"Not a single tear nandini" I said and she curled up against my arm while Navya caressed her back

"You wanna know how it feels cabir let me tell you how it feels" I said and he glared at me

"Tell me about it manik" he challenged

"I hope you never feel what I felt these 3 years. Seeing the person you love crying every single day, seeing them in so much pain kills you every moment. I saw her breaking every single day for different reason, I saw her questioning her existence, I saw her crying for help and other times just keeping it in so she doesnt worry me. I woke up every day worrying what will happen that day, wondering if I would have to see her breaking again and it did happen every day. Some days were harder than others but I saw her cabir. I hope you never see Navya crying like I saw nandini crying" he didnt say anything

"We were talking about the most important deal we had in the initial stages of this business and Navya called you crying. I saw how you freaked out and ran home to see what happened. She called you because she hurt her foot but you didnt care how small the injury was, you cared that she was hurt"

"How is this relevant" he asked

"That was once for you, I saw nandini crying everyday for the last 3 years, 3 fucking years cabir. Every day I saw her like that, it wasn't a physical pain I could cure, it was emotional, so imagine what I went through watching her like that. Imagine seeing Navya crying every single day"