Celebrity Castaway | COMPLETE | MaNan Fiction

11| One Favour

A/N: Hello Readers, I am back with the third installment of my four chapter marathon before the release of KYY S4! Guys did you see the trailer with the music release? Oh my God, I am so hooked! SPACE Goa? And good news is, from this trailer, the story seems very different from my story! :D

Now, coming to the chapter, I hope you like what you read, cause I had fun writing this! On that note, Happy Reading!

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Nandini woke up to see a very upset Navya sitting on the couch in the living room. Upon enquiring she learnt that Navya had woken up early in the excitement of meeting her favourite superstar Manik, only to realise he had already left for the day, for a very early morning shoot. Nandini smiled seeing Navya pout & promised her that she'd arrange for a face time with Manik very soon. Navya seemed a little pacified hearing that. Nandini on the other hand felt a bit thankful that Manik wasn't around. She had thought of something while trying to sleep the night before, she now had time to act on it.

"Navu, will you manage on your own, for a couple of hours? I need to go out for a bit" she asked Navya, who affirmed; so after the two had their breakfast, Nandini left the pent-house.

It had been an hour, when the bell rang & Navya got the door to see Abhimanyu walking in. She looked confused. Nandu had said, she was going out for a few hours right, then why was Abhimanyu here? Did Nandini not take him? Upon enquiring she realised, Nandini had indeed been very discreet about her venture and had taken off without informing anyone. What was she up to, Navya wondered.

"What, she left without telling me, and you don't know where she is? Oh Damn, this is bad news!" Abhimanyu exclaimed and immediately tried to call her, but Nandini's phone was unreachable. He paced around the room in nervous agitation debating how to reach her, and Navya found it weird. What was so worrisome about Nandini going out to run some errands?

"Abhimanyu, why are you overreacting? She will come back!" she tried to pacify him.

"Navya, I don't think Nandu would have told you this, but err..her life is in danger. You know the actress Soha Khurana, right? I believe she is after her. I know her up close, she is too vindictive to let Nandu go, just because she agreed to a settlement offered to her by Manik sir! So it is very important that I find her before..." his voice trailed off as his phone rang & Navya gulped in fear hearing this. Soha Khurana, that famous actress, wanted Nandu dead! She was that crazy?!

"Yes Cabir, I tried tracing her, but it seems like her phone is switched  off, the app doesn't work if it's off" he muttered in a frustrated tone.

After a while Abhimanyu disconnected the call & excused himself. It seemed like he was going out to try looking for Nandini in places where she could probably be. Navya sat down on the couch praying for Nandini's well being. She had woken up in the morning with so much excitement, what did she know that this was in store for her.

After another hour, Navya got more tense, Nandu had said she'd be back by now, but she hadn't returned. She tried her phone again & it was unreachable. Meanwhile, there was a doorbell & she saw Tarun, their butler, run to get the door. In another few minutes, Navya's jaw dropped, as the man of her dreams, her superstar Manik, walked in through the door. He was wearing cargo track pants, with a gym tee & sported a NY baseball team cap, as he walked into the apartment with the stride of a tiger. Navya gulped. Unlike in the movies, where he is a cheerful romantic guy, the Manik Malhotra off screen, seemed like a perpetually pissed off character!

He noticed Navya and stopped short, as Navya stood up to look at him in nervousness. He glared at her in a way, as if Nandini going missing was her doing.