What Heart Wants

Chapter 11

How do you cope up with bad days?

Going through a rough phase, and all I want to do is give up. It scares me at times so I try to distract myself. This chapter - is kind of a product of that distraction. I hope it came out well.

Enjoy Reading!

Manik didn't talk to his parents. He didn't on the way back home, he didn't on the dining table at their own house the same night.

He didn't want to the next morning when he came down the stairs, all ready to leave for office. His mother had knocked at his door ten minutes before, pleading him to have breakfast and now, the son inside him had started to feel guilty for the ignorance he was treating her with.

Manik loved his parents, and his mother more than his life. He for sure was angry but he understood them. He was disappointed but deep down, he knew they mean no harm.

So when Niyonika came infront of him with the pleading look in her eyes, Manik stopped and let her hold his hand to drag him to the table where everyone else sat, already eating.

Manik could feel his father's gaze on himself as his mother served him the food. She broke a morsel to feed him but he only turned away his face. She huffed, rotating her hand and tried to feed him again. This time, Manik held her hand with cold eyes.

"Maa," He warned. She was testing his patience now. Manik would die than talk back to her. She was just taking advantage of his love and respect for her at this point.

"Your anger is on one side, breakfast on other." She excalimed,"and what do I always tell you?"

"Eat double when you are angry." He murmured, having learnt this phrase right from the childhood. To express anger, you need energy, his father would always say.

"So what's with this skipping food?" She questioned, and this time when she brought the morsel infront of him, Manik ate it silently.

Warmth and love slipped through along with the taste, and Manik couldn't help the small smile that covered his face. He coughed when she smiled, and it only made her laugh more.

"You have all the rights to be angry with us," She started,"We shouldn't have asked Nandini about her divorce, but Manik, we really didn't think it must be so bad." Niyonika was not lying.

Words travel fast in the industry and despite that, there was nothing about Nandini's divorce out there. Everyone knew she was a single mother but nobody dared to question.

The last time someone dared pass a comment, the man was almost banished from the industry - Raj had told her an old story he heard from one of their business partner.

It worried them and when you are worried for your own children, the sense of understanding gets blur for a second, that's what happened yesterday. Raj and Niyonika didn't realise their question might hurt Nandini.