TANGLED❤️‍

Chapter 9

"Manik"

"Yeah?"

"Can I tell you something?" I ask

"If this is about you having a massive fat crush on me then I already know" he mumbles yawning

"What the fuck?" I scream

"What? Is betsy okay? Betsy baby are you okay, see I knew I shouldn't have let you drive her" he mumbles sitting straight up and looking around to see what I hit even though I hadn't even drove a couple minutes and was still in the beach parking lot

"Who the hell told you I have a crush on you?" I ask

"Oh wait, is that why you screamed?"

"Manik"

"What?"

"Who told you that?" I asked again

"Navya did, that evening at the first interview thing" he mumbles

"Fuck, okay first of all that's not true" I whisper starting to drive

"And I should believe that why?"

"Because I don't have a crush on you" I lie

"Oh you do, navya and Cabir both told me" he says

"Is that why you have been so nice? I mean is that why you are so friendly and even gave me an autograph and took my number? So this wasn't professional in the beginning and this friendship is all because you know I had a crush on you?" I ramble on

"No absolutely not, I found it weird"

"Why?" I ask keeping my eyes on the road

"Because you were so professional, you didn't text me just because, you never even told me how much of a fan you were, are"

"It's because I admire your work, I admire things you do but I am very professional when it comes to work"

"I know, I think it was kind of sweet that you have this crush on me but you never let me know, well you did give it away a little at the autograph"

"How?"

"You were twirling around like no one's business when I gave you that autograph" he says chuckling

"You are an assshole" I mumble which obviously was a lie

I was actually pissed that navya and Cabir would tell him, I mean it makes me wonder if this niceness is because he sees me as a fan.

"Thats false and you know that" I hum a little not saying anything else

"You can take the car to your house, ill grab it in the morning" he mumbles when I pull up in his driveway

"Thank you for trusting me with betsy" I mumble

he turns towards me unbuckling himself, his eyes looked in mine so cutely, I don't know how to even describe it

"This friendship or whatever we have going on has nothing to do with you being a fan previous to us meeting, don't doubt that one bit. i wanted to be friends because you are calm and sweet Nandini and I need that in my life" he whispers

"But what if this behaviour is only because in the back of your head you know that I was a fan"

"Thats not true at all, Nandini I didn't need to ask for you specifically to come for the other two deals with your firm, I didn't need to be texting you and calling you all the time,  I also didn't need to come over to your house because I needed an escape, I did all that because I wanted to and if you were a 'fan' to me I wouldn't even be giving my number out to you"