Chapter 14: Ma-Manik

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Nandini's POV

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Nandini's POV


Four Months have passed since our first date! Yes four whole months! Manik and I have grown distant in these four months! Three months ago Paa left us! Since then I have started shutting myself in my shell! Manik tried so hard to break these shells of mine and make a space in my heart but he failed miserably not because of him but because of my stupidity I shouted at him and pushed him away in each and every way possible!

He still kept trying his best to fulfill his promises to be there for me and I did everything to make sure that he goes away and today he is going away! Not forever but for the next two months he has some work in Dubai and I am feeling this void!

All this time even though I pushed him away I didn't talk to him I was at peace because he was around I could see him, touch him even listen to his voice but for the next two months I could neither see him, nor touch him nor hear him and now I am regretting my decision of pushing him away! I spoiled something beautiful with my own hands!

Me and Manik had grown so close and I destroyed it all!

I was sitting in our car so I could shift back to Malhotra Mansion! Even after everything I did he never stopped taking care! We had moved out after Paa's death because I needed some space!

Now because Manik is leaving and he doesn't want me to stay alone he told me to shift back for sometime and I was too numb to oppose! The ride was ever so silent I was too deep in regret to talk to him and he must be thinking I won't respond so why take the effort! I understand he was tired taking the effort every time everyday!

He woke up with a hope and I shamelessly crushed his hope everyday

Manik was a selfless Human and he deserves all the love but all I could provide him with was my silence, my numbness! I was shocked seeing him not give up but I still tried my best until he actually gave up 2 days before and decided to take up the project in Dubai! He was avoiding it all this time because he didn't want me to be without him! But two days back when he woke up with that ever so charming smile making me breakfast tried talking to me! He was telling me about how he rejected the offer he got from dubai because he couldn't go leaving me and how those clients won't understand and keep calling him even after all the times he has rejected it and all I could whisper was "I don't need you around go away please I don't need your sympathy! Stop with your fake care and emotions and leave me alone" this one line that I spoke broke him and since then he didn't smile, he didn't look at me he limited his conversation, he came home late! He did everything to avoid me and Now I am sitting here regretting I broke the human who cared for me so selflessly! I wanted to stop him, I didn't want him to go but I didn't know how to stop him too! I couldn't muster up the courage!

"We have reached Nandini" he mumbled in a breathe breaking my trance! Making me realize that within few minutes Manik won't be around me anymore!

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