Chapter 16: Mending what's broken

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When the heart experiences pain, that poor thing does not know how to deal with it! It shuts itself! The brain goes into a defense mechanism to protect the heart because no matter how much these two organs fight when in Love as soon as they experience any sort of pain they become each other's strength! They protect each other! Both Nandini and Manik were experiencing this phenomenon!

Nandini did somewhere had a soft corner for manik she didn't know how to name those feelings but her father's death took a toll on her and her heart was afraid to lose someone more due to which her brain started pushing manik away but her mind didn't realize that even he has the same organs and the more she is pushing him away the more he will go in defense to her feelings!

And in case of Manik he did everything to break the shell Nandini had created around herself but his heart didn't give up on her knowing that her greive is unexplainable losing any of your parent is like suddenly a part of your heart goes missing! Someone you have seen from the day you were born! All your life you have been around them! Even if your equation with them is not so great but when suddenly one day you get to know you won't see them ever again it isn't easy to digest that news and manik knew how close nandini was to her family she never shared her pain maybe but they were always a part of her happiness and her dad was her super hero! So he let go of everything Nandini told him saying she was in pain, she was hurt, she was not okay! His heart consoled him but when he heard her say that his care is fake, that she did not need him around it brought back past trauma for him and it hurt! His brain was asking him to stop hurting himself so he decided to leave for dubai for two month but as soon as he heard that his Nandini needed him he forgot everything and only knew that him and his heart needed her too!

After a difficult night of contemplating each other's pain both Manik and Nandini wanted to sort their difference! Nandini knew she needed Manik like she needed oxygen and Manik couldn't tolerate being quite anymore!
He was at peace that Nandini agreed for therapy finally! But he needed some answers too! It was hurting him a lot seeing the person he loved in so much pain but couldn't do anything to heal that pain!

They were trying to avoid each other because they knew if they would even look at each other for a fair second they will break down!  Nandini won't have the answers to the questions Manik ask and Manik didn't want her to feel like he is forcing her for answers!

Running away from each other was almost the whole next day they finally Nandini Gathered the courage to answer questions manik had! She needed him to hold her! Him running away was not a pleasant sight for her!

"Manik" She whispered

"Nandini" he whimpered back breal down listening his name from her mouth in her full consciousness! He craved for it!

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