My phone starts to ring and I see Manik's picture from a few weeks ago pop up making me smile. I shift the shopping bags to my left hand and answer the phone
"Hello, where are you? i looked everywhere in the house and you aren't here? Are you not home? Nandini hello why aren't you speaking"
"How will I speak if you don't let me" I giggle
"Where are you Nandini?" He asks taking a breath
"At the mall, I told you this morning"
"No you didn't, I woke up alone and you weren't anywhere in the house"
"Mani I told you earlier this morning, I'm sorry you woke up alone. I am just on my way back home with mukti" I tell him
"How long?" He asks
"Maybe 20 minutes"
"Make it 10" he says
"Hehehe should I fly"
"if I could I would send a chopper there"
"Manik" I giggle
"Im serious, I hate being here alone" he whispers
"You aren't alone, I will be right back plus I bought so much stuff"
"Shit"
'Are you okay?"
"Mhm yeah, did you buy yourself heels? I know you wanted to"
"I did, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I was just looking at my outfit for tonight" he lies
I can tell when he lies, his voice is lower
"Manik what did you do? I heard it, what happened?" I ask
"Nothing major, just come home. I will go shower"
"Manik"
"yeah"
"What did you do mani? Are you okay?"
"Im okay"
"Don't lie to me manik, whats going on?" I ask pacing to the car where mukti was waiting
"I just hurt my hand, I wasn't looking but it's okay. It's not too bad"
"Is it bleeding?" I ask
"Who is bleeding?" Mukti asks
"Your brother"
"oh, bhai don't look at it" she yells
"I am not, gosh stop it" he mumbles
"Manik just sit tight, don't go shower right now" I say
"Tum kab a rahi ho?" He asks so softly
"Bas a rahi hu, just sit down on the couch" I whisper back
"Bye" him and I both mumble before the he cuts the call
"Is he scared of blood?" I ask
"Yup, this one day I had scraped my knee and I couldn't bandaids so I walked in his room and as soon as he saw the blood on my knee he felt dizzy" she chuckles
"Such a child" I mumble
"He is, his height makes him look like an adult but he is a child"
We talked about this trip coming up for work not just for mukti but for me as well. I haven't confirmed if I will or not because I don't want to go without manik, as pathetic and stupid as that sounds, he has become a part of me and I can't leave that
Mukti didn't come in he house, she was going to go see abhi so I get out of the car and brought he shopping bags with me, I place them in the living room couch and run up to manik's room.
I walk in and see him sitting on the couch, his eyes closed as his hand bleeds. It wasn't a minor cut, it was still bleeding.
"Manik" I whisper
"Nandini" he whispers
"What did you do mani?" I ask running to the drawer to grab a first aid kit
"Is it still bleeding?' He asks
"It is, don't look at it" I say sitting beside him
I begin to clean the cut, it didn't look way too deep but it was a little deeper then surface level.
"It's going to burn a little" I tell him
"Then leave it, it's fine" he says pulling his hand away
"Shut up, how did you even manage to do this?" I ask
He hisses a little when I clean the cut, I hate that I am hurting him but it has to be cleaned.
"Im sorry" I whisper
"It's not too bad" he says opening his eyes
He looks at the cut and immediately looks away from it, his forehead rests on my shoulder as I continue to dress up his cut.
"I was looking for you in the kitchen and knocked a glass on the floor by accident, I didn't want to leave it on the floor so I picked it up and ended up slashing my hand" he explains
"Why didn't you just leave it? I could have taken care of it, you know you don't know how to do these things"
"It's fine, did you have a good day with mukti?" He asks
"It was good, did you sleep okay?" I ask putting a bandaid over the cut
"Yeah until I woke up and saw you weren't there" he scoffs making me giggle
"I told you yesterday and this morning I have to go shopping"
"you should have woken me up, I would have came with you"
"Shh it was a girl's day, now go shower. I have tons to do"
"Be nice to me, I hurt myself" he whines making me smile
I pull back a little bringing his palm to my lips, pressing a soft kiss over the bandaid.
"You need to be careful mani, the cut could have been deeper" I tell him
"I know, I was just a bit hassled when I didn't find you anywhere" he whispers so softly
It makes me melt, his touch, his words, they all make me melt
"Im sorry, it won't happen again"
"Thank you, I just don't like being alone Nandini"
"I understand mani, it's okay" I say getting up and putting the first aid kit away
he smiles at me so cutely, his smile lines visible as he gets up and walks to me.
"Happy Diwali Manik" I whisper looking up at him, my chin resting on his chest
"Happy Diwali little one" he wishes back kissing my forehead
'Go shower, I have tons to do" I say wrapping my arms around his torso
"What do you have to do?" he asks
"Things, the mehendi artist is coming in 2 hours so I need to set everything up and you mr malhtora need to shower, now go. I may need your help" I tell him
"Help in what baby?" He asks
"Shhhh shower" I order
He chuckles nodding as he kisses my head before going to the bathroom.
I walk downstairs and first hide the presents and then I grabbed the decorations I got since they were delivered. I hung the flower garlands on the front first and decorated the entrance before I started wrapping flower garlands on the staircase.
YOU ARE READING
In Between All The Chaos
RomanceA girl with a horrible past and a boy with an equally horrible past meet. He hates people but something about her screams calmness attracting him towards her. She does not trust people easily but she feels peace around him without even realizing. ...
