MaNan: Tamasha (The Twisted Tale) (#multimedia)

11. Happy Diwali!

A/N - A very happy Diwali to all! (Even though I know I am late...) I live in New Delhi, so I don't know much about Mumbai's weather. It's a bit warmer...?

NANDINI'S P.O.V.

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.” I read the dialogue from that play's script. Too bad that the writers are not original. I am sure that I've read these lines in Looking For Alaska by John Green.

I kept the script at my side table and sighed, since I had to do this stupid audition for Cabir. Maybe, for Manik too. Then, unfolding the folded selves of my long loose grey top, I tied my hair in a ponytail and looked at the watch.

11:38 P.M. - It said.

I was getting so bored. No midnight Diwali parties here... Only waiting for the clock to turn 12, then message everyone and sleep. But still, the only hope of light in this boring world was the Diwali party today, where I am sure that Manik will come. (Yayyyyyy!!!!!!!!!) After all, it is his party. At least his mom's.

But anyways, bored.
Bored.

Bored.

Bored.

00.00 A.M.
HAPPY DIWALI!

MANIK'S P.O.V.

I cannot sleep... How I wished Navya was here. We both used to party when all the others would be sleeping on Diwali night. Too bad she is in her hometown.

I took out my phone and saw the time. 11:46 P.M.. Just forteen minutes for Diwali....

Bored.

Bored.

Bored.

Bored.

00:00 A.M.

HAPPY DIWALI!

NANDINI'S P.O.V.

So I woke up with my phone blaring out ‘This is my fight song! Take back my life song! Prove I'm an alright song! My powers turned on...’

“Oh, time to wish Amms.” I said to myself and switched on Face Time on my iPhone 6S. I called Amms and we wished each other.

She made me melt. I was almost in tears while talking to her. I miss her. She has been my mom, my dad, my best friend, my guru, my sister and my everything. I love her more than anyone. I don't even love Rishab more than her.

It was a holiday and it was 12:30 P.M.. Woah! I woke up quite early today. On holidays, I don't wake up before two.

The party timings is of seven thirty. Only seven hours, out of which forty five minutes will go in taking a bath. Fifteen minutes as I will have to call Rishab too and finishing off my talk with him in less than fifteen minutes is like impossible. Seventeen minutes in travelling to the Crown Plaza as mine home, Manik's house and the Crown Plaza are in the elite side of Mumbai. Even Shah Rukh Khan's house is at an eleven minute drive. Three minutes in getting to the gate. Ten minutes in thinking. One hour in getting ready. Thirty minutes in wishing everyone. One hour in buying a gift etc etc. That's what Amms told me. So, I only have four hours left to get ready. I MUST HURRY!