Manan ff - unconditional love !

Fashion show !

Recap: fashion show preparation at amphitheatre..

Harshad and Manik Come out of the changing room all ready for their fashion show. Manik in a pink skirt and blue crop top and Harshad dressed in a green skirt and golden crop top. Their muscular body peeping out of the sleeveless tops. All the others burst out laughing on seeing the beautiful ladies standing in front of them !

Mukti: I feel so jealous of these two pretty ladies here !

Nandini: I know right ! Wish I was so pretty !

And they again start laughing.. Manik keeps staring at Nandini who is laughing out loud and thinks to himself, "you are really pretty Nandini !"

Nandini: okay now let's get our models ready for the fashion show. Come here you, Manik. I'll be doing your make up and Harshad you go to mukti and Navya.

Manik is rejoiced to hear his name from her mouth for the first time ever ! When they were young she used to call him "monkey" and never did she call him Manik ! He wondered whether she even knew his actual name back then because since the time they became friends she had started calling him monkey. Also, the elders used to lovingly call him "Manu" due to which the cute little Nandini, who was "nandu" back then and still the same for her chacha chachi never knew his real name.

**flashback**

He still remembered the first time they had met. They might have seen each other before that but that was the first time they had interacted and ended into their first fight due to which Nandini started calling him Monkey !

Nandini had gone to manik's place with her parents as their dads used to be best friends back then. She was getting bored sitting with the elders and that was the time when maniks mother Mrs. Anjali Malhotra told Manu to take Nandu to his room and they could play something together. He took her upstairs to His bedroom which was full of toys especially cars as he was really fond of cars back then ! Nandini was never the too girlish type and therefore those cars fascinated her as well. She started having a look at the cars carefully placed on a huge shelf and she found one that attracted her attention the most ! It was a miniature red coloured Ferrari with a remote control. Her eyes lightened up at the sparkling red colour and she picked it up to Play with it. Manik who had been following her gaze all the while as he was really possessive about his cars, got really angry when she picked it up ! That Ferrari was his favourite and nobody could dare to touch it ! Even the servants who would come to clean the room were not allowed to touch it. He could only trust himself and his mom with it and so his mom had to clean that part of the shelf that had the Ferrari. As soon as Nandini picked it up, he snatched it away from her like a wild possessive kid due to which Nandini hurt her finger with the sharp edge ! She started crying and moved out of the room shouting "you're a monkey !" As soon as she moved out of the room crying, he felt really bad about hurting her and followed her downstairs into the main hall where their parents were seated and he found she had been complaining about him to them. When he reached, his mom started scolding him. He listened to her with his head bent low and when she was finished scolding, he moved to nandu, gave her the car and said, "I'm sorry. Will you be my friend ? Let's play together.." Nandini wiped her tears and replied with a smile, taking the car from him, "okay but I will still call you monkey ! Because you are one !" Manik made a puppy face at that at which Nandini started laughing and Manik took the car from her hands and started running out. She followed him and that's how they became friends. Though they had spent very few years together in their childhood and had had so many fights all that while, but still the friendship they had shared was the purest ! Nandini was 6 years old when she had to move to India with her parents after which she completely forgot about Manik as nobody ever mentioned the malhotras and there was no contact with any of them.