Manan ff - unconditional love !

Holi invitation from the Malhotra's

Recap: Harshad convinces Nandini of his innocence and succeeds in making friends with her. Dhruv asks Aliya to sneak out with him for the entire day as he wasn't ready to face college and Nandini.

Aliya: (looking into her phone) Umm Dhruv, here it is. There's a show in like 20 minutes of "Sanam Re".

Dhruv: No Aliya I'm not watching that film ! The reviews say it's pathetic ! And you're so hopeless romantic that you still wanna watch that film ?!

Aliya: Oh hello ! I'm not the only one ! I know even you enjoy such romantic movies. Okay fine if you don't wanna see that one, we can pick some other.

Both of them spent the entire day roaming around the city, went for a movie, lunch, gaming, shopping etc.

Dhruv had asked her not to inform anyone about their sneak out but Aliya knew her friends must be concerned and therefore she had informed Cabir about it. Cabir had in turn informed the others.

Manik had been quite successful in hiding his identity from the entire college till now but with Nyonika around, it now seemed quite difficult than ever. He suddenly started getting calls from random people from his college talking about some holi party at his farmhouse about which he himself had no clue. Till now since he had not revealed his identity to anyone, nobody had been paying attention to him and now suddenly as his identity had been revealed people had started giving him more respect than ever. He was so confused and frustrated of all the calls, he went straight up to Nyonika as he was aware it would have been her behind all of it.

Manik: Nyonika ! What is all this ? What games have you been playing now ?

Nyonika: Calm down Manik ! What happened ?

Manik: What's up with the holi party ?

Nyonika: Oh yes ! This year the Holi party is at the Malhotra's farmhouse and since we are the trustees at SPACE, the whole college is invited as well. You should be happy, all your friends have been invited and you would get to spend time with them. Most of all, you would be the host to all your friends.

Manik: (annoyed) Who asked you to care so much about me and my friends ? And did you talk to dad about this ?

Nyonika: I'm your mother Manik ! And also a 49% shareholder in the Malhotra industries. I can at least take such a small decision as throwing a party !

Manik: (screaming angrily) Oh just shut up !

He leaves without continuing the conversation further. Nyonika gives an evil smile and thinks to herself, "Your dad won't tell me why have you shifted to India and I know there's something fishy. I need to find out. And this holi party would hopefully help me with that."

Manik had been so annoyed of Nyonika's stupid plan of throwing the holi party and also of those several random calls from strangers trying to be friends, he had decided to skip the party. He set aside his phone and started playing some music, with a firm decision in his mind of skipping the party the next day. He knew Nyonika could do whatever she wanted except forcing him to go for the party and therefore he was too firm on it.

After almost 2 hours of playing some music that helped him calm down and relax, like always, he checked his phone to see 4 missed calls from Nandini and a message saying,

"Tried calling you but seems like you're busy. It's okay. Nothing urgent. Just wanted to tell you that I'm looking forward to meeting you at the holi party tomorrow. So, see you tomorrow."

It brought a wide bright smile on his face and he immediately called her back. But then suddenly realised he didn't know what to say to her and therefore disconnected the call nervously. Both of them had been coming closer but Manik was still nervous at times when it came to Nandini. After disconnecting the call, he was himself confused as to what was the reason he disconnected ?! "Stupid me !" He thought to himself and started dialling her number again and before it could again get connected, she herself called back.