What Manik Wants!

5. Bittersweet!

This Chapter is dedicated to FirefliesAndStarx! She makes such awesome covers for me! I wish I could do something in return but all I can do is write for her! Thank you baby💋
Let's get back to Nandini's POV! That's more interesting for you'll it seems. Whenever Manik's POV will be required I will surely give one! For now enjoy❤😊

The constant ringing of my cell phone disturbed my deep slumber. God knows who called this early! It buzzed and buzzed irritating me till I grabbed it from the side table and without checking the caller ID
I answered lazily "Hello" Yet there was no reply which raised my temper "Who's calling this early in the morning! Answer na" Firstly my head pained like someone was throwing thousands of stones at it and secondly the person on the other side wasn't answering! "Hello Miss Murthy!" Oh shit it was him. Yess! That husky voice could be only him. I heard him and sat on the bed hurriedly which made my head ache more. "Ahh" I wailed in pain holding my head. "Good Morning! I hope your morning has brought a good head ache for you."
"Manik! Don't please already I am in pain''
"Who told you to drink? This had to happen!" DRINK! Oh god when did I drink! No no this can't be happening for real. "Drink what drink I don't drink! Stop teasing me"
"Oh yes I know that you don't drink but yesterday was different! You got drunk and the best part was you speaking your heart out."
"Wha....what? I got drunk! Oh no Ayyapa!"
"Stop troubling Ayyapa now and listen! Go to the kitchen and have a glass of lime water but don't go through the stairs because Chachi thinks you aren't at home since last night! She thinks you are at Navya's place! So maybe jump off the window! All the best and lastly be ready in sometime I will come and pick you up. I have ordered some dresses for you. Come and try them whatever suits you shall be worn in the recording! Aur tumse kuch baat bi karni hai"
"Baat?" I questioned because I felt something fishy.
"Sab baatien call par nahi hoti Nandu! Bye" Ahh this guy! He did not wait for me to even say goodbye. But what was that talk of his? Did I speak something which I shouldn't have? God what did I do yesterday? Di..did I confess everything? Or no wait even worse did I beat him?

Getting down from the bed I knotted all of my scarfs and threw them down the window. Taking their support I somehow reached outside my house. The feeling was none less than that of a theif. Gathering courage I rang the bell and Chachi happily opened the door."Aa gayi beta!"
"Haa..Haan chachi". I tried running to my room. "Ma..main fresh ho jaaun!''
"Tu Navya ke gharse fresh hoke nahi aayi? Badi ajeeb baat hai Hamesha toh tayar ho kar aati hai" Ayyapa Chachi and her detective mode! Already Manik's "Baat karni hai tumse" was scaring me and now these questions. Save Me! "Nahi Chachi woh aaj hum... Woh aaj hum late uthe na toh I....I came here directly" Finally I saved myself from yesterday's mess that I had created but wait! That "Baat" was pending. I quickly freshened up and had some breakfast after which I told Chachi about Manik and My recording. She was on cloud 9 to hear that.

"Coming!" I shouted from inside as I heard car's honk and I knew it was him. After bidding goodbye to Chachi I stepped out only to find him standing there leaning to his car in that naughty pose. He smirked as he looked at me. "Hey!" I whispered lowering my gaze. "Heyy!" He said in an over excited tone. "Chalo let's go!" I nodded and he opened the door of the car like a gentleman making me comfortable first and then he too joined in. I knew now he would start with that "Baat" of his so I increased the volume of the FM. "Hmm.... So you think tumhare yeh karne se I won't bring that topic"
"Wh... Which topic?" Well I knew what he was talking about but it costs nothing to act all innocent. "Wohi topic jo kal tumne start kiya tha!"
"Kal kya..kya" I felt that little caterpillar growing inside me. "So you don't know?" He asked and I shook my head. "No problem! Actually after a thinking session of a night I finally figured out what you wanted to say!" He stopped the car midway and that startled me more. "You know you were saying that you hate me but still you can't hate me for real! Ahh that seems interesting" I could see him coming closer to me and all I could do was hit my head to the window. "Then after that I thought a lot but then I realized that you were saying ILO somewhere in the end when you dozed off. There after I only want to" His husky voice gave rise to that butterflies in my tummy as he looked at my lips I could feel his breath on them. "Yo..you want" I somehow managed to say those words. " I want to complete that to VU" my eyes bulged out of their sockets and he went back to his seat. "I know what bad I did in the past and now I want to live the present! What a fool I was! I had my perfect life waiting for me already but I ran away. This time I won't because I know what I want!" I pinched myself but it was happening for real! He smiled and started driving but now his thinking session had brought my thinking session to life! Did he mean that? His words mean exactly what my ears have been longing to hear since years! Does he feel the same? He said he realised that his perfect life was waiting! Ayyapa is this the time? Is this the happiness I have been waiting for? Should I confess this time? No how will I gather courage and tell him? Cmon Nandini you can! But will he confess? My thoughts broke when he halted the car and called me "Come we are here"