Mission Manik Malhotra - A MaNan FF [Completed]

Chapter 16 - Khwaishein..

~If you can't get someone out of your head, maybe they're supposed to be there.. ~

I wanted to meet Nyonika to confront her about the threat note but she had suddenly gone out of town for a week. And so for a week, I stayed with Navya, trying to recover from both physical and emotional blows before I could move ahead with my career.

I missed Manik like hell those 7 days and he was in each moment of mine. I missed the comfort and safety of his arms. I missed his care and unending worries. I missed his teasing sessions, his smirks, his cute expressions and passionate attacks. I missed each and everything about him and the desire for him seemed to never subside. I spent most of my time either breaking down on bathroom floors or trying to sleep so as to avoid thinking of him. Not that it helped. The monster found his way into my dreams too.

I was suffering from crazy mood swings too and it was extremely irritating the way he had become an unattachable part of my heart. It made me hate him more but also fall deeper in love with him. I wanted never to see him again yet all my eyes were dying to see was a glimpse of him.

My brain was forcing me to try and move on and my heart was stuck on Manik.

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I sat on the bed, early morning, staring at the calendar on my phone in confusion and mild panic. Navya noticed my puzzled expression in the midst of getting ready for college and came close to me.

''What's wrong?'' She asked, peering at my face as she brushed back her hair into a functional ponytail.

There was so much wrong with my life but at the moment, it was this. ''My periods are late. This has never happened before.'' I shrugged, looking briefly at her and then back at the calendar.

''You've also been feeling nauseous, dizzy and pukish the past couple of days.'' She stated slowly, as if she had caught on to something I hadn't.

''Yes, that was because of my head injury.'' I replied dismissively. ''Nandu, your head injury was a clean cut. You can't feel dizzy or pukish because of it.'' She replied as if explaining to a little child.

''What are you trying to say?'' I asked, but my heart began beating at double the normal pace because I had begun realising what she was hinting at.

''Nandu, have you and Manik.. slept together..without protection? You could be .. pregnant..?'' She said exactly what I was dreading to hear.

Yes, we had done it the night all we needed was each other for healing, having both been broken by people we loved and foolishly, we hadn't used protection either. ''But.. No. Oh God, No. It can't be possible.'' I mumbled, my eyes widening at just the thought of pregnancy and my stomach churning painfully. I had just turned 19, and my whole life lay ahead of me - my dreams, my aspirations. Motherhood was a huge responsibility.

''But, I had a blood test done when I was admitted to the hospital after collapsing from my head injury. How wasn't my pregnancy detected then?'' I wondered aloud, trying to strike off the dreadful assumption anyhow.

''No, I heard from my mom once that when they perform normal blood test in hospitals, they don't usually test for pregnancy unless you ask them to. I think you should have it done immediately, Nandini. The test kits are not totally reliable anyways.'' She said, trying to comfort me by rubbing my arms, but now I had gone into full panic-mode and nothing was helping.

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Next Day..

I held the report between clammy palms, trying hard to breathe normally. I had gone for the pregnancy blood test yesterday and today the reports were with me.