Manan FF- Arranged marriage (✔)

Chapter 7

Manik stopped laughing when he saw that nandini was looking very intently at him. When nandini saw manik looking at her she moved her eyes from him and quickly crossed him to go saying " everybody must be waiting for us, lets go". just then manik held her wrist, nandini turned around asking " kya hua" and looked at her wrist captured by manik and at that moment she noticed that manik was wearing the same watch she gifted him. Nandini was very happy that manik gave importance to her gift. Manik did not see that nandini was noticing his watch and he said" so i guess we are getting maarried soon, would-be-mrs-nandini-manik-malhotra. He said that line with so much longing as if , he wished that he could have avoided that 'would-be' thing. The same line had a different effect on nandini, hearing herself referred as mrs nandini manik malhotra brought strange kind of emotions, but definitely a feeling of pride was associated with it. Being the wife of THE MANIK MALHOTRA, is the dream of god knows how many girls but here she was the lucky one!!

She smiled and said" that sounds good". Manik also smiled and then walked out of the room with nandini on his side. As they came towards the others, neyonika asked" so what have you both decided?" Both manik and nandini kept quite.

Neyo: so shall we take the silence as a yes?

nandini smiled and looked at her mother. Sheetal understood nandini's silence and answered on her behalf " well i see, my daughter is ready for the marriage"

neyo: and i dont have a doubt about my son's decision

neyonika picked up a sweet dish and put it in sheetal's mouth saying " so aaj se officially hm samdhan hue!!" and they both hugged each other and then the rounds of sweet eating started with everyone filling each others mouth.

Amidst the revelry, abhi in excitement picked a sweet and was about to put it in mukti's mouth , but thankfully he realised on time and just gave the sweet in her hand and moved as fast as he could from there leaving a shocked mukti behind who was still coming out of the daze of the encounter.

And everyone again sat down to discuss further plans.

Maan: mr murhty...
but before he could continue alok stopped him and said

alok: please call me alok, mr murthy sounds very formal, mr. malhotra

maan: well i agree but in that case u too will call me maan, if u agree only then i will listen to your request.

alok agreed happily and the ladies too followed the men and agreed on calling each other by their respective names.

maan: ok then i was saying that since u all know the craziness of manik's and fab 5's fans, it would be very difficult to have a full-fledged wedding because once the news of manik's marriage comes out , life of nandini will become very difficult like us, the paparazzi will be hovering like bees for bytes.

manik looked disappointed thinking that nandini might want a grand wedding as marriage is every girl's dream. Nandini noticed manik and understood his dilemma. she stopped maan in between his talk

nan: uncle, sorry to interrupt you but i wanted to say something.

maan: yes beta say!

nan: uncle i never wanted a grand wedding, so you don't need to feel guilty for this.

she said that looking at manik and maan understood that . He looked at his son and patted his shoulder saying "we will have a grand reception though. The reception will be such that people will remember for ages, i promise u that"

Manik looked at nandini that how easily she managed the situation and manik smiled at his dad's effort to make him happy.

Then finally it was decided that after consulting panditji, three days will be fixed for engagement followed by a day for mehendi haldi sangeet and then next day early morning marriage according to tamilian style and then at gurudwara and in the evening Grand reception.The venue and all will be decided after discussing with the wedding planner.
After this was done murthys forced malhotras to have dinner with them.