Manan FF- Arranged marriage (✔)

Chapter 46

Cool breeze was blowing through her window. it will rain' nandini concluded. She opened the window completely to let the breeze enter fully. The wind chime made tinkling sounds. Overall the atmosphere was quite romantic and once again nandini started missing manik. She went back to her bed and checked her phone. But there was nothing. No sign of manik.

What if manik doesn't do anything? If he thinks of letting the things be as they are...what will she do? Should she call him and talk to him? But that would mean i gave up on my determination and i don't have any self respect...aiyappa what r u doing!! And as if aiyappa once again heard her plea, her phone started ringing. It was manik . nandini jumped in joy.

But she didn't pick up the call. Let him try harder. Mujhe subah se pareshaan kar k rakha hai isne, thora maja toh chakhana banta hai!

Her phone rang 2-3 times. But she didn't pick up. Soon it started raining outside. The windows panes started shattering as the fierce winds blew amidst thunderstorms. Nandini's phone stopped ringing and she moved to close the window, but the scene outside that she saw made her breath stick in her throat. Manik was standing in rain and drenching himself. What is he doing!! Aiyappa!!! Nandini panicked and ran out of her room, when she came in the living room, she asked the househelp for an umbrella. As soon as she got one, she ran outside. Nandini was feeling guilty now for not picking up his phone.

As she reached near him, she took him under the umbrella, sharing with him.

"manik tum ase barish mein q bhing rahe ho??? Main call ni receive kar rahi thi toh tum car mein kyu ni baithe?? Ase barish mein bhingne ki kya jarurt thi??" nandini was complaining but manik's whole focus was on her face. He was looking at her face after such a long time and he studied her features for any changes that he might have missed. Nandini noticed that he wasn't paying attention to her words and was just looking at her face, blankly.

"manik!" she spoke louder and shook him to bring him back out of his trance "tum sun rahe ho main jo bol rahi hun??" she asked as he looked back at her attentively.

"ha sun raha hun...bolo na.." he said cutely and nandini felt like doing a googly-woogly-woosh of his cheeks. But she feigned anger.

"maine pucha tum yaha kya kar rahe ho...go home and sleep...ok!" she spoke sternly. Hearing her, manik who was standing sideways turned fully to face her and looked straight into her eyes, and said "nandini, my home is where you are...and i am where, i should be!"

As he said those words, nandini knew she can no longer be angry with him.

Its useless even to try! She didn't reply back instead just held his wrist and dragged him with her to her parent's home. Manik just stared at her and let her do whatever she intended to do. As they reached her room, she bolted the door and turned to manik "go and dry yourself, till then i will look for something for you to wear" she said that with a straight face and manik couldn't comprehend if she was still angry or not. so avoiding any chances of risk, he quickly went inside the washroom with towels. Here nandini began searching her wardrobe, but found nothing that could fit manik, not a single thing!! Nandini started thinking what will he wear?' till then manik came out wearing a towel and wiping his hair with another. It took nandini few seconds to force her eyes to shift their gaze from manik's well-sculpted torso to his face "there is nothing of your size in my wardrobe.." nandini spoke with a little extra sadness which caught the attention of manik who was till then looking in the mirror. He quickly walked up to her and cupped her cheeks "hey its ok...i can survive in a towel...don't be sad...please"

"you will have to spend the night in towel, but in the morning i will borrow something from bhai.." nandini spoke softly almost in a whisper as manik was standing very close and was slowly leaning in to kiss her. But she turned away from him and walked to the dresser , shyly and manik smiled biting his lower lip.