The Betrayed Soul

#21

Her performance ended well and as anticipated her fans were going crazy!!
She stepped down the stage and practically ran towards the green room, kept her guitar in its cover and grabbed her backpack along with a bottle of water!

Nandini straight away moved towards a secluded place in the college- the music wing !!
She looked around to confirm that nobody saw her !

Nandini opened her bag and took out a strip of tablets from it !
Without any second thought she gulped down 3 of them , drank half of the water and threw the bottle and strip somewhere in the bush !!

On the other hand, Manik stormed into the trustee office like a red bull! Fab4 were already settled down there !
Cabir was on the head chair ( trustee chair ) playing with the paper weight !
Alya and Mukti were on the visitor's chair , dhruv was leaning on the window and Madhyam was at the couch in one corner!

Manik entered the room and banged his phone on the floor! This act of him drew attention of others but no one reacted as his outrage was already expected!

Manik - what the hell is happening around???? How is this even possible??
Kal tak toh Woh guitar pakad ti bhi nahi thi and today her performance was... was !!
He himself didn't got a word to say !!
Manik - Mera plan tha to make her lose in the semifinals taki uska performance spoil ho but NO !!
Now this is not at all possible..

He kept moving his fingers in his hair in frustration!!
Every one were thinking the same but suddenly Dhruv spoke unconsciously..

Dhruv- I think Nandini will win the competition!
And as soon as he completed his sentence, Manik was shooting daggers at him ! His one vision was enough for Dhruv to shiver !!

Mukti - tu ushe kya ghoor raha hai! He is right! Nandini did perform well and there is no way out to eliminate her !!

Throughout the conversation,
Maddy was busy in his phone! And suddenly Manik saw him !!
Now he was grinding his teeth!!

Manik walked towards him and snatched his phone !

Manik- aur aap! Mr. Madhyam Singhania!!
Meine tumhe song ready karke diya tha with tunes and notes aur tum phir bhi perform nahi karpaye !!

Maddy- oh hello! Meine apna best diya tha ab agar Nandini extra -ordinary performance de toh ushme mera kya kasur !!

Cabir was irritated!

Cabir- Don't you think right now we should concentrate on what to do next rather than thinking about what had already happened??

Manik rubbed his hands together and inhaled a deep breath!

Manik- you are right! We need to make a move ! And this time it has to be a big one !

At the same time a crew member came and called all of them to announce the winners !
Maddy moved towards the participants and Fab5 towards the stage !!

Manik on the mike ,
Manik- Good Evening People!! So did you enjoyed the night ???

He sounded energetic..

So without any delays hereby I announce the name of the participants who are promoted to the finals of MUSICANA 2016 !

The audience were continuously hooting !!

At fourth post we have Rahul Jasani! He stepped on the stage !

At third post we have Krishna Mehta . She stepped on the stage!