MaNan - Always & Forever "Just Me & U"

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Nandini's POV

"Ready Mukti?" I asked her and she nodded in agreement.

Abhi bhai was gonna give us a ride to Alya's place, on his request oops sorry on his order may I tell you.

"Bhai, why didn't you just let me drive? Main aapki Mukti ka bohot accha khayaal rakhti!" I joked.

He chuckled in reply, "I know baba.. Tu nahi toh aur kon rakhega meri muku ka dhyaan," He gave me a brief smile as he put the key in the ignition, "But if I would've let you drive na, toh I would've missed this 20 precious minutes to spend with my wife." He said, winking at me through the rear view mirror and held Mukti's hand in his. I shook my head still smiling at the couple as Mukti slapped his arm playfully then gave him a kiss on his cheek.
They both never cease to amaze me. I can literally imagine these two behaving exactly like this even in their 70s.

I turned towards the window to give them privacy with my earphones plugged on and let my mind wonder off to Manik's thoughts. I thought about the way he was with me today, so caring, so sweet. But the thing that is stuck in my head since he'd said it, is,

'I won't force you ever, to be my girlfriend'

I was actually a little scared about the girlfriend thing, but his words helped me calm my nerves. Not that I didn't trusted him or had faith issues, it's just every girl gets a little worked up thinking about this topic.
I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I didn't even realize when we had arrived. We bid bye to Abhi bhai and went in without ringing the doorbell as it was already open. But immediately regretted it.

"Sheesh, guyss!!" I shouted and closed my eyes with my hands, as Mukti did the same.

A few seconds later, I heard shuffling and someone clearing their throat. I peeked through my fingers and saw Dhruv and Alya standing with their faces flaming.

"Seriously guys! Tum dono ko bhi yehi time mila tha to make out." Mukti teased making them go even redder.

"Nahi wo I was just going so, um.." Dhruv tried reasoning out when I interrupted him.

"So it was just a small goodbye kiss which turned into a heated make out session, right?" This time I teased and he groaned before quickly waving at us and leaving.
We joked around with Alya a little bit then decided to leave her alone now.

"By the way, where is Dhruv going?" I asked helping Alya in setting up the food and pillows.

"I told him to go for a night out.. Did you thought we'll have a girls sleepover with him in the house!"

"But it didn't look like you wanted him to leave, a few minutes ago, did it?" I said laughing and she blushed furiously.

"Guyss.. Bas na. Bohot ho gaya." She whined like a baby.

"Kya bohot ho gaya bhai?" Navya asked as she entered with Sanjana through the main door.

After we all hugged and greeted each other, I explained the scene we'd witnessed a while ago causing Navya & Sanju to fall in hysterics and Alya's face to turn into a beetroot.

Alya huffed, "You guys are so mean," She pointed at us but smiled and stood up, "I'll go and bring some wine for you three-" She pointed at me, Sanjana & Navya, "and tea for us-" She said as she gestured towards Mukti and herself, "Will that be ok?" And we all nodded.