Chapter 103

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Manik was in his car with Nandini, on his way to drop her, when he got a call from Ranbir.

"Kya be tu to out of sight, out of mind ho gaya...land karne ke bad se ek phone bhi nahi? Aur yahan hum kitne pareshan ho rahe the.."

"Yeh suddenly tujhe kya hogaya hai, why are you sounding like an over dramatic- over possessive girlfriend? Abhi I am coming back na tomorrow... wo jaldi mein I forgot to text you." Manik turned to Nandini, who was pouting and rolling her eyes at him.

"Ho..Ho.. Ho.. Seedhe seedhe bol na, hawaon mein, fizaon mein, har disha mein tujhe sirf Nandini Murthy hi dikh rahi hai. Waise kuch to baat hai us larki mein ... ek din mein devdas se Romeo bana diya, kahan tu maun vrat pe tha, aur idhar madam ne aisi dor kheenchi ki tu swayam Mumbai pahunch gaya?"

"What?? What the heck has gotten into you, tu kabse yeh pure hindi mein mythological types dialogues marne laga? I tell you man, stay away from Madhubala. She is doing some black magic on your tongue." On either side of the line, the friends broke into peals of laughter. And watching Manik laugh without a care in the world, brought a smile to Nandini's face as well. His friends were his lifeline. If only they realized their own worth in his life. If only they settled their scores and got back as thick as before.

"Acha? Waise madam se guftagoo ho gayi ya abhi bhi chal rahi hai..?" Ranbir threw in yet another line in pure hindi.

"Seriously Ranbir????? Guftagoo?? Waise did you call me at 4 am to do this stupid chit chat?"

Even though, Manik had given them no reasons for leaving Dehradun and the last thing they knew, was that Manik and Nandini were having a fight, Ranbir could so easily read through his urgency. He understood, fight or no fight, Manik was craving to meet Nandini, that there could be no reason bigger than this to make him travel all the way to Mumbai, just for a few hours. Manik blushed as he realized how well Ranbir knew him already.

"Nahi" Finally Ranbir got down to the real matter, assuming a serious tone." I actually called to tell you two things..one ki you don't need to come back. We will handle it here. And secondly, to warn you that Nandini's phone is being tapped."

"Tapped? What do you mean?" Was he hearing it right? Tapped? Did Ranbir say tapped? Nandini, sitting next to him, was alerted at this sudden shift in Manik's voice. Who was tapping what? She wondered.

"Exactly what you heard. I don't know how, but we found voice clips and chats from Nandini's phone, saved in his cloud storage. May be he has hacked into her Google account too. I donno how, but he has somehow messed up with her phone. We can't take this guy lightly " What kind of a creep taps his supposed fiancee's phone. Neel was not just out rightly disgusting, but he was dangerously disturbing too....deranged and psychotic."Matlab uski ma mil gayi to I would do her charan sparsh and ask, how did she manufacture a piece like that?"

Manik, numb from the revelation, couldn't react for a few minutes. Then, replaying all their telephonic conversations he had had with Nandini over the last couple of weeks, he asked "is it just phone calls or all Social Network convos I mean FB and whatsApp?" Nandini, still oblivious to the entire truth, was growing impatient. Would someone just tell her what on earth was happening.

"Good question. Dekh voice files are in Mp3 format so its difficult to make out the source but I am fairly sure that data transferred through Whatsapp is encrypted so that can't be recorded."

"Sorry Ranbir, I donno how to thank you... I mean I dragged you along and then I left on a whim, leaving you guys there, making you stay up all night." Manik was just as apologetic as he sounded

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