|| Chapter Three ||

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"Nandini??? Are you ok?"  Karan bent down and asked her. She was still rooted in the corner digesting the happenings of the previous few minutes. She was in a very deep shock.

"Mommy!!!!!!!!!!" she heard her daughter call her. She wiped her tears and got up rushing to her babies. She opened the door to find them both sitting before the computer, playing games. She hugged and kissed them. 

She looked at Karan standing over her. "I am sorry Karan, are you alright??""Uhh, I am fine, don't worry about it. Are you Ok? That's looks bad." He pointed to a small cut near her mouth. She blotted it away and nodded that she was ok.

"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked.

"No, please just finish up with Tara. I am sorry to trouble you so much always. Its just that Tara hates hospitals and she will raise hell, you know how it is" Nandini took her in her arms and sat before Karan who started with his routine check-up. Tara was born with a rare congenital heart condition, she had a hole in her heart. This needed constant medical supervision. But, Tara was scared of hospitals, she would be very agitated and disturbed in them, ironically.

"ohh that's fine..I am used to it now. What's that cut in her hand?"  Karan asked.

"She fell down from the swing today. This girl is so accident-prone."  She chuckled. Just like Manik, she couldn't help thinking. Manik used have so many bruises and cuts that she couldn't keep track of what had happened when. He was very absent minded, so engrossed in his work that he always had something bad happening to him.

"Alright, everything seems normal." Karan smiled. "Nandini, should I call Priya? Maybe you should talk to her."  Karan asked her hesitantly as she walked him out.

"Uh, no, I will call her later. Don't worry, I am fine." Nandini smiled.

"That's Manik I am guessing?"  He asked her.

"Hmmm. Thanks Karan! Sorry about the way he pushed you and sorry I had to lie." Nandini told him looking down embarrassed.

"No, That's fine. Please take care of yourself."  he patted her back and left.

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"Navya, Manik is here."  Nandini called her best friend Navya. 

"What? What are you saying? Are your for real??"  Navya jumped out her chair.

"Yes, why would I kid about something like this? I am falling weak Navya. I don't know what to do. I lied to him that I have married someone else. He even saw Tara and Nikki."  Nandini blurted out anxiously. "I don't want to him to come back Navya, He still affects me. Even more than before. And I cannot go back to that place I was again, I have small babies to take care of."

"Ohh my god! Ok, I am coming over right now."

She went and sat beside her sleeping babies. They had kept her busy until now. This has been her life ever since they were born. As long as they were with her, she would forget everything. They needed her full attention when they were awake and by her side. Sometimes, she shudders thinking about what her life would have been without them. She would have probably killed herself after that fateful night. She closed her eyes and the dreadful images appeared back in front of her.

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