|| ENDLESS LOVE || -- A MaNan FF

|| Destined - All on you ||

#Heads up : Nandini is a creative art student. She does both writing and painting. Though she takes up writing as a profession in her future, she pursued painting for a while during her college days. So do not get confused.

#HappyReading

A few days later, Nandini walked into the twenty second floor of her office building. It was Manik's office in there. She had previously never been there. She looked around trying to take the surroundings in. It was much different than her office atmosphere. People were sitting around on bean bags, playing mini-golf or ping pong, munching on Pizza. Some were even sipping cold beer.

"Can I help you?" A girl behind her asked.

Nandini swirled around nervously. She felt so out of place. It was Soha, the girl who had met her at the coffee-shop earlier.

"Oh? Nancy right?" She asked. "You are looking for Manik?"

"Yes. The name is Nandini." she replied with a small smile.

"Right. Manik is very busy. His project just got approved. For the next couple of months or so, nobody will even as much as see him."

"Nandini??" Somebody called her out from far away.

Nandini looked at Manik and another guy walking towards them.

"Wow? Lost your way, stranger?" Manik asked turning her towards him.

"No. I had exams so I did not see you a lot. Just wanted to say Hi." She explained guiltily.

"Yeah. I know. This is my roomate, Aryamann. You have already met Soha."

Manik introduced them.

"Nice to meet you. It must be so nice to have your friends around." She comments politely.

"Nah. They are very annoying." Manik laughed.

"He just gets annoyed that we beat him every single time in ping pong." Aryamann shrugged.

"Woah...Beat me? Dream on dude." Manik looks at Aryamann incredulously.

"Trying to impress your girl-friend, I see." Aryamann retorts laughing.

"Oh no! No girlfriend. We both are friends. Pure platonic kinda friends." Manik puts his hand around Nandini's shoulders and tells him in a sincere tone, moving behind her, winking at Aryamann to get away from them. Nandini turns around and looks at Manik, to which he smiles down to her widely.

"Right! I am going to leave you "friends" to catch up with whatever friendish stuff you normally do. We have to go." Aryamann takes Soha by her hand and walks off.

"Why?" Soha turns around and looks at Nandini.

"You want to sit in the lounge. They have lots of left over cake today from Martin's birthday party."

"Sure. Who is Martin?" Nandini asks as he takes her to the lounge.

"The guy whose birthday is today." Manik chuckles.

"Very intuitive..." Nandini rolls her eyes as he cuts her a big slice of cake. "Anyway, I came to thank you for that day. I don't know what came over me. I really thought of quitting." she told him. "But, you were there for me, Manik. Thank you."