MaNan: It all started with a lie

Evil Wins?

Flashback continues

Hospital

Manik
"Why don't you understand manik!? HE did this and its all because of me! Meri vajah se...its all my fault" she kept on blabbering like a mad person and kept on cursing herself. "Mukti yeh tu kya bol rahi hai? Stop talking shit" Cabir chipped in slightly annoyed seeing her madness but mukti paid no heed. "Ha mukti chill. Abhi theek ho jaega, itna stress mat le. Khud ko blame kar ke koi faida nahi hai" dhruv added. "Yes babe it was an accident, you are nowhere at fault" alia said but still no effect on mukti. "Its all because of me" she kept on murmuring and fainted. Soon a doctor was called and mukti was admitted in one of the rooms temporarily till she gains her conscious.

"God what is wrong with that girl? She is blaming herself for all this when we all know it was just an accident" alia spoke worriedly coming out of mukti's room which was just next to Abhi's.

"No alia it wasn't an accident. It was all planned" I finally spoke after analyzing everything which confused as well as shocked everyone.

"Buddy how are you so sure ki its not an accident?" dhruv asked me to which I chuckled sarcastically. "Buddy did you notice Abhi's car when we reached the accident spot?" "ya it was badly damaged and crashed" "but only from one side" I added. "Toh manik how does that make a difference anyway?" aryaman asked confused. "Aryaman do you remember where was Abhi's car when we reached there?" "um..no" "His car was parked on the side of the road and am sure kyuki I myself heard nandini asking him to park it aside while they were talking on the phone. Toh agar car side me park ki thi then how come that truck collided with his car? It was all planned for sure" I concluded. "But Abhi se kisiko kya dushmani ho sakti hai? He is one of the kindest guys who always does good to people. I can't even think of him having an enemy" maddy spoke out amazed. "Exactly! That is what we need to find out" I said when we heard mukti shouting from her room.

"Mujhe Abhi ke paas jana hai...he needs me...hato! I can't stay here" mukti was yelling at the poor nurse who was trying to calm her down. Alia went forward seeing mukti's condition and took her in a tight hug as I signaled the nurse to leave.

"Mukti...it will be fine...sshh...calm down" alia spoke caressing her hair which finally worked and mukti broke down, crying.

"Its all because of me alia...all because of me. Agar maine uski warning to lightly nahi liya hota toh yeh sab nahi hota...its all because of me" she started cursing herself again. I could no longer wait to know about this mystery guy mukti was talking about so I finally decided to ask her. "Mukti whom are you talking about? Kisne kiya yeh sab?" "Harshad" "what!? Bhai! Mukti please if you are doing this to remove your old vendettas then please don't" alia spoke up shocked. "No alia...I am not removing my old vendettas, I know it for sure...look he sent me this message" saying so she showed us a message.

Message

Hey mukti baby! I hope you are doing fine.
Oh no! How can I forget? Tum fine ho hi nahi sakti...bechara abhimanyu jo hospital me hai. Poor soul. Mujhe use koi dushmani nahi thi but the moment he came in between us, I couldn't control myself. Like how dare he? YOU WERE, ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE MINE! You are my property mukti vardhan! And I hope you get that now. Yeh toh sirf ek trailer tha...agar aage se I find that bastard abhimanyu even close to you na then i swear I won't leave him alive.
That's my word.

-your dear,
H

"Now you believe me?" she asked after we were done reading the message which was enough to boil my blood. "Mukti I am so sorry...yeh sab...Bhai ne kiya, I feel so ashamed. I never thought ki Bhai aisa kuch karenge...I am really sorry mukti" alia apologized as dhruv took her in a comforting hug. "No alia its my fault...meri galti hai. After he left that day and vanished somewhere, I used to get such messages from a private number and soon I understood that its harshad. Usne pehle bhi aisi warnings bheji thi and I shared this with Abhi too and he said he will manage and all this, he did too but aaj..." she broke down again. "Its all my fault" she started murmuring again when she was awarded with a tight slap by nandini who had just entered the room, astonishing us all.

"Agar koi kuch bol nahi raha hai toh you will blame yourself ha? Mukti you love Bhai and love can never be wrong...you can never harm Bhai" she spoke angrily to a shocked mukti who sat there palming her now red cheek with dried tears on her face.

"But nandini harshad ne mujhe warn kiya tha, I should have been more careful, I should have known that harshad never gives empty threats" she said looking down.

"Kaun ho tum? Bhagwan ho? Tumhe future prediction aata hai? Nahi na? Then why should you have known ki harshad aisa kuch kar sakta hai? Ha!? Abhi pata hai tumhe kya karna chahiye? You should be strong right now...for everyone, specially for Bhai taaki jab vo uthenge na toh he will feel proud of you. You need to be that Mukti Vardhan who wasn't afraid of anyone, who was strong, who defined terror...samjhi?" nandini said huffing in anger seeing mukti's reckless behaviour.

"Nandini...I am sorry. Mere Bhai ke vajah se Abhi...I don't know what to say, how to apologise. I never thought ki Bhai itna neeche gir sakta hai" alia uttered meekly.

"Alia for god sake...tum bhi! Stop being so reckless ya. I repeat, yeh sab harshad ne kiya hai, its his mistake-ALONE and you people are nowhere at fault...alright? So stop all this and lets just hope ki Bhai gets well soon ya?" she completed.

"Yup nandini is right...we should be strong, Abhi needs us all" maddy seconded. "Yes we have to be strong, we can't fall weak. Lets hope for the best cuz hope wins, ALWAYS" I said passing a small smile nandini's way who just blinked her eyes greatfully.

I was happy that she finally reacted something, even though it was in form of anger for harshad. I am just glad that she reacted.

Hours passed by, days flew but nothing changed, Abhi wasn't reacting even a bit. 15 days passed by in the blink of an eye and nandini decided that Abhi should be treated at home because maybe the hospital's sad and gloomy environment did not suit him. We all agreed to her without a question and so two days later Abhi was back home but this time with wires connected to his body which hurt us all but we managed to hide it. Since then, mukti and nandini have been all strong and cheerful around Abhi, specially. Mukti would often break down in front of us, fab 5 in particular but nandini...she never let us even get a hint of the storm that was inside her in these two months, she was always the smiling and strong Nandini Murthy in front of us but I knew better. I have tried every possible way to make her open up to me but she just isn't ready.

Sigh.

Now coming to Harshad. Well, we have no clue about him. We tried every way to trace him but no luck. He had messaged mukti from a private number which could not be tracked and we could not even prove that it was harshad doing all of this because the initial 'H' wasn't good enough to act as our proof. We were helpless and he was still roaming somewhere freely, without any worry in the world and I hated it but as it is said, Karma is a Bitch and I am sure soon enough harshad will have a taste of it. Now the only thing I am wishing is that Abhi recovers soon so that life gets back to normal.

Life is actually a real struggle.

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