Janam Janam (Life after Life)

Part 15 (Last Part)

Next day, Nandini went to the place where Aarav proposed Naina. It was also the place where Nandini/Naina had tripped and were rolling off and Manik/Aarav had saved them.

Nandini's thoughts : "Probably, those dreams brought me to India so that I can reveal the truth behind Aarav and Naina's death. I feel a little relieved now, but still my heart and mind are not at peace."

Nandini's thoughts : "I still feel Manik is reincarnation of Aarav, but he doesn't seem to remember anything about the past. I love him, but he already has a girlfriend. What shall I do now?"

Nandini's thoughts : "Shall I tell Manik everything and see if he can recollect his past? Or should I go back to London with a heavy heart, thinking that he is happy with Alya?"

Nandini comes out of her thoughts when she hears the tune at a distance. It is the same tune that had triggered her dreams, which in turn had brought her to India. She starts going towards the place where the tune is coming from, but stops after seeing Manik.

Nandini's heart was telling her to go and embrace Manik and never let him go, but her mind was stopping her from doing so. She was contemplating whether to express her feelings for him or not, she still wasn't aware of his feelings for her. But slowly she got the feeling that probably Manik had remembered about his past, otherwise why would he be at their place. She still wasn't sure.

Manik understood her confusion and began walking towards her playing the same tune and singing the song that Aarav sang to propose Naina. This clears all her doubts, Nandini is now sure that Manik has remembered his past too. 

Manik keeps his guitar aside and opens his arms. She runs towards him and hugs him. He embraces her. Nandini clings to him as though she found something precious and was not willing to let it go.

The past few days (the revelations of their past life, the confusion and tension) were very stressful for Nandini and she was exhausted. Nandini found solace in his arms. 

Manik : "I always felt something different, something special around you. I just didn't know the reason for that."

Manik : "You knew everything, isn't it? Why didn't you tell me then? Why were you trying to stay away from me?"

Manik :  "What if I wouldn't have remembered about our past yesterday? Were you thinking of leaving me and going away from me again?"

Flashback

Manik froze at his place when he saw that Aryaman had pointed the rifle at him. In his previous life, he died because of a rifle shot. The current scenario was similar to what happened in the past, it triggered flashes of his past life and he remembered everything. 

Manik knew about Nandini's dream, her familiarity with the places and also that she was up to something, but he didn't know that Nandini had remembered about her past life till now.

It took sometime for him to process everything about their past life as well as their present.

Flashback ends

Nandini : "I felt strongly connected to you from the time I met you, but stayed away from you thinking about you and Alya."

Nandini :  "I came to know about our past life only after coming here, on that day, when we went to that room together."

Nandini : "I tried to check if you can remember anything, but you didn't remember. I didn't want to complicate your life by telling everything. I just wanted to see you happy."

Both Manik and Nandini had found the answers they were looking for from the past few weeks and all their confusions were cleared. They were finally at peace in each other's arms.

Manik : "I lost you last time, but I won't let you go away from me this time."

Nandini : "Only this time? I was hoping that we can be together forever.....in every lifetime."

Manik smiles and tightens his embrace on Nandini.

Manik : "Me too."

Epilogue

Manik's family and friends saw the recording and came to know the truth. Manik's family was thinking of how to proceed further with the newly found information. They could hand over Arya to the police, but they were in a fix, since Aryaman was Raj's aunt's son too.

The truth that Aryaman had kept hidden from past many years was out now. Though he was guilty, no one else knew that he was responsible for Aarav's death. He couldn't face his family anymore. Also, he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in jail. He shot himself. Arya had managed to cover up Aarav and Naina's deaths as suicides, but ended up committing suicide himself.

Alya backed out willingly after coming to know about Manik and Nandini's past life and reincarnation. 

Nandini met Naina's family. Naina's brother was happy that though God had snatched his family from him, he returned his sister in the form of Nandini.

Nandini informed her parents about her whereabouts and explained everything to them. Though there parents were furious at her since she went to India without informing them, they were happy for Nandini after hearing her explanation. 

Both Manik and Nandini's parents accepted their relationship wholeheartedly.

Aarav and Naina weren't able to stay together in their past life....but they managed to get back together as Manik and Nandini in this life. True love never dies.

Thank you

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