I want you back (manan)

Holding hands

When someone really cares about you , they won't hurt you ,

And if in case they do,
You can see in their eyes,
That they are hurt too.

Nandini's pov

Time flies the last I remember I was holding Aaru's hand for the first time  , she wrapped in a white towel still looking like a Devine beauty . Her first cry was Melody to my ears , that was the first and last time when I had a smile over my face when she was crying in my arms. And look now my baby is all grown up the last five years of my life was a remarkable journey of my life. When I was in college I never imagine myself in a mother's role , taking care of a baby and bearing his/her responsibility. But God has a different plan for me , look the girl who always kept herself away from all this is now successfully handling a 5 year old baby , my baby .

My thought process came to a halt with the peeping voice coming out of the microwave. Calming myself I was about to open the door of microwave when all of a sudden a pair of baking hand gloves came in front of my view.
"You r not a superwoman ,wear the gloves" a Stern voice came from my back, without saying anything I snatched the gloves and in next second the whole room was smelling like vanilla, seeing the masterpiece a big smile came over my face.

"See, I told you my cake is more better than your cake , look it's so fresh " I exclaimed in happiness rising my imaginary color and give a 'I told you look,' to the man in front of me. Manik.

"I didn't knew you started baking also " he said but his eyes are glued to the baked cake. "Yaah cause of Aaru I started baking even took a  month classes just to make her happy " I replied remembering old times.
"Time changes" he mumbled but enough so I can hear.

Santa is coming as well as Aaru's birthday , the whole Cruze is lighten up , X-mas trees are decorated and shining in their own glory , the song ' jingle Bell ' can be hear in background , people are all ready to welcome santa and here me and manik are busy in making a perfect cake for Aaru .  This is the same day when we welcomed our little bundle of joy in our life , she is a gift of Crist n we mean it. Like every year I prepared a cake for her but this time surprisingly manik accompanied too , well that is a different story , he asked the kitchen staff to make a rainbow colour truffle tower as per her wish but I wanted to surprise her with my cake though it's a simple dark chocolate cake but I know she loved it. After a lot of discussion finally manik agreed and now here we are manik the cake with manik Malhotra tagging along .

Giving the last touches to the cake I take a long relaxing breath looking at manik I see him admiring the cake with his open mouth , chuckling to myself I moved close to him.  "You looks so cute maani but close your mouth it's not for u " the words came out of my mouth and my whole body stiffened , I myself didn't remember the last I  address  manik with this name. There was silence ,taking courage to face him I  he was looking at me but for a change I can read his eyes like the time has come when he doesn't want to hide his feelings from me anymore, happiness, affection and more importantly love is all I can see in his eyes . don't know when but manik came so close to me just inches apart , he reach for my hands, tangling his hands with mine he bring them close to his lips , a shiver ran down all over my body and in next second I find his lips on back of my hands, closing my eyes I just absorb the feeling of utter pleasure. After a brief moment I felt his hot breaths near my neck and wearing a off shoulder dress didn't help me at all , his face was in between my neck , our both entangled hands were streched straight. I again closed my eyes and can feel the beats of his heart , "thanku " he mumbled and I clutched his hands more tightly.