MANAN- Strings of love

1. Introduction

 Hello lovies, this is my third Manan story. If you loved my previous stories then I can assure you that you will enjoy this story as well. Please vote, comment and share. Thank you for supporting till now.

  I looked around me and was happy that everyone is happy. I sat at the passenger seat with the little girl in my hand. My anna (brother) was laughing at something. I looked through the wing mirror and I could see my mother and attige (sister in law) laughing at the same joke. Suddenly everything turned dark and the environment became deadly silence. I held my niece tightly as possible and closed my eyes, but when I opened it, I saw my mother and attige's face was completetly covered with glass shreds and blood was oozing out from it. I looked anna to stop the car, but was greeted by burnt face.

  I got up breathing unsteadly. "Take this, you will feel better" I heard Navya who was still in office attire. I gulped the water as much as possible. Three years was not enough to erase this nightmare, which I would call it memory from past. "Thank you, by the way, the house closes at 11:00 pm, but now the time is 1:00am, so tell me are you here to loot my house." I said narrowing my eyes at her. She blinked at me twice before laughing and hugging me. 

  "Oh!, Nandini, when will you change? I am seeing you from past three years where you act like strict mother, but my answer is same. Duty calls." she said in a playful tone. Thank god!, she forgot about asking about nightmare. I smiled and helped her to heat up the food. Life is never fair to anyone, but mine, I can say life was never fair. I am just a girl who owns her 3 saloons in different areas and takes care of her niece.

  "So how was office?" I asked to which she gave her usaul reply about her crush on her boss where he just ignore her. Navya and me are soul sisters since three years. Whenever I used to bulid my career and nobody was there for my niece, she took care of her. Whenever she used to reason about not being hungry, I used to force her to eat, she had no money when I first met her. When we met, we both had nothing, but we helped each other and reached this level.

  "Let's meet at evening. Good night." she said and headed to her room. Navya came to my house as a tenant, but she became my family by taking care of my little girl. Till now she takes care of my niece from morning to evening and then I will take her to my saloon where she plays with the kids of my collegues. I had asked Navya it was completely ok, but she was stubborn to listen to me and she did what came to her mind.

  I entered my room and saw the reason for my strength who was sleeping peacefully. My three year old niece, Shikha. She may be three year old, but she is not less than my mother. I chuckled at my own thoughts and slept hugging her.

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  "I hate waking up this early! why there are no night schools so we both could sleep and do nothing in morning? or sun could have come at night and moon during morning. Then it was so much to...." I heard my cell blinking the messsage. I stopped my two wheeler, my baby, my sweety, Mystique. Shikha scolded me many times for keeping a vamp's name of X-men, but I liked the name and this was my baby, so my decesion. I looked at the message and got the horrible news of Shikha having her holiday for kindergarden.

  "You have holiday and your teachers are lazy!" I screamed and then realised it is not appropriate to bad mouth in front of children. "Well, you can't expect them to be non-human, even they get up when you get up." Shikha said with  tiny frown on her face. I can't even leave her in house as Navya's boss called her for emergency work. I head some commotion so Shikha held my hand and we both headed towards it. 

  There was police man scolding a poor  truck driver who was just blinking at him. "What happened?" I asked the police, he explained me that the driver was not showing his lisence. I looked at the driver and recognised him to be a person from kerela as he wore a cap on which it had the malyalam languge. I took my phone and played "Please show him the lisence". I translated it to malyalam through google translation. He immidiately handed the all the documents and I took it as a clue to move from there.

 I am definitely missing something. I started reminising the things I brought with me.

Mobile- check

Vanaty bag- check

Charger- check

  What is the thing I forgot? Then it clicked. Shikha is missing. "Shikha! Shikha!..." I started shouting. "I am here NI don't shout." she shouted at me from the other side of road and a bit ahead of my vehicle near a car." I quicly ran to her to take her, but how could I forget she is my brother's daughter. "NI, they need your help. Please help them to change their car tyre." Hell! I am not a mechanic and never touched tyres. Okay I may have changed tyre, but I never touched tyre with my hands. I used gloves for that. "I am not a mechanic, let's go." I said and was dragging her.

 "Please miss, we desperately need your help." said a young man in his late twenties. "We are going for wedding which will start within next 2 hours and groom is here. We need to go there immediately." he practically made all the puppy faces. I sighed, when a handsome man can do this then how can I not say yes?

 I decided to help them. Little did I know that I was going to receive shocks from this day.