ANAM CARA || A MaNan Fanfiction

chapter 20 : Aftereffects

It was a bright and sunny morning in Mumbai. It was quite early in the morning and almost half of the city consisting of those who had a pretty eventful night were still asleep. In Nandini's house, both Manik and Nandini were soundly asleep. Manik was sleeping on the floor keeping his head on the bed on Nandini's side. He was still in that wet sherwani, which has now dried due to the AC. Nandini's sleep was disturbed by the sun rays peeping in through the curtains. She lazily opened her eyes, trying to fix her retina to the bright light. She felt heavy. Her hands moved up to her temples slightly massaging them. She felt someone's presence and turned her face to find out who is there. The person she was beside was not the one she thought she'll ever see like this.

(ignore the pen and the book)

There laid Manik sprawled on the floor with his head on the bed and his last night's clothes still on. Nandini wanted to go in the flash back and think what had happened but her head pained too much to let her do that.

Nandini's pov
Ohh damnn my head hurts. Arghh why did I drink too much? (saw Manik) MANIK!!??WTF is he doing here? Ohh shit !! I remember he came to me when I was drinking and he stopped me. After that it's all blur. (looking at Manik a smile appears on her face) such a child is he. How like a baby he's sleeping? He looks so cuteee i feel like pulling his cheeks Harddd and kissing him. Wait! What? Control Nandini. His eyes when open have the some unknown depth which I love seeing. What are you doing to me Manik? And moreover I seem to like it.

Her hands involuntarily moved towards his hairs and she started to crease his hairs, ruffling them and untangling the knots.

While Nandini was immersed in thinking about it, Manik sneezed and Nandini again hurriedly lied down closing her eyes pretending to sleep.
Manik opened his groggy eyes on feeling Nandini's touch and felt a shiver run down his body, he felt cold. He first didn't understand the reason behind it but soon understood. He had slept in wet clothes under the AC and that was bound to happen. He moved his eyes upwards to see the most beautiful scene of his angel sleeping. A smile creeped to his lips. She indeed looked like an angel from heaven.

Manik's pov

Oh shittt! I slept in wet clothes. I am now going to get sick. Argh!! Manikkk you know your sensitivity towards these things. (looks up) She is sleeping so beautifully. Her face seems so serene. So contray to how troubled she was last night. I still haven't got to know why she was so unsettled. Don't worry Nandini whatever it is I will not let you worry about it for long. On that note when she wakes up she'll have a bad headache. I'll go and do something about it.

He got up and gently kissed Nandini's forehead out of impulse and then peeped out of the room and seeing no one walked out tip toed.
Nandini got up and sat upright on the bed and touched her forehead right where Manik had kissed. Her lips turned into a beautiful curve when she relished his lips. She had started to remember a little about what had happened last night.