Manan - Promise Of A Forever

|| CHAPTER - 18 ||

Australia......

The flight has landed half an hour ago.....fab5 ( including maddy ) and manik were seated in the waiting area waiting for the manager of muse labels to send them to their hotel.....after finally having enough of the awkward silence he left to call the manager as he knew manik's patience was running thin and he will definitely catch the next flight to India if he had to see fab4 faces for even a second more.......

While here manik's condition was no different than what maddy expected.....surely the idiotic faces in front of him was getting on his nerves.....all four were looking like they wanted to say something....but what......are they going to apologize for what they did to him and his love......? I don't think so........as their faces held no traces of guilt......forget about feeling guilty they looked like they still haven't realized the sin they committed 5 years ago.......

These few days manik malhotra couldn't help but think back to where had it gone so wrong for these drastic changes to occur....because there has to be some slip up somewhere or the other......so he recollected every bit of his memory and tried to find where the hell it actually went wrong.......

And eventually, he was able to piece everything together...during the recollection all he could think was how blind was he to not notice his friends pretense.......

all along they never really accepted nandini....it was just wilful thinking on his part that the most important people of his life could get along.....

he should have seen it....from the start they tried to make differences between him and nandini........

all those subtle approaches were now beginning to unwind....and finally the last hit when they manipulated him to believe that nandini doesn't trust him....

call him a fool but he really failed to notice this.....whoever heard the past would eventually be more inclined to believe that manik was the wrong one......but was he really......?

nandini and manik......maybe neither of them were completely wrong nor were they both right.........it was all a matter of perspective......of how we look at the past...

look at the past from manik's perspective......manik's parents were in a loveless marriage....he was a child born out of need rather than love......from childhood he craved love......he learned to hide his emotions....before learning to fight with the world he had to learn to fight with his mother....he had no one to look after him....he had lived by himself all the while until he met fab5.....

fab5.....a band which was once a great example for true friendship....he found friends who were just like him...... broken, hungry for love and attention.....they trusted each other, found comfort in each other and fought by each other's side....he started seeing life in a new light....his life became colorful again......for the first time he found someone who would listen to him.......understand him and be by his side no matter what.....

for the world, he might have been a monster but he vowed to protect the people he cared for all his life as they stood by his side for the longest time....

and then when he though his life couldn't get any more better he found her.....nandini murthy his shining star.....his love , his life.....he was astounded when the heavily guarded walls of his heart crumbled and he found himself hopelessly falling in love with her.....

he tried to distance himself from her as he din't want to get hurt......but then it was very much impossible for him to let go of that seemingly innocent star.....he accepted his feeling and decided to pursue her......

it must have been the best day of his life when he realized that she too had the same feelings as him....he was excited that she too have felt the exact same way....that raised heartbeat.......the tingling nerves..nervousness , anticipation....butterflies in your stomach and the shivers..... all of it....