MANAN- Strings of love

22. Race

 Thank you for the patience. I know you all were eagerly waiting for the update but I had the project which had to be submitted and all those exams and tests took all my energy. But don't worry from now on I will try to update daily.

 "Mukti! Mukti! Mukti!" was the cheering heard from the stadium. After the interview with Abhi the result came as expected. He gave some shit remarks and told Mukti to never show her face. She came yesterday dancing to Manik's office and told that she is participating in a running race held by some organization. So we are here cheering Mukti. The most embarrassing thing was Shikha brought her classmates along with her and stood at the side of the track, doing cheerleading for Mukti.

  Once again she changed her passion from becoming an artist to cheerleader. She wore a red T-shirt with red skirt having white longitudinal strips. At the back of the T-shirt each girl had a letter of Mukti in golden colour and held two pomp pomps in hand. Seeing this the crowd started cheering for Mukti. I just shook my head and started eating the pop corn I bought. Aliya and Druv were in their own world. Navya was taking care of Shikha and other kids followed by Kabir. Manik sat beside me with his cooling glass on his eyes. 

  Mukti has completed the half way of race and she was standing second. At last she regained her speed resulting in getting first place in race. We went there to congragulate. "SHit!! What is he doing here?" I asked once I saw Abhi in his boring black suit. Mukti looked nervous so I went near her. "Who are you?" a woman asked me. "Mom meet Nandini. Murthy, she is my friend working in Manik's office and now the fiancé of Manik." She introduced me to her mother. Her mother gave a curt nod. 

 "How was the interview with Mr. Thakkar?" Mukti's mother asked and we both stiffened at the question. "She was really good at interview Mrs. Vardan and I have appointed her as my PA." This is the thing I was fearing the most. Mukti's jaw hung with the shock. Mukti's mother started praising Mukti and excused herself to flaunt herself in front of others. "If you think by lying you can get away from me then you are highly mistaken. I should have known when the resume was so crap but now I am now damn sure that this stupid was the reson for crap resume." Abhi spat at my face indicating me for stupid.

  "Stupid my foot! I am anything but stupid. Have you seen yourself in mirror. Even the monkey can say you his relative." I said almost punching his not so handsome face.

  "Have you seen your face in the mirror even ghost asks you to come and join them to scare others." Abhi said removing his cooling glass.

 "Oh really?, at least ghosts call me but no one calls you to join their group as you are a virus that can effect from germs to dinosaurs." I spat on his face.

  I think I hit his nerve as his face turned bright red. "pig!" he screamed on my face.

  I am no less than him. "Pig's cousin is also pig." I gave my most innocent smile. He was about to scream something when Mukti intervened.

  "Will you stop it. Mr. Thakkar, I am not going to join your company." She said and was about to drag me with her if the certain poop face did not drop a bomb on her.

  "The you are compelling me to say everything that happened during interview to Mrs. Vardhan." I wished murder was legal in this situation. Damn him and his arrogance.

 "Fine you want me to be your PA then ok I will come but you will promise me you will never tell what happened in the interview to anyone." Mukti's words were like a winning thousands of trophies to Abhi. I can imagine him dancing in his mind and taunting me that he won and I lost.

 "You have my word." was the last words of Abhi before putting his cooling glass and walking away from us. I wish that cooling glass was processed by Annabelle then we would never face something like Abhi.

 "I am sorry." I said as soon as I noticed the sad look on Mukti's face. She patted my back and took water bottle before drinking it. The future cheer leader aka Shikha came running to me. I wished I could just run away as the whole crowd was staring at her and now me.

  What a pleasant day! Please note the sarcasm. "Nandini! We are taking Shikha to celebrate Mukti's victory. You need to accompany Manik as he has some urgent meeting." Aliya said before taking Shika's hand and moving ahead. Definitely, today's lady luck is not on my side.

  As soon as Manik spotted me he started dragging me. "We need to go somewhere so we need to be quick." he said and literally pushed inside car. "Where are we going?" I asked putting my seat belt. "The secret factory." he said and started the car.

  Secret factory = secret weapon manufacturing company= the place my brother worked. "You can see your brother's cabin but no doing crazy things." he was telling me like a teacher tells to a child. I know I might be annoying, crazy but I am not dumb to do crazy things in such places.

 "Why are we going there?" I asked to which he sighed. "Someone has hacked the database of the company. Thanks to our tech experts they were able to recover the system but they are saying that someone from inside had hacked to send the details to someone." Now this is the most disastrous thing. 

 Here I come to secret factory. 

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   What do you think will Nandini find in the secret factory?

Character's opinion

Lotus_dream: What do you think will Nandini find in secret Factory?

Shikha: Chocolates!

Lotus_dreame: No she will definitely not find chocolates.

Shikha: Icecreams !

Lotus_dream: No she will not get icecreams.

Shikha: Then you should not ask me anything regarding that factory. That factory doesn't have the two main things of world  then it is a waste factory.

Lotus_dreame: Keep reading!!