MaNan- She is to be Loved

Chapter 8- Their Life-changing decision!

~When it happens, it just comes off at the most unexpected moment. It- miseries~

-Affu-

In India

Malhotra Mansion

In the front Garden

"This..is your plan?" Nandini stared at Manik's house, standing in front of the huge Mansion. Her eyes roamed around, before stopping at the figure beside her. "Manik! I expected something huge from you..like, arranging a grand meet between your girlfriend, oh I mean fake girlfriend, and your family, somewhere outside, around people." Nandini exclaimed.

"People? Nandini. We don't need attention from people by taking the entire Malhotras to some restaurant and then have a meet with you." Manik reasoned, and Nandini squinted her eyes at him. "Do you consider yourself as Dwayne Johnson that I, Nandini Murthy, is dying to be your girlfriend and then impress your family to do a real marriage with you? I'm sorry, I don't find you attractive enough." Nandini shrugged her shoulders, and Manik stared back at her, angrily.

"Excuse me? Girls would die to be in your place. You should thank your stars that I decided to help you out, by making you my girlfriend." Manik retorted. "Fake girlfriend, that is." Nandini corrected him. "Yeah, whatever it is. You're still, standing by my side, and that's a place girls crave to have." Manik shot glares at her, who stood unfazed. 

"Kyun? Tum Paris ke Eiffel Tower ho, that every girl would want to be by your side? I mean, dikhne mein, you're too tall, but that doesn't make you Eiffel Tower." Nandini pointed out, displeasure filled in her tone, and Manik groaned out loud.

"Forget it! Now, do you remember everything I said? Or you want me to repeat them?" Manik stared at Nandini, tension visible on his face. "Do you know that I've studied in School and University? Because, as far as I remember, none of my professors have repeated something the way you did, so that I can understand! Tumhe teaching mein interest ho tho, batha dho." Nandini deadpanned, and Manik groaned out loud.

"I'm just making sure that you don't mess it up." said Manik, defending himself, and Nandini faked a smile. "Oh yeah! By repeating the same sentence for 50 times. Oh hello Malhotra kaandaan ke shareef aulad, mere kaan repairing keliye nahi diya hain." Nandini retorted, and Manik hit his head on the nearby tree.

"Why me? Why did she even come to me, in the first place? Why, God?" Manik grumbled under his breath, and Nandini bent to come face to face with Manik, whose face was still pressed onto the tree.

"Aye, Malhotra kid. Wake up." Nandini patted at Manik's hairs, who glared up at her. "I'm not sleeping, and neither am I some dog to pat me with your hands." Manik hissed angrily, and Nandini let out a sigh. "Manik! For once, have faith in my skills. Mene apne Appa se jhoot bolke aayi hun India. The person whom I never lied to. And you think I'm not capable of letting your family believe in our drama?" Manik stared at the way her face twitched when she confessed that she had lied to her father to come to India. For sure, her father means a lot to her.

"My family is..large. Yaani, you have a lot of people to keep an eye on you. Your behavior. Our behavior. They can get suspicious about us." said Manik, and Nandini moved closer towards his face, accelerating his heartbeat.

"And that's exactly why I said that we could have been around people. That would have distracted them from digging my life history, just by staring at me or our behavior towards each other." Nandini spoke, smiling too sweetly at him, and Manik looked at her in guilt.