Crazy, Stupid, Summer Sparks |COMPLETE| MaNan Fiction

Chapter 20: The Boyfriend Conundrum

Manik looked around carefully, Nandini had gone for a shower and Mukku had gone out of the house; it was just the two of them. They were revising in the living room, Manik on the couch, Aryaman on the chair using the dining table. Suddenly Manik's phone rang, he whispered Aliyaa sounding surprised, Aryaman's head automatically jerked up; why was Aliyaa calling Manik? He saw Manik from the corner of his eyes, one moment he was sitting and relaxed and the next moment he jerked up to his feet.

"What, how did that happen? Are you o--- Aliyaa! Aliyaa?? Can you hear me?" Manik asked frantically over the phone. Aryaman was suddenly numb. A cold feeling crept to his heart; was Aliyaa okay? Clearly she wasn't, what could have happened he wondered and found that he wasn't being able to pretend being calm. He rushed to Manik and enquired,

"Manik, what has happened to her?" he asked not caring to mask his voice at that point.

"Err..she met with an accident. I think she passed out while talking. Mentioned something about trying to call Nandini, but she is in the shower so she couldn't reach her I guess. Aryaman I gotta go. You tell Nandini this once she is out" Manik said fast and ran to grab his car keys.

"No Manik, I am coming too. Aliyaa has had an accident, how can I stay back?" Aryaman asked frantically, caught completely off-guard.

"Aryaman, think of Nandini, she needs you too. She loves you. She needs you more than Aliyaa; I will handle Aliyaa and you inform Nandini. Okay?" Manik replied in a hurry as he ran around the living room picking up his cell phone, and his wallet next.

"Nandini doesn't need me Manik, Aliyaa does! If anything happens to her today I will never be able to live with the fact that I didn't even go to help her. You stay with Nandini" Aryaman reverted; now messing up the coffe table looking for his phone and wallet.

"What? Why is it important to be with Aliyaa more than Nandini? You love Nandini right; then why is she more important than this Aliyaa?" asked Manik again with a frown and confusion evident on his face.

"She is more important because she is Aliyaa okay? Because I love her more than anything else in this world; she is hurt and I am going to sit and console Nandini, instead of actually helping her?" Aryaman spat back.

Manik looked at him quietly, venom evident in his charcoal black eyes, "All right come with me" he replied and without further ado both left.

Manik was driving and Aryaman was panicking sitting next to him; in fact he was shocked when Manik stopped by a lakeside on the road. What was happening he thought and looked enquiringly at Manik; Manik looked back at him and with choler in his eyes responded.

"Aliyaa is absolutely fine; she hasn't met with any accident. She had called because she wanted to talk to Nandini and she wasn't receiving her call, because she was in the shower"

"Then why----?" Aryaman muttered confused.

"Because I wanted to see whether you loved Aliyaa more or Nandini" he spat back. Aryaman had understood where this was leading to. He realized he was caught in the act by Manik, but he feigned ignorance.

"Manik yaar, she is my girlfriend's sister; imagine how mad Nandini would be to know I didn't even go to help Aliyaa." He muttered, innocently.

"I think she would be more disturbed to know that you love her sister and you are using her as your rebound." Manik replied dangerously, now looking at Aryaman dead in the eye.

Aryaman was about to retort back aghast when realization hit him, rebound huh, that sounded like a good next step in his plan, he wondered why he didn't think of it before? Well let's try you Manik, he thought, hiding a smirk.