Parth And Niti (PaNi FF): Professionals At Work

Chapter Seventeen: A step towards betterment

Hey guys! I'm back with an update. I don't know how this chapter turned out but whoever is reading, I request you to read the story once more. The starting ke few paragraphs are contd from chapter 15..

Soha and I looked at Parth, who had now taken a chair and was sitting right next to us. I wasn't expecting him because he neither talked to soha..and me toh..forget it!

Somehow Soha seemed happy to see him there and we talked. Although Soha was there too, we talked. I think Parth and I had a proper conversation after months !! We talked about everything under the sun, laughed, parth was cracking jokes..Somehow I felt I was the only one laughing at them...but in total it was the way Parth joked and the stuff he said that made them sound funny. Soha didn't find his jokes funny either but she would let out a customary giggle.

After about an hour of talking, and stealing some glances at him we took a picture..I was happy! Maybe things between Parth and myself could come back to normal? Maybe? I asked Soha to share the pictures with me and quickly posted them on Instagram with the caption "White! #manik #nandini #soha " ... Assuming that Parth and I would be okay too I followed him on Instagram Maybe it was the right thing to do.

Apparently it was not.

One upload by me had broken the internet by uploading that pic and following him. I went to Parths profile to see if he'd followed me too? Since I saw him on his phone.

No. He hadn't. Parth was now at the other end of the room talking to Shashank sir about something. I huffed . Seriously..was it so easy for me to get fooled? Just because he talked to me and Soha for sometime I felt everything was back to normal. It wasn't. So I opened my instagram and unfollowed him. I deleted the picture also .

What was I thinking?

And again , my heart broke into a million pieces.

I was so stupid to have expected anything better from him..Not seeing disha since a few days, I thought he had broken up with her and maybe thats why he had come to us to talk. Just to be a little friendly. But disha or no disha, his habits were the same. Why was it so difficult for him to give me a follow back?

I had to go back into my protective hole..the hole that I'd made for myself to be impervious to his actions.

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I was wrong.

I was happy to be wrong. That day, coming and talking to me and Soha wasn't a one time thing afterall. Parth's behaviour towards me was slowly changing. The change was so subtle but I remembered how he was before he went to Dubai, and how he was behaving with me now. He no longer whined, he tried smiling at me. He addressed me as Niti most of the times and not Nandini. He acknowledged my presence even when we weren't doing scenes.

What was wrong with him?

I hadn't seen Disha in so long.

The holi scene had been one of the most intense scenes I'd done with Parth. I didn't know how it turned out but I knew one thing for sure..that the speed of my heartbeats had definitely decided to go up. No, it wasn't the first time. In fact it was something that happened so often. I was sure Parth noticed it, but did he feel the same way?

Sometimes when we would do MaNan scenes I would feel that this crazy attraction towards Parth was only because he was coming closer to me..but I was proven wrong when I realized I was attracted to him even when we weren't doing the scenes together. I felt my breath getting heavier, adrenaline through my veins, heartbeats getting faster even when Parth wasnt playing Manik. Even if his finger would accidentally touch mine I would feel an electric shock. Even when he smiled at me my heart would race at a superfast speed. This was not just any attraction..it had the power to drive my hormones insane.