Yaariyan

Untitled Part 22

Manik has gone to Pune. Their first concert is supposed to be there. 

In the Flight

Cabir was sitting with Manik in the flight. He was continuously noticing Manik. 

"Manik..." Cabir called out his name but didn't get any response from him. He again called him but no response. So, he shook Manik a little to break his trance.

"What?" Manik gave him a look. 

"Are you okay?" Cabir asked.

Manik nodded and passed him a smile. "What will happen to me?" He tried to show himself as if nothing happened to him.

Cabir left a breath. "You don't need to pretend always, Manik. I know you are not okay." 

Manik too left a breath and gave him a sad look.

After a pause, Cabir again started. "By the way I didn't understand one thing." He had a confused look on his face.

"What?" Manik asked raising his one eye brow.

"You were so adamant for not to agree for this tour. Then what happened suddenly?" Cabir asked.

Manik's face fell remembering something but he covered that soon. "Nothing, I thought about it and I realized it's a life changing opportunity for us. We should not miss this."

Cabir wanted to say something more but Manik didn't let him. Manik stopped him saying he is feeling sleepy, he couldn't sleep well last night. So, Cabir also couldn't say anything. He was feeling bad for Manik but he couldn't do anything.

Manik leaned his back to his seat closing his eyes. He drowned into his deep thinking.

F L A S H B A C K

That night when Manik and amms were talking.

"Manik, do you think Nandini will be okay like this?" Amms asked him.

Manik looked at him being confused. "Why won't she be okay?"

"Manik, don't take me wrong. But Nandini can't be okay till the time you will be here around her." Amms said.

Manik didn't get that why she was saying like that. "Why? What's the problem, if I will be around her? If I will be there, then I can protect her from all the troubles so that she doesn't need to face all these again."

Amms nodded her head in no. "That's the problem, Manik. She will know that you are there for her then she won't be able to fight her battle. She needs to be strong and independent. She needs to get back her music. That will be possible only when you will go away from her."

Manik thought for a while about what amms said. It got him into a deep thinking.  He thought may be she is right. He is trying to help Nandini but may be he is the reason she is not able to move on. She is stuck here because of him only.

"So what do you want me to do?" Manik asked in a low tone though he had a clear idea of what she is going to say. But still he was thinking in mind that he is wrong. 

Amms looked at his face for a  while. "I think you should not be around Nandini for some days. She will try to fight back herself in your absence." 

Manik looked at her with wide eyes. But he didn't have anything to say so he just nodded.

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